LIVE At The Oakville Centre January to May 2017

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AT T H E O A K V I L L E C E N T R E VOLUME NINE

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ISSUE TWO

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WHITEHORSE LOS LOBOS LISA LOEB TERRI CLARK THE TEA PARTY CLASSIC ALBUMS LIVE MIKE MANDEL STEVE HACKETT TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAYMEN MATTHEW BARBER & JILL BARBER IMMORTAL CHI AND MORE!

OakvilleCentre.ca Box Office: 905-815-2021

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The ability to purchase tickets two weeks before the general public Savings up to $11 off the regular price of each ticket you purchase Receive a $50 tax receipt Receive a $25 gift certificate from Paradiso Restaurant

NEW PERKS FOR BIG TICKET MEMBERS: Now your Big Ticket Membership offers additional value!

• Present your Big Ticket Membership Card at participating Downtown Oakville BIA and Kerr Street BIA locations to receive a 10% discount (unless otherwise stated).

Visit OakvilleCentre.ca for a listing of participating businesses.

• PLUS present your card at any performance at the Oakville Centre to receive a complimentary coffee or tea.

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HOUSE NOTES

ACCESSIBILITY

The Oakville Centre is a shared experience for everyone to enjoy.

The Oakville Centre and the Town of Oakville place a high priority on accessibility to the public. We are constantly striving to meet the needs of our customers.

The Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts encourages a scent-free environment. Please be considerate of those in the audience who have allergies and/or multiple chemical sensitivities and refrain from wearing cologne, perfume or other scented products.

Patrons requiring wheelchair or accessible seating arrangements are asked to call the box office at 905-815-2021 or email boxoffice@oakville.ca. Our box office staff will be happy to book accessible seating and answer any questions you may have regarding accessibility at the Oakville Centre.

Cell phones and other electronic devices should be muted and not used while in the theatre.

Photography and recording devices are strictly prohibited inside the auditorium.

The Oakville Centre does have some accessibility challenges due to its design and age. The main auditorium of 17 rows has a steep incline and due to fire regulations and for the safety of all patrons, wheelchair and walker seating is located in Row S. The theatre does not have an elevator.

Food and beverages are available pre show and intermission in the lobby. Please note the bar closes once the performance is in progress. Food and any outside containers are not permitted in the theatre with the exception of clear plastic water bottles.

During designated performances only will all beverages be permitted in the theatre. In consideration of other patrons, please refrain from opening candy or gum wrappers during a performance.

There is a barrier free washroom on the main level in the lobby and one on the lower level for studio patrons.

Accessible features include curb cuts at the crosswalk and a ramp to the entrance of the theatre on Navy Street. Our main entrance doors are equipped with electronic openers and the auditorium offers handrails.

Latecomers and re-entries will be seated at a suitable break determined by the production. You may be asked to wait in the lobby.

Babes-in-arms and young children are welcome to the Family Series performances. Contact the box office for all other performances. Each person entering the theatre requires a ticket.

The Oakville Centre offers a Sennheiser assistive hearing system, free of charge.

Patrons can access the headset by requesting the equipment at the lobby bar on their arrival.

Group bookings are available for 10 or more.

Please contact us at 905-338-4161, ext. 3204. All ticket sales are final.

Accessible parking is available on Church Street and in the Church Street parking lot. These spots are best suited for those attending performances in the Main Auditorium.

Accessible parking spots on the lower level, at the back of the theatre would only be suitable for those attending an event in the Studio Theatre. For additional accessible parking spots, please refer to the map on page 5.

All performances take place in either the Willson Auditorium or the Studio Theatre.

The Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts is a division of the Recreation and Culture Department of the Town of Oakville.

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Oakville Centre DIRECTIONS & PARKING From the QEW or 401, exit at Trafalgar Road (Hwy. 3), drive south to Lakeshore Road, turn right and park in any of the more than 2,800 parking spots in Downtown Oakville.

To park behind the Oakville Centre, continue along Lakeshore to Navy Street, turn left on Navy then make your first right on Water Street and follow it along the river.

Municipal Parking Lots

Accessible Parking Spots

Street Parking Lot

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The Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts 130 Navy Street, Oakville, ON L6J 2Z4 Tel: 905-815-2021 OakvilleCentre.ca All performances take place in either the Willson Auditorium or the Studio Theatre.

VOLUNTEER

WITH US!

The Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts is looking for enthusiastic individuals with a passion for the arts to volunteer with our team on performance nights.

For more information visit OakvilleCentre.ca or contact our Volunteer Coordinator at volunteer.ocpa@oakville.ca.

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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS The Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts gratefully acknowledges the generous support of our sponsors.

Auditorium Sponsor

Performance Series Sponsors

Learning with the Arts (Education) Sponsor

Official Jeweller

Official Winery

With appreciation

Print At Home Ticket Sponsor

Media Partner

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After Show Artist Chats The After Show Artist Chat is your opportunity to learn more about the artist’s background, their interpretation of the work or what makes them tick. With the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage we are pleased to announce a series of complimentary After Show Artist Chats with a moderated discussion between the artist(s) and a featured guest moderator. These informal discussions around the creative process will be hosted by Paradiso Restaurant (*unless noted otherwise), right across the street from the theatre.

Each chat will start a few minutes after the show at Paradiso and run for no longer than 30 minutes. Tickets for the After Show Artist Chats are available now. There is a limit of four tickets per purchaser.

On the cover: IMMORTAL CHI Friday, April 27

In this issue . . .

CBC’S This is That . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 21 Los Lobos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 1 Rhapsody In Black . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 2 Mike Mandel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 10 & 11 The Tea Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 16 Lisa Loeb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 17 Whitehorse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 24 MonkeyJunk / The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer . . . . February 25 Steve Hackett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . March 2 Stephen Fearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . March 21 CAL: The Joshua Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . March 22 Kaha:Wi Dance Theatre’s The Honouring. . . . . March 24 Terri Clark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . March 25 Tribute to Glenn Miller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 2 CAL: Are You Experienced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 7 TooNice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 22 Trans-Canada Highwaymen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 25 Shay Kuebler Radical System Art’s Glory . . . . . . April 26 Immortal Chi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 27 Cecilia String Quartet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 28 BOOM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 3 Matthew Barber & Jill Barber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 4 Tanya Tagaq with Nanook Of The North . . . . . . . . May 5 CAL: Rumours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 12 Bageshree Vaze’s Global Bollywood. . . . . . . . . . May 18

LOS LOBOS - February 1 LISA LOEB - February 17 TOONICE (*Studio) - April 22

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It’s All About Family The ACURA OF OAKVILLE Family Series

LIGHTWIRE’S MOON MOUSE - March Break!

ELEPHANT & PIGGIE’S WE ARE IN A PLAY!

FRED PENNER

Monday, March 13 at 1 p.m. & 7 p.m.

Sunday, March 26 at 1 p.m.

A cosmic adventure about celebrating differences.

Marvin the mouse wants to be popular.

Constantly bullied and picked on by the “cool” rats, he is labeled as a looser and a geek. To get away from the continuous badgering, he retreats into his science books and a world of fantasy. He longs to have adventures, to be the hero.

Join Marvin on the space adventure of a lifetime; a trip to the surface of the moon on his homemade rocket, where he meets a strange cast of misfit creatures, learns of infinite peril and awesome beauty. Will Marvin make his dreams come true and bring him the glory and acceptance he craves?

A Kennedy Center commission based on the Elephant & Piggie books by Mo Willems We Are in a Play!, is a brand-new vaudevillian romp of a musical, Elephant Gerald and Piggie sing and dance their way through plenty of pachydermal peril and swiney suspense--facing fundamental questions like, what do you wear to a fancy pool costume party? Should you share your ice cream? And how can two friends play with one toy? Backed by nutty back-up singers The Squirrelles, our duo even gets the audience involved in the action.

So get ready for a musical experience ripped from the pages of your favorite books. You’ll be doing the "Flippy Floppy Floory" dance all night long!

Like the precious ingredients in your favourite feel good soup, his combination of warmth, ease, enthusiasm and grace bring nourishment too often lacking in these turbulent times.

The two-time JUNO winner for Best Children’s Album Sing with Fred and eight-time nominee’s body of work is about energy and emotional connection.

The guy who crawled magically out of that hollow log for 12 seasons and nearly 900 episodes in the hit CBC TV show Fred Penner’s Place receives fan mail to this day. Always building on a common theme rooted in integrity and a “belief in what I can do” he has created a lasting impact that crosses the generations and continues to grow.

Recommended for ages 5-10 Single $30 | Purchase 3 or more shows $25

Recommended for ages 4 and up Single $30 | Purchase 3 or more shows $25

Recommended for ages 3 and up Single $30 | Purchase 3 or more shows $25

Sunday, April 30 at 1 p.m. & 3:30 p.m.

All prices include taxes and handling fees. Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

BUY MORE & SAVE! Purchase 3 or more shows & SAVE $5 / ticket!

CELEBRATE YOUR BIRTHDAY WITH US! Presented by The Oakville Centre. Sponsored by Acura of Oakville. and The Munz & Planche Family Fund for the Performing Arts (a fund held within the Oakville Community Foundation).

