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Hot off the pressUpcoming Manitoba Hal Classes, Thursday, May 3rd.
Manitoba Hal, one of Canada’s hardest traveling uke-masters is returning once again to the OFC for a double workshop on Thursday, May 3. He is offering the ever popular basic intro to Uke for total beginners, and a new one on blues chord substitutions. If past experience is any indication, it would be best to [...] Congratulations to Monkey Junk: 2012 Juno Blues Album of the Year
Congrats to Ottawa’s Own Monkey Junk for winning a Juno for Best Blues Album of the Year. The three-piece band — Steve Marriner (guitar, harmonica, vocals) and Tony D (guitar, vocals) and Sobb on drums — tours endlessly in Canada, and this year plans to crack the United States market. “We’ve had wonderful success, considering [...] The OFC Choir Folka Voca and Friends Annual Benefit Concert, Sunday, April 22
Join Folka Voca and friends (the Sunday Jazz Class, the Cuba Workshop Gang, and the Disco gang – Polly, Esther and the Groove Thang) for our annual vocal concert to benefit the Ottawa Humane Society. Folka Voca has been working hard as always this year and have a bevy of new songs and arrangements by [...] Ottawa Grassroots Festival – Saturday, April 28thThe Ottawa Grassroots Festival (OGF) is excited to announce that the date for their first annual mini-folk festival has been set for Saturday April 28, 2012. The festival (OGF) is an annual family-oriented celebration of folk music, dance and other participatory arts. The event will take place inside the Royal Canadian Legion, 330 Kent St. [...] Open Tunings and Rhythm Techniques Workshop with Don Ross, Sun, Jan 22, 2:30pm
Don Ross has become a major influence on a generation of guitarists. His uses of altered tunings, percussive techniques, and a rhythmic melodicism influenced by the grooves and harmonies of urban music have helped him carve out a one-of-a-kind sound. His style is less concerned with revisiting where the guitar has been than in [...] |
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