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Posted Tuesday, March 30, 2004 by tara
WIAM looking for new volunteers, Information session on Wed. April 7, 2004
*** VOLUNTEERS NEEDED ***

For the World Inter-Action Mondiale (WIAM) 15th Annual One World Film Festival,Other Programs & WIAM's BOARD

WE ARE LOOKING FOR DYNAMIC, OPEN-MINDED PEOPLE, TO HELP PLAN AND ORGANIZE

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO HELP IN A VARIETY OF TASKS:

Board members for WIAM interested in volunteer management, organizing fundraising activities

Assist in curriculum development and global education workshops for schools Screen and select films for our 4 themes for the 2004 festival

Publicize the Festival

Research and invite guest speakers and entertainers

All aspects of Production of Festival publicity materials (program, poster, flyer, brochures)

Plan the logistics of the Festival

Volunteer on the evenings of the Festival (in October)

Organize Special Events (e.g., Gala, special screenings, youth film festival)

Community outreach and other WIAM-related activities

About WIAM:
A volunteer-based non-profit charitable organization that raises awareness about global issues and connections between local and global realities.

WIAM works locally in partnership with individuals and organizations to:
PROMOTE educational and cultural events
PROVIDE a public forum for discussion; critical analysis and policy dialogue
SUPPORT peoples struggles at home and abroad
FOSTER an understanding of the links between local and world communities

COME AND MEET GREAT PEOPLE!

Volunteer Information session
Wednesday April 7, 2004 - 6:30 PM
Bazaar Beyond Borders
89 Montreal Rd (Just a few steps from the Rideau
Street Bridge, before the Vanier Parkway)

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU!

For more info please contact: WIAM at 238-4659
For film festival, email: dmcmurran@hotmail.com
For overall WIAM, email: fchandani@hotmail.com

Posted Tuesday, March 30, 2004 by tara
SENATORS TO HOLD FAN APPRECIATION NIGHT ON SATURDAY
The Ottawa Senators today announced they will hold their annual Fan
Appreciation Night on Saturday, April 3, when the Toronto Maple Leafs visit the Corel Centre for the final game of the 2003-04 regular season.

Fans who arrive wearing Senators colours will receive a red "Beat the Leafs" towel upon entering the Corel Centre.

Fan Appreciation Night will also feature the a give-away of autographed sticks from each Senators player, a pre-game plaza party outside the Corel Centre at Gate 1 and free window-decals given out by the Subway "Subman".

The autographed sticks will be given out throughout the game with winning seat numbers appearing on the scoreboard during timeouts.

The plaza party will kick-off at 4 p.m. and will include a tent with DJ and food and beverages. Spartacat will also be on hand and the Team 1200 will also broadcast their pre-game show live at 6 p.m. from the Gate 1 interlock.

PLAYOFF TICKETS: There are still 600 tickets available for game for Game 1 and 700 tickets available for Game 2 of the first round of the 2004 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Stanley Cup playoff tickets can be purchased at www.capitaltickets.ca, by calling 599-FANS and 1-877-788-FANS, in person at all Ottawa-Gatineau area Sports Experts locations and at the Corel Centre box office. Fans can get guaranteed tickets for all playoff games and receive great savings by purchasing a ticket package for the 2004-05 season by calling 599-0200 or 1-800-444-SENS (7367).

For further information:
Phil Legault, (613) 599-0327
Steve Keogh, (613) 599-0326
Tim Pattyson, (613) 599-0239

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Posted Tuesday, March 30, 2004 by tara
IFCO WILL NOT AWARD GRANT TO MOVIE
The Independent Filmmakers Co-operative of Ottawa (IFCO) is a publicly funded organization that provides a supportive structure for local filmmakers. As part of its mandate, IFCO provides assistance to filmmakers, including production service grants. Such assistance is made possible through revenue generated by IFCO and is not funded by public funds. Production service grants are awarded to those who are deemed best to bring their films to completion. An IFCO jury, as part of its selection criteria, does not examine the content of the film seeking support. At the same time, the co-operative will not provide support to a project that would contravene laws in Canada.

In December 2003, an IFCO jury expressed concerns to the IFCO Board with respect to one application - concerns that were legal in nature. Subsequently, these concerns were discussed at the IFCO Board meeting of January 14, 2004. The IFCO Board determined that the filmmaker needed to provide assurances that his final film would not contravene current Canadian law. The filmmaker was informed of the issues surrounding his grant request, and that a final decision was yet to be made. At the Board meeting on February 4, 2004, it was decided to respond to the filmmaker's website, which stated that IFCO was imposing an age restriction on actors who would appear in his film. At the Board meeting of March 10, 2004, it was decided that independent legal advice was desirable to clarify applicable areas of law, and any legal ramifications pertaining to the film. The matter was to be finally resolved at the Board meeting scheduled for April 5, 2004. Recent media attention demanded a more timely decision. On March 29, 2004, the IFCO Board met and decided to refuse the grant based on the inability of the filmmaker to provide assurances that the film would not contravene any existing law.

The denial of the production service grant application is due to concerns that are legal in nature, and not due to the particular subject matter nor the recent media attention and pressures. If the filmmaker is able to provide the assurances requested, he is able to resubmit his request for production support.

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For additional information, please contact Sheila Pokiak, Executive Director at
IFCO at 569-1789, or email sheila@ifco.ca.

Posted Tuesday, March 30, 2004 by tara
ANTIBALAS AFROBEAT ORCHESTRA, Mon. Apr. 5 at Babylon
Mon.Apr.5
Babylon Presents:
ANTIBALAS AFROBEAT ORCHESTRA, doors at 9:00, tix $20 adv. later this week at Organized Sound, Norml Clothing, CD Exchange

Babylon Nightclub
317 Bank St. Ottawa, Canada
613.594.0003

http://www.antibalas.com/pages/index2.html

Antibalas will help you find your “inner freak”!

Antibalas (“anti-bullets” in Spanish) is a 14-piece-plus collective carrying on the Afrobeat tradition begun by Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. Based in New York, the band combines highlife, jazz, funk, and traditional African rhythms and informs all of it with unabashed political conviction. The band’s sound is rooted in monstrous horns and bass, polyrhythmic beats and funky breaks, and furious lyrics in English, Yoruba and Spanish. Every Antibalas show is a dance party and life-affirming celebration. The band has traveled the world, spreading its captivating sound and potent message.

Antibalas regularly wins over jazz crowds, rock crowds, DJ crowds, world music crowds, jam band crowds, and anyone else in their path. They have performed at jazz festivals from Montreal to Montreux to Istanbul. They have been favorites at multi-genre festivals such as Bonnaroo, Bumbershoot, and England’s Big Chill. They have opened for James Brown, No Doubt, Wyclef Jean, Trey Anastasio and more. They have played many of rock’s best-known venues, including Irving Plaza in New York, the Fillmore in San Francisco, and the Metro in Chicago. They have received plaudits in countless publications, including the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone and the underground URB magazine. They have also been featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” and “Fresh Air.”

Baritone saxophonist Martín Perna launched this union of Latinos, whites, African-Americans, Africans and Asian-Americans in 1998. The group released its first album, Liberation Afrobeat Vol. 1, on the UK-based Ninjatune label in 2001. The acclaimed 2002 follow-up, Talkatif (also on Ninjatune), was co-produced by Antibalas and Gabriel Roth of Daptone and Desco fame.

In addition, Antibalas appeared on the Red Hot & Riot compilation (MCA), a tribute to Fela intended to raise money for the African AIDS epidemic. Since the release of Talkatif, Antibalas has toured relentlessly throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. But the band’s New York roots remain strong. They maintain a cooperative recording/rehearsal/performance space in their community in Bushwick, Brooklyn and regularly bring the noise to clubs, outdoor festivals and events throughout the city.

Posted Tuesday, March 30, 2004 by tara
National Arts Centre invites Canadians to share their memories of the NAC on-line
The National Arts Centre (NAC) today issued a call to Canadians to share their memories of their experiences at the NAC as part of its 35th anniversary celebrations.

"The National Arts Centre has been a part of many Canadians lives over the past 35 years," said Peter Herrndorf, President and CEO of the NAC. "We want to hear about Canadians experiences as audience members, performers, students and patrons."

People can visit the NAC website to check out memories of memorable shows like the night in June 1969 when the National Ballet was performing Romeo and Juliet in the Opera (now Southam Hall). It was the Ballroom scene, the Montagues and Capulets consorted and suddenly - in the middle of the scene - the opera pit elevator started rising up to stage level, bringing half the orchestra onto the stage. The orchestra played on and the National Ballet danced on, including National Ballet Company founder Celia Franca in the role of Lady Capulet. Amid the confusion and astonished amusement of the sold-out audience, the elevator then lurched and began moving back down again into the stage pit. A quick-thinking violinist tied a white handkerchief to his violin bow and waved it to the audience as they descended slowly back into the pit. After a pause and some frantic adjustments backstage, the show went on.

Canadians are invited to visit www.nac-cna.ca to submit their stories. For the rest of the year, a random draw will take place each month for NAC tickets (for NAC productions presented in Ottawa or across the country) and for other NAC-branded merchandise.

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Media Information:

Jayne Watson
Director of Communications
National Arts Centre
(613) 947-7000 ext 260
jwatson@nac-cna.ca

Manon Champagne
Communications Advisor
National Arts Centre
(613) 947-7000 ext 560
mchampag@nac-cna.ca

Posted Tuesday, March 30, 2004 by tara
Put some spring in your 2-step!
Put some 'spring' in yer 2-step, Cajun style!

Ball & Chain & the Wreckers!
May 1, 2004
at the
Bayou Blues & Jazz Club
1077 Bank St. Ottawa

9pm, $8 at the door

with special guest
Harlan Johnson on Cajun Accordian

Cajun 2-step dance lessons at the break!

More info: Michael Ball or Jody Benjamin @ 741-0721
www.ballandchain.ca
mj@ballandchain.ca

Posted Tuesday, March 30, 2004 by tara
Ottawa Blues This Week -- 29 March 2004
SPECIAL EVENTS THIS WEEK
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Beau Kavanagh & the Broken Hearted
Rainbow, 76 Murray Street
Saturday, April 3

Beau Kavanagh and the Broken Hearted, the freshest faces on the Alt/Blues scene, are back at the Rainbow on Saturday night. The young Montreal power trio consists of Beau Kavanagh on guitar and vocals, Marc Durocher on bass, and Matt Lavender on drums. The band has been perfecting their skills as a unit for the past seven years. The group originally started off as an alternative rock outfit, but then they fell under the spell of the Blues. Since that day they have blended their influences into what can be described as pure energy.
Audiences have gone absolutely crazy wherever the band has performed. Here's your chance to see and hear what the craze is all about. See Beau Kavanagh and the Broken Hearted on tour. See why The Ottawa Citizen gave their latest release "Good day For Dyin'" 4 STARS and said "Kavanagh himself is one of the strongest candidates for guitar glory ...."
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FESTIVALS
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9th Edition: Festival Jazz & Blues Heritage
Chicoutimi, QC
March 30 - April 4, 2004
http://www.jazzetblues.com/web/site.html

Featuring: Sue Foley, Michael Jerome Browne, Carol Welsman, Hot Toddy,
Roxanne Potvin and many more.
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LOCAL HIGHLIGHT EVERY WEEK
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Weekly blues jam with Johnny Russell & Mike Ktenas
Irene's, 855 Bank Street
Thursday evenings, starting about 9 pm

Johnny Russell hosts Ottawa's best blues jam. Its three year anniversary will be celebrated this summer. Each Thursday evening at Irene's, Johnny is joined by bassist Mike Ktenas and drummer, Corky Kealy, as he coordinates an evening of the blues with Ottawa's finest players, including Southside Steve, Richard Vernon, Roxanne Potvin, Dean Dupuis and the Mud Boys, Joe Hawkins, Scotty Doubt, Tony D, Chris Breitner, JW-Jones, Billy Brennan. Special guests who have performed in the past include Sherman Robertson, Johnny Sansone, Kenny Wayne, Joe Murphy and David Gogo; Amanda Marshall recently stopped by to take part and stayed all night.

This is a blues jam you want to check out. It's a favourite of Ottawa's top blues musicians. See ˜Southside Steve' Marriner on ... guitar? ... drums? ... piano? ... digery-do? Could happen ... at the Thursday Jam at Irene's! Is your idea of heaven seeing/hearing a half-dozen blues guitarists on stage together? Could happen ... at the Thursday Jam at Irene's! Want to see a touring rock star just chilling out with a beer and good blues? Could happen ... at the Thursday Jam at Irene's! Irene's Pub serves food ... always a plus if you don't have time or want to cook dinner! The usual beverages are also available.
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WEEKLY EVENTS ON THE RADIO
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On CKCU-FM 93.1
The "Mighty 93.1"
Community Radio serving the Ottawa Carleton Region

Sundays: 9-11 pm
Black and Blues with John Tackaberry

The show features a heavy dose of electric blues and rhythm and blues, with the occasional selection of sixties soul. The first hour is dedicated to artist profiles and reviews of recordings on particular labels. In the second hour there is a blues calendar, a run down of events in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa, and interviews with "new and reissued blues and rhythm and blues tracks on wax" alternating with "live blues and R&B for a Sunday night" in the last half hour of the show. On the last Sunday of every month, the show goes "down in the delta" for a selection of acoustic blues tracks in the final half hour of the program.

Wednesdays: 9-11 pm
In A Mellow Tone with Ron Sweetman

Jazz from every era & every style - from 1917 To 2003. Each program features an artist, group, instrument, event, city or record label.
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WEEKLY EVENTS ON THE SMALL SCREEN
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ALWAYS check local listings to confirm.

On Bravo - Ottawa Cable Channel 40
http://www.bravo.ca/programlistings/

Tuesday, March 30 @ 6 am
Jazz Box: Suzie Arioli Swing Band (1999)
Montreal's famed Festival International de Jazz is celebrated in the MusiMax environment, with musicians performing in concert for an appreciative audience.

Tuesday, April 6 @ 11 am
Sharing the Music (1997)
African-American and Canadian folk music is traced from its roots in slavery to today's joyful expression.
Featuring Leon Bibb and Eric Bibb.