Add some extra fun to the theatre experience with a birthday party in our Studio and receive $5.00 off any ticket in the Family Series performances. Details at OakvilleCentre.ca

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THIS IS THAT Oakville Centre Comedy Series

Saturday, January 21, 2017 at 8 p.m.

Nothing is off limits – politics, business, culture, justice, science – if it’s relevant to Canadians, This Is That finds a way to fabricate a story.

If you have ever been curious how just two guys provide all the voices for this completely improvised radio comedy, well this is the show for you.

Pat Kelly and Peter Oldring offer audiences an intimate look behind the studio door of CBC’s award winning satirical radio show, This Is That.

With a healthy mix of character interviews and mockumentary stories, this live send up of public radio doesn’t just report the news, it makes it up!

Regular Ticket: $50 | Big Ticket Member: $43 | Big Ticket Plus: $39 All prices include taxes and handling fees.

Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

“Worth tuning in for…the genius is in the tonality”~ Robert Fulford, The National Post “Parody mirroring the tone of CBC with uncanny accuracy”~ The Globe and Mail

Presented by The Oakville Centre.

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La Bamba, their worldwide crossover hit from the 1987 film, reached #1 on the U.S. and UK singles chart.

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Dan Cooper Concert Series

LoS LOBOS Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 8 p.m. rehearsals and “outlining” what the project was going to be.

The more spontaneous approach to writing and recording that they took on their 1992 Mitchell Froom co-produced set Kiko still exists today; Rosas says, “When I listen to our catalog, doing things more spontaneously in the studio has led to some of our best work.” Unlike many bands that write, gather and catalog material between studio releases, Los Lobos prefers to create their magic on the fly when they decide it’s time to record. Perez says, “We never come in with a cache of 20 songs. Our thing is to write as we’re recording. It’s like starting with a blank canvas every time.”

The journey to Gates of Gold began with Hidalgo bringing in a batch of ideas, outlines and chord progressions with no lyrics. As he and Perez began fleshing things out, developing grooves, melodies and lyrical themes, Hidalgo, his son, drummer David, Jr. and bassist Lozano began tracking those tunes. The collection opens with the reflective, mid-tempo rocker Made To Break Your Heart, featuring female vocalist Syd Straw, whose vibe was partially inspired by Hidalgo’s love for Manassas, the early 70s bluescountry-rock band created by Stephen Stills.

The moody, atmospheric rocker When We Were Free, whose lyrics of what Berlin calls “beautiful melancholy memories” are underscored with the increasing drama of booming drums and distorted electric guitars. Filled with hypnotic sound effects and cool vocal and guitar distortion (created via an eight track analog Cascam cassette recorder!), the soulful, reflective There I Go touches on the universal search for what Perez calls “something meaningful, though we’re not always sure what it is.”

After celebrating their 40th anniversary with the cleverly titled 2013 live album Disconnected In New York City, the hard working, constantly touring band – David Hidalgo, Louie Perez, Cesar Rosas, Conrad Lozano and Steve Berlin – leaps headfirst into their fifth decade with an invitation to join them as they open fresh and exciting new Gates of Gold, their first full length studio album since 2010’s Tin Can Trust (a Grammy nominee for Best Americana Album) and second with Savoy/429 Records.

The dynamic songwriting, deeply poetic lyrics, thoughtful romantic and spiritual themes and eclectic blend of styles on the 11 track collection has resulted in an American saga in the rich literary tradition of legendary authors John Steinbeck and William Faulkner. Yet true to form, these typically humble musical wolves started in on the project without any grand vision or musical roadmap. Over 30 years after Los Lobos’ major label breakthrough How Will The Wolf Survive? – their 1984 album that ranks #30 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s – their main challenge when they get off the road and head back into the studio is, as Berlin says, “trying not to do stuff we’ve already done. To a certain extent, we are always drawing from the same multifaceted paint box, and we sound like what we sound like. We’re proud of what we feel is an honest body of work. We just want to keep finding new ways to say things.”

In the band’s early recording days - those years just before and after La Bamba, their worldwide crossover hit from the 1987 film which reached #1 on the U.S. and UK singles chart – they prepared for album recording sessions with top producers like T-Bone Burnett with pre-production that included multiple

Regular Ticket: $85 | Big Ticket Member: $78 | Big Ticket Plus: $74 All prices include taxes and handling fees. Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

Presented by The Oakville Centre. Sponsored by the Dan Cooper Group.

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“I’m just trying to start a conversation”~ LeLand Gantt

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Rhapsody in Black Paradiso Dance, Drama & Film Series

A pay-what-you-can performance • Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 8 p.m.

Broadway and the national tour.

Ms. Parsons’ directing credits include: a multi-cultural Anthony and Cleopatra described as “the most exciting and innovative presentation in English since Peter Brook’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Belasco Theater; Flaubert’s Madame Bovary adapted by Adrienne Kennedy at the Signature Theater, NYC; Oedipus the King (Yeats adaptation) and Salome: The Reading (Oscar Wilde) with Al Pacino on Broadway and the national tour.

Nominated four times for the Tony Award, Ms. Parsons was inducted into the American Theater Hall Of Fame in 2004.

Leland Gantt first unveiled Rhapsody in Black at the WorkShop Theater Company’s Sundays@Six reading series. Further development at The Actors Studio yielded a slot in their Playwrights/Directors Unit’s spring festival and, subsequently, a threeweek workshop run.

Regional credits include: Two Trains Running and Radio Golf (Syracuse Stage); Walter Mosley’s The Fall of Heaven, (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Gem of the Ocean (Arena Stage), Jitney (Pittsburgh Public Theater), and In Walks Ed (Longwharf Theater).

Off-Broadway/Broadway: Slippery When Wet (La Mama), Another Man’s Poison (Peter Jay Sharpe Theater), OyamO’s Killa Dilla and Let Me Live (Drama Desk and Audelco Award nominee for Featured Actor), and the revival of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (u/s Rock Dutton).

Film and television credits include: Miracle at St. Anna, Requiem for a Dream, Malcolm X, Presumed Innocent, Law and Order, Law and Order SVU, J.A.G., and HBO’s The Affair.

Written and performed by LeLand Gantt and developed at NYC’s Actors Studio by Estelle Parsons, Rhapsody in Black is a one man show that explores LeLand’s personal journey to understand and eventually transcend racism in America. We follow his spellbinding life story – from an underprivileged childhood in the ghettos of McKeesport, Pennsylvania to teenage experiments with crime and drugs to scholastic achievement and an acting career that land adult LeLand in situations where he is virtually the only African-American in the room.

How he manages to cope with the various psychological effects of consistently being marked “The Other” is recounted in remarkable and exquisitely moving detail, guaranteed to leave lasting impressions. Multiple elements combine to give Rhapsody its super-powered emotional punch, many of them concentrated in the incredible persona of its star. Charming, selfdeprecatingly funny, linguistically awesome, LeLand Gantt imbues every word that falls from his mouth with all the passion and poignancy of a preacher speaking the Gospel.

This is partly because he’s confronting heavy subjects, but mostly because he believes so firmly in his message that it’s impossible for it to emerge any other way. In his own words; “Objective truth strikes a chord.”

Estelle Parsons won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1967 for her role as Blanche Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde.

Among her most noted television roles, she played Roseanne’s mother on the awardwinning sitcom Roseanne. She played the title role in Miss Margarita’s Way and Violet Weston in August: Osage County on

Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

Presented by The Oakville Centre. Sponsored by Paradiso Restaurant

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Oakville Centre Studio Sessions Series

Mike Mandel MASTER HYPNOTIST Friday, February 10, 2017 at 8:30 p.m. and Saturday, February 11, 2017 at 3 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

Jonovision, YTV, Vision, W5, Discovery, Bravo!’s Arts and Minds, and numerous guest spots on Australian television.

Widely regarded as the world’s greatest hypnotist, Mike Mandel has 18 nominations and six awards for excellence in entertainment. In June 2000, he was presented with the COCA Hall of Fame Award, previously won by Sarah McLaughlin, The Tragically Hip and Jim Carrey.

Mike Mandel is a qualified trainer of neurolinguistic programming (NLP) and is affiliated with NLPWorks, who offer Canada’s most complete NLP training. He teaches advanced Ericksonian hypnosis both via online training and in a live classroom in Toronto, the hypnotic world epicenter. He affectionately refers to his students as hypnotic storm riders across the world.

Students include interested lay people, therapists and doctors. Mike Mandel is certified in a number of highly effective psychotherapeutic disciplines that get rapid results. His private practice included flying to Australia to help a rock star.

Mike lives in Toronto with his wife, two Bengal cats and thousands of books.

In a career spanning over 40 years, and three continents, Mike is one of the most imitated acts in the world. With rapid hypnosis, and masterful comedy, Mike works with audience volunteers to create a hilariously hypnotic event, where the emphasis is always on entertainment. This incredible allages show will leave you with sore stomach muscles and an astounded mind!

Mike Mandel’s career has covered many different fields: stage performer, trainer, psychotherapist, martial arts instructor, writer, and corporate speaker. Born in England, the son of an electrical engineer, Mike inherited none of his father’s mechanical or practical skills, but his wit and imagination made him a natural entertainer.

Using his creative forces, Mike single handedly reinvented the persona of the stage hypnotist, rescuing it from its tacky beginnings and giving it rock star appeal. In the 1970s he toured extensively with A Foot in Cold Water, Lighthouse, Max Webster, Teenage Head and is immortalized in the Goddo song Pretty Bad Boys.

