The 2011 Performers!:
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Jim Byrnes
Black Rock Oceanfront Resort Barnacle Blues
7 pm - 12 am Black Rock Oceanfront Resort, Ucluelet
Tickets: $40 advance or $45 at the door
Some music simply can’t be played in the background. The first note catches you as the rest of the world melts away and you’ve got no choice but to stop what you were doing and listen. Really listen. Jim Byrnes’ new album, Everywhere West catches you that way. Everywhere West is nominated for a Juno Award for Blues Album of the year. Byrnes has already twice won the Juno Award for Blues Album of the Year.
For more than thirty years, Jim Byrnes has woven roots so deeply into the Northern Blues scene that it’s difficult to remember that this quintessentially Canadian icon was raised in St. Louis and his instantly recognizable gruff as sandpaper, sweet as honey voice was not always an essential part of the country’s musical landscape.
Live Opening Act for Barnacle Blues
9pm, March 25, 2011, Black Rock Oceanfront Resort
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Hearing Headwater is like listening to the West Coast of Canada in song. Freewheeling, fierce, sentimental and sexy, the Vancouver, B.C., quartet has earned its reputation as one of the finest acoustic roots groups around the old-fashioned way. They worked hard! Made up of multi-instrumentalists Matt Bryant, Jonas Shandel, Patrick Metzger and Tim Tweedale.
Since forming in 2001, the group has logged in thousands of kilometres criss-crossing Western Canada and playing to anyone and everyone willing to give it some love. With hooks, driving rhythms, adventurous steel guitar and mandolin solos, and beautiful three-part vocal harmonies all featured in tight, concise under four-minute songs, they found fans fast. In fact, Headwater played at the Whale Festival in 2010 and had the dance floor packed!
Jamie’s Whaling Station presents Maritime Kid’s Day Ucluelet
3pm, March 24, Ucluelet Community Centre
Remote Passages Marine Excursions presents Maritime Tofino Kid’s Day
3pm, March 25, Tofino Community Hall
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Mind of a Snail Puppet Co. are a shadow puppet duo from the West Coast of B.C. Canada. Since 2003, Jessica Gabriel and Chloé Ziner have been developing a multilayered style of visual storytelling using an overhead projector (OHP) as their main light source. Their performances combine originally crafted puppets, music, masked characters, recycled waste, and eclectic experimentations in lighting and timing. Mind of a Snail colourfully exposes cultural quirks by developing simple stories around ideas that represent human's interconnectedness with what is natural, what is artificial, and where everything blurs in between. This “Compost~Modern” approach is being developed by Mind of a Snail into a mesmerizing art form that dazzles audiences of all ages.
"Compost-Modernism is the era in which we re-use all our junk in a more sustainable way." ~Alejandra Liora Adler