Tuesday, April 6 @ 4 pm
Garrett and Dutch Mason: Out of the Blues (2002)
An intimate look at the music legacy blues veteran Dutch Mason is passing along to his son, 19-year-old Nova Scotian Garrett Mason.
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REGULAR EVENTS THIS MONTH
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Mondays: Maria Hawkins @ the Rainbow
Tuesdays: Rainbow Open Jam with the Funky Miracles @ 9:30 pm
Wednesdays: Open stage with Shakedown Blues @ the Bayou
Thursdays: Dinner & acoustic blues @ Tucson's
Thursdays: Blues Jam with Johnny Russell & Mike Ktenas @ Irene's
Fridays: Amaryllis @ the Rainbow ... early show 5-7 pm
Saturday afternoons: Blues jam @ the Rainbow
Sunday afternoons: Guy del Villano & guests @ Royal Oak, Bank St.
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LOCALS THIS WEEK
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Wednesday, March 31
Amaryllis @ the Rainbow

Thursday, April 1
Shakin' Eddie & the Jukes @ the Rainbow

Friday, April 2
The Smacks @ the Rainbow

Friday, April 2
Bluestone @ Tucson's

Saturday, April 3
Paul Deslauriers (from Montreal) @ Tucson's

Sunday, April 4
Roxanne Potvin @ the Rainbow, 4-7 pm
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Posted Monday, March 29, 2004 by admin
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX Concert & Events Listings
DJs SIMON & STEVE REUNION PARTY
Easter Sunday - April 11
after punXercise with The Jezebels
Steve lives in Italy. Simon lives in Toronto. They were a powerhouse DJ team at Zaphod's and we still get requests for them to come back. In fact, even though he hasn't DJ'd here for 3 years, Simon still won Ottawa's Best DJ (XPress 2003 Readers' Poll). Don't miss this awesome party as they're back for a one-off reunion night on Easter Sunday.
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ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX
27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada. K1N 5S7
(613) 562-1010 www.zaphodbeeblebrox.com
CONCERT & EVENTS LISTINGS

WIN TICKETS TO ZAPHOD'S SHOWS FROM OTTAWASTART.COM.
http://www.ottawastart.com
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The Legendary ELECTRIC BALLROOM
Every Day from 9pm, or after the bands.
No cover charge Monday to Thursday
Fri. & Sat. $3 from 11pm to close.

Sundays - punXercise - The best pop/punk/mod/rock from any era - DJs NATASHA BEAUDIN, TRES ROMANTIQUE, MICHAEL A. HURTZ and TIM HARE
Mondays - CLUB ZAPHOD - Indie.rock/College.rock/Alt.rock/Modern.rock/Requests - DJ SHANE
Tuesdays - INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH - Industrial and Dark Techno - DJ LESLIE
Wednesdays - READY! STEADY! GO! - Explosive Indie/Brit-Pop/Motown/Mod/Rock & Soul/Requests - DJ GAZ + DJ EMMETT
Thursdays - FULL FLAVOUR THURSDAYS - Old-Skool Jams/ Requests - DJ SELLOUT
Fridays - THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM - Everybody's favourite Alternative/ Brit-Pop/ Big Beat/ Electrionica/ Rock/ Soul/ Requests
- DJ GAZ
Saturdays - THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM - Everybody's favourite Alternative/ Brit-Pop/ Big Beat/ Electrionica/ Rock/ Soul/ Requests -
DJ STEPH
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Mon. Mar 29 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, The Ottawa Sun & Sleeman Brewery present "Showcase Mondays" (Free)
RADIODAZED (http://members.tripod.com/radiodazed/)
+ WALKERS LINE (http://www.walkersline.com)
+ GOLDEN BULLDOZER
+ CLUB ZAPHOD with DJ Shane
Tue. Mar 30 -INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH with DJ Leslie (Free)
Wed. Mar 31 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Heritage Brewery present ($3)
WAKING LIFE
+ MAGNETIC KILL
+ THE INTANGIBLES
+ READY! STEADY! GO! with DJs Gaz & Emmett
Thu. Apr 1 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, Steam Whistle & Jagermeister present ($8)
From Toronto/ Paper Bag Recording Artists
FEMBOTS (http://www.fembots.net)
+ From London/ Teenage USA Recording Artists
TWO MINUTE MIRACLES (http://www.teenageusarecordings.com)
+ FULL FLAVOUR THURSDAYS with DJ Sellout
Fri. Apr 2 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Hoegaarden present ($6)
From Montreal
BRIGHTON (http://www.angelfire.com/pq/brightonband/Bright1.html)
+ KRIS WARD (http://www.krisward.com)
+ DYLAN SHIELDS (http://www.dylanshields.com)
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Gaz
Sat. Apr 3 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Guinness present ($10)
From Kingston/ True North Recording Artists
THE MAHONES (http://www.themahones.com)
(no opening band - early show)
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Steph
Sun. Apr 4 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Labatt 50 present ($2)
THE JEZEBELS performing/ leading punXercise ("Exercise your punk rock side")
+ with DJ's NATASHA BEAUDIN, TRES ROMANTIQUE, MICHAEL A. HURTZ & TIM HARE
Mon. Apr 5 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, The Ottawa Sun & Sleeman Brewery present "Showcase Mondays" (Free)
SOMATIK (http://www.somatik.com)
+ From Victoria via The Yukon/ Aquarius Recording Artists
JAMES MURDOCH (http://www.jamesmurdochband.com)
+ THE SPADES (http://www.thespades.ca)
+ CLUB ZAPHOD with DJ Shane
Tue. Apr 6 -INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH with DJ Leslie (Free)
Wed. Apr 7 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Heritage Brewery present ($10)
From Montreal via B.C.
THE UNICORNS (http://www.the-unicorns.com)
+ From Montreal
THE BESNARD LAKES (http://www.thebesnardlakes.com)
+ READY! STEADY! GO! with DJ Gaz
Thu. Apr 8 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, Steam Whistle & Jagermeister present ($8)
From Toronto/ Sonic Unyon Recording Artists
RAISING THE FAWN (http://www.raisingthefawn.com)
+ From Toronto/ Weewerk Recording Artists
GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS (http://www.greatlakeswimmers.com)
+ FULL FLAVOUR THURSDAYS with DJ Sellout
Fri. Apr 9 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Hoegaarden present ($10)
From Oshawa/ Three Gut Recording Artists
CUFF THE DUKE (http://www.cufftheduke.com)
+ GOLDEN FAMILE (http://www.musicforcatsrecords.com/goldenfamile.html)
+ KATE MAKI (http://www.katemaki.com)
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Gaz
Sat. Apr 10 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Guinness present ($6)
From Toronto
THE LUDES (http://www.theludes.net)
+ From Toronto/ Permafrost Recording Artists
THE PATIENTS (http://www.thepatients.net)
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Steph
Sun. Apr 11 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Labatt 50 present ($2)
THE JEZEBELS performing/ leading punXercise ("Exercise your punk rock side")
+ DJs SIMON & STEVE REUNION PARTY
Mon. Apr 12 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, The Ottawa Sun & Sleeman Brewery present "Showcase Mondays" (Free)
A FACE FOR RADIO (http://www.afaceforradio.com)
+ THE SECOND GLANCE (http://www.thesecondglance.com)
+ SKANKTANKS (http://www.skanktanks.com)
+ CLUB ZAPHOD with DJ Shane
Tue. Apr 13 -Harsh-Reality presents (Ticket price t.b.a. http://www.harsh-reality.com)
From Germany
MONO NO AWARE
+ ISZOLOSCOPE
+ PROSPERO
+ NORM
+ INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH with DJ Leslie
Wed. Apr 14 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Heritage Brewery present ($6)
From Hamilton/ Coqi Recording Artist
WAX MANNEQUIN (http://www.waxmannequin.com)
+ STEVE ST. PIERRE (http://www.stevestpierre.com)
+ READY! STEADY! GO! with DJ Gaz
Thu. Apr 15 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, Steam Whistle & Jagermeister present ($6)
KID YOU RUN (http://www.kidyourun.com)
+ DAWNPATROL
+ THE SUBURBAN POP PROJECT (http://www.thesuburbanpopproject.com)
+ FULL FLAVOUR THURSDAYS with DJ Sellout
Fri. Apr 16 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Hoegaarden present ($8)
From Winnipeg/ MapleMusic Recording Artist
JASON PLUMB (ex-THE WALTONS) (http://www.jasonplumb.com)
+ MAYOR McCA (http://www.mayormcca.com)
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Gaz
Sat. Apr 17 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Stella Artois present ($6)
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
+ RED HEMSLEY
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Steph
Sun. Apr 18 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Labatt 50 present ($2)
THE JEZEBELS performing/ leading punXercise ("Exercise your punk rock side")
+ with DJ's NATASHA BEAUDIN, TRES ROMANTIQUE, MICHAEL A. HURTZ & TIM HARE
Mon. Apr 19 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, The Ottawa Sun & Sleeman Brewery present "Showcase Mondays" (Free)
FOR THE MATHEMATICS (http://www.forthemathematics.com)
+ FORTY CENT FIX (http://www.fortycentfix.com)
+ THE DRIVE HOME (http://www.thedrivehome.ca)
+ CLUB ZAPHOD with DJ Shane
Tue. Apr 20 -INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH with DJ Leslie (Free)
Wed. Apr 21 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Heritage Brewery present ($6)
A Benefit for Tullia
TOO DRUNK TO DANCE
+ guests
+ READY! STEADY! GO! with DJ Gaz
Thu. Apr 22 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, Steam Whistle & Jagermeister present ($6)
From Toronto
SPACE ELEVATOR (http://www.apaceelevator.ca)
+ THE FORTUNATE SONS
+ From Sault Ste. Marie
STARTLEFISH (http://www.startlefish.com)
+ FULL FLAVOUR THURSDAYS with DJ Sellout
Fri. Apr 23 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Hoegaarden present ($6)
GOOD 2 GO (http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Good_2_Go/)
+ MORAL HAZARD (http://www.moralhazard.ca)
+ THE BELLA BOMBS (http://www.thebellabombs.com)
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Gaz
Sat. Apr 24 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Stella Artois present ($6)
PHAT BASTARD (http://www.phatbastard.org)
+ NO OTHER WAY (http://www.nootherway.com)
+ THE THREAT
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Steph
Sun. Apr 25 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Labatt 50 present ($2)
THE JEZEBELS performing/ leading punXercise ("Exercise your punk rock side")
+ with DJ's NATASHA BEAUDIN, TRES ROMANTIQUE, MICHAEL A. HURTZ & TIM HARE
Mon. Apr 26 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, The Ottawa Sun & Sleeman Brewery present "Showcase Mondays" (Free)
TOP NOTHING (http://www.topnothing.com)
+ BULLMOOSE (http://www.bullmoose.ca)
+ LAIDOUT (http://www.laidoutmusic.com)
Tue. Apr 27 -INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH with DJ Leslie (Free)
Wed. Apr 28 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Heritage Brewery present ($10)
From Toronto/ SHErecords-BMG Recording Artist/ Daughter of the famed DAVID WILCOX
SIMON WILCOX (http://www.simonwilcox.com)
+ TREVOR STRANGE (http://www.trevorstrange.net)
+ READY! STEADY! GO! with DJ Gaz
Thu. Apr 29 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, Steam Whistle & Jagermeister present ($6)
From Hamilton/ Northern Light Recording Artists
THE CHROME YELLOW CO. (http://www.thechromeyellow.com)
+ guests
+ FULL FLAVOUR THURSDAYS with DJ Sellout
Fri. Apr 30 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Hoegaarden present ($6)
CD Release
SCRATCH (http://www.scratchnet.com)
+ guests
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Gaz
Sat. May 1 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Stella Artois present ($6)
From Toronto
MAXIM RnR (http://www.maximumrnr.com)
+ GUILLOTINE (http://guillotinemusic.tripod.com)
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Steph
Sun. May 2 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Labatt 50 present ($2)
THE JEZEBELS performing/ leading punXercise ("Exercise your punk rock side")
+ with DJ's NATASHA BEAUDIN, TRES ROMANTIQUE, MICHAEL A. HURTZ & TIM HARE
Mon. May 3 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, The Ottawa Sun & Sleeman Brewery present "Showcase Mondays" (Free)
From Gatineau
KHANN RABATT (http://www.khanrabatt.tk)
+ From Peterborough
MONEY MONEY (http://www.wearemoneymoney.com)
+ THE STAND (http://www.thestand.tk)
+ CLUB ZAPHOD with DJ Shane
Tue. May 4 -INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH with DJ Leslie (Free)
Wed. May 5 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Heritage Brewery present ($6)
HARTSFIELD (http://www.hartsfieldrock.tk)
+ guests
+ READY! STEADY! GO! with DJ Gaz
Fri. May 7 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Hoegaarden present ($6)
ex-LES MARMOTTES APLATIES/ From Montreal/ R.A.T. Recording Artists
L'ATTACK (http://www.lattack.com)
+ THE CREEPS (http://www.creeps.ca)
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Gaz
Sat. May 8 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Stella Artois present ($6)
JUNKYARD SYMPHONY (http://www.junkyardsymphony.com)
+ guests
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Steph
Wed. May 12 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Heritage Brewery present ($6)
From Vancouver/ Hive-Fi Recording Artists
P:ANO (pronounced piano) (http://www.lazylightandugly.com)
+ ...as the Poets affirm (http://www.asthepoetsaffirm.com)
+ READY! STEADY! GO! with DJ Gaz
Sat. May 15 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Stella Artois present ($10)
No opening band - 2 sets
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+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Steph
Wed. Jun 9 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Heritage Brewery present ($8)
From Helsinki, Finland/ Yep Roc Recording Artists
LAIKA & THE COSMONAUTS (http://www.laikaandthecosmonauts.com)
+ guests
+ READY! STEADY! GO! with DJ Gaz
Fri. June 11 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Hoegaarden present ($12)
From Israel/ World-renowned Classical Cellist
MATT HAIMOVITZ (http://oxingale.com/artists/mh/)
early show - 2 sets
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Gaz
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Posted Monday, March 29, 2004 by admin
Nationally televised broadcast set for Ottawa Chamber Music Society’s Easter concert!
"This is a beautifully played performance, devout, moving and sincere... I give it 5 stars out of 5." — Rick Phillips (Sound Advice on CBC Radio)

Ottawa (Monday, March 29, 2004)– To honour the profound meaning behind Easter this year, the Ottawa Chamber Music Society is presenting Joseph Haydn’s masterpiece, The Seven Last Words of Christ in concert on Tuesday, April 6, 8 p.m. at Christ Church Cathedral, 420 Sparks Street (at Bronson).