Mandel’s consistent popularity and captivating comedy led to five tours of Britain, and appearances on CBCs

Presented by The Oakville Centre.

Pre-ordered food service is available for all Studio Sessions performances.

Details available at OakvilleCentre.ca

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A hilariously hypnotic event. This incredible show will leave you with sore stomach muscles and an astounded mind!

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Dan Cooper Concert Series

THE TEA PARTY 20 Years of Transmission Tour Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 8 p.m.

With a career spanning over 26 years and eight major-label releases, The Tea Party composed of Jeff Martin (vocals, guitar), Jeff Burrows (drums) and Stuart Chatwood (bass), have successfully gained the attention of fans on a worldwide level, selling over 1.6 million records worldwide, as well as touring a countless number of times through Canada, the United States, Europe and Australia. Much of the bands success can be attributed to their phenomenal stage presence and impeccable artistry and musicianship with a wide variety of instruments and sound textures.

Although they have achieved great success on an international level, The Tea Party cannot ignore the cult-like following in their native country. In Canada alone, The Tea Party have secured four doubleplatinum, one platinum and four gold albums over the span of their career. In addition to this success, The Tea Party have been nominated for numerous JUNO awards and have received 22 MuchMusic Video Award nominations including three People’s Choice Awards for Favourite Music Video.

After taking a seven-year hiatus, The Tea Party reunited in 2011 for a string of Canadian dates followed by a cross-Canada run. The band received such an overwhelming response from fans on the tour that they decided to continue.

Regular Ticket: $70 | Big Ticket Member: $63 | Big Ticket Plus: $59 All prices include taxes and handling fees. Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

“Their music has been described as hard rock with influences from blues, progressive rock, Indian and Middle Eastern music.” ~ sputnikmusic.com

Presented by The Oakville Centre. Sponsored by the Dan Cooper Group.

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To this day, she is still the only artist to have a Number 1 single while not signed to a recording contract.

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Dan Cooper Concert Series

LISALOEB Friday, February 17, 2017 at 8 p.m.

Lisa Loeb’s highly anticipated return to the pop/rock world after immersing herself in other projects may be called No Fairy Tale, but it’s actually another charmed chapter of her storybook-like career which began in the mid-90s. She emerged from the New York coffeehouse and club circuits with her trademark Grammy nominated hit Stay (I Missed You) – the only artist (still) to ever have a number one Billboard pop single while not signed to a recording contract. The multi-talented singer/songwriter, inspired to work with co-producer Chad Gilbert, guitarist and founding member of rockers New Found Glory, stirs up a glorious pop/punk rock sound over the course of 12 tracks that are both coolly contemporary yet rough around the edges on her new musical declaration No Fairy Tale.

A longtime fan, Gilbert emailed Lisa with his idea for a collaborative project. Loeb and Gilbert first worked together when he asked her to sing on his band’s punky version of Stay on their film songs cover album From The Screen To Your Stereo Part II in 2007. In 2009, Loeb joined New Found Glory onstage at the Nokia Theatre (now the Best Buy Center) in Times Square for a live performance of the song. Gilbert had received an email alert about a stop on her book tour for the Lisa Loeb’s Silly Sing-Along: The Disappointing Pancake and other Zany Songs book/CD project. “I got the crazy idea to email her to say, ‘I know you do these kids books, but when are you going to let me produce a full-on modern indie pop/rock record for you. You haven’t done one in a while.”

Loeb recalls that Gilbert’s email included the phrase “poppy-punky-rock album,” a concept she was immediately receptive to. He also felt that a recent influx of female fronted groups like Canadian duo Tegan and Sara – whom New Found Glory had toured with – made

the time right for the singer to record a raucous, upbeat album with a fresh perspective that would, in his words, “make her sound like it was her first recording ever.”

Gilbert adds, “Besides, she’s a character, and her voice has always been so cool and unique. There are a lot of great artists out there, but no one sounds like Lisa.”

Loeb agreed that the timing was ideal. “When he mentioned Tegan and Sara, it seemed perfect as I was very inspired by them and actually listened to their music while writing a lot of recent songs. It’s funny that Chad and I have always gotten along so well. He’s a tattooed up post-punk rocker and I’m known more as a singer/songwriter with glasses, which may seem like an unlikely pair, but it totally makes sense. He brought a whole new angle to my music and it was great to work with many of the musicians he works with down in Orange County (California), as well as Joe Marro and Forrest Kline from the pop-punk band Hello Goodbye, who he enlisted to play keyboards.” With the addition of veteran mix engineer Brad Wood, whose credits include Smashing Pumpkins, Liz Phair and Pete Yorn, the sound of No Fairy Tale soon melded into the perfect balance of Loeb’s past “professional largeness” with the “not perfect but edgy” style she and Gilbert created.

Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Lisa Loeb was launched into the limelight in 1994 with her platinumselling Number 1 hit song Stay (I Missed You) from the film Reality Bites. Since then, she has enjoyed a successful career encompassing music, film, television, voice-over work and children’s recordings. In addition to raising two children, Loeb is currently working on a new eyewear line, Lisa Loeb Eyewear (in partnership with Classique Eyewear); her second children’s book Lisa Loeb’s Songs for Moving and Shaking; and No Fairy Tale.

Regular Ticket: $50 | Big Ticket Member: $43 | Big Ticket Plus: $39 All prices include taxes and handling fees. Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

Presented by The Oakville Centre. Sponsored by the Dan Cooper Group.

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OAKVILLE’S FINEST Local, free range & all natural beef, pork and poultry.

And the best eggs you’ll ever taste!

The second is grass fed, finished on corn and dry aged beef from Norwich. It is a family farmed Limousin cattle, dry aged for a minimum of 14 days to provide a tender, well marbled, and flavourful option. “It is our biggest and most popular supplier offering great variety and value.”

Marbled Meats specializes in 100% natural, free range and local premium meats, sourced from family farmers.

They represent the very best when it comes to Ontario farmers, and continually strive to raise the bar to offer the freshest, healthiest and tastiest products for you and your family to enjoy.

Their poultry comes from Fenwood Farms just outside Ancaster. Owner Tom Stasiuk states, matter-of-factly that “it is by far, the best chicken you will ever have.” Vitamins and herbs are used to build their immune system so that no antibiotics are ever used, and the feed consists of a custom blend of natural grains. Each bird is provided with fresh air, clean well water, and lots of space to roam to ensure a true Free Range product.

“…very well marbled, extremely tender and full flavoured...We’ve been told by our regulars it’s the best steak they’ve ever had.”

“And finally, the most unique beef product we offer is our 100% natural Prime Grade beef – corn and beer finished, dry aged, hybrid breed from Wellington County, providing a very well marbled, extremely tender and full flavoured striploin or rib eye steak. We’ve been told by our regulars it’s the best steak they’ve ever had.”

Their 100% natural and grazing pork comes from St. Jacobs. It is a Berkshire Breed providing outstanding tenderness and flavour. It is harvested every Monday, hung on Tuesday, and delivered on Wednesday.

Our pork products include pork loin roasts and chops, back ribs, outstanding bacon, and to-die-for sausages.

“We also provide a Free Catering Service for our baby back ribs. They are slow cooked to order but do require at least 3 hours notice, resulting in very moist, tender, and fall off the bone ribs.”

“If it’s truly not the best roasted chicken you’ve ever had we will gladly give you twice your money back.”

“Our chickens are harvested every Tuesday, air chilled and vacuum packed for delivery to our Oakville location every Wednesday morning – and we always sell out by Sunday! We also offer a Free Roasting Service for the chickens, just let us know what time you would like it ready I’ll make sure that’s when it will be coming out of the oven for you,” says Tom. “If it’s truly not the best roasted chicken you’ve ever had we will gladly give you twice your money back. Try it, you’ll love it!”

“The most natural tasting eggs you will ever enjoy.”

The 100% Natural, Free Range eggs come from Green Meadow Eggs in Aylmer.

“They are an Amish Family To offer a fantastic 100% Farm raising small flock hens When you walk into marbled meats, you’ll not only feast your natural beef selection to suit which are fed only grass, every taste, flavour profile, eyes on the freshest products available, but you’ll more than likely grubs and grains resulting in be tempted by the aroma of chickens or ribs in the oven! and budget, Tom deals with the most natural tasting eggs three outstanding family farms located in Simcoe, you will ever enjoy.” They are delivered to Marbled Meats Norwich and Wellington counties. every Thursday to ensure the utmost freshness.

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“Their assurance is sexy; the songcraft, nimble. Whitehorse is the Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway of Canadian roots rock.�~ The Globe & Mail

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WHITEHORSE Friday, February 24, 2017 at 8 p.m.

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

Whitehorse’s story has been told as two acclaimed musicians joining forces under one new name – no drummer, no keyboard player, violinist or even bass player on call, and no producer. Just Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland. The first album and EP demonstrate the success of this simple equation, one plus one, with an abundance of guitar slinging, songwriting expertise and white-hot desire.

Of course, the live show has been anything but simple.

Melissa and Luke present a full band sound using live loops, bits and pieces percussion, and swapping guitars left right and centre on stage. By the time Whitehorse took to the stage at Toronto’s esteemed Massey Hall for their sold-out debut in 2013, the edge of the ledge effect of their earliest shows had transformed into a nimble ballet of moving instruments, layers of percussion, voice and keys, layered upon each other.

