Sunday, SEPTEMBER 29th, 2024, 2-4 PM [& livestreamed here*]
THE MILLGROOVE QUINTET (more than just jazz!)
The five members of The Millgroove Quintet share nearly 200 years of experience performing jazz and popular music in the Golden Horseshoe area. That’s longer than jazz has been around! Along with jazz standards, The Millgroove Quintet performs many original arrangements of popular songs, show tunes, and TV themes. Everyone will recognize a tune! Millgroove features Frank Cammisuli (keyboards, vocals), Stan Czajkowsky (guitar), Don Hall (tenor sax, flute), Urmas Soomet (bass), and Alex Karcza (drums). Admission by donation ($25 suggested). Millgroove does not have a webpage or Facebook page. Hear them on YouTube and see them perform California Dreamin’.
Admission Free (Suggested donations of $25 gratefully received!) *To donate online: etransfer to westplainsconcerts@gmail.com or visit Donate Now – West Plains United Church (canadahelps.org) and select the ‘Live!@WestPlains Concerts’ fund in the Funds dropdown box. Your donation will benefit the musicians and the church. Thank you!
from Paris, ON
Saturday, OCTOBER 26th, 2024, 2-4 PM [& livestreamed here*]
RISING HEDONS
Folk and traditional acoustic trio, Rising Hedons was founded in 2007 by bandleader BRADLEY TINDALL (guitar). Together with MATT WELBANKS (violin) and TIM TURVEY (double bass), Rising Hedons is equal parts thoughtful storytelling and reckless abandon, their live shows capturing their unique blend of musicianship and passion which fuses soaring violin, earth-shattering percussive guitar, and the unpredictable soul of a rock & roll band.
This past summer, Rising Hedons rocked the Beaches Jazz Festival StreetFest, the main stage at It’s Your Festival, and Pier 8 Pop Ups, as well as regular appearances at the Mule Spinner. Follow @rising.hedons and Rising Hedons | Paris ON | Facebook
Admission Free (Suggested donations of $25 gratefully received!) *To donate online: etransfer to westplainsconcerts@gmail.com or visit Donate Now – West Plains United Church (canadahelps.org) and select the ‘Live!@WestPlains Concerts’ fund in the Funds dropdown box. Your donation will benefit the musicians and the church. Thank you!
from Southern Ontario
Sunday, NOVEMBER 24th, 2024, 2:30-4:45 PM & Livestream
TOM ALLEN’S J.S. BACH’S Long Walk In The Snow
“In recent years, I have been lucky enough to gather a versatile cast of musical friends that has helped to create a series of shows that combine chamber music with story-telling, original song, and music history. We call them Chamber Musicals.” ~ Tom Allen, CBC broadcaster.
Johann Sebastian Bach is usually seen as the wise, old man of Western music, but he didn’t begin his working life that way. At 18 years old, and in his first job as an organist, still barely beginning life as a composer but already a spectacular performer, the young genius got into such trouble that the only thing he could do was to walk away. J.S. Bach’s Long Walk In The Snow is a chamber-musical which takes you along that 400 km odyssey. Narrated by Tom Allen, and accompanied by the glorious music of Bach and others, performed by Allen’s partner Lori Gemmell, harp, and a stellar cast of brilliant musical friends, J.S. Bach’s Long Walk In The Snow is a musical odyssey you won’t want to miss! Visit Tom Allen.
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