This performance marks a reunion for violinists Andrew Dawes and Manuela Milani, violist Guylaine Lemaire and cellist Julian Armour. They performed this same piece for the critically acclaimed CD released by the Society’s own CD label, CMS Classics. Armour has admired this piece for many years and describes it as, “a uniquely subtle and sublimely beautiful work of such universal profundity that it speaks to musicians and music lovers of all nationalities and religions.”

Noted actor and pianist, Jean Marchand, will narrate this concert. Marchand performed in the Gemini nominated mini-series Trudeau.

This concert marks the first national televised broadcast of a Society concert. Paul R. Norris of HDSD Productions will record the concert live in High Definition and in just three days produce a one-hour programme set to air nationally on VisionTV on Good Friday, April 9 at 9 p.m. ET, with an encore broadcast airing on Saturday, April 10 at 6 p.m. ET. See www.visiontv.ca for more information.

In 1785 Haydn was commissioned by the Canon of Cádiz to compose instrumental music on “The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross”, to complement the customary service written for and performed during Lent at the Cathedral of Cádiz.

"An exquisite account of the score. This is a release that no string quartet lover should be without." — Richard Todd, The Ottawa Citizen

Music lovers can find Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ by CMS Classics at the following locations: Ottawa Chamber Music Society office (200 Isabella, Suite 401, 613-234-8008 or www.chamberfest.com); Nicholas Hoare Books (419 Sussex Drive); Compact Music (785-A Bank Street); The Leading Note (370 Elgin Street); CD Warehouse (all outlets in Ottawa); Books on Beechwood (35 Beechwood Avenue); Twelfth Night (33 Erb Street West, Waterloo, ON)

Tickets for The Seven Last Words of Christ are $20 for adults, $30 for reserved seating and $10 for students, and are available at the following outlets: Ottawa Chamber Music Society office, (613) 234-8008; The Book Bazaar (755 Bank Street); Compact Music (785-A Bank Street); CD Warehouse (1383 Clyde Avenue, 1717 St. Laurent Boulevard, 499 Terry Fox Drive); The Leading Note (370 Elgin Street); Nicholas Hoare Books (419 Sussex Drive); Books on Beechwood (35 Beechwood Avenue); Collected Works (1242 Wellington Street); Scotia Bank (366 Elgin St.); Ticketmaster – all outlets in Canada (www.ticketmaster.ca, 613-755-1111).

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For more information please check out www.chamberfest.com or contact:

Suzan Zilahi, Communications Director
Tel : (613) 234-8008 x. 241;
e-mail : media@chamberfest.com

Posted Monday, March 29, 2004 by admin
MEDIA REMINDER: RENEGADES GREY CUP TICKET BLITZ
The Ottawa Renegades Football Club is pleased to announce that the general on-sale for tickets to the 2004 Grey Cup Game at Frank Clair Stadium (Sunday, November 21) begins on Tuesday, March 30 at 10 a.m.

Tickets at the $279, $239 and $199 price ranges (includes all taxes and service charges) will be available across Canada only at the Ticketmaster website (ticketmaster.ca). Fans in Ottawa can purchase single tickets online at ticketmaster.ca, or by phone by calling the Ticketmaster hotline (613-755-1166).

The Kickin’ it in the Capital Grey Cup Festival begins on Wednesday, November 17 at Lansdowne Park and at various venues throughout the Ottawa core.

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For more information, please contact:

Barre Campbell

Director, Media Relations & Communications

Ottawa Renegades Football Club

(613) 231-5608 ext. 236 (office)

(613) 913-7719 (cell)

www.greycup2004.com

Posted Monday, March 29, 2004 by admin
RENEGADES CLAIM GRAND BANKS
The Ottawa Renegades are pleased to announce the signing of quarterback Brad Banks, the runner-up in the 2002 Heisman Trophy balloting, to a two-year contract with a club option for the 2006 season.

The 5-foot-11, 202-pound Banks, who turns 24 on April 22, had a tremendous 2002 season with the NCAA’s Iowa Hawkeyes, completing 170 of 294 passes for 2,573 yards and 26 touchdowns with only five interceptions.

“This is a tremendous addition for our club. Brad is a young player with special potential and he will certainly benefit from developing under a great teacher like Joe (Paopao),” said Renegades general manager Eric Tillman.

“There is no substitute for having talent and depth at the quarterback position,” added Tillman. “In less than a year, we’ve seen a position of uncertainty evolve into a real team strength.”

Known for possessing a strong arm and quick feet (he averaged 5.2 yards per carry as a senior), Banks received the Davey O’Brien Award as the top quarterback in U.S. collegiate football and the Associated Press College Football Player of the Year.

Other honours for 2002 included: Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year and the Walter Camp Foundation first-team All-America.

Banks received 199 first-place votes in the 2002 Heisman balloting but finished second (trailing by just 233 points) to quarterback Carson Palmer of USC, who was the first player selected in the 2003 NFL draft.

That same year, Banks signed with the NFL’s Washington Redskins as a free agent and attended the team’s training camp.

The Renegades will feature four quarterbacks at this year’s training camp.

Returning starter Kerry Joseph, as well as talented Darnell Kennedy, who arrived last summer via trade with Calgary, in addition to Banks and Kelvin Robinson, who has experience in the CFL (Hamilton) and in the Arena League, will battle for roster spots.

BRAD BANKS

Position: Quarterback

Nationality: American

Height, Weight: 5-11, 202

University: Iowa

Birthdate (Opening Day Age) Birthplace: April 22, 1980 (24) Belle Glades, FL

Acquired: Free agent; March 29, 2004

Posted Monday, March 29, 2004 by admin
City flags lowered to half-mast for Her Royal Highness Princess Juliana
All City of Ottawa flags will be lowered to half-mast from sunrise
to sunset on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 to honour the memory of Her Royal
Highness Princess Juliana of the Netherlands. The former Queen Juliana died
on Saturday, March 20, and her funeral will take place on Tuesday, March 30.
A memorial service will take place in Ottawa on Tuesday, March 30 at 7:30
p.m. at St. Andrew's Church.

"We were very saddened to hear the news. Her Majesty Princess Juliana's stay
here during the war and her gift of 20,000 tulip bulbs following her stay
are a very significant part of our city's history," said Mayor Bob
Chiarelli. "Not only was she instrumental in establishing this city as the
Tulip Capital of North America but also in making the tulip the official
flower of the City of Ottawa."

Her Royal Highness Princess Juliana spent the Second World War years in
Ottawa and gave birth to her daughter Princess Margriet at the Ottawa Civic
Hospital. In appreciation of the safe haven which members of Holland's
exiled Royal Family received during that time, and of Canada's role in the
liberation of the Netherlands, Ottawa was presented with a gift of 100,000
tulip bulbs by the people of Holland in 1945 and a personal gift of 20,000
tulip bulbs every year by Princess Juliana since 1945.

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For more information:
Communications and Marketing
(613) 580-2450

Posted Monday, March 29, 2004 by admin
City Council Meeting Highlights
Council approves City's 2004 capital and operating budgets
The City of Ottawa completed the most comprehensive and thorough budget
review in its history today with Council's approval of the 2004 capital and
operating budgets.

The final budget, which includes operating expenditures of $1.8 billion and
capital expenditures of $265.5 million, will result in a budgetary property
tax increase of 2.92% - the first in 12 years for most Ottawa residents.

"Our consultation and committee review process demonstrated how much Ottawa
residents value their current services and programs. Residents made it very
clear they wanted to see significant reductions in administration before any
service cuts or tax increases," stated Mayor Bob Chiarelli. "It has been an
extremely gruelling process for Councillors, staff and citizens, but I think
this year's final budget strikes a good balance between the sustainability
of the Corporation and investments in our community."

The property tax increase is equal to about $67 annually, or $5.62 monthly,
to the average urban resident with a home assessed at $200,000. The impact
on homeowners' tax bills will vary, however, depending on the change in
their property's assessed value in 2004.

Last week, the Province gave municipalities the ability to offset the
impacts of reassessment by avoiding tax shifts from business to residential
property taxpayers. The change is revenue neutral and will have no impact on
the City's bottom line, but it will ensure that the property tax burden is
shared between businesses and residents on the same basis as in 2003.

To achieve the solutions necessary to meet the budget pressures facing the
City, the final budget includes:
* 2.92% budgetary property tax increase;
* $28.5 million in savings from administrative reductions and
efficiencies (two and a half times more than was targeted by Council),
lowering the cost of administration in 2004 to 5.9% of the overall operating
budget, from 6.4% in 2003;
* $30.4 million in reductions to City programs and services;
* $200,000 in library service-level reductions;
* $5.1 million in new revenue through inflationary fee increases on
tax-supported programs (as well as $5.5 million in revenue through an
inflationary increase to sewer and water rates);
* $6.9 million in revenue from additional, new or reinstated fees and
charges; and
* $9.2 million in savings by deferring or eliminating several expanded
programs, previously approved by Council.
*
* By approving a 2.92% tax increase, Council was able to preserve a
number of programs and services:
*
* $719,000 in one-time funding for major festivals, fairs and special
events, as well as arts, heritage and festival funding support
* Rural Client Service Centres, at reduced hours
* $1 million in one-time funding to the Ottawa Tourism and Convention
Authority
* $719,000 in funding for the Ottawa Centre for Research and
Innovation and the Ottawa Life Sciences Council
* Speed board display program
* Waste collection calendars for 2004
* Blair Road, Knoxdale Road and Riddell fire stations
* Brewer Pool
* Nine wading pools and nine outdoor pools
* Home management program
* Well-baby drop-in program
* Heritage programs
* Funding for social services and recreation, community and leisure
* Outdoor rink grant program, and the installation and removal of all
temporary rink boards
* Four City-owned museums - Billings Estate, Pinhey's, Cumberland and
Gloucester
* Community pride program
* Three Ottawa Public Library branches
* Removal of all non-offensive graffiti
* Adult School Crossing Guard Program
* Painting of stop bars and crosswalk markings on local residential
streets

"This has been a difficult process. But, we know Ottawa is not alone in
facing budget challenges. Significant property tax increases are being
proposed and approved by municipal councils across Canada," said Mayor
Chiarelli. "This situation is not sustainable and underlines the need for
dependable, long-term funding for municipalities from the federal and
provincial governments. I am hopeful that these governments have finally
realized the important role cities play as engines for our economic growth
and that a 'new deal' will allow us to continue offering Ottawa residents
the quality of life and level of services they have come to expect."

For more information on the 2004 budget, citizens may visit ottawa.ca.

Other items of interest

* West Nile Virus preparedness and prevention plan to continue
Council has approved $800,000 in funding to continue the existing
West Nile Virus preparedness and prevention plan for 2004. The funds, of
which 50% will come from the Province, will go towards: educating residents
on how to protect themselves from mosquitoes and reduce mosquito breeding
sites; mosquito, crow and human surveillance; reducing mosquito breeding
sites on City-owned property; and mosquito control using a biological
larvicide on surface waters and a chemical larvicide in non-surface waters
and in sewage lagoons. In Ottawa, there were four confirmed case of West
Nile Virus in 2003.

Next City Council meeting:
Wednesday, April 14, 2004

For more information:
Communications and Marketing
(613) 580-2450

Posted Monday, March 29, 2004 by admin
NACO, April 10: Young People's Concerts present "Write On! The Creative Composer"
The next National Arts Centre Orchestra TD Bank Financial
Group Young People's Concerts on Saturday, April 10 at 13:30 and 15:30 in
the afternoon focus on the art of the composer. The concerts, entitled Write
On! The Creative Composer, are led by conductor Boris Brott, and feature NAC
Award Composer Denys Bouliane, principal cellist Amanda Forsyth playing
music composed for her by her father Malcolm Forsyth, and a special
appearance by Leo Svirsky, a young composer/pianist whom the Orchestra
discovered on its recent United States and Mexico Tour, performing a piece
he wrote especially for these concerts. The programme includes excerpts from
Beethoven's masterful Fifth Symphony and Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio
espanol. The grand finale is a NACO world premiere performance of a work
created on the spot by the audience, with the help of a musical Easter
Egg-hunt!

The bilingual series for 7- to 11-year-olds and their grown-up friends
includes pre-concert activities in the Foyer organized by the NAC Orchestra
Association beginning at 12:45 for the first concert and 14:45 for the
second concert.

Write On! The Creative Composer continues this season's theme of "The Music
Makers", exploring what makes the performers and creators of music so
extraordinary. How does a composer hear all the parts of a 60-piece
orchestra in his head and then put these sounds on paper so that others can
perform them? NAC Awards Composer Denys Bouliane shows how the composer
works his magic - how a melody or motif is invented, developed and
orchestrated.

The programme includes NAC Orchestra principal cello Amanda Forsyth playing
Ripsnorter Finale, along with two Cello Duets for Young Cellists - Sad Clown
with a Happy Face and Hop, Step, Skip - all pieces that her father, composer
Malcolm Forsyth, wrote for her when she was a child.

Leo Svirsky is a 15-year-old student at the Levine School of Music in
Washington, whom Denys Bouliane met during one of his composition workshops
on the recent United States and Mexico Tour. The young man surprised
Bouliane by playing the composer's difficult Contredanse from memory. Leo
has been invited to Canada to perform this piece along the world premiere of
a work he composed especially for this Young People's Concert ChANson dADA.
The programme also includes an excerpt from Bouliane's NAC-commissioned
piece Snow is White, but Water is Black which the Orchestra performed on the
same tour. Other works on the programme include R. Murray Schafer's
Statement in Blue and selections from Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and
Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio espanol.

Pre-Concert Activities organized by the NAC Orchestra Association take place
in the NAC Foyer starting 45 minutes prior to each concert. Community
partners for Write On! The Creative Composer include Music For Young
Children with composition activities involving rhythm instruments, the
Ottawa Public Library, Leading Note, Ottawa composer Joanna Estelle, and a
NACOA craft station with collages and paper-folding. The Ottawa 67s mascot
will also be on hand to greet the kids.

All Young People's Concerts feature NACOtron presented in collaboration with
Rogers Television. Five television cameras positioned on stage and in the
hall capture live video images of the musicians while they are performing,
and these images are projected onto a giant screen above the stage allowing
the audience to watch the action in close-up.

Tickets for this Young People's Concert on Saturday, April 10 at 13:30 and
15:30, including Pre-Concert Activities, are $14.00 for children and $20.50
for adults (including GST and Facility Fee where applicable) and are on sale
now at the NAC Box Office (Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 21:00), and
through Ticketmaster (with surcharges) at 613-755-1111. Visit the National
Arts Centre's web site at www.nac-cna.ca.