With their sophomore LP Leave No Bridge Unburned, Whitehorse messes with the math. The duo hired ex-pat producer Gus Van Go to make the record. The three met at the 2013 Polaris Music Prize Gala, where Whitehorse performed as a Short List nominee for The Fate of the World Depends on This Kiss. With this move, Whitehorse’s studio team instantly doubled – Gus and his frequent collaborator Werner F transformed the duo’s song-making dynamic into a group conversation. Leave No Bridge Unburned signals a new era for Whitehorse, a time of expanded musical influence and community.

Leave No Bridge Unburned boasts more of everything that makes Whitehorse exciting and innovative – it’s Whitehorse amplified, increased, intensified. If The Fate of the World Depends on This Kiss was Whitehorse’s urgent, romantic statement on uncertainty and impending disaster, Leave No Bridge Unburned is a reckoning, a confrontation. The smoulders on Fate have become a full-blown blaze, a wall of heat. Leave No Bridge Unburned is all about surging ahead; there’s nothing to lose and no way to return.

There are songs that tap into Luke and Melissa’s shared fascination with the American south. Opening track Baby What’s Wrong is the story of a creepy lover told with an evil twang, an even darker version of Calexico’s desert noir. The

mariachi trumpet of You Get Older, about a human smuggler with an existential side, also conjures the burnt-out border towns, stray dogs and rooster crows that populate Spaghetti Westerns, Southern Gothic novels and dusty post-apocalyptic landscapes.

Another recurring Whitehorse theme is the urban/suburban divide which clefts political, social and artistic factions. Cities, specifically New York and Toronto, never cease to inspire the two. Downtown points to Toronto’s mayoral debacle, a local media circus and international embarrassment, but also the loneliness of urban living and the gulf between left and right.

Dear Irony romances detachment while also wondering what good comes of it, a song also peppered with New York references and a city street vibe.

And then there’s the love song. Leave No Bridge Unburned contains what Melissa calls her first real love song for Luke.

Sweet Disaster channels slinky, stylized Bond themes and Sixties’ R&B in a story about one rich man’s quest to send a couple to Mars. Fitting, for a band best described as “space cowboy lovebirds” (Now Magazine, Toronto).

Whitehorse formed in 2010 by husband and wife solo musicians Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland. The two toured in each other’s bands for years, but they put aside their award winning individual careers to build a new band out of their exceptional guitar playing, his and her harmonies and a flair for dramatic, narrative songwriting. Whitehorse has since been nominated for the Polaris Short List (2013) for The Fate of the World Depends on This Kiss, played sold out shows across Canada, and established itself in the USA as a band to watch with stellar reviews for The Fate of the World…, only their first full-length album.

Leave No Bridge Unburned sees Whitehorse shaping a bigger, bolder rock sound. Any lingering assumptions that the two are working within the boundaries of a folk duo should be put to rest. Leave No Bridge Unburned is a fiery, forceful and finely tuned album. While there’s more in the mix now, more people at the board, more sonic swagger in the ears, Whitehorse will continue to be a story told of intimacy and passion. Two musicians, one band, no looking back.

Regular Ticket: $62 | Big Ticket Member: $55 | Big Ticket Plus: $51 All prices include taxes and handling fees. Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

Presented by The Oakville Centre. Sponsored by the Dan Cooper Group.

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MONKEYJUNK

AND THE HARPOONIST & THE AXE MURDERER Saturday, February 25, 2017 at 8 p.m.

MONKEYJUNK

every beat and every lyric. MonkeyJunk is a reminder to listeners that musicianship, ability and strong song writing always triumph.

The 2008 birth of the Ottawa-based band MonkeyJunk came along just when music fans needed them the most. They brought an accessible and refreshing blend of swamp-rock roots and blues to the table and haven’t looked back. In the relatively short time they’ve been performing and recording together, the members of MonkeyJunk have won a collective 20 Maple Blues Awards, two Canadian Independent Music Awards, a Blues Music Award (USA), and have been nominated twice for a JUNO Award, taking home the coveted hardware in 2012.

Straight out of the gate, MonkeyJunk quickly became one of the most popular new bands on the scene, performing at festivals and packed venues across the country, amassing a large audience of devoted fans, affectionately called “MonkeyJunkies”. In fact, they hit the road for a tour before their debut album Tiger In Your Tank was even released. They are not a fluke, one-off collective or “ordinary Joes” who decided to start a band. These are three musicians who individually had established careers prior to forming MonkeyJunk. Steve Marriner, the trio’s vocalist, baritone guitarist, harmonica and organ player, was well known as the ‘go-to’ guy as a producer, sideman and session player. He’s also toured the world performing alongside Harry Manx. Steve is also the consummate musical networker and stage guest having been invited to join many artists in concert such as Randy Bachman, Colin James and Big Sugar.

At the age of nineteen, lead guitarist Tony D performed for three nights in Buddy Guy’s band. In 1982, he opened for Stevie Ray Vaughn. These events helped propel him into a long-standing career with his own popular project, The Tony D Band. He has also toured with some of this country’s greatest musicians, including the late Dutch Mason.

Before MonkeyJunk, drummer and percussionist Matt Sobb was a very busy session drummer around Ottawa and has backed up several regional, national and international artists live on stage, touring and in studio over the last 24 years such as Kim Wilson (Fabulous Thunderbirds), Jeff Healey and Tom Wilson (Blackie & The Rodeo Kings, Junkhouse, Lee Harvey Osmond), The Tony D Band, his brother’s band Marty Sobb and The Mobb among many others. As one of Canada’s heaviest bands since Big Sugar, their music is passionate and edgy with unfettered delivery.

The trio of long-time friends and colleagues just seem to click in a way that is at once natural and otherworldly. Their passion, conviction and dedication to their music is evident with every lick,

THE HARPOONIST & THE AXE MURDERER In reality, Shawn ‘The Harpoonist’ Hall and Matthew ‘The Axe Murderer’ Rogers evoke much more than just grisly nautical imagery. Armed with an arsenal of harmonicas, a mess of foot percussion, and a road-worn Telecaster, the duo kick out raw and primal blues in the tradition of a “decades-deep blues style - Scott Brown, What’s up Yukon, while infusing the genre with a jolt of renewed energy.

The two met and bonded over music while recording a radio jingle. Their memorable name is inspired by a lyric from Kris Kristofferson’s Bobby McGee that references the blues harp, (‘I took my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana’) and ‘axe’, a common term for the guitar.

Their influences range from the iconic songwriting of Willie Dixon to the boundary pushing of Jack White and Danger Mouse, but their sound is distinctly their own, smothered in greasy, gritty soul and imbued with funk. Shawn Hall provides the rousing, rugged vocals and blues harmonica, while Matthew Rogers rips on the guitar and pounds the skins with his feet. Their music is unapologetic. It slaps you in the face and makes you sweat like it’s a sticky, summer night. It cuts you to the core. It’s the blues played the way it was meant to be played.

Shawn and Matthew have received considerable recognition in the last few years. They have been nominated for multiple Maple Blues Awards and won Blues Act of the Year at the SiriusXM Indies in 2013. The duo has also pounded their fair share of festival stages including SXSW 2013/14, Winnipeg Folk Fest, Ottawa Blues Fest, Calgary Folk Fest, and Montreal Jazz Fest. Along the way they’ve shared the stage with Taj Mahal, Booker T Jones, David Wilcox, Mother Mother, The Sheep Dogs, and Serena Ryder. They’ve also had songs featured on television shows such as the The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, and the aptly named TV movie Lizzie Borden Took An Axe. The duo has no plans to slow down. They’re on a continuing journey, constantly finding inspiration from musicians they meet or collaborate with. These encounters challenge them to deepen their songwriting and to keep performing with their trademark fervor and honesty. And the result? As one fan put it, is “blues that gets you in the crotch”.

Regular Ticket: $52 | Big Ticket Member: $45 | Big Ticket Plus: $41 All prices include taxes and handling fees. Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

Presented by The Oakville Centre. Sponsored by the Dan Cooper Group.

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MonkeyJunk are keeping the spirits of Muddy Waters and the other roots giants alive with their own unique brand of music.

Check it out – you won’t be disappointed.” ~ David Wilcox

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“I’m excited to bring my latest show involving a new set of Genesis and Hackett numbers to North America in 2017!” ~ Steve Hackett

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STEVE HACKETT 2017 TOUR GENESIS REVISITED WITH CLASSIC HACKETT Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 8 p.m.

Steve Hackett released his newest album Wolflight in late March 2015. Since then he has been touring extensively in Europe & the UK and on the East coast of the US in the Fall of 2015. Wolflight is his first original studio album since Beyond The Shrouded Horizon that was released in 2011. It takes the listener on an extensive musical journey, through parallel universes. Hackett explores everything from ancient cultures to his own childhood memories.

The track Black Thunder is inspired by Martin Luther King, Corycian Fire is about the ancient Greek culture and Love Song To A Vampire reflects upon the forever difficult topic of domestic violence.

Steve Hackett has released more than 30 solo albums in addition to the seven he did with Genesis, as well as one album he did with the super group GTR together with Steve Howe of Yes and Asia.

