Things In The Next Week:
On the Radio:
Bandwidth: I will be co-hosting Bandwidth this Saturday with new host Amanda Putz. We are rolling around Ottawa talking to Lynn Miles, The Acorn and Kelp Records Lord Jon Bartlett. Tune in this Saturday at 5ESTpm in Ontario (Excluding Toronto) on CBC Radio One of listen on the internet
HERE
I think I say a Dave Bidini song was written by Tim Vesley on this show, but I had no album credits, so I guessed. My apologies, dear Rheostatics.
Off The Beaten Track: I will join Dave Ardvark next Tuesday on CKCU FM 93.1 for his funding drive show. Listen on the www
HERE
Friday Morning Cartunes: John Westhaver is having on his great weekly radio show on CKCU FM 93.1 next Friday, November 5th. The show is on from 9:30am until 1pm and somewhere in there, I will chat and play some songs. Again, to listen to the mighty 93.1 online, click
HERE
And please remember to dial and donate during this years CKCU funding drive.
Shows at Home and Away:
True North Wild and Free: A benifit concert for the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society boreal forest program. Hosting by Cathy Jones from this hour has 22 minutes, I am playing a 25 minute set. I am also playing the Montreal show, which is November 16th. Ok, the details:
True North Wild and Free Tour
Jane Mallett Theatre, 7pm
Toronto, Ontario.
Host: Cathy Jones
For tickets and information, click
HERE
Rock and Roll Show: Next Friday, November 5th, we will play our last band show for at least this year at Barrymores' Music Hall. And now, the details:
Jim Bryson and The Occasionals
w/ The Acorn and Jill Barber
Friday November 5th
Barrymores Music Hall
9pm
Tickets at Barrymores or online HERE
One More Thing: A link for the "Somewhere Else" video is now up on Umbrella Music web-site, so go watch it. Click
HERE
True North Wild and Free
Jim is taking part in “True North Wild and Free”, which is a celebration of Canada’s boreal forest. The event is part of CPAWS’ National Boreal Forest Program to conserve one of the last great forests left on Earth. All proceeds from tickets and book sales will go to support their continued work to protect Canada’s boreal forests.
Wednesday November 3rd
Jane Mallett Theatre
St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts
Toronto, ON
With Cathy Jones
Doors 7:00 pm, show at 7:30 pm
Tuesday November 16th
Mont-Royal Convention Centre
Montreal, QC
With Justin Trudeau
Doors 7:00 pm, show at 7:30 pm
The link for more information is here:
http://www.cpaws.org/boreal/english/wild/index.html
The link for show/ticket information is:
http://www.cpaws.org/boreal/english/wild/events.html
It Seems Early To Me: A clever me would say I am up to make sure that you rise this morning with some great news blurb to read here. Clever, maybe, but truth be told, I have just been unable to sleep and I am up at 6:30am with a headache here rolling into day three. And I realize that this is when most people actually are getting up so it only seems early to me I suppose.
We rehearsed for the first time since July last evening and the fellows sounded great. It really makes me miss not having more regular band practices and now having spent all this time playing solo, I almost forget what it is like to play songs with the band again. I am never sure how many songs we even get through at these rarely occuring rehearsals, but Draves did give us a tour of the in progress renovations that have been going on since late August on his house.
Thanks Jill: Thanks to the Jill Barber and Virginia at the Grad House at Queens University for a great time Friday. It was a real treat indeed.
Geoffrey Brown and S.E. Hinton at Ottawa Iternational Writers Festival
Kingston Show This Friday, October 15th
Jill Barber with Jim Bryson
Queens University Grad Club
162 Barrie Street, Kingston, Ontario
1-613-546-3427
This week in Life: Al Whatmough is over tuning the piano and it sounds great to me. Here is what is going on:
CBC Radio One This Saturday: I am appearing on Brent Bamburys' Saturday monring national CBC radio show,
GO This weekend. The show airs each Saturday at 10amEST (10:30 in NFLD). I will play some trivia and play a song.
Bit By Bit I Swear: I received an e-mail tonight directing me to the Orange Records message board. There are a couple of funny posts about my now removed
message board, which had been a pretty unattended attraction during its' short life. They have begun to slowly eliminate me. This week, my message board, next week.......
East Kelpward We Go: New Brunswickan John Bartlett and Jeff Hardill and I have been putting together a east coast swing for the second week in November. I will be unplaying and butchering all of the stellar John Higney parts for
Greenfield Main, as well as playing in the middle lane of the Halifax Show solo. Local supergroup
fiftymen will be sharing all of the bills with sir Bartlett and company.
The Outsiders': We met author SE Hinton after her reading with
Geoff Brown last night in Ottawa. She told many a great story and did not actually read anything at her reading, just chatted.