Jane Morris
Marketing and Communications Officer
Agente de marketing et communications
National Arts Centre Orchestra/Orchestre du Centre national des Arts
Telephone/Téléphone: (613) 947-7000 x 335
Fax: (613) 996-2828

Posted Monday, March 29, 2004 by admin
April 5 Mohamed Cherfi Day of Action
BRING MOHAMED CHERFI BACK TO CANADA

National Day of Action Monday, April 5

Rally at the offices of
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
365 Laurier Ave. (at the corner of Kent)
Ottawa

Monday, April 5

Noon to 1pm

Mohamed will be in court in the U.S. Wednesday, April 7. So it is more important then ever to come out on April 5 and demand Mohamed be brought back to Canada.

Confirmed speakers (so far) Monia Mazigh, Christian Legeais, Yavar Hameed

For more information or to get involved contact Laura 613-285-0271 laura@resist.ca

Information about Mohamed Cherfi is available at: http://www.mohamedcherfi.org

Posted Monday, March 29, 2004 by admin
Waiting for Martin screening
"WAITING FOR MARTIN: IN SEARCH OF A VIRTUAL POLITICIAN"
A new weapon of mass derision and reflection will hit all of Canada!
The satirical film WAITING FOR MARTIN, by Magnus Isacsson and Sophia Southam
will premiere in Ottawa on:

Wednesday March 31st at 7PM
Arts Court Theatre (2 Daly Ave. at Nicholas)
This screening is FREE. Donations will be welcome.

A lively discussion with David Bernans, the star of the film, and with local
arts and political activist Ilona Dougherty (http://www.actionthroughart.com/) will follow the screening. The directors will also be in attendance.

Version anglais avec sous-titres en français.
English version with French subtitles.

Fighting the humour deficit in Canada...

An innovative collaboration between a veteran documentarian and a young
animator/editor, WAITING FOR MARTIN updates the proud tradition established
by Mike Rubbo's WAITING FOR FIDEL and Michael Moore's ROGER AND ME. The film
tells the dramatic and entertaining story of an activist who won't take no
for an answer.

David Bernans has been trying to meet and debate Paul Martin for three
years, running against him as an NDP candidate in his Montreal riding,
attempting to pin him down on occasions ranging from private meetings to
political rallies. In the process he encounters many obstacles, including
security guards, police on horseback, and Paul Martin's campaign manager
Lucy Castelli. He finds that Paul Martin is everywhere - on posters,
billboards, TV screens and newspaper headlines - but never in flesh and
blood. However, this doesn't prevent David from asking a lot of questions
and debating whoever is standing in for Martin, be it a giant Martin puppet
made by student protesters or other ministers sent to represent the future
prime minister.

WAITING FOR MARTIN combines documentary material shot over a period of three
years with animated sequences inspired by dada collage art of the 1920s.
Raising many questions about Paul Martin's record and present policies, it
is a timely film about democracy and the politics of protest in Canada.

For more info on the film, on who is involved, and to watch a 3-minute
preview, check out...

For information about the Ottawa stop, contact Corina: 237-1590 ext.320

Posted Monday, March 29, 2004 by admin
Regime Change in the Americas - Sun April 4 @ 2 pm
Regime Change in the Americas
US Imperialism on the Move

Pre-emptive war in Iraq
- U.S. orchestrated coup in Haiti
- Attempted coup in Venezuela
- US Military build-up in Colombia
- Ongoing threat to Cuba
- Teach-in about the issues and to strategize a response.

Panel to precede discussion groups:

Haiti - Jean St. Vil, Activist and journalist
Venezuela - Justin Podur, International Solidarity Movement
Colombia - tba
Cuba - Mario Garcia, Minister-Counsellor of the Cuban Embassy

Sunday, April 4, 2004 -- 2 - 5 pm
101 Azrieli Theatre, Carleton University

Building 31 on the Campus map at http://www.carleton.ca
Near Dunton Tower - # 7 Bus route
Parking lots 1 and 2 free on Sunday

Sponsored by: Socialist Project - Ottawa, NOWAR-PAIX, OPIRG-Carleton, Rosa
Luxemburg Club (Communist Party of Canada)

Posted Monday, March 29, 2004 by admin
OTTAWA MAKES ALFREDSSON A CAREER-SENATOR
Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk and general manager John Muckler announced today the Club has re-signed team captain Daniel Alfredsson to a five-year agreement. Terms of the contract were not disclosed.

"As I stated at the purchase of the franchise, it was my intent to keep Ottawa Senators Hockey Club a contending team and this starts with leadership," said Mr. Melnyk, Senators' owner, governor and chairman from his home. "I am pleased that Daniel has determined to be a Senator for life."

"Daniel is such a quality person of strong character, who has come to define who the Senators are," said Mr. Muckler. "We are very pleased he is here for the long term."

In his ninth season in the NHL and with the Senators, Alfredsson is co-leader with Marian Hossa in team scoring with 78 points (31-47) and his 19:27 average time-on-ice leads the Club among forwards. He also has five game-winning goals, 20 penalty minutes and a +14 plus-minus rating.

This season's highlights for Alfredsson feature playing in his fourth NHL All-Star game in Minneapolis on Feb. 8, recording four multi-goal games, three three-point games, and 18 two-point games. He also reached three career milestones this season - his 500th point; 200th goal; and, 600th career game.

Alfredsson, team captain since Oct. 2, 1999, has 623 career games, which ranks him tied for second on the Senators with Wade Redden. He is also tied for first in career ranking in goals (218), and first in assists (348) and points (566). Alfredsson has 34 career game-winning goals and 255 career penalty minutes.

SUITE DEAL - Alfredsson and the Club also announced that the captain has committed to a long-term lease of a Corel Centre suite, which he will to entertain numerous charitable endeavours in harmony with the Ottawa Senators Foundation, whose mandate is children's initiatives.

The native of Gothenburg, Sweden, re-signed his last contract with the Senators on July 15, 2002.

AUDIO - Please visit the Senators website (www.ottawasenators.com) after 7 p.m. for audio files from the announcement today at 6 p.m. in St. Petersburg, Florida.

For more information, please contact:
Phil Legault, (613) 599-0327
Steve Keogh, (613) 599-0326
Tim Pattyson, (613) 599-0239

Posted Monday, March 29, 2004 by admin
ACCESS Now update
This week has been a very busy one with 2 budgets. The Federal government held its unveiling of their budget on Tuesday and the City of Ottawa just finished a three day marathon that saw a lot of good things for the disabled community, but have seen many root services being cut that we feel have created new barriers that is contrary to their own accessibility plans.
Here is a short list of items that have taken place since the last edition of ACCESS NOW, We will cover these articles and much more in the May 10th edition of the newspaper, stay tuned:

City of Ottawa:

The main items that were of great concern in the Disabled community were the two cuts on pages 169 and 170. both of these cuts were removed and will not take place. These were the proposed cuts to (What we refer to Supplementary Aid, Ambulance.health related items,vocational training and dental clinics) and The top up funding for ADP financing (Wheelchair, scooter, walkers and hearing aids).

Buses: Stage one was to be cut but stages two and three were voted at committee not to be cut. At council however they decided to cut stage two and have delayed the decisions on what cuts to be made on stage three.

Only 950,000 of the 5,581,000 in this stage will be saved. The main concern we have is that the Low floor bus routes have not been taken into consideration and that this process was never allowed to be debated by the public nor anyone else.The routes that most effect those on modest incomes and those with disabilities will still be cut according to new proposals and those making the decisions. (Routes 6,16,18,316 and about 20plus more routes will be axed or reduced service). Please contact your councillors to voice your concern on this.

Federal Budget Tuesday:

many items are helping the disabled community in this budget. We still have a long way to go but this is a step in the right direction. Please find below several excerpts from the budget.

Inclusion of Persons With Disabilities

The Government of Canada views greater inclusion of Canadians with disabilities as a national priority. Greater inclusion contributes not only to the well-being of persons with disabilities themselves, but also to the life and economy of the country through the contributions citizens make as they learn, work and volunteer. You can read these items at:

http://www.fin.gc.ca/budget04/bp/bpc4ae.htm

Improving Tax Fairness for Persons With Disabilities and Caregivers
Better Tax Recognition of Disability Supports Expenses
Better Tax Recognition of Caregiver Expenses
Better Workplace Integration
Facilitating Transitions Into Employment

In addition to providing greater support for workplace integration, governments need to ensure that persons with disabilities are not penalized when they decide to take up the challenge of reintegrating into the workforce. In particular, both the federal and provincial governments—the joint stewards of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP)—acknowledge the need to facilitate voluntary reintegration by recipients of CPP disability benefits into the workforce.

Currently recipients of CPP disability benefits who attempt to return to work, but abandon their efforts because of difficulties in overcoming their disability, are required to reapply for disability benefits. The delays and uncertainty associated with the need to reapply can discourage individuals from returning to work. Accordingly, this budget proposes an amendment to the CPP legislation that would allow for the reinstatement of disability benefits if a former recipient is required to cease working for reasons relating to his or her disability within two years of returning to work.

Posted Sunday, March 28, 2004 by tara
CBC Radio Talks Mon Mar. 29th - Noon - Anne McLellan
CBC Radio Talks is a lunchtime speaking series that brings prominent
newsmakers to the National Arts Centre Fourth Stage for an intimate
chat. You're invited to join in the discussion each month. Admission
is free.

THE NEXT EVENT: Monday, March 29th at noon, meet The Honourable Anne
McLellan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety and
Emergency Preparedness. Hosted by Anthony Germain at the National
Arts Centre Fourth Stage.

Come out to the fourth stage and ask Anne some pointed questions
about security certificates!

For more info http://ottawa.cbc.ca/radiotalks/

Posted Saturday, March 27, 2004 by tara
Apr 20, 28, May 19: Ecological Lawn and Garden Series
Sponsored by Alta Vista Environmental Network (AVEN)
The Ottawa Public Library and The City of Ottawa

Apr 20 - Lawn and Yard Care Naturally

George Bushell, experienced organic gardener, will discuss techniques
for naturally maintaining a healthy lawn and yard as easily as possible while showing slides of his own yard from 7:00 - 9:00 pm on Tues. April 20, at the Pleasant Park Baptist Church, 414 Pleasant Park Road. Bring your lawn and yard questions with you. To register please call 523-6648.

Apr 28 - Attracting Butterflies to Your Garden

Join Gillian Boyd, organic master gardener, for a slide presentation
and discussion of ways of attracting butterflies and other beneficial
insects needed to keep your garden healthy from 7:00 - 8:30 pm on Wed. April 28 at the Elmvale Acres Branch of the Ottawa Public Library. Seating is limited. To register please call 738-0619 ext. 6

May 19 - A Backyard Insect Safari

Renowned entomologist, Henri Goulet, demonstrates with a slide
presentation of his own backyard, the importance of ecological balance
for a healthy lawn and garden. Do you know how many species of insects
reside in an Ottawa backyard? Learn about special characteristics of
insects and the environmental benefits of insect diversity from
7:00-8:30 on Wed., May 19 at the Alta Vista Branch of the Ottawa Public Library. Seating is limited. To register please call 737-2837 ext. 6.

The Alta Vista Environmental Network is a community volunteer non-
profit organization which works to improve the environmental health of Alta Vista.

Posted Saturday, March 27, 2004 by admin
Council approves City's 2004 capital and operating budgets
The City of Ottawa completed the most comprehensive and thorough
budget review in its history today with Council's approval of the 2004
capital and operating budgets.

The final budget, which includes operating expenditures of $1.8 billion and
capital expenditures of $265.5 million, will result in a budgetary property
tax increase of 2.92% - the first in 12 years for most Ottawa residents.

"Our consultation and committee review process demonstrated how much Ottawa
residents value their current services and programs. Residents made it very
clear they wanted to see significant reductions in administration before any
service cuts or tax increases," stated Mayor Bob Chiarelli. "It has been an
extremely gruelling process for Councillors, staff and citizens, but I think
this year's final budget strikes a good balance between the sustainability
of the Corporation and investments in our community."

The property tax increase is equal to about $67 annually, or $5.62 monthly,
to the average urban resident with a home assessed at $200,000. The impact
on homeowners' tax bills will vary, however, depending on the change in
their property's assessed value in 2004.

Last week, the Province gave municipalities the ability to offset the
impacts of reassessment by avoiding tax shifts from business to residential
property taxpayers. The change is revenue neutral and will have no impact on
the City's bottom line, but it will ensure that the property tax burden is
shared between businesses and residents on the same basis as in 2003.

To achieve the solutions necessary to meet the budget pressures facing the
City, the final budget includes:
* 2.92% budgetary property tax increase;
* $28.5 million in savings from administrative reductions and
efficiencies (two and a half times more than was targeted by Council),
lowering the cost of administration in 2004 to 5.9% of the overall operating
budget, from 6.4% in 2003;
* $30.4 million in reductions to City programs and services;
* $200,000 in library service-level reductions;
* $5.1 million in new revenue through inflationary fee increases on
tax-supported programs (as well as $5.5 million in revenue through an
inflationary increase to sewer and water rates);
* $6.9 million in revenue from additional, new or reinstated fees and
charges; and
* $9.2 million in savings by deferring or eliminating several expanded
programs, previously approved by Council.
*
* By approving a 2.92% tax increase, Council was able to preserve a
number of programs and services:
*
* $719,000 in one-time funding for major festivals, fairs and special
events, as well as arts, heritage and festival funding support
* Rural Client Service Centres, at reduced hours
* $1 million in one-time funding to the Ottawa Tourism and Convention
Authority
* $719,000 in funding for the Ottawa Centre for Research and
Innovation and the Ottawa Life Sciences Council
* Speed board display program
* Waste collection calendars for 2004
* Blair Road, Knoxdale Road and Riddell fire stations
* Brewer Pool
* Nine wading pools and nine outdoor pools
* Home management program
* Well-baby drop-in program
* Heritage programs
* Funding for social services and recreation, community and leisure
* Outdoor rink grant program, and the installation and removal of all
temporary rink boards
* Four City-owned museums - Billings Estate, Pinhey's, Cumberland and
Gloucester
* Community pride program
* Three Ottawa Public Library branches
* Removal of all non-offensive graffiti
* Adult School Crossing Guard Program
* Painting of stop bars and crosswalk markings on local residential
streets

"This has been a difficult process. But, we know Ottawa is not alone in
facing budget challenges. Significant property tax increases are being
proposed and approved by municipal councils across Canada," said Mayor
Chiarelli. "This situation is not sustainable and underlines the need for
dependable, long-term funding for municipalities from the federal and
provincial governments. I am hopeful that these governments have finally
realized the important role cities play as engines for our economic growth
and that a 'new deal' will allow us to continue offering Ottawa residents
the quality of life and level of services they have come to expect."