His continued Acolyte to Wolflight tour will feature his solo works and also a section of Genesis classics including The Musical box, Cinema Show and Can-Utility and the Coastliners.

Musicians playing with Steve for the 2017 tour will be: • Roger King, keyboards • Ron Townsend, saxes and flutes • Gary O’Toole, drums • Roine Stolt, bass & guitars & percussion • Nad Sylvan, vocals All Tickets: $100 All prices include taxes and handling fees.

Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

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STEPHEN FEARING Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 8 p.m.

Stephen Fearing’s music embodies a fierce intelligence, a haunting candor, and a steady-handed pursuit of fleeting beauty. He exudes an abiding love for his craft and a respect for his audience that is reflected in two JUNO awards and a touring circuit that includes festival stages and concert halls across Canada, Europe and The United States.

A beguiling teller of tales and a singularly intense instrumentalist, Fearing is an alluring entertainer – heartbreaking, expansive and full of mirth - with a clear, honorable voice that lifts you out into his wide world and “brings you back home to yourself”.

For over twenty years, Stephen Fearing has been recording and touring with the rhythm section of Gary Craig (drums) and John Dymond (bass).

Through his work with Blackie and The Rodeo Kings, Fearing & White or on his own solo work, these two veteran musicians have shaped how Fearing thinks of a rhythm section and what he expects from the players he works with.

Gary Craig is a master drummer/percussionist who is regarded as the most sought after drummer in Canada. The Toronto-based, awardwinning musician has performed live and in the studio with many artists including Anne Murray, Bruce Cockburn, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Tom Cochrane, Jann Arden, Kathleen Edwards and The Rankin Family.

John Dymond has collaborated with a who’s who of Canadian music. If you’ve listened to artists like Bruce Cockburn, k.d. lang, Colin Linden and Blackie and the Rodeo Kings you’ve heard John. Named Canadian Country Music Bass Player of the Year (three times), JD is one of the elite “first-call” recording and live musicians working in Canada and The US. Regular Ticket: $45 | Big Ticket Member: $38 | Big Ticket Plus: $34 All prices include taxes and handling fees.

Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

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“Fearing’s music crackles with ideas and collaborative energy… masterful guitar work from acoustic rock rhythm to elegant finger style.” ~ Acoustic Guitar Magazine

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Chinwagn Classic Albums Live Series

THE JOSHUA TREE U2 • Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 8 p.m.

For a band that’s always specialized in inspirational, largerthan-life gestures – a band utterly determined to be Important – The Joshua Tree could be the big one, and that’s precisely what it sounds like.

That’s not to say that this record is either a flagrantly commercial move or another Born in the U.S.A. The Joshua Tree is U2’s most varied, subtle and accessible album, although it doesn’t contain any sure-fire smash hits. But in its musical toughness and strong-willed spirituality, the album lives up to its namesake: a hardy, twisted tree that grows in the rocky deserts of the American Southwest. A Mormon legend claims that their early settlers called the Joshua tree “the praying plant” and thought its gnarled branches suggested the Old Testament prophet Joshua pointing the way to the Promised Land. The title befits a record that concerns itself with resilience in the face of utter social and political desolation, a record steeped in religious imagery.

More than any other U2 album, though, The Joshua Tree has the power and allure to seduce and capture a mass audience on its own terms. Without making a show of its eclecticism, it features assertive rock (Where the Streets Have No Name), raw frenzy (Bullet the Blue Sky), delicacy (One Tree Hill), chugging rhythms (I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For) and even acoustic bluesiness (Running to Stand Still) – all of it unmistakably U2.

But if this is a breakthrough, it’s a grim, dark-hued one.

At first, refreshingly honest, romantic declarations alternate with unsettling religious imagery. Then things get blacker. The raging, melodramatic Bullet the Blue Sky ties Biblical fire and brimstone with American violence overseas and at home. In the stomping, harmonica spiked rocker Trip Through Your Wires, what looks like salvation could easily be evil seduction; One Tree Hill is a soft, haunting benediction on a U2 crew member who died in a motorcycle accident; and Red Hill Mining Town echoes Peter Gabriel’s Don’t Give Up in its unsparing look at personal relationships savaged by economic hardship – here, the aftermath of the largely unsuccessful British miners’ strike of 1984.

But for all its gloom, the album is never a heavy-handed diatribe. After the first few times through Running to Stand Still, for instance, you notice the remarkable music: the wholly unexpected blues slide guitar, the soft, Nebraska-style yelps, the ghostly harmonica. It sounds like a lovely, peaceful reverie – except that this is a junkie’s reverie, and when that realization hits home, the gentle acoustic lullaby acquires a corrosive power that recalls Bad, from the last LP. The Joshua Tree is an appropriate response to these times, and a picture bleaker than any U2 has ever painted:

a vision of blasted hopes, pointless violence and anguish.

But this is not a band to surrender to defeatism. Its last album ended with a gorgeous elegy to Martin Luther King Jr.; The Joshua Tree closes with a haunting ode to other victims. Mothers of the Disappeared is built around desolate images of loss, but the setting is soothing and restorative – music of great sadness but also of unutterable compassion, acceptance and calm. The Unforgettable Chill, you might call this album, and unforgettable is certainly the right word. ~ Steve Pond, Rolling Stone (1987)

Regular Ticket: $65 | Big Ticket Member: $58 | Big Ticket Plus: $54 All prices include taxes and handling fees. Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

Founded by Craig Martin in 2003, Toronto-based Classic Albums Live recreates famous rock albums without the gimmickry, relying solely on the music. It has become the ultimate destination for music lovers wanting to hear the greatest albums performed live.

Presented by The Oakville Centre. Sponsored by Chinwagn Inc., in association with Data Media Inc.

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“The Honouring took the audience on a heartfelt journey through war, death and grief, but always with dignified ceremony.� ~ Paula Citron, The Globe & Mail

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THE HONOURING Kaha:Wi Dance Theatre • Friday, March 24, 2017 at 8 p.m.

A Pay-What-You-Can performance Watch history come to life! A multi-disciplinary performance, The Honouring pays homage to First Nations warriors of the War of 1812, featuring Onkwehonwe families who sacrificed to protect Haudenosaunee sovereignty, culture and land.

Audiences will be immersed in a history that is rarely experienced anywhere else and will have the opportunity to understand the complexity of the War of 1812 through the experiential lens of First Nations, offering a human face to our history. All First Nations took part in the War of 1812 as sovereign Nation allies to Britain. The Honouring pays homage to their personal sacrifices and belief in what was the best for their family, community and future generations.

“You may rely on it that without the Indians we never could keep this country and that with them [on the British side] the Americans never will take the upper posts…for in the woods, where the Americans must past, one Indian is equal to three white men.” - Canadian Militia Officer John Askin to Judge William D. Powell, Jan. 25, 1813

CREDITS The Honouring is commissioned by the City of Toronto, Museum Services as part of the Indigenous Arts Festival at Fort York, Woodland Cultural Centre Creation Residency and Niagara 1812 Bicentennial Legacy Council.

Artistic Direction/Choreographer/Concept/Songwriter/Performer . . . . . . . . . . Santee Smith Artists . . . . . . . . Santee Smith, Emily Law, Michael Demski,Nimkii Osawamick, Alex Twin, Jacob Pratt, Garret C. Smith, Cheri Maracle, Joshua DePerry, and Jesse Dell Lighting Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alaina Perttula Video Design/Technical Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Moro Video and Technical Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ashley Bomberry Additional Props and Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steve Smith, Santee Smith, Elaine Redding

MUSICAL PRODUCTION Creative Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Santee Smith Composer/Arrangement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lou Pomanti Additional Composition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adrian Harjo Commissioned Songwriters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennifer Kreisberg, George Buck Recorded Singers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nikki Shawana, Sadie Buck, Gary Parker, Santee Smith Additional Video performers . . . . . . . . . Derek Martin, Danny Vyse, Carey-Leigh Thomas, Riley Hill, Christopher Mejaki Production Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Hou

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Sponsored by Paradiso Restaurant.

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• Eight-time CCMA Entertainer of the Year • Five-time CCMA Female Vocalist of the Year • Six Number One singles in Canada and the USA including Better Things To Do, Poor Poor Pitiful Me, Girls Lie Too and I Just Wanna Be Mad 36

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TERRI CLARK with opening performer Jessica Mitchell Saturday, March 25, 2017 at 8 p.m.

Hailing from Medicine Hat, Alberta, Terri got her start playing for tips at Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, a honky-tonk bar across the alley from Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium. She signed with Mercury Records and emerged as a distinctive voice on the country music landscape – driving, passionate, spirited – and every bit her own woman.

The eight-time CCMA Entertainer of the Year has also taken home the CCMA Female Vocalist of the Year award five times. She has made her mark on radio with more than twenty singles, including six Number Ones in Canada and the USA – hits such as such as Better Things To Do, Poor Poor Pitiful Me, Girls Lie Too, and I Just Wanna Be Mad. Terri has sold over five million albums and achieved Gold, Platinum, Double Platinum, and Triple Platinum status as certified by the CRIA and RIAA. She also has the honor of being the only Canadian female artist to be a member of the Grand Ole Opry.

Terri is a dynamic, no-holds-barred live performer and one of the rare female country artists capable of throwing down some impressive guitar work. Terri has toured with such superstars as Brad Paisley, Toby Keith, Brooks & Dunn, Reba McEntire, and George Strait. In addition, she continues to headline sold-out tours throughout the US and Canada.

