www.thenick.ca Crescent Heights Community Hall • 1101 - 2nd Street N.W.

Mailing address: P.O. Box 64244, Thorncliffe PO, Calgary, AB T2K 6J7

W elcome to the 2nd half of our 38th anniversary season at the Nick! Once again we’ll feature fabulous old friends and some terrific newcomers.

The home of the Nick is the Crescent Heights Community Hall (1101 - 2nd Street NW). Seating is first-come first serve with the following exception: season’s ticket holders who arrive early will be given preferential admission from 6:50–7:00 p.m. Our ticket capacity is 193 patrons, and up to 110 are season’s ticket holders (we are not sold out yet). Concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. with the doors opening at 7:00 p.m.

An evening at the Nick begins with an opening act, followed by two sets by our featured performer. Breaks between sets allow time for socializing and indulging in great cakes, popcorn and other refreshments.

Guitar Raffle! The Nick will once again conduct a raffle for a guitar, generously donated by Mike MacLeod and The Acoustic Guitar. Tickets will be sold throughout the season and our Nick performers will autograph the guitar. The draw for this one-of-a-kind guitar will be held on April 7, 2018. Once again, this year proceeds from the Nickelodeon Guitar Raffle will support ArtsCan Circle, a registered charity dedicated to linking creative artists with Indigenous youth at risk.

Ringtone Free Music! We appreciate the cooperation of patrons and volunteers in silencing their cell phone ringtones and minimizing phone use while at the club to ensure everyone’s enjoyment of our performances.

The Nickelodeon wishes to thank Calgary Arts Development and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts for their generous support. We also wish to acknowledge airplay support of our performers on CKUA and CJSW.

Season’s Passes

• 2017–2018 GOLD CARDs – There are a limited number of sea-son tickets still available for the remainder of this season. Contact info@thenick.ca to query about availability.

Renewals for 2018–2019 Season Ticket Gold Cards will com-mence on February 24.

Online Ticket Sales

• AllJanuarytoApril2018concertswillgoonsaleDecember16 at www.brownpapertickets.com. Tickets are $25; service charges are applicable.

•Ticketsareavailableatthedooronlyifwearenotsoldoutinadvance. Any remaining tickets will be sold first come, first serve at the Crescent Heights Hall on the night of the show.

The Nickelodeon Music Club is a volunteer operated, non-profit organization. The Nick wishes to thank its volunteers for the countless number of hours they dedicate. Without their work, these special nights would not be possible.

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Twitter: @NickMusicClub

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Winter 2018 our 38th Season

The Performers

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“ Irish Mythen was at Browne’s and stood up and sang this song (The Auld Triangle). Bottles of Irish whiskey rattled on the shelves. We all had tears in our eyes we were so moved by her performance. She is an amazing talent and a truly lovely person ” Browne’s Irish Marketplace - Kansas City

A Nickelodeon Debut! Irish has closed out the Philadelphia Folk Festival, performing after the iconic Lyle Lovett, and had tens of thousands in her hands at Australia’s Woodford Folk Festival. On the back of the latter performance, she was handpicked to open for Melissa Etheridge’s 2016 Australian run. Her self titled album earned an East Coast Music Award in 2015 for Roots Album of the Year. Her live show finds Irish combining her contemporary and catchy anthems with traditional tunes borrowed from her Irish homeland. All are woven together with a signature blend of edgy humour and heartfelt storytelling while her presence and performance magnetically draw eyes and ears towards the small-statured powerhouse on stage. Her presence and char-isma simply command attention, and regardless of where she takes the stage, she delivers a sonic and emotional experience that transcends language and location; that reaches the very core of what connects us.

Cori Brewster (Alberta) First Nick Opener Nov ‘96Cori Brewster was born and raised in Banff where the Brewster family has resided for over 120 years. Buffalo Street,Cori’sfourthCDisacollec-tion of stories inspired by the rich history of the Canadian Rockies. It was namedoneoftheFabFivealbumsof2009byCKUA’sDavidWard.ThesongMy Familiar Sky, won third place in the Calgary Folk Festival Songwriting Contest Songs of Alberta category. Four Horses, Cori’s fifth studio project, gallops across the prairies and into deep political and environmental medi-tations, invoking lost landscapes and lost lives not just to memorialize, but to provoke and honour.

Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra (British Columbia) January 27

“ …exciting musical growth and exploration that feeds off the instant connection they establish with their audience the minute they start playing. Gypsy Ska meets Bluegrass on the dance floor and the crowd goes nuts. ” Dan Cowan, Skaspot Live Network

The Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra are a collection of musicians, linked by common sonic journeys and familial ties. We Make Really Party is a five-song EP that returns to the old world sounds the band became known for in its early years. With both original and reimagined roots and folk songs in English, Spanish and Italian We Make Really Party captures the band playing live off the floor in a three-day session after their 2016 summer tour. It is a record that is refined in both playing and production while honouring the band’s past musically. TMO have spent years weaving their stories with guitars and violins, with accordions and bass, with melodies and music makers gleaned from their wanderings. Here are the troubadours to remind you that this music (no matter what kind of device it ends up on) could not exist with-out warm bodies in search of harmony.

Daniel Champagne (Australia/Nashville) A Nickelodeon Debut!This young Australian singer, songwriter and one-of-a-kind guitar virtuoso first picked up his instrument of choice as a five-year-old. He began writ-ing songs at twelve, trained classically throughout his teens and honed his craft and developed what would become the dynamite live show that he is renownedfortoday.Areviewerwrote–‘DanielChampagneexudesanaturalease on stage, as he sings poignant lyrics and beautifully crafted melodies that invariably whisk the heart up with grand romanticism. Coupled with an exhilarating guitar talent that transcends mere acoustic playing to replicate a whole band, Champagne is just magical’.

First Nick Headline January 2013

Irish Mythen (Prince Edward Island) February 10

Let’sstartbycontemplatingwhatgenrewecanfileDannyunder:rock/pop,singer-songwriter,folk, world, even classical. His thoughtful lyrics and earnest performances have earned him nominationsforthreeJunoawards,ThePolarisPrize,andTheCBC’s“HeartOfGold.”Danny’shopeful songs find a home in everyone’s heart. In 2011, he relocated to Belize and made a recording with the Garifuna Collective, Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me, called by Billboard “Oneofthefinestmusicalworksofourtime.”Danny’smostrecentprojectKhlebnikov was recorded aboard the legendary Soviet-era Russian ice-breaker, Kapitan Khlebnikov, during an 18-day arctic expedition through the Northwest Passage. His recordings were arranged for brass and strings. The result is a suite of atmospheric and haunting songs about the Arctic, our planet and our place in it. Khlebnikov received two 2017 Canadian Folk Music Awards for Producer and Pushing the Boundaries.

Erin Kay (Alberta) A Nickelodeon Debut!On her debut EP Into the Light Erin’svoicewaslikenedto“honeyandtabasco,swirledinacloudofsmoke.”OftentouringwiththeKenSteadband, Erin is preparing to release her anticipated sophomore album Silver & Gold. Erin’s not afraid of emotions and connects deeply to her songs and audiences, touching on topics about parenthood, love, loss and silver linings. Her new album speaks about transitions away from abusive relationships, single motherhood, finding love and all the feelings that come in between. At her Nick performance Erin will be accompanied by Kyle Mosiuk on electric guitar.

Danny Michel (Ontario) January 13, 2018A Nickelodeon Debut!

“ When you need to restore your faith in humanity, just go to a Danny Michel show. Who else gets you to sing along to a song about what your meaningful purpose is on this earth? ” Sticky Magazine, Toronto

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Valdy, born Valdemar Horsdal, has been part of the fabric of Canadian pop and folk music for decades. A man with a thousand friends, from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island to Texas to New Zealand, he’s a songwriter who catches the small but telling moments that make up life. It’s music that, in every note, echoes the mountains and the sea, the cowboys and the fisher-men, the oil well roustabouts and the loggers. He’s remembered for Play Me a Rock and Roll Song, his bitter-sweet memory of finding himself, an amiable story-teller, facing a rambunc-tious audience at the Aldergrove Rock Festival circa 1968. Valdy has sold almost half a million copiesofhis16CDs,albumsand8-tracks.HereceivedtwoJunoAwards(fromatotalofsevenJunonominations),hasfourGoldalbumstohiscredit,andwasinvestedasamemberoftheOrder of Canada in 2012.