For more information on the 2004 budget, citizens may visit ottawa.ca.

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For more information:
Communications and Marketing
(613) 580-2450

Posted Saturday, March 27, 2004 by admin
BRUCE CORDER (1921-2004)
anada's National Arts Centre's staff joins the performing arts community in mourning the loss of a true pioneer of the arts, Bruce Corder. Mr. Corder is fondly remembered by artists and staff as the first Director of Operations in1969. During the course of his career at the NAC, he held the positions of Manager of Festival Canada, the NAC's summer festival of opera and chamber music; Deputy Director General and Acting Director General. He retired in 1987. He died at the age of 82, on March 25, 2004.

"Mr. Corder will be remembered as one of the original champions of the National Arts Centre," said Peter Herrndorf, President and CEO of the National Arts Centre. "He had a tremendous impact on this institution, right from the early planning stages before it opened its doors in 1969 through to its set-up and operation."

Mr. Corder trained and worked in Britain prior to coming to Canada, where his knowledge and skill in stage management, administration and production led him to London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He came to Canada in the 1950s on tour, and returned to work in Toronto with both the CBC and the O'Keefe Centre (now the Hummingbird Centre).

During the NAC's planning stages, Mr. Corder was hired to help organize front-of-house, box office and general administrative activities. G. Hamilton Southam, the NAC's first Director General, said: "Mr. Corder was with me from the very beginning. His role in planning both the building and the way we ran it was invaluable. I could not have done my job without him." Much of the front-of-house protocol and administrative structure that remain so integral to the NAC's corporate identity, were established by Mr. Corder Corder.

Mr. Corder also drew on his vast experience in opera production to take a leading role in the NAC's opera festival from 1971 to 1983. As General Manager of Festival Canada, he oversaw the eventual establishment of the summer festival as one of the pre-eminent opera festivals in North America.

Mr. Corder remained loyal to the NAC through tough times, helping to guide it through the very difficult years of wage and price controls and then the energy crisis of the 1970s - two events that had a huge impact on the NAC's bottom line and corporate culture. He faced even greater challenges during the downsizing of the 1980s during his tenure as Acting Director General before his retirement in 1987.

Mr. Corder will be greatly missed by the many artists, colleagues, friends and family whose lives he touched and enriched. Celia Franca, a personal friend, remembers him fondly: "A gallant gentleman - lover of beauty: Gatineau hills in the fall; the music, dance, theatre and restaurant offerings at his beloved NAC; the National Gallery. A caring Boxing Day host at his home where the table setting was exquisite, with the silver dry mustard pot shined, and the wine glasses always filled. An avid reader, a devoted companion - in all, a love. He led a good life."

Posted Saturday, March 27, 2004 by admin
Meetings at Ottawa City Hall next week
The following meetings are scheduled during the week of March 29,
2004, at Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West, unless otherwise noted.
Agenda items that may be of special interest to citizens and the media have
been highlighted.

Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee - Wednesday, March 31, 9:30 a.m.,
Champlain Room

The agenda for these meetings and related reports will be posted on the
City's Web site at ottawa.ca and will be available at the respective
meetings.

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For more information:
Communications & Marketing
(613) 580-2450

Posted Friday, March 26, 2004 by tara
HOCKEY NIGHT IN FLORIDA WINNERS DEPART ON MONDAY
The Ottawa Senators today announced winners of the "Hockey Night in
Florida" promotion, sponsored by GO Travel Direct in association with ROOTS, will depart for Florida on Monday morning.

Two-hundred sixty-eight (268) Senators fans will depart Monday morning at 10:00 a.m. from the Zoom airlines U.S. check-in counter, Level 3, at the Ottawa International Airport. Fans will start checking in at 7 a.m. and will be greeted by a band, coffee and muffins and Spartacat.

The prize package includes airfare, two nights hotel accommodation, a
Senators beach shirt, a ROOTS watch and tickets to see the Senators take on the Tampa Bay Lightning on Monday and the Florida Panthers on Wednesday.

ITINERARY

Monday, March 29
Depart Ottawa at 10:00 a.m.
Arrive in St. Petersburg at 1:10 p.m.
Game - Senators vs. Tampa Bay Lightning - 7 p.m.
Tuesday, March 30
Depart St. Petersburg at 11:00 a.m.
Arrive in Fort Lauderdale at 12:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 31
Game - Senators vs. Florida Panthers - 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 1
Depart Fort Lauderdale at 12:30 a.m.
Arrive in Ottawa at 3:35 a.m.

For more information, please contact:
Phil Legault, (613) 599-0327
Steve Keogh, (613) 599-0326
Tim Pattyson, (613) 599-0239
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Posted Friday, March 26, 2004 by tara
NACO, April 7-8: Zukerman and Forsyth perform together in Richard Strauss's Don Quixote
Richard Strauss's magnificent tone poem Don Quixote will be
given its first-ever performance by an expanded National Arts Centre
Orchestra in Audi Signature concerts on Wednesday, April 7 and Thursday, April 8 at 20:00 in the NAC's Southam Hall performed by NAC Orchestra principal cellist Amanda Forsyth and Music Director Pinchas Zukerman on viola. The concerts mark the couple's first performances together since their marriage in early March. Conducted by Lawrence Foster, the concerts also feature Zukerman on violin in Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor. The programme opens with Weber's Oberon Overture.

The April 7 concert is sponsored by Enbridge Gas Distribution. The expanded NAC Orchestra is made possible in part by the NAC Orchestra Association Kilpatrick Fund.

Richard Strauss's Don Quixote is based on the well-known picaresque novel of the same name by Cervantes that has inspired numerous tributes in music, dance and theatre. The score is described by the composer as "fantastic variations on a theme of knightly character" consisting of an introduction, ten variations and an epilogue. Our hero Don Quixote, imagining himself the very personification of chivalry and knight-errantry, heads out into the world to perform noble deeds. The solo cello, which represents the Don throughout the score and whose role is equivalent to that of a concerto soloist, presents the "knightly" theme in all its glory. The knight's faithful squire Sancho Panza tags along in a rollicking theme on the viola.

Another highlight of this special concert will be the performance by Pinchas Zukerman, one of the world's foremost violinists, of the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, a major work of the violin repertoire which Zukerman is performing for the first time with the NAC Orchestra. Nineteenth century violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim ranked it among the four greatest of that century noting that the Bruch concerto was "the richest, the most seductive."

The programme opens with a work rarely performed by the NAC Orchestra, the Overture to Weber's opera Oberon. The overture, like the opera, evokes pageantry, exotic locations, the supernatural, and maidens in distress rescued by knights in shining armor - the perfect intro to this exceptional concert which concludes with Don Quixote.

Amanda Forsyth has just returned from performing Herbert's Cello Concerto No. 2 with the New West Symphony led by Boris Brott in California. The former Juno-winner is also a featured presenter at the 2004 Juno Awards in her hometown of Edmonton on April 3-4 where the NAC's Mozart-Zukerman CD is nominated for a Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber Ensemble.

Pinchas Zukerman returns to the National Arts Centre Orchestra for these concerts after a tour with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom he is also performing the Bruch Concerto, and concerts conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony.

Conductor Lawrence Foster, is one of the most successful American conductors to win the acclaim of European audiences and critics. He began his new role as Music Director of the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Lisbon at the start of the 2002-03 season. Formerly Music Director of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalunya, he is currently serving as Music Adviser to the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.

Tickets for these Audi Signature Series concerts on April 7 and 8 are on sale now at $27.00, $45.00, $56.00 and $58.00, with box seats at $73.00 (GST and Facility Fee included) at the NAC Box Office (Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 21:00), and through Ticketmaster (with surcharges) at 613-755-1111.
Ticketmaster may also be accessed through the NAC's web-site at
www.nac-cna.ca. Half-price tickets for students in all sections of the hall are on sale in person at the NAC Box Office upon presentation of a valid student ID card.

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Jane Morris
Marketing and Communications Officer
Agente de marketing et communications
National Arts Centre Orchestra/Orchestre du Centre national des Arts
Telephone/Téléphone: (613) 947-7000 x 335
Fax: (613) 996-2828

Posted Friday, March 26, 2004 by tara
"Taxi Link" makes transit safer
Getting home on OC Transpo late at night just got safer and easier,
thanks to OC Transpo's new Taxi Link service. Starting tonight, transit users may ask bus operators to call ahead and ask for a taxi to meet them at designated Transitway stations.

"Ottawa has one of the safest transit systems in North America, but we are constantly striving to improve it," said Councillor Janet Stavinga, chair of the Transportation Committee. "This new service means that customers can leave the safety of their bus, knowing that a secure way home is ready and waiting for them."

Customers can take advantage of Taxi Link when riding OC Transpo after
midnight, if prior arrangements have not been made. When beginning their trip, they should ask the bus operator to arrange for a taxi to be waiting at a designated pick-up location. Taxi pick-up areas have been designated for most Transitway stations. The City and local taxi companies are working together on the Taxi Link service to ensure a smooth connection between transit and taxi services.

For more information on Taxi Link or for other transit information and trip planning assistance, customers can call the OC Transpo information line at 741-4390 or visit www.octranspo.com

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For more information:
Communications & Marketing
(613) 580-2450

Posted Friday, March 26, 2004 by tara
UPCOMING COREL CENTRE EVENTS
Ottawa 67's vs Brampton Battalion
Sat, Mar. 27
7:00 p.m.
$16 (adults), $14 (students & seniors)
Game 5 - OHL Eastern Conference Quarter-Final
$11 (kids 12 and under)*
Tickets on sale now

David Bowie
Fri, Apr. 2
7:30 p.m.
$90.50, $70.50, $50,50^
Tickets on sale now

Harlem Globetrotters
Tues, Apr. 6
7:00 p.m.
$49, $30, $19, $14*
Tickets on sale now

Stars on Ice
Sat, Apr. 17
7:30 p.m.
$65, $50, $40, $35^
Tickets on sale now

50 cent with G Unit
Thurs, Apr. 22
8:00 p.m.
$65, $55^
with David Banner, Kardinal Offishall and Melanie Durrant
Tickets on sale now

Rod Stewart
Thurs, July 15
8:00 p.m.
$125.00, $69.50, $49.50^
Tickets on sale now

Sarah McLachlan
Tues, Aug. 17
8:00 p.m.
$69.50, $59.50, $49.50^
Tickets on sale now

Team Canada's International Hockey Series
$225, $210, $180, $150,
Canada vs USA
Wed, Aug. 25
7:30 p.m.
$135, $105*
Canada vs Slovakia
Sat, Aug. 28
7:00 p.m.
Ticket packages for all three
Slovakia vs Russia
Sun, Aug. 29
7:00 p.m.
games on sale April 5 - 10 a.m.

Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.CapitalTickets.ca, by calling
599-FANS or 1-877-788-FANS, or in person at all Ottawa-Gatineau area Sports Experts locations or the Corel Centre box office. For group ticket information, please call (613-599-0116).

* Prices inclusive of all taxes and CRF fee, but excluding convenience
charges.
^ Prices inclusive of all taxes, but excluding CRF fee and convenience
charges.
# Prices exclusive of all taxes, CRF fee and convenience charges.

For further information, please contact the communications department:
Tim Pattyson, (613) 599-0239

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Posted Friday, March 26, 2004 by tara
RENEGADES TO DISCUSS “STATE OF THE FRANCHISE”
Ottawa Renegades president Brad Watters, general manager Eric
Tillman and head coach Joe Paopao will participate in a Canadian
Football League – State of the Franchise call on Monday, March 29
beginning at 1 p.m. (Eastern Time)

Media members are permitted to access the conference by dialing
1-888-334-9269. In Toronto, the number is 416-695-9721.

The Renegades, preparing for the club’s third season in the Canadian
Football League, will host the Kickin’ it in the Capital Grey Cup
Festival in November, and the Grey Cup Game on November 21 at Frank
Clair Stadium.

The football team will challenge for the first playoff berth in
franchise history. Quarterback Kerry Joseph, running back Josh Ranek
and defensive tackle Jerome Haywood are among the high-profile players
re-signed during the off-season.

An important addition – both on and off the field – will be receiver
Pat Woodcock who hails from the Ottawa suburb of Kanata. Woodcock, a
Syracuse graduate, played parts of three seasons with the Montreal
Alouettes before returning home and signing as a free agent with the
Renegades on February 17.

The Canadian Football League – State of the Franchise call series, in
its third year of operation, allows members of the media to connect
with key executives and personnel from the league and its nine teams.
The series continues next week, on Monday, April 5 at 1 p.m. (Eastern
Time), with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
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For more information, please contact:
Barre Campbell
Director, Media Relations & Communications
Ottawa Renegades Football Club
(613) 231-5608 ext. 236 (office)
(613) 913-7719 (cell)
www.ottawarenegades.net

Posted Friday, March 26, 2004 by tara
St. Matthew High School tries for world record ‘hug’
During the week of April 19-23, 2004, the staff and students of St.
Matthew High School will attempt to set an Ontario high school record by raising $50,000 for the fight against cancer with a two-kilometre
run/walk. The school will be collecting pledges and sponsorships to reach this lofty goal. The fundraiser is inspired by the struggle with cancer of several of St Matthew students.

On Friday, April 23, 2004, at 11 a.m. on the St. Matthew High School
campus, you are invited to help break the Guinness World Record for the Largest Bear Hug, currently held by the citizens of Sweden (4,703 people in a 10-second arm-in-arm circle hug). St. Matthew invites you to be part of this World Record – collect pledges, bring a friend, form a team and join in this record fundraiser for cancer research and patient care.

The Force is a group of individuals (corporate, business people,
storeowners, students, volunteers, others) who have joined their forces to help fight the battle against cancer. St. Matthew has joined this east-end group.

The mission of The Force is to heighten public awareness and increase
fundraising for cancer research and patient care.~ We have made a one-year commitment to raise funds in research and treatment of cancer patients. We will be achieving this by hosting many events, as well as selling little stuffed polar bears. This initiative is the brainchild of Monique Amyot and Léo Lafrenière. Their belief in a cure for cancer led them to form The Force.