Regular Ticket: $72 Big Ticket Member: $65 | Big Ticket Plus: $61 All prices include taxes and handling fees.

Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

Presented by The Oakville Centre.

Sponsored by the Dan Cooper Group.

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OLIVER! IN OAKVILLE From the same creative team that brought you the Holiday Pantomime!

Burl-Oak Theatre Group is pleased to announce the arrival of Oliver! The Musical, to the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts stage in April 2017.

Bringing Charles Dickens’ beloved novel to life, Lionel Bart’s Oliver! takes audiences on a wild adventure through Victorian England. Join young, orphaned Oliver Twist as he navigates London’s underworld searching for a home, a family, and – most importantly – for love.

When Oliver is picked up on the street by a boy nicknamed the Artful Dodger, he is welcomed into a gang of child pickpockets led by the conniving, but charismatic, Fagin.

Oliver, falsely accused of a theft he didn’t commit, is rescued by a kind and wealthy

gentleman – much to the dismay of the villainous Bill Sykes. Caught in the middle is the warm-hearted Nancy, who is trapped under Bill’s thumb, but desperate to help Oliver. With spirited, timeless songs like “As Long as He Needs Me,” “Food, Glorious Food,” and “Where is Love,” Oliver! is a musical classic and enjoyment for the whole family.

The production of Oliver! The Musical starring Cameron Brindle opens Tuesday, April 18 and runs until Sunday, April 23, with evening performances Tuesday through Saturday and matinees on Saturday and Sunday.

The performance is 2 hours long with a 15 minute intermission.

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Oliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cameron Brindle Dodger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jude Henderson Fagin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Craig Warnock Nancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alex Chappell Bet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emma Prestage Bill Sykes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paul Wilson Mr. Bumble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rikki Wright Widow Corney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jenn Keay Ms. Sowerberry . . . . . . . . . Michelle Charles Mrs. Sowerberry . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lynne Scott Charlotte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Kilburn Noah Claypole. . . . . . . . . . . . Maddie Grimes Charley Bates . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grace Johnson Mrs.Bedwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . Linda Morawiec Mr.Brownlow . . . . . . . . . . Michael Newsome Dr.Grimwig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Brudlo

Brooke Dos Santos Lauren Service Luke Mathews Sofia Karachok Sydney Quinlan Isabella Deurra Velazquez Greer Sheppard Owen Sheridan Oscar Wilson Scarlett Rickards

Maiya De Souza Raven Marks Rebecca Crosier James Crosier Rachel Slater Catherine Ross Johanna Boffa Bella Guy Lisa Weeks Susan Forde

PRODUCTION Tim Cadeny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director Chantal Forde . . . . . . . . . . . . Choreographer

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IN THE MOOD - TRIBUTE TO GLENN MILLER Oakville Centre Classical & World Artist Series

Sunday, April 2, 2017 at 3 p.m.

In The Mood features the memorable music of Big Band legend Glenn Miller heralded as the most popular bandleader of all time.

This dynamic showcase of professional musicianship is headlined by “Canada’s King of the Clarinet” Ross Wooldridge directing the highly acclaimed 17-member Galaxy Orchestra with vocals by songstress Robin Lea, heart-throb Ian Jutsun plus harmonies by The 4 Debonaires. 24 first-class professional performers on stage and Glenn Miller’s legendary music authentically recreated.

You’ll instantly recognize such hits as: • In the Mood • Moonlight Serenade • Pennsylvania 6-5000 • Chattanooga Choo Choo • A String of Pearls • At Last • American Patrol • Tuxedo Junction • Little Brown Jug • and others

Regular Ticket: $53 Big Ticket Member: $46 | Big Ticket Plus: $42 All prices include taxes and handling fees.

Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

Presented by The Oakville Centre.

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Oakville Centre Studio Sessions Series

Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 8:30 p.m. drums, kazoo, cowbell and tambourines. TooNice are performing songs from three original albums along with some favourites from the ska and reggae communities across the world.

They have performed with The Wailers, The English Beat, Shaggy, Inner Circle, Beres Hammond, The Toasters among many more rising stars.

Their show is extremely entertaining, and interactive. Dance, sing and jam along and experience their unique stage presence filled with props.

The party has begun! TooNice is a high energy reggae ska band from Wasaga Beach.

Under the influence of Jamaican reggae (Bob Marley, Toots and the Maytals), SoCal punk ska (Sublime, Slightly Stoopid, Rancid) and British punk two tone ska (Clash, The Specials) TooNice has created the reggae ska sound of The Canadian Shield.

Five members with diverse musical backgrounds have created the nattiest reggae sound around with three part harmonies, guitar, trombone, bass, keys,

Regular Ticket: $44 | Big Ticket Member: $37 | Big Ticket Plus: $33 All prices include taxes and handling fees. Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

Presented by The Oakville Centre.

Pre-ordered food service is available for all Studio Sessions performances. Details available at OakvilleCentre.ca

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Chinwagn Classic Albums Live Series

Are You Experienced JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE • Friday, April 7, 2017 at 8 p.m. in the early Sixties with Little Richard and the Isley Brothers and his melodic exploitation of amp howl. But it was the pictorial heat of songs like Manic Depression, I Don’t Live Today and The Wind Cries Mary that established the transcendent promise of psychedelia. Hendrix made soul music for

“Jimi Hendrix was arguably the greatest rock instrumentalist of the Sixties. His blunt attack contrasted sharply with the meticulous virtuosity of an Eric Clapton; Hendrix preferred an angry metal whine, molten steel to Clapton’s polished chrome. His rough edges conveyed far more than his awesome dexterity. In a genre where computerized pyrotechnics seem the rule, Hendrix played with a rawness transcending idiomatic formalities.” – Rolling Stone 1974 #15 on Rolling Stone’s definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

This is what Britain sounded like in late 1966 and early 1967: ablaze with rainbow blues, orchestral guitar feedback and the personal cosmic vision of black American émigré Jimi Hendrix. Rescued from dead-end gigs in New York by ex-Animal Chas Chandler, Hendrix arrived in London in September 1966, quickly formed the Experience with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell and in a matter of weeks was recording the songs that comprised his epochal debut – which stands four and a half decades later as rock’s most innovative and expressive guitar record. Hendrix’s incendiary playing was historic in itself, the luminescent sum of his chitlin-circuit labors

inner space. “It’s a collection of free feeling and imagination,” he said of the album.

“Imagination is very important.” Widely assumed to be about an acid trip, Purple Haze had “nothing to do with drugs,” Hendrix insisted. “Purple Haze was all about a dream I had that I was walking under the sea.” – RollingStone.com

Regular Ticket: $65 | Big Ticket Member: $58 | Big Ticket Plus: $54 All prices include taxes and handling fees. Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

Founded by Craig Martin in 2003, Toronto-based Classic Albums Live recreates famous rock albums without the gimmickry, relying solely on the music. It has become the ultimate destination for music lovers wanting to hear the greatest albums performed live.

Presented by The Oakville Centre. Sponsored by Chinwagn Inc., in association with Data Media Inc.

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Dan Cooper Concert Series

TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAYMEN An Evening With Berg, Murphy, Northey & Page Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 8 p.m.

The Trans-Canada Highwaymen are Moe Berg (The Pursuit of Happiness), Chris Murphy (SLOAN), Craig Northey (Odds) and Steven Page (Ex-Barenaked Ladies) and they are going on tour to perform their hit songs and share road stories of the mixed bag of excitement, dread, inspiration, emotional torture and unconditional support that is being a band.

It was against the beige backdrop of late 80s and early 90s that these front men of Canada’s most popular and commercially successful alt/rock, power/pop bands started their careers.

Their unique perspectives on being catapulted from the hard working underground indie scene to acclaim during one of Canada’s most exciting and transformative music eras is a story only they can tell.

This is a unique opportunity to witness them singing their hit songs together like I’m An Adult Now, Hard to Laugh, She’s So Young (TPOH), Underwhelmed, Coax Me, The Other Man (SLOAN), It Falls Apart, Someone Who’s Cool, Make You Mad (Odds) and The Old Apartment, Brian Wilson, Jane (Ex-BNL).

The performance gives audiences the opportunity to see four of Canada’s most successful & witty musical front men sharing stories, songs and laughter. Yes, they are going to play on each other's songs as a band and yes, they will rock.

Regular Ticket: $84 | Big Ticket Member: $77 | Big Ticket Plus: $73 All prices include taxes and handling fees.

Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

Presented by The Oakville Centre.

Sponsored by the Dan Cooper Group.

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“…fully embodied entertainment and artistry!”~ Vancouver Weekly “... athletic mix of martial arts and street-tinged contemporary dance...”~ Georgia Straight

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Paradiso Dance, Drama & Film Series

Glory

Shay Kuebler Radical System Art Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 8 p.m.

A Pay-What-You-Can performance Inspired by the epic battles of childhood and a passion for action films, Glory examines the complexities of violent behaviour and its glorification in our mediadrenched culture. Through a cinematic lens, with firstperson video material, Glory takes the audience through multiple images and expressions on the amplification of experience and violence in society.