Carter Felker (Alberta) A Nickelodeon Debut!In 2015 Carter won the Upstart category of the Calgary Folk Music Festival Songwriting Contest with Drink the Water.HisCD,Everyday Life, released in 2016, pieces together stories of people we know. There’s the grocery clerk numbed by the daily grind, the person who bought the house and all the toys during good times and watched them slip away. Carter Felker’s eyes have seen the length of the wheat fields through many winter mornings, and the stretch of the sun through many short lived summers. He has labored, he has lost, and he has loved. Ben Comeau will accompany Carter on bass.

Valdy (British Columbia) February 24

“ Few performers are capable of achieving the kind of energy he generates on stage ” Globe and Mail

First Nick Opener March 1988

“ They are players without borders… world music that transcends place and time with a heavy dose of playfulness added in. ” The Vancouver Province

First Nick Opener October 2013 TheirCDshavereceivedthreeJUNOnominationsandthreeCanadianFolkMusicAwards.Violinist Chris McKhool and guitarist Kevin Laliberté earned this year’s Ontario Songs From the Heart Instrumental Award for Road to Kfarmishki. McKhool and Richard Bona also won the Folk Music From Around the World award for the song Sing for Kwanzaa.WiththeirCD,Subcontinental Drift, they serve up a blend of ragas, reels and rumbas with special guest, sitar master Anwar Khurshid. Thrilling their audiences with their genre-hopping passport of Celtic reels, flamenco, Gypsy-jazz, Arabic, Cuban, and South Asian rhythms, Sultans of String cele-brate musical fusion and human creativity with warmth and virtuosity. Fiery violin dances with rumba-flamenco guitar, while bass and percussion lay down unstoppable grooves. Acoustic strings meet with electronic wizardry to create layers and depth of sound, while world rhythms excite audiences to their feet with the irresistible need to dance.

Benjamin Dakota Rogers (Ontario) A Nickelodeon Debut!His introductory album, Wayfarer, and sophomore album, Strong Man’s Address to the Circus Crowd, each earned Canadian Folk Music Award nomin-ations for Young Performer of the Year. This fall, Benjamin received the Folk Music Ontario Songs From the Heart, Roots and Blues Award for The Soldier Song. With strong influences stemming from traditional music and the east coast, Benjamin’s hard-driving fiddle technique is transformed into his own contemporary style. With his unique voice, Benjamin’s third album, Whisky & Pine, delivers reflective emotion and warm harmonies. His poetic ballads blend flawlessly with his rousing guitar and fiddle compositions for an engaging live performance.

Siblings Qristina & Quinn Bachand have won Irish Music Awards for Top Traditional Group andTopDuo.They’vereceivedsixteennominationsforCanadianFolkMusicAwards,WesternCanadian Music Awards and Vancouver Island Music Awards. Multi-instrumentalist Quinn is a Slaight Scholar at Berklee College of Music in Boston, while fiddler Qristina has an MA in Irish Traditional Music Performance from the University of Limerick. Qristina & Quinn have developedtheirown‘voice’,fusingstylessuchasOld-Time,Celtic,FolkandJazz.TheirnewCD,Little Hinges, features a hint of grunge, a dash of noir, a healthy sprinkling of Celtic and a dollop of rootsy goodness, engaging contemporary listeners with jaw-dropping effect. While their performances speak to the heart of traditional roots music, they introduce their own new approach. They artfully meld heart-swelling, stomp and clap Celtic Roots with progressive Indie Folk, with results that are provocative, stimulating and thoroughly intoxicating.

Amelie Patterson (Alberta) A Nickelodeon Debut!Over the past four years, Amelie Patterson has completed two music resi-dencies at the Banff Centre for Creative Arts. She has been involved with not-for-profits advocating for mental health and addiction, including The ProphetsofMusic,PinkShirtDay,andIWillSurvive.ServingasBanff’sfirstPoet Laureate, Amelie leads as a strong ambassador for women songwriters. With a soulful and clear voice, this honest and tenacious troubadour’s music traverses territories from blues to folk rock. Her debut album Roll Honey Roll went on to win YYC Alternative Recording of The Year in 2017.

Qristina & Quinn Bachand (British Columbia) March 24

Sultans of String (Ontario) March 10

A Nickelodeon Debut!