Visit the group’s website at www.the-force.ca for stories, information on the bear campaign, a list of events, partners and sponsors, to plan an event, to volunteer your time, and to obtain pledge forms. Pledge forms are also available at St. Matthew High School.

For more information please contact:
Terry Shaw
Communications Officer
Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board
570 West Hunt Club Road
Nepean, Ontario K2G 3R4
Phone (613) 224-4455, extension 2326
Cell (613) 294-3946
Fax (613) 224-5063

Posted Friday, March 26, 2004 by tara
P:ANO + ...AS THE POETS AFFIRM create fragile Chamber Pop at Zaphod Beeblebrox
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX & HERITAGE BREWERY
PRESENT...

"Fragile Chamber Pop with precocious subtlety"

From Vancouver
Hive-Fi Recording Artists
p:ano (pronounced piano) + ... as the Poets affirm

Wednesday, May 12 (Doors 8pm)

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada.
Age 19+/ General Admission
Tickets: $6 only at the door.

"The quartet have mastered the melancholic atmosphere of Palace without the silly self-indulgence, the rich instrumentation of the Microphones in more tightly focused songs, and the beautiful, winding melodies for the likes of which Tom Waits fans suffer so many dumb lyrics about whiskey and cheap footwear."
- SAN FRANCISCO GUARDIAN.

"Fragile melodies, sparse instrumentation - including tried and true rock and roll faves as the saw accordion, and clarinet, - and hushed harmonies." - VANCOUVER PROVINCE.

"p:ano's strength derives from lush sonic strokes of pianos and guitars, warm organs and feather-like drumming. Strings, accordions, clarinets, saws, and a double bass only adds to the pastoral ambience. The music is like a flashing display of primary colors, like an apple pie cooling off on a windowsill, like riding a bike down the tallest hill in a suburban neighborhood, like buying lemonade from children on the sidewalk." - www.tinymixtapes.com

p:ano has grown immensely since their humble beginnings in suburban Vancouver four years ago. Their previous work only hinted at the full-blown vision that explodes on this grand new album, The Den. With the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, p:ano have expanded their sound to match their ambition and the results are nothing short of stunning.

Recorded over five months in 2003 by Colin Stewart (Destroyer, Hot Hot Heat, Radio Berlin) at The Western Front and The Hive Studios in Vancouver, The Den shows the band venturing into lush 48-track production with top musicians to fulfill their orchestral dreams (including a string arrangement by Vancouver New Music's director, Giorgio Magnanensi). Part Broadway show, part slow pop masterpiece, part homey confessional, the sound is full of nuance, depth and
beauty. Grandiose musical fantasy plays alongside some of p:ano's most intimate moments. Tender vocals come together with rich harmonies in a perfect fit with piano, organ, guitars, percussion, horns, stings, woodwinds, and incidental noise to softly wrap you into a familiar but uniquely fragmented place. Far from being overt and pretty, a dark undercurrent elevates the music from mere fancy
window dressing. 21-year old leader Nick Krgovich is an adept storyteller and hope is always tempered by resignation, passing moments always deftly rendered.

All told, The Den proves itself a truly audacious work of impressive talent and maturity. p:ano have played short tours with the Microphones and Jerk With a Bomb and have performed with the likes of Pedro the Lion, American Analog Set, the Album Leaf, Blood Brothers, Xiu Xiu, and the Divine Comedy. The band's performance at Vancouver's 2003 New Music West conference was recorded for national broadcast on the CBC. Later that year they were invited to Calgary as part of international piano conservatory, Honens' A440 concert series. Extensive touring of North America is planned for 2004. Guests include Veda Hille, Torsten Muller, and members of Jerk with a Bomb, Radiogram, Beans, Gaze, and Standing Wave.

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...as the Poets affirm is a six piece instrumental group that has combined the contemporary sounds of live break beats, electronic ambiance and abstract bass with the more melodic sounds of the cello and acoustic guitar. By subtracting any tangible vocals from the music, they have forced it to become more thematic and emotionally charged, creating a brooding and swift tone.

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p:ano's web site - http://www.lazylightandugly.com
...as the Poets affirm's web site - http://www.asthepoetsaffirm.com

Information:
p:ano - Nick/ p_ano@hotmail.com OR Hive-Fi Records/ (604) 216-HIVE
missterry@shaw.ca

...as the Poets affirm - ryanpatterson@rogers.com

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX - Eugene Haslam (613) 237-5301 zaphods_ottawa@hotmail.com
http://www.ZaphodBeeblebrox.com

Posted Friday, March 26, 2004 by admin
2nd Annual Woodroffe HS Dinner & Auction
The Woodroffe HS School Council will hold its 2nd annual Woodroffe HS Dinner & Auction on Thursday, April 29th, 2004 at 6:00 pm. Proceeds will support the arts and extracurricular programs at Woodroffe High School. The auction includes many items donated by area businesses and residents. Dinner tickets include hor d’oeuvres, dinner, dessert, silent and live auctions. Dessert tickets include dessert and the live auction (8:00 pm). The BBQ dinner will once again be provided by Dave Smith and choices include steak, chicken or a vegetarian option.

Dinner & Auction - $35.00 per person

Dessert & Auction - $10.00 per person

Tickets may be purchased at the Woodroffe HS office or by calling 820-7186.

Posted Friday, March 26, 2004 by admin
City begins public consultation on new noise by-law
The City is holding public consultation sessions to receive
comments from residents on a proposed course of action for a new noise
by-law for the City of Ottawa. The sessions will take place:

Tuesday, March 30
City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West - Andrew S. Haydon Hall
2 - 4 p.m.
7 - 9 p.m. (bilingual)

Thursday, April 1
Cyrville Community Centre, 4355 Halmont Drive
7 - 9 p.m. (bilingual)

Monday, April 5
Ben Franklin Place, 101 Centrepointe Drive - The Chamber
7 - 9 p.m.

The consultants retained by the City to review this matter will present an
overview of the provisions they believe the new by-law should contain. The
consultant's report will be available on the City's Web site at ottawa.ca
beginning Monday, March 29, at 4 p.m., at all Client Service Centres as of
March 30, as well as at the consultation sessions.

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For more information:
Communications & Marketing
(613) 580-2450

Posted Friday, March 26, 2004 by admin
April 6 - Greg Macpherson @ babylon w/ Chris Page and Steve Adamyk
A Trio of Solos w/

Greg MacPherson (wpg, g7 records)
Chris Page (aka Glen Nevous, ex-Stand GT, Kelp records)
Steve Adamyk (mbr of Million Dollar Marxists)

April 6 @ babylon - 8pm/$7 at the door

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Greg MacPherson

Tanks are rolling through the streets of a desert town, the 53 year old
leader of the free world can run 3 miles in 20 and a half minutes, people
are living longer, people are dying by the millions, there are rich and
there are poor, some give a damn and some don't. Canadian singer/songwriter
Greg MacPherson gives a damn. MacPherson is the new champion of a
songwriting tradition stretching back to Woody Guthrie and including voices
like Jo Strummer and Bruce Springsteen. Loud, passionate voices saying
things about their place in all of this change.

These songs walk an inscrutable line between beauty and determination. A
place where the ordinary becomes important and actions bring hope. Songs
that capture the imaginations of young and old alike.

Greg MacPherson was born 30 years ago in the Sydney City Hospital, half a
kilometer from the most polluted body of water in North America, and half an
hour walk from his family home at CFS Sydney. He grew up on radar bases all
over Canada; a base-brat in the shadow of the cold war, and a student of
regional diversity and disparity. He was raised in front of a television,
rode a unicycle to high school, paid his rent at times by winning disco
contests, dug graves in a cemetery for 6 years, and got a degree in Labour
History in the mid-nineties. Along the way MacPherson learned how to work
hard and he hasn't looked back. Multiple day jobs and a relentless touring
schedule has seen Greg a janitor playing his music for punk rockers in
Washington D.C. and a factory worker playing for 15,000 people on a folk
festival stage in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The ordinary becomes important.

"Macpherson got up on stage with nothing but his weathered green guitar
doing what he does best: pouring his heart out. Projected poetic lyrics and
hard guitar strumming-sometimes without a pick-punctuated his awe-inspiring
performance. Integrity and sincerity are the two words that come to mind
when describing Macpherson's music and onstage presence."
Erik Martinson - Queen's University, The Journal

"Propelled by an underlying menace and disillusionment while maintaining
subtle glimmers of hope... MacPherson is able to weave in and out of variety
of styles and influences and create work that is fresh and timeless, deftly
combining social relevance and activism with pure entertainment."
Barb Stewart - Exclaim Magazine

"In a time when mock-rock morons, grudge-rock whiners and bubble-headed
pop-stars dominate the proceedings, Winnipeg performer MacPherson is that
most anachronistic and ill-favoured of entities: The honest and intelligent
singer-songwriter. A guy who writes tuneful, truthful, meaningful works on
his guitar and then performs them without fancy duds, without a big-budget
video, without backup dancers."
Darryl Sterdan - Winnipeg Sun

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Chris Page

Page has an enviable rock pedigree, which stretches back to his teens, when
he helped to form Glengarry, ON punk outfit The Stand GT. The Stand GT's
blue collar DIY ethic was a thing of legend. The band toured Canada
countless times in the late 80's and early 90's, releasing several
cassettes, 7" records and CDs on various Canadian imprints, and convincingly
carved their names into the CanCon tree (in blood).

As The Stand GT married, reproduced, and generally succumbed to age, Page's
rock itch refused to be cured, and the Glen Nevous Retraction was born. You
Clean Up Pretty Good was a toe-dipping into the solo waters, and few copies
made it beyond the Page abode. As confidence grew, Sell Out Slow went into
production, finally seeing the light of day in 2002. This past fall, Chris
Page's third effort comes under his own name, and on a new label. It's clear
in both the songwriting and the name changing that Page realizes he doesn't
need to hide anymore. On "Decide to Stay and Swim", there are few signs of
timidity.

On his own with an electric guitar, Page sounds equal parts punk, rock and
folk, and Billy Bragg is a common reference point. A closer listen reveals
elements of Superchunk (and Mac McCaughan's solo works as Portastatic), Joe
Strummer, and the urgent guitar calisthenics of Malcolm Young. "Decide" has
softer tones as well though, and the album careens into balladry at the end
of its course, showing a maturity unheard on previous recordings.

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Steve Adamyk

Steve plays in Ottawa garage punk legends the Million Dollar Marxists. He
also released a more stripped down "solo" CD under Steve Adamyk entitled
"Goodbye California" where he wrote and arranged all the songs and played
all instruments save the drums. He plays frequently as Steve Adamyk AND HIS
Liars as dubbing his backing band The Liars lead to too many messy haired
nu-wave kids with white belts showing up and being disappointed. He'll be
rocking it solo for this show.

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For more information or to line up an interview with Greg Macpherson please
contact G7 Records - 204-947-2002 or info@g7welcomingcommittee.com

Any other questions email scallen@spectrasonic.com

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photos http://www.scallen.com
shows http://www.punkottawa.com
label http://www.spectrasonic.com

shawn scallen € 613-234-PUNX € scallen@spectrasonic.com
AIM - scallen666 € ICQ - 83517276

Posted Friday, March 26, 2004 by admin
Summer Week Animation Workshops
As part of the Ottawa community, Boomstone Entertainment Inc. is proud to announce our Summer Week Animation Workshops. Kids are thrilled to work in a medium that they are very familiar with. We also have Evening Workshops.

For more information please visit our web site at:

http://www.boomstone.com

If you have any questions, you can contact me (Rich Vanatte) either through e-mail, or call the number below.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Rich Vanatte
Creative Director
Boomstone Entertainment Inc.
311 Richmond Rd, Studio 202
Ottawa, ON
K1Z 6X3
t(613) 725-3843
f(613) 725-9327
http://www.boomstone.com

Posted Friday, March 26, 2004 by admin
Young Spellers recognized throughout Ontario
Spelling Bee of Canada is pleased to announce that the 2004 Regional Competition will commence between Friday March 26th and Saturday May 8th with the 16th Annual Provincial Spelling Bee Championship Finals taking place on Sunday May 30th starting at 10 am. The Championship Finals will be held in Toronto at The Temple (880 Yonge St.) where the event will be broadcasted nationwide by the TVO network.

Since its inception in 1987, Spelling Bee of Canada has supported youth excellence in language arts through its encouragement of reading, spelling and writing. In today’s high-tech environment, it is essential to equip students with the tools that will enable them to comprehend the mass of information from various media that is currently available. Mastery of the English language from an early age is essential to effective comprehension and communication. Proficient spelling is integral to childhood education. In fact, Spelling is the Foundation of Literacy.

Over 3,000 students will be participating from 2 age categories: Junior (ages 6-8) and Senior (ages 9-15). The participants will represent the NW2 Family of Schools from:
Agincourt, Ajax/Pickering, Oshawa/Whitby, Brampton, East York, Etobicoke, Hamilton, Kingston, York/North York Kitchener/Waterloo, Markham, Mississauga, North York, Peterborough Scarborough, Don Valley, Malvern/Rouge River, Toronto, Vaughan/New Market, Six Nations, Ottawa and Carleton Place.
We are thrilled to announce that this year children from the NW2 Family of Schools of North York, Peterborough and the Kingston region will be participating in the Spelling Bee.

Spelling Bee of Canada firmly believes that all participating students are winners. Prizes awarded are simply an added bonus to this invaluable learning experience.

You are cordially invited to attend the 16th Annual Spelling Bee in support of youth from our communities.

TO THE NEWS EDITOR:
The following pages contain the complete schedule of Regional Competitions for 2004 that will take place throughout Southern Ontario. We request your assistance in the distribution of this information, so as to increase awareness of the Spelling Bee of Canada in your region. You will be making an invaluable contribution to youth education in your community and we thank you in advance for your assistance in this matter.

REGIONAL COMPETITION SCHEDULE:

Area: CARLETON PLACE
Date: Saturday, April 17, 2004
Venue: Mississippi School
82 Mill St.
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Chapter President: Sharon - (613) 253 – 2418

Area: KINGSTON
Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Venue: Maple Crest School
41 Baiden St.
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Chapter President: Betty - (613) 384 – 7122

Area: OTTAWA
Date: Sunday, April 18, 2004
Venue: Orleans Theatre/Cumberland Town Hall
255 Centrum Blvd.
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Chapter President: Pushpa - (613) 830 – 5282

Posted Thursday, March 25, 2004 by tara
CAPITALTICKETS.CA - Canadian Tulip Festival passes offered through CapitalTickets.ca
CapitalTickets.ca and the Canadian Tulip Festival announced today
that tickets for the Get Out! Ottawa Citizen Concert Series from May 14 to 24 would be available through the event ticketing agency beginning today.