A company of six bold and dynamic performers create a physical essay around numerous themes of glorification. Creating rich and dark imagery through visceral and impactful choreography, Glory pushes the audience to question the purpose and reasoning of violent material in society.

Shay Kuebler and Radical System Art fuse martial arts, theatre and dance to create highly physical and visually rich works. Balancing exacting and refined choreography with reckless and visceral energy.

Performance works are created to expand audiences and the art form of physical performance. The company places a great importance on training and research to continually develop new and dynamic repertoire, and expand dance through a diverse set of artistic influences. Creating work through artistic collaboration and a cross-disciplinary platform of experimental video, lighting and sound.

Presented by The Oakville Centre in association with the Ontario Arts Council.

Sponsored by Paradiso Restaurant.

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Oakville Centre Classical & World Artist Series

IMMORTAL CHI A Warriors Quest For Balance Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 8 p.m.

From the producer of the worldwide hit Shaolin Warriors comes a spectacular new fusion of Chinese martial arts and jaw-dropping acrobatics, accompanied by an all-female percussion ensemble.

Immortal Chi weaves a compelling narrative around a Tai-Chi master and his ultimate challenge to regain his inner energy and life force.

Audiences can expect to see adrenalin-packed stunts, traditional weaponry, incredible feats of human endurance, innovative video projections and stunning costumes. In short, Immortal Chi is a feast for the senses that brings the ancient traditions and rich theatrical history of China to life with a rousing 21st century twist.

The show kicked off its world premiere tour in the UK in 2014, delighting audiences and critics alike. It is an unforgettable theatrical Regular Ticket: $60 | Big Ticket Member: $53 | Big Ticket Plus: $49 All prices include taxes and handling fees.

Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

“If you want the highest level of martial arts, it’s here. If you want a stage rammed full of adrenalin packed stunts, it’s also here. If you want these elements wrapped around a story that brings a wider range of Chinese culture to the stage, this is without doubt the right show for you.”~ Martial Arts Illustrated

Presented by The Oakville Centre.

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Oakville Centre Classical & World Artist Series

CECILIA STRING QUARTET Friday, April 28, 2017 at 8 p.m.

Performing Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 18 No. 3, a selection from the Canadian Women in Music Project and Mendelssohn’s String Quartet Op. 44.

Introduction and post-performance artist chat hosted by Maestro Roberto De Clara.

Taking their name from St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music, Cecilia String Quartet was formed in Toronto in October 2004, and after a decade of fruitful musical discovery, they once again reside in Toronto where they are Ensemble in Residence at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music.

Hailed for their “powerful” (Chicago Sun Times) and “dauntingly perfect” (Berliner Zeitung) performances, the CSQ perform for leading presenters in North America and Europe. Past engagements include performances at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berlin Konzerthaus, Northwestern University, IL, Bing Concert Hall, Stanford, CA, Koerner Hall, Toronto, ON, University of Colorado, Boulder, and London’s Wigmore Hall.

Their live concert recordings have been broadcast on more than a dozen international public radio networks, including Australia (ABC Classical FM), Canada (CBC/SRC), the United States (WQXR), England (BBC Radio 3), and Germany (DeutschlandRadio).

Prize winners at several international competitions, including Osaka (2008) and Bordeaux (2010), they were honoured to be awarded First Prize at the 2010 Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC), where they also won the prize for the best performance of the commissioned work.

In addition to performing, the CSQ records for ANALEKTA. Their debut album of music by Dvorák in 2012 was acclaimed for its “deeply felt imperativeness” (The Strad), and their second recording featuring music by Janácek, Berg, and Webern, released a year later in 2013, was applauded for “unleashing the music’s ecstasy and angst” (Gramophone Magazine). In October 2015 CSQ released the Mendelssohn Quartets, Opus 44, Nos 1 & 2.

Regular Ticket: $55 | Big Ticket Member: $48 | Big Ticket Plus: $44 Oakville Symphony Members: $50 All prices include taxes and handling fees.

Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

Presented by Oakville Symphony and The Oakville Centre.

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Oakville Centre Comedy Series

BOOM

KDOONS and WYRD Productions Written, directed and performed by RICK MILLER Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at 8 p.m.

From the creative team behind MacHomer and Bigger Than Jesus, comes an explosive solo performance that documents the music, culture and politics that shaped the Baby Boom generation (1945-1969).

BOOM takes us through 25 turbulent years, and gives voice to over 100 influential politicians, activists and musicians. It’s a mind-blowing experience for audiences of all generations.

BOOM chronologically documents a historical period stretching from that first ‘boom’ of the Atomic Bomb in 1945 all the way to the Apollo 11 landing the first human beings on the Moon in 1969. These two iconic moments span 25 of the most tumultuous years in modern history, fuelled by a generation of

children with incredible influence due to their numbers, and to the advances of technology and communication. In the BOOM generation, politics and culture merged like never before – and perhaps never again.

KDOONS and WYRD Productions blend cutting-edge multimedia, unforgettable characters and tour-de-force storytelling in a stunningly staged production. BOOM allows you to experience the global events as they unfold: the Cold War, McCarthyism, Beatlemania, Trudeaumania, JFK, MLK, Mao, Vietnam… The various stories spiral into the “The Summer of Love”, and BOOM ends as it began: with a new generation born into a new world order.

Rick Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Writer/Director/Performer Jeff Lord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Executive Producer Ravi Jain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Directing Consultant Olivier Bourque . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stage & Production Manager David Leclerc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Projection Designer Bruno Matte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lighting Designer Creighton Doane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Composer & Sound Designer Yannik Larivee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Set/Costume/Props Designer Logograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Design, Multimedia and Marketing Craig Francis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Outreach Marketing Regular Ticket: $45 | Big Ticket Member: $38 | Big Ticket Plus: $34 All prices include taxes and handling fees. Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

Presented by The Oakville Centre.

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“Imaginative! Rick Miller is a Brilliant Performer”~ CBC

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“Produced by Matthew and Jill themselves, “The Family Album” is a folk record. It’s a record that enthusiastically harkens back to sibling singers of yesteryear, but also one that is not afraid to paint from a broad palette of both traditional sounds and contemporary flourishes. There are just enough hooks and plenty of licks. The vocals are up front, the harmonies are simple, the performances are live and the exquisite band is laid-back. Mixed by Grammy-winner Michael Piersante, the record is warm and full of textures. It aims to be classy in an unadorned way.”~outside-music.com

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Dan Cooper Concert Series

MatthewBarber &Jill Barber “THE FAMILY ALBUM” Thursday May 4, 2017 at 8 p.m.

The Family Album has been years in the making…

Jill Barber has garnered over 30 award nominations including two JUNO Awards and has won multiple times at the East Coast Music Awards, Western Canadian Music Awards, Nova Scotia Music Awards and was the recipient of Jazz Artist of the Year from Sirius XM. Jill has also authored two best-selling children’s books. Jill has always crafted original songs that evoke the golden age of music. Her last album Fool’s Gold debuted at #1 on the Canadian Jazz Charts and spent a remarkable 13 weeks there. The Fool’s Gold Canadian Tour concluded at the historic Massey Hall in front of a packed house.

Matthew Barber has become one of Canada’s most respected and admired singer songwriters, like his sister, Matthew has been nominated for multiple awards, including a JUNO. Through eight albums, Matthew has stayed close to the folk and roots style of his favourite artists, Neil Young, Bob Dylan but always aware of the hook and the melody. He’s had songs appear on countless TV shows and earned a top 5 radio hit with his song Soft One. At that night in Toronto at Massey Hall, the magical evening ended with just Jill and her brother Matthew on stage singing the Everly Brothers classic All I Have To Do Is Dream. It was a culmination of a lifetime of collaboration and it was there, that Jill and Matthew decided to make a record together. The siblings pored through old records, making lists of their favourite songs. They worked out arrangements in Palm Springs, California and then decided that they should bring their own material to go along with the covers they chose. The Family Album touches on the great Canadian songbook, from Ian Tyson’s Summer Wages, to Neil Young’s Comes A Time, they also delve deeper into honouring the song writing greats Bobby Charles and Townes Van Zandt. The result is a seamless and beautiful work that shows the Barber’s ability to interpret the works of others and craft their own songs that fit snug amongst the classics. The harmonies are sure to bring a chill and a tear and the album will become a staple for those who love both of these great Canadian artists.

Regular Ticket: $60 | Big Ticket Member: $53 | Big Ticket Plus: $49 All prices include taxes and handling fees.

Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

Presented by The Oakville Centre.

Sponsored by the Dan Cooper Group.

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Oakville Centre Classical & World Artist Series

TANYA TAGAQ

IN CONCERT WITH NANOOK OF THE NORTH Friday, May 5, 2017 at 8 p.m.

Tagaq employs exquisite improvisations with traditional roots, a style she has perfected over a decade of performances on major stages worldwide, as well as through collaborations with Björk, Mike Patton and many others.

Tanya Tagaq in concert with Nanook of the North was commissioned by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF Bell Lightbox) as part of it’s film retrospective First People Cinema: 1500 Nations, One Tradition.

Tanya Tagaq, a Polaris Music Prize winner and three-time Juno Award nominee, reclaims the controversial 1922 silent film Nanook of the North.

Nanook of the North is considered the world’s first major work of non-fiction filmmaking, yet it is rife with contradictions. The film portrays the lives of an Inuk family in Arctic Canada. Its director, Robert Flaherty, lived and worked with Inuit for years, but still included staged scenes of buffoonery and feigned Inuit ignorance of modern accoutrements.

