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Monday Special Blend
Monday June 1st, 2015 with Trish and Ka
Ben Kunder, Adam Kourakis of Velofix Ottawa

The Brew on CKCU shows for the week: Ben Kunder, Tuesday, June 2nd # Rainbow, 8:30 pm Songwriter Showcase :: Tara Porter & the Babes~ Jack Pine ~The Kissin' Cousins at Pressed, Wednesday, June 3rd, 7:30 pm doors Sounds of Stories, Cody Labombard, Ali McCormick, + James LeClaire & the Cable 22's | Play for the Pot Zaphod's, June 5th, 8 pm James Leclaire & the Cable 22's (8pm), Ali McCormick (8:45pm), Cody Labombard Band (9:30pm), & Sounds of Stories (10:15pm) At The Branch in Kemptville: Thursday it's Oh Susanna Friday it's Craig Cardiff Pony Girl w/ Pandaléon 8:30 PM on Friday Jun. 5th at the Black Sheep Inn LIVE! on Elgin Opening Night, 220 Elgin Street (above Dunn's) featuring The Balconies & FEVERS, June 5th 9 pm - FREE!! Sweet Alibi at LIVE! on Elgin with Arms of the Girl & Danielle Allard, June 6, 9 pm Amanda Rheaume & Cody Allen at LIVE! on Elgin, June 7, 2 pm THE SPLIT's Night/Day Soul Party Weekend June 6-7 at the Black Sheep Inn Saturday, June 6 at 8:30 p.m Sunday, June 7 at 4:00 p.m. Comedy Explosion event with Ottawa Explosion Weekend, Beau's, and Greg (GregHoustonComedy.com) at The Gladstone Theater June 5th and 6th. https://www.facebook.com/events/943115315709079/ A mini-comedy festival with two national headliners visiting Ottawa! Mark Little is featured Friday night and was just on Conan O'Brien. He has a thousand credits like JFL, Homegrown winner, Winnipeg Comedy Fest etc http://www.marklittle.ca/ Chris Locke is featured Saturday night and just won the Canadian Comedy Awards Best Male Stand Up. He's also a JFL alumni and runs a wicked amazing podcast featuring Comedy superstars form Canada and USA - Utopia to me? http://www.utopiatome.com/. Also Tom Henry and Ian Gordon some great Toronto based comics are coming through. Also showcasing quite a few local homegrown talented comics: Greg Houston, Kelsey Ryan, Kennedy Ryan, Davey Quesnelle, Pierre Richardson, and Patric. Its the first time the Gladstone Theater will be holding a Stand-Up Comedy show. Greg promised they are going to do some cool stuff with the space.
Derivatives
Denis Turbide - Denis Turbide Canadian
Trailhead
Ben Kunder - Golden Canadian New
From Greg Houston:

Comedy Explosion event with Ottawa Explosion Weekend, Beau's, and Greg (GregHoustonComedy.com) at The Gladstone Theater June 5th and 6th.

https://www.facebook.com/events/943115315709079/

A mini-comedy festival with two national headliners visiting Ottawa!

Mark Little is featured Friday night and was just on Conan O'Brien. He has a thousand credits like JFL, Homegrown winner, Winnipeg Comedy Fest etc
http://www.marklittle.ca/

Chris Locke is featured Saturday night and just won the Canadian Comedy Awards Best Male Stand Up. He's also a JFL alumni and runs a wicked amazing podcast featuring Comedy superstars form Canada and USA - Utopia to me? http://www.utopiatome.com/.

Also Tom Henry and Ian Gordon some great Toronto based comics are coming through.
Also showcasing quite a few local homegrown talented comics: Greg Houston, Kelsey Ryan, Kennedy Ryan, Davey Quesnelle, Pierre Richardson, and Patric.
Its the first time the Gladstone Theater will be holding a Stand-Up Comedy show. Greg promised they are going to do some cool stuff with the space.
Traveling
Ben Kunder - Golden Canadian New
Ben Kunder’s debut solo album, Golden, released May 26th. He has an Ottawa show on Tuesday, June 2nd @ Rainbow

8 years of playing and writing, he co-produced Golden, his first solo album, with John Dinsmore (NQ Arbuckle) at John’s Lincoln County Social Club studio. A handyman and carpenter, Ben has lived all across this beautiful country, from his solar powered cabin on Salt Spring Island, BC, where he spent his days chopping wood and chasing deer from the garden, to living in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, working at the Confederation Centre for the Arts. Now, Ben is back to where he started his journey in his hometown of Toronto.

http://www.benkunder.com/
Golden
Ben Kunder - Golden Canadian New
Songwriter Showcase :: Tara Porter & the Babes~ Jack Pine ~The Kissin' Cousins
AT Pressed Cafe on Wed. June 3rd

8pm - The Kissin' Cousins
9pm - Jack Pine and The Fire
10pm - Tara Porter & the Babes

$5 to $10 cover as you can and want.

https://thekissincousins.bandcamp.com/
https://jackpinefire.bandcamp.com/
https://taraporter.bandcamp.com/
Mississippi Isabel
King Charles - Mississippi Isabel - EP
https://youtu.be/lQzsUcRBEKI
King Charles released this EP in 2012, based in England.

http://salvadordalilama.bandcamp.com/track/bike-song-jaime-mon-v-lo

https://soundcloud.com/union-duke/05-bike-song
http://www.velofix.com/locations/ottawa/

Adam Kourakis joins us in the studio!
Bike Song​/​J'aime mon Vélo
Sick Sick Sicks - Sick Sick Sicks 2nd EP Canadian
Bike Song
Union Duke - Cash & Carry Canadian
Actin' A Fool
Pokey Lafarge - Something In The Water - Rounder Records New
Pokey Lafarge is based in St-Louis, MI. This album, his latest, was released April 7, 2015. He's playing here in Ottawa on Friday, July 3 @ Ritual

http://www.pokeylafarge.net/
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