The 11 Canadian Tulip Festival evening concerts and one afternoon
presentation on Victoria Day, Monday, May 24, will be held on the main
stage at Major's Hill Park in Ottawa. The performers line-up, which will be announced Tuesday, April 6, will feature rock music, alternative, pop, Celtic, folk, francophone pop, retro and classic.

An all-concert pass will cost $20 (GST included) until Thursday, May 6, and $25 (GST included) afterwards. The admission for individual concerts Mondays to Thursdays and the Victoria Day afternoon performance is $10 (GST included), and $15 (GST included) for those Fridays through Sundays and Victoria Day evening.

"We're please to be partnering with CapitalTickets.ca and to associate
ourselves with the Ottawa Senators during this exciting time of year for both our organizations," said Doug Little, marketing and communications manager for the Canadian Tulip Festival.

"The Canadian Tulip Festival offers us an important opportunity to expand and show the strength of the CapitalTickets.ca operation and to sell tickets for other excellent events in the Ottawa-Gatineau region," said Tom Gillis, CapitalTickets.ca general manager.

CapitalTickets.ca to sell tickets online at www.CapitalTickets.ca, by phone 599-FANS (3267) or toll-free 1-877-788-FANS (3267), at Sports
Experts locations in the Ottawa-Gatineau region and at the Corel Centre box office.

Additional information on the 2004 Canadian Tulip Festival, which runs from May 6-24, is provided at their website - www.tulipfestival.ca.

For further information:
Tom Gillis - CapitalTickets.ca, (613) 599-0115

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Posted Thursday, March 25, 2004 by tara
PROGRAM CHANGE FOR CHAMPAGNE CHARITY AUCTION
Canadian musicians Madviolet will make a special performance
at the Second Annual Champagne Charity Auction benefiting the Canadian
Paraplegic Association of Ontario on Thursday, March 25 at the Ottawa
Congress Centre, 55 Colonel By Dr.

Canadian recording artist Jimmy Rankin, scheduled to perform a special
acoustic set during the gala event, has cancelled due to illness.

The event, which begins at 6:30 p.m. with a reception and viewing, is
sponsored by the Ottawa Renegades. Players, coaches and Renegades
president Brad Watters will be in attendance.

Items up for bids among the 125 available include VIP passes to the
Grey Cup Festival and Game in Ottawa in November, a trip with the
Renegades when the team travels to Toronto in July, cases of fine
French champagne, a vacation for two to Taiwan, and a week’s use of a
condo in Hawaii.

Tickets are $50 and all funds raised go to CPA Ontario.

The Renegades support efforts by CPA Ontario to assist persons with
spinal cord injuries and other physical disabilities to achieve
independence, self-reliance and full community participation through
local programs and services such as peer support, rehabilitation and
counselling.

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For more information from the Renegades, please contact:
Barre Campbell
Director, Media Relations & Communications
Ottawa Renegades Football Club
(613) 231-5608 ext. 236 (office)
(613) 913-7719 (cell)
http://www.ottawarenegades.net

For event information, please contact:
Laurie Davison
277-2980
media@ncm.ca

RENEGADE. IT’S IN THE BLOOD.

Posted Thursday, March 25, 2004 by admin
Take the bus to the 67's at the Corel Centre
The Ottawa 67’s will play Game Five of their best of seven Ontario Hockey League playoff series against the Brampton Battalion at the Corel Centre in Kanata this Saturday, March 27 at 7:00 p.m. and fans will be able to travel with OC Transpo.

OC Transpo Route 404 will transport fans to the Corel Centre from the Kanata Town Centre and the Eagleson Rd. Park & Ride station beginning at 6:00 p.m.

For other OC Transpo routes that run to the Kanata Town Centre and the Eagleson Rd. Park & Ride, fans can call 741-4390 or log on to www.octranspo.com.

Tickets for the game are available at the Corel Centre box office or fans can call 599-FANS (3267) or log on to www.capitaltickets.ca. Ticket prices are $15.00 for adults, $13.00 for students and seniors and $10.00 for children 12 years and under.
These prices are subject to all Capital Ticket and Corel Centre surcharges upon purchase.

For further details, please contact Jason O’Connor at 232-6767 ext. 230.

Posted Thursday, March 25, 2004 by admin
City Council meeting to continue Thursday
City Council deliberations on the 2004 Budget will continue
Thursday morning at 9:30 a.m. in Andrew S. Haydon Hall.

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For more information:
Communications & Marketing
(613) 580-2450

Posted Thursday, March 25, 2004 by admin
Stepping Out with Le Jazz Hot
Le Jazz Hot Dance Company. Stepping Out with Le Jazz Hot - 7:00pm wine reception / 7:45pm studio performance.Thursday, April 1, 2004. $20. Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue, 564-7240.

Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 by tara
Arthritis Research Centre of Canada partners with Coast Spas and Mermaid Pool and Spas to introduce Wellness Spa
Mermaid Pools and Hot Tubs, Coast Spas and the Arthritis Research Centre are pleased to announce Ottawa’s first showing of the Wellness Spa™ at the Ottawa Home and Garden Show, March 25-28th, at Lansdowne Park. The Wellness Spa™ is the result of close collaboration between Coast Spas and the Arthritis Research Centre (ARC) of Canada, a major research, and consumer advisory body.

“We are thrilled to bring this new product to the Ottawa area, and believe that the Wellness Spa™ will have a beneficial role in the treatment of arthritis,” says Don Methot of Mermaid Pools and Hot Tubs.“

The most comprehensive therapeutic hot tub ever made, the Wellness Spa™ differs from ordinary spas in many ways, including extra water depth, handrails for security and easy movement, interior steps with a non-skid surface, powerful hydrotherapy jets, and built-in exercise devices. Coast Spas is the only spa manufacturer to receive ARC’s recommendation.

While, traditional hot tub seating may be uncomfortable for the
mobility-restricted, the Wellness Spa™, with its body-locating seats and large foot wells, accommodates a wide range of sizes and shapes. Those who have had trouble entering or exiting hot tubs without assistance will appreciate the non-skid external handrail and interior balance ring. Standard hot tub dials may be hard to manipulate with sore hands, so the Wellness Spa uses levers instead. The seats’ ergonomic design allows exact placement of hydrotherapy jets. Extra foot well jets are also precisely located for maximum therapeutic benefit. The Wellness Spa includes a rowing seat, designed to improve users’ strength, aerobic conditioning, and range of motion. The included, exercise bands and oars attach easily with clips, and offer users several levels of resistance.

Mermaid Pools and Hot Tubs will donate $100 from the sale of each Wellness Spa™ to the Ottawa Chapter of the Arthritis Society to provide research for, and advance the causes of, those living with arthritis.

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Anyone interested in knowing more about the Wellness Spa™ is invited to contact:
Don Methot
(613) 747 0321
dmethot@mermaidpools.com

For Details visit the Pressroom at: www.webpressroom.com/mermaid.htm

TORCH AWARD for Marketplace Ethics
Better Business Bureau of Ottawa-Hull Inc.

Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 by tara
RENEGADES PROUD SPONSOR OF CHAMPAGNE CHARITY AUCTION
Ottawa Renegades players, coaches and president Brad Watters
will be in attendance at the 2nd Annual Champagne Charity Auction
benefiting the Canadian Paraplegic Association of Ontario on Thursday,
March 25 at the Ottawa Congress Centre, 55 Colonel By Dr.

The gala event schedule begins at 6:30 p.m. with a reception and
viewing of prizes. The event opens at 7:30 p.m., and a live auction
begins at 8:15 p.m.

Prizes up for bids among the 125 items available include VIP passes to
the Grey Cup Festival and Game in Ottawa in November, a trip with the
Renegades when the team travels to Toronto in July, cases of fine
French champagne, a vacation for two to Taiwan, and a week’s use of a
condo in Hawaii.

Recording artist Jimmy Rankin will perform a special acoustic set,
scheduled to begin at 7:50 p.m.

Tickets are $50 and all funds raised go to CPA Ontario.

The Renegades, as title sponsor of the Champagne Charity Auction,
support efforts by CPA Ontario to assist persons with spinal cord
injuries and other physical disabilities to achieve independence,
self-reliance and full community participation through local programs
and services such as peer support, rehabilitation and counselling.

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For more information, please contact:
Barre Campbell
Director, Media Relations & Communications
Ottawa Renegades Football Club
(613) 231-5608 ext. 236 (office)
(613) 913-7719 (cell)

RENEGADE. IT’S IN THE BLOOD.

Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 by tara
NAC, April 4: Burt Bacharach comes to the NAC in concert with his own ensemble
Burt Bacharach, one of the world's most successful songwriter/performers,
comes to the NAC in concert with his own ensemble on April 4

Ottawa, Canada - Six decades into one of songwriting's most successful and honoured careers marked by 48 Top 10 hits, nine Number One songs and more than 500 compositions, Burt Bacharach's music continues to set industry records and creative standards. Burt Bacharach, one of the greatest composers of all time and the "ultra-cool cult hero" of the contemporary music set, returns to the National Arts Centre's Southam Hall on Sunday, April 4 at 20:00 to perform medleys of his greatest hits with his own ensemble. This performance is sponsored by Otto's BMW.

A recipient of three Academy Awards and five Grammy Awards, Burt Bacharach revolutionized the music of the 1950s and 60s and is regularly bracketed with legendary names such as Cole Porter and Richard Rodgers. As a record producer, he ranks with a handful of visionaries who pioneered new forms of music from the early 60s through into the 21st century. His devoted fans span several generations.

As popular as ever, this legend of American popular song recently produced, arranged and conducted an album of his own songs sung by Ron Isley, which has remained on the BILLBOARD's Top R&B/HIP-HOP ALBUM CHART since its debut in November 2003.
People Magazine named him one of the "Sexiest Men Alive" in 2000, and one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" in 1999.

His songs have been recorded by equally legendary Americans such as Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, Linda Ronstadt and Aretha Franklin.
Other tributes to the diversity of Bacharach's music have been paid by, among others, Elvis Costello ("I'll Never Fall in Love Again"), REM, Cyndi Lauper, Diana Krall, Barenaked Ladies, Sheryl Crow, Wynonna Judd and Mike Myers. Krall's album, The Look of Love, garnered widespread critical praise and resided at No. 1 on the jazz charts for a full year.

Mike Myers, aka "Austin Powers," considers Bacharach his lucky charm, and has cast him in all "Austin Powers" films. Other film credits include the Platinum-selling soundtrack from My Best Friend's Wedding which featured several Bacharach songs, interpreted by Ani DiFranco ("Wishin' and Hopin'") and Diana King, whose recording of "I Say A Little Prayer" hit the top of the charts. He won two Academy Awards and a Grammy for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid where "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" first made its mark. He won another Oscar for the theme song of Arthur.

"The dream world of Mr. Bacharach's music is built on chromatic harmonies that hover anxiously between major and minor keys; angular, knotty melodies that rush, then hesitate, quickly changing time; hints of Brazilian Bossa Nova." - NEW YORK TIMES, 2003

"The songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David are timeless classics boasting intricate, endlessly facile melodies and wonderfully inventive lyrics." - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, 2003

"Their [Bacharach and David] song titles read like a catalogue of
contemporary pop's golden era...." - USA TODAY, 2003

Burt Bacharach made his National Arts Centre debut with the NAC Orchestra in October 2001. For this return visit he will be featured with his own ensemble.

Tickets for this special concert by Burt Bacharach and his ensemble on
Sunday, April 4 at 20:00 are on sale now at $34.50, $48.50, $50.00, $59.00 and $61.00, with box seats at $86.00 (GST and Facility Fee included) at the NAC Box Office (Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 21:00), and through Ticketmaster (with surcharges) at 613-755-1111. Ticketmaster may also be accessed through the NAC's web-site at www.nac-cna.ca. Half-price tickets for students in all sections of the hall are on sale in person at the NAC Box Office upon presentation of a valid student ID card.

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Jane Morris
Marketing and Communications Officer
Agente de marketing et communications
National Arts Centre Orchestra/Orchestre du Centre national des Arts
Telephone/Téléphone: (613) 947-7000 x 335
Fax: (613) 996-2828

Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 by admin
Mar 27: Open Source Weekend - switching away from Windows
This Saturday from 9am to 5pm, in the Tory building at Carleton
University, enthusiasts will help you install Linux or other "open
source," usually free, software on your computer. There are also talks
and displays all day, and CDs with software will be given away. The
building is on bus route 7 and parking and admission are free

Poster: http://www.osw.ca/images/osw_poster_2004_8.5x14_nobleed.pdf
(192kb) - please print and post

Talks Schedule: http://www.osw.ca/schedule.php

Location:see http://www.carleton.ca/cu/campus/ - building number 1 on
the map

Parking:http://www.carleton.ca/parking - Nearest lots: 1, 2, 8 - all
non-permit parking is free on Saturday.

Contacts http://www.osw.ca/contacts.php

Open Source Weekend - http://www.osw.ca/

Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 by admin
Mar 25 1930h:Reading by Writers
span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents

The Factory Reading Series at Gallery 101
featuring some of the best writers in Canada

Thursday, March 25th, 2004 at 7:30pm

readings by Michael Blouin (Ottawa)
& Andy Brown (Montreal)

Gallery 101, 236 Nepean Street, Ottawa (1/2 block west of Bank Street)
lovingly hosted by rob mclennan

bios:

Michael Blouin was born the same year that Marty Robins had a hit
single with El Paso and Pittsburgh beat the Yankees 4 games to 3 to win
the World Series. He has taught for many years and is presently a
Principal with the Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario.
He has had a play workshopped at the Stratford Festival as well as
numerous magazine publications for poetry and short stories, including
Grain, Queen's Quarterly, Descant, and Arc. In 2003, he won the Diana
Brebner Prize for poetry, sponsored by Arc magazine.. He is currently
at work on a third novel for which he holds much higher publication
hopes than he did for the first two. He enjoys the Tree reading series,
and disagreeing with small children and large dogs which, as a father
of three and the owner of a large dog, he finds a surprising amount of
time for.