Working with composer Derek Charke (whose Tundra Songs Tagaq performed with the Kronos Quartet), Tagaq, along with percussionist Jean Martin and violinist Jesse Zubot, performs a live accompaniment to the film’s silent images of life in an early 20th-century Inuit community in Northern Quebec.

Drawing on her childhood on Nunavut’s Victoria Island, and on her mother’s memories of forced relocation from the film’s Northern Quebec location, Tagaq’s sense of the sound of the Arctic spaces shown in the film transforms the images, adding tremendous feeling and depth to what is a complex mix of beautiful representations and racially charged clichés.

SCREAM. GRUNT. GROWL, GROAN. FLUTTER. QUIVER. HOWL.

Tanya Tagaq’s music isn’t like anything you’ve heard before. Unnerving and exquisite, Tagaq’s unique vocal expression may be rooted in Inuit throat singing but her music has as much to do with electronica, industrial and metal influences as it does with traditional culture.

This Inuk punk is known for delivering fearsome, elemental performances that are visceral and physical, heaving and breathing and alive. Her shows draw incredulous response from worldwide audiences, and Tagaq’s tours tend to jump back and forth over the map of the world. From a Mexican EDM festival to Carnegie Hall, her music and performances transcend language.

Nanook of the North film is used courtesy of The Flaherty.

Tanya Tagaq, vocals • Jean Martin, drums • Jesse Zubot, violin Regular Ticket: $50 | Big Ticket Member: $43 | Big Ticket Plus: $39 All prices include taxes and handling fees. Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

“Tagaq projects sounds that carry the imprint of the body's secret contours and recesses, delving far beyond personal utterance, out beyond human identity, to summon voices from the flesh cavity haunts of animal spirits andprimal energies.” ~ The Wire (UK)

Presented by The Oakville Centre.

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Chinwagn Classic Albums Live Series

RUMOURS FLEETWOOD MAC • Friday, May 12, 2017 at 8 p.m.

Rumours is the kind of album that transcends its origins and reputation, entering the realm of legend – it’s an album that simply exists outside of criticism and outside of its time, even if it thoroughly captures its era. Prior to this LP, Fleetwood Mac were moderately successful, but here they turned into a full-fledged phenomenon, with Rumours becoming the biggest-selling pop album to date.

While its chart success was historic, much of the legend surrounding the record is born from the group's internal turmoil. Unlike most bands, Fleetwood Mac in the mid-70s were professionally and romantically intertwined, with no less than two couples in the band, but as their professional career took off, the personal side unraveled.

Bassist John McVie and his keyboardist/singer wife Christine McVie filed for divorce as guitarist/vocalist Lindsey Buckingham and vocalist Stevie Nicks split, with Stevie running to drummer Mick Fleetwood, unbeknown to the rest of the band. These personal tensions fueled nearly every song on Rumours, which makes listening to the album a nearly voyeuristic experience. You're eavesdropping on the bandmates singing painful truths about each other, spreading nasty lies and rumors and wallowing in their grief, all in the presence of the person who caused the heartache.

Everybody loves gawking at a good public breakup, but if that was all that it took to sell a record, Richard and Linda Thompson’s Shoot Out the Lights would be multi-platinum.

No, what made Rumours an unparalleled blockbuster is the quality of the music. Once again masterminded by producer/songwriter/guitarist

Buckingham, Rumours is an exceptionally musical piece of work – he toughens Christine McVie and softens Nicks, adding weird turns to accessibly melodic works, which gives the universal themes of the songs haunting resonance. It also cloaks the raw emotion of the lyrics in deceptively palatable arrangements that made a tune as wrecked and tortured as Go Your Own Way an anthemic hit.

But that's what makes Rumours such an enduring achievement – it turns private pain into something

universal. Some of these songs may be too familiar, whether through their repeated exposure on FM radio or their use in presidential campaigns, but in the context of the album, each tune, each phrase regains its raw, immediate emotional power – which is why Rumours touched a nerve upon its 1977 release, and has since transcended its era to be one of the greatest, most compelling pop albums of all time. ~ allmusic.com

Regular Ticket: $65 | Big Ticket Member: $58 | Big Ticket Plus: $54 All prices include taxes and handling fees. Box Office: 905-815-2021 or OakvilleCentre.ca

Founded by Craig Martin in 2003, Toronto-based Classic Albums Live recreates famous rock albums without the gimmickry, relying solely on the music. It has become the ultimate destination for music lovers wanting to hear the greatest albums performed live.

Presented by The Oakville Centre. Sponsored by Chinwagn Inc., in association with Data Media Inc.

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Paradiso Dance, Drama & Film Series

BAGESHREE VAZE’S GLOBAL BOLLYWOOD Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 8 p.m.

A Pay-What-You-Can performance Bageshree Vaze’s Global Bollywood is an eclectic celebration of music and dance highlighting India’s film music history. Just as Hollywood evolved following World War II, the Hindi film industry flourished by adapting a musical format which featured songs and dances, giving rise to prolific music composers who defined and developed a unique Indian sound. Composers such as C. Ramachandran, Shankar Jaikishan and RD Burman were heavily influenced by Big Band Jazz, orchestral arrangements, and Latin percussion. In the 70s, 80s and 90s, film music directors Bappi Lahiri, Biddu, AR Rahman, and Shankar Ehsaan Loy utilized other genres of music such as Disco, Reggae and Celtic music, creating some of the most exciting songs and dances that have made Bollywood loved worldwide.

Choreographed and directed by MTV India “ubbharta sitara” (rising star) Bageshree Vaze, the show brings the music of Bollywood’s best to life through dance and visuals, featuring a cast of Toronto musicians and dance artists including Vineet Vyas (tabla), Sundar Viswanathan (saxophone/flute), Kevin Laliberte (guitar), Justin Gray (bass), Derek Gray (percussion), Diana Reyes, Adam Martino and KJ McNight (dancers).

Bageshree Vaze is an Indo-Canadian dance artist and musician, a 2004 MTV India “ubbharta sitara” (rising star) whose diverse cultural influences that range from Indian classical to American pop result in a dynamic confluence of global sounds and dances. Raised in St. John’s, NL, she initially trained in Bharatha Natyam with teachers in Michigan (Sudha Sekhar) and Bombay (the late Guru T.K. Mahalingam Pillai), and studied Hindustani vocal music with her father, Damodar Vaze. She later trained in Kathak with Jai Kishan Maharaj in New Delhi and studied with the renowned vocalist Veena Sahasrabuddhe in Mumbai. Based in Toronto, Bageshree has choreographed numerous dance works such as 2007’s “Tarana,” 2011’s Avatar (9), and 2012’s Damaru/Mudra and has three CDs to her credit. Her breakthrough album Tarana (released as Khanak through Times Music in India), a CD of songs adapted and arranged for Indian dance, is accessed by dancers worldwide. Bageshree has been commissioned by and has performed in major festivals including Dusk Dances, the CanAsian International Dance Festival, and Pt. Birju Maharaj’s Vasantotsav festival in New Delhi, and in 2010 she was a corecipient of the K.M. Hunter Award in Dance. In April 2015, her work Paratopia premiered as part of DanceWorks 2014/15 Mainstage Season, and was remounted at the Canada Dance Festival in June 2016.

Presented by The Oakville Centre. Sponsored by Paradiso Restaurant.

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“Vaze is a brilliant and expressive dancer with a crisp, highly articulated attack.� ~ Paula Citron, The Globe and Mail

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The Oakville Drama Series Tradition Continues

For the past 37 years, The Oakville Drama Series has been providing a homegrown subscription series full of comedies, thrillers, dramas, mysteries and musicals. The Oakville Drama Series is a set of 5 plays presented every year from October to March.

Each show is individually produced by two local theatre groups, The Oakville Players and West End Studio Theatre. Together they aim to showcase local talent both on and backstage and provide you with an entertaining and affordable season!

Both groups are operated by a devoted team of volunteers with a common and unwavering goal of keeping the long-standing tradition of the Oakville Drama Series alive! And they are thrilled to announce the lineup for their 38th season beginning this fall!

To open the season they are excited to present the murder-mystery A Murder is Announced penned by the

world famous Agatha Christie. They follow up with a set of comedies we are confident you will enjoy.

November brings you Norm Foster’s Jenny’s House of Joy followed up by A.R Gurney’s The Dining Room in January 2018. An extra special treat this season is a double feature: two hour long plays. Black Comedyby Peter Shaffer & The Real Inspector Hound”

by Tom Stoppard will be presented in February 2018. Rounding out the season is John Acro’s film noir themed play Dead Men Don’t Itch in March 2018.

To celebrate this announcement, they are also pleased to bring back the Special Subscription Promotion beginning now until May 31, 2017. For a limited you you can see all 5 shows (actually 6) for only $99! That’s up to 34% off the regular ticket price and it includes all theatre handling fees and taxes! Postage extra.

For more information please visit, oakvilledrama.ca

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The Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts would like to thank the

ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL for ongoing programming support.

www.arts.on.ca

The Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts would like to thank

CANADIAN HERITAGE for ongoing programming support.

www.pch.gc.ca

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Presented by The Oakville Drama Series