“ Qristina & Quinn have served notice that their innovative approach to traditional Celtic music embodies countless moods and as many colours. As such, “Little Hinges” swings the door wide open with its boundless quest for adventure. ” Bucket List

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Guitar RaffleThis year’s Guitar Raffle prize will be a BeaverCreekBCTD101LDreadnoughtguitar and trailpack bag, generously donated by Mike MacLeod and The Acoustic Guitar. The draw for this one-of-a-kind guitar, autographed by all of this season’s Nick performers, will be held on

April 7, 2018. Tickets will be sold throughout the season; $2 each or 3 for $5. All proceeds will support ArtsCan Circle, a char-ity dedicated to linking creative artists with Indigenous youth at risk.

The Nickelodeon Music Club is a volunteer operated, non-profit organization. The Nick wishes to thank its volunteers for the countless number of hours they dedicate. Without the work of our volunteers, these special nights would not be possible.

Nick NewsletterThe days of getting a Nick Newsletter by snail mail have come to a close. Up-to-date information on Nick performances will con-tinue to be available on:

our Nick website: www.thenick

Facebook: www.facebook.com/NickelodeonMusicClub

Twitter: @NickMusicClub

Nick Email Updates

If you would like to receive regular email updates about Nick events, please send an email to info@thenick.ca

2016–17 Guitar Raffle prize

JackSempleisoneofthoserareguitarplayerswholeavesacrowdspeechless.ListeningtoandwatchingJackplayfillsonewithasenseofhavingwitnessedaneventintime,onenotsoontobeforgotten.JackSempleisanabsolutevirtuosoofhisartform,playingwithunparalleled feeling and total technical control. His solo recording career has resulted in the release of ten albums. He has been twice nominated for a Gemini Award for his soundtrack work on the television series Incredible Story Studio.SemplewonaJunoawardin1991forbest roots recording and two Western Canadian music awards for Qu’Appelle and In the Blue Light.HismusicislikeStevieRayVaughnmeetsJamesBrownmeetsRobbenFord.Hewasselected for the first round Grammy Award ballot of the 2017 Contemporary Blues Album for his recording Live at Mt. Baker R&B Festival.

Maddie Storvold (Alberta) A Nickelodeon Debut!Maddie spent her youth traveling and playing music in bars and hostels, from Toronto to Thailand, Amsterdam to South Africa. She has released her debut LP The Old Brag of My Heart. With striking nuance and depth in her poignant lyricism, emotive finger picking, and a honeyed, impassioned voice, she seeks to tell us a story, to move us, and to touch a fragile part of thehumanspirit.TheEdmontonFolkFestivalwrote:“theclarityofMaddie’svoice could very well be drifting out of a Greenwich Village folk club in the early60s.Maddie’ssongsarepoliticalanddeeplyempathetic.”

First Nick Headline January 2013

“ Comprising equal parts sophisticated harmony, serious groove, reckless abandon, raw energy and stunning improvisation, Semple avoided evoking images of other great guitarists while still musically employing virtually every guitar technique known to man ” eikelowna.com

2018–2019 39th Nickelodeon Season Ticket Gold Cards• 110gold cards for the eleven concerts next season will sell for $253.00.

• Confirmedperformersfor2018–2019willbeannouncedatthebeginningoftheclubonMarch24th.

Current GOLD CARD Holders

• Currentgold card holders may renew their passes by mail or in person, starting on February 25th and up until the end of the break after the first set of the club on March 24th; write cheques to “TheAcousticMusicSociety”,post-datedSeptember1,2018.

• PassesnotrenewedbyMarch24thwillbemadeavailabletothegeneralpublicviaouremaillist and website.

Jack Semple (Saskatchewan) April 7

www.thenick.ca Crescent Heights Community Hall • 1101 - 2nd Street N.W.

Mailing address: P.O. Box 64244, Thorncliffe PO, Calgary, AB T2K 6J7

January 13 Danny Michel Erin Kay

January 27 Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra Daniel Champagne

February 10 Irish Mythen Cory Brewster

February 24 Valdy Carter Felker

March 10 Sultans of String Benjamin Dakota Rogers March 24 Qristina & Quinn Bachand Amelie Patterson

April 7 Jack Semple Maddie Storvold

Winter 2018 our 38th Season

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Up-to-date information on Nick performances is available on:

our Nick website: www.thenick

Facebook: www.facebook.com/NickelodeonMusicClub

Twitter: @NickMusicClub

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