Andy Brown is the sole proprietor of conundrum press. He co-edited You
& Your Bright Ideas: New Montreal Writing (Vehicule) with rob mclennan,
and Running with Scissors (Cumulus) with Meg Sircom. He has performed
his stories and chapbooks in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver and Montreal.
He is a contributing editor for Matrix magazine, and recently edited
their "Public Domain" issue. I can see you being invisible is his debut
"real" book.

for more information, bother rob mclennan at 613 239 0337 or
az421@freenet.carleton.ca / or check out the span-o link at
www.track0.com/rob_mclennan

span-o & The Factory Reading Series GREATFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES GALLERY 101
FOR THE GENEROUS DONATION OF THE SPACE.

Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 by admin
RENEGADES GET DEFENDER FROM CAJUN COUNTRY
The Ottawa Renegades are pleased to announce the signing of import defensive back / linebacker Kyries Hebert (pronounced KYE-reez EH-bare) to a one-year contract with a club option for the 2005 season.

The 6-foot-3, 210-pound native of Eunice, Louisiana, is a versatile athlete who will be evaluated at multiple positions by the Renegades coaching staff.

“Kyries is a tall, rangy player with great instincts for the game,” said Renegades general manager Eric Tillman. “His outstanding athletic ability will provide our coaches with numerous options as to how best to utilize his talent.”

Following his collegiate career at Louisiana – Lafayette, Hebert attended NFL camps with the Minnesota Vikings in 2002 and the Houston Texans in 2003.

Hebert led his college team, the Ragin’ Cajuns, in tackles while playing free safety during three consecutive seasons (sophomore, junior and senior). Hebert, who turns 24 in October, completed his collegiate career with 270 total tackles (154 solo).

KYRIES HEBERT

Position: Linebacker

Nationality: American

Height, Weight: 6-3, 215

University: Louisiana -- Lafayette

Birthdate (Opening Day Age) Birthplace: October 9, 1980 (23) Eunice, Louisiana

Acquired: Free agent; March 23, 2004

Years CFL / Yrs Renegades: 1st / 1st

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For more information, please contact:

Barre Campbell

Director, Media Relations & Communications

Ottawa Renegades Football Club

(613) 231-5608 ext. 236 (office)

(613) 913-7719 (cell)

Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 by admin
Sylvain Cousineau opens Thursday March 25 @ Ottawa Art Gallery
The Ottawa Art Gallery
Sylvain Cousineau: Coq-à-l'âne
26 March 2004 to 30 May 2004
Guest Curator: François Dion

Sylvain Cousineau's photographic images bring us into the point of encounter between what we see and how we experience it subconsciously. At first glance, the photographs display many of the idioms of the documentary tradition, but all reveal the instability of our assumptions, transposing them into a different order of things, a counter-order.

The photographer's personal history not only informs his visual record of transformations in the past 60 years: in a contradictory twist, it also finds expression in a certain fondness for regional "traits" speech patterns, anecdotes, characters. Cousineau is especially interested in cultural phenomena that are peripheral, that exist outside major urban centres and circles of cognoscenti. Elements of timeshifting, repetition, displacement and reversal are also important elements in his work.

The current exhibition, Coq-à-l'âne, features photographic work from the late 1960s to the early 1980s as well as more recent work. Despite long periods spent in Ottawa, Montreal and France, Cousineau's gaze retains traces of the regional Quebec heritage that has shaped the singularity of his expression, his critical judgment, his sense of humour, and perhaps even his artistic path.

Images l to r: all Sylvain Cousineau: Death Dimension, 1978; Découverte de missiles irakiens non-conformes, le 13 février, 2003, 1999; Paradis Ottawa, 1971

Events

Vernissage
Thursday 25 March at 5:30 pm

Walkthrough with Artist Sylvain Cousineau and Guest Curator François Dion
Friday 26 March at NOON

The Ottawa Art Gallery
Arts Court
2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6E2
(613) 233-8699 fax 569-7660
info@ottawaartgallery.ca
www.ottawaartgallery.ca

Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 by admin
Apr 21-May 26: Workshops in Wildflower Habitat Gardening
Old Field Habitat Garden offers workshops in Wildflower Habitat
Gardening. The spring 2004 workshop sessions will be on Wednesday
afternoons, 1:30 to 3:30, from April 21 to May 26.

Tuition is limited to 10 participants, and is $90.

For further information or to register, please telephone
(613) 258-7945
or write at
oldfieldgarden@sympatico.ca

Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 by admin
Apr 1 1930h: Giving Rivers an Edge
"Giving Rivers an Edge":
Restorationof the Gatineau shoreline at the Alonzo Wright rapids -
Lessons from the Carp River
April 1, Chelsea United Church, 7:30 p.m.
Free admission - free refreshments.

The Chelsea Arora Project is dedicated to protecting world-class fish
spawning habitat in the Gatineau River, including three endangered
species, by restoring damaged shoreline at the Alonzo Wright Bridge.
The Project has completed its planning and funding phases and is
mustering volunteers for spring and fall replanting. Find out more
about the project, and what David Spence, founder of Friends of the
Carp River, has to say about successful shoreline restoration.

Action Chelsea for the Respect of the Environment

More information at http://www.acrechelsea.qc.ca/html/new.html#article2

Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 by admin
NACOA, Apr. 2: MODA FORTE: A WONDERFUL EVENING OF FASHION AND MUSIC
Members of the National Arts Centre Orchestra are going to join in the fun
on Friday, April 2, (7:30 - 10 p.m.) when NACOA (the National Arts Centre
Orchestra Association) presents its gala fashion show "Moda Forte" in the
lobby of the National Arts Centre. NAC Orchestra violinists Donnie Deacon
and Jessica Linnebach are contributing their musical talent in a violin duet
as well as modelling the fashions with fellow NAC Orchestra musicians Emily
Smethurst (flute) and Lev Berenshteyn and David Thies-Thompson (violin). The
fashions are from ANIK Boutique and Harry Rosen and will be presented by
models by the Ben Barry Agency as well as the musicians.

The evening promises to be an exciting one with desserts, wine, fruit and
cheese; balloons for sale with intriguing gifts from generous Ottawa
businesses; and raffles throughout the evening culminating in a draw for a
Harry Rosen suit.

Tickets are $65 and can be obtained by calling Muriel Barber at (613)
828-3971.

All proceeds benefit the National Arts Centre Orchestra's music programme
and the National Arts Centre Young Artist Programme NACOA Scholarship.

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Media inquiries:
Jean Seasons
(613) 728-1486
jeanseasons@sympatico.ca

Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 by admin
Crop for Fun To celebrate National Scrapbook Day
Crop for Fun
To celebrate National Scrapbook Day
May 1, 2004
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
170 Booth Street
Cost: $20 (includes lunch and goodie bag)

http://www.simplymemories.ca/ScrapbookDay2004.pdf

Come and scrapbook with us to celebrate National
Scrapbook Day. Enjoy games, prizes and time to work
on your albums.

Please contact Michelle Legault for more information
at (613) 234-1296 or at michellelegault@yahoo.ca

Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 by admin
10,000 SINGLE GAME SENATORS PLAYOFF TICKETS SOLD ON FIRST DAY
On the first on-sale day for single game tickets, the Ottawa Senators today announced that almost 10,000 tickets were snapped up for the club's first two home games of the 2004 Stanley Cup playoffs. The Senators, who currently sit fifth in the Eastern Conference and third in the Northeast with 93 points and a 39-21-9-6 record, have already clinched their eighth consecutive playoff berth.

There are 900 tickets still available for each of Ottawa's first two home games, with the balance of approximately 12,500 seats having been committed to Senators' ticket package holders, holds for the NHL and broadcasters, and for each team. The Club's playoff schedule and opponent will be determined following the conclusion of the regular season on April 4.

Playoff tickets for the Senators home games in the first round are available starting at just $35 (taxes included, convenience charges may apply). There is a limit of six (6) tickets per person, per game for the Coca-Cola Family Fan Zone and GM Power seats section, and a limit of eight (8) tickets per person, per game for all other sections.

Stanley Cup playoff tickets can be purchased at www.capitaltickets.ca, by calling 599-FANS and 1-877-788-FANS, in person at all Ottawa-Gatineau area Sports Experts locations and at the Corel Centre box office. Fans can get guaranteed tickets for all playoff games and receive great savings by purchasing a ticket package for the 2004-05 season by calling 599-0200 or 1-800-444-SENS (7367).

SENS INSIDERS CONTEST

Each week until April 4, members of the free "Sens Insiders" program will have the opportunity to win a pair of club-seat tickets to a Stanley Cup playoff game at the Corel Centre. To be a Sens Insider, you can register free of charge at the Ottawa Senators website (www.ottawasenators.com). As a member, you can receive a weekly electronic-newsletter and post-game reports, and participate in contests and more.

For further information, please contact:
Phil Legault, (613) 599-0327
Steve Keogh, (613) 599-0326
Tim Pattyson, (613) 599-0239

Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 by admin
OTTAWA 67'S AND BRAMPTON BATTALION FACE-OFF AT THE COREL CENTRE
The Corel Centre today announced it will play host to game five of the Ontario Hockey League best-of-seven quarter-final series between the Ottawa 67's and Brampton Battalion on Saturday, March 27, at 7:00 p.m.

Tickets for the game at the Corel Centre go on sale Tuesday, March 23 at 10 a.m. and can be purchased at www.capitaltickets.ca, by calling 599-FANS and 1-877-788-FANS, in person at all Ottawa-Gatineau area Sports Experts locations and at the Corel Centre box office.

Ticket prices are $16 for adults, $14 for students and seniors (65 and over) and $11 for kids (12 and under).

Fans are encouraged to buy their tickets in advance or early in the day on Saturday to avoid long lines. The Corel Centre box office opens at 10 a.m. on Saturday while arena doors will open at 6 p.m.

For further information, please contact:
Tim Pattyson (613) 599-0239

Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 by admin
McROBBIE RECEIVES REWARD - Promoted to Director of Player Personnel
The Ottawa Renegades are pleased to announce the promotion of Chris McRobbie to Director of Player Personnel.

McRobbie, a native of Calgary, joined the Renegades in 2002 for the club’s inaugural season as the Director of Video Operations. He has also served the club as its Director of Canadian College Personnel.

His duties as Director of Player Personnel will include roles as person in charge of the club’s video operations and Canadian college scouting.

“Chris is a very valuable member of our staff,” said Renegades general manager Eric Tillman. “This expansion of roles is reflective of his work ethic and his significant contributions to football operations.”

The 2004 season will be McRobbie’s 10th in the Canadian Football League. He has also worked for the San Antonio Texans, the Toronto Argonauts, the B.C. Lions and the Calgary Stampeders.

McRobbie and wife Allison live in the Kemptville area.

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For more information, please contact:

Barre Campbell

Director, Media Relations & Communications

Ottawa Renegades Football Club

(613) 231-5608 ext. 236 (office)

(613) 913-7719 (cell)

Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 by admin
CUMMINGS RETURNS TO RENEGADES
The Ottawa Renegades are pleased to announce that non-import wide receiver Aubrey Cummings has agreed to terms and will be returning to the club for the 2004 season.

The 33-year-old Cummings signed a one-year contract with the Renegades with a club option for the 2005 season.

The 6-foot, 174-pound Cummings, who joined the club as a free agent before the beginning of the inaugural 2002 season, caught 20 passes for 289 yards for the Renegades in 2003.

Cummings matches his clutch performances on the football field with outstanding contributions in the community.

He was chosen by teammates as the club’s nominee for the Tom Pate Memorial Award for service to team and to community. Cummings also received the United Way of Ottawa Community Builder Award for his charitable efforts through various initiatives, including the “Aubrey’s All Stars” program in which Cummings and the team donate tickets for every Renegades home game to 20 patients from the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario and their parents.

AUBREY CUMMINGS

Position: Wide Receiver

Nationality: Canadian

Height, Weight: 6-0, 174

University: Acadia

Birthdate (Opening Day Age) Birthplace: April 19, 1970 (34) Hamilton, ON

Acquired: Free agent 2002; Re-signed March 22, 2004

Years CFL / Yrs Renegades: 7th / 3rd

Games CFL / Games Renegades: 101 / 31

CFL Playoff Games: 6

Grey Cup Games (Team and Years): 3 (Calgary 1998, 1999, 2001)

Previous CFL Teams: Calgary (1998-2001)

Draft: Fourth round (24th overall) Calgary 1998

2003 Highlights

Had 20 catches for 289 yards … Led Renegades receivers with 42 receiving yards in first game of season, June 20 @ Hamilton … Involved in first CFL play for QB Romaro Miller, July 10 vs Toronto. Hit after lateral pass reached him in third quarter and dropped ball. Clifford Ivory returned fumble for a 66-yard TD … Performed well Aug. 12 @ WPG with three catches for 51 yards … Caught a key pass from Romaro Miller for 23 yards late in the third quarter on second down Sept. 26 vs CAL deep in Stampeders territory to prolong a drive that resulted in an important touchdown … Made another key catch to prolong an important Ottawa drive Oct. 13 vs TOR on a 15-yard completion early in the fourth quarter that eventually set up a TD reception by D.J. Flick.

Professional

Has 174 career receptions for 2,176 yards and seven touchdowns … 1998: Played 18 games … Caught 24 passes for 354 yards in rookie season … Made CFL début on July 1 for Calgary vs. Hamilton. Caught a six-yard pass from Jeff Garcia to record first league reception … Scored first CFL touchdown on a 67-yard pass from Dave Dickenson @ BC on Aug. 20 … Added nine tackles on special teams … 1999: Had 32 catches for 355 yards and two touchdowns … 2000: Caught a career-high 53 receptions for 578 yards … Scored two touchdowns … Caught seven passes for 96 yards vs. Edmonton on Sept. 4 … 2001: Had 30 receptions for 399 yards and one touchdown … 2002: Ranked sixth on Renegades with 201 receiving yards and had 15 catches … Caught one touchdown pass, Aug. 22 @ Hamilton from Oteman Sampson … Added six tackles on special teams.

High School / University

Attended University of Ottawa from 1990-1993 but did not play football … Resumed studies at Acadia University and tried out for the Axemen football team in 1996 … Survived final cuts despite not playing football since the age of 15 … Had 37 catches for 546 yards, two touchdowns, and eight kickoff returns for 162 yards in his freshman year … Elected as a second team All-Canadian and a first team Atlantic University Athletic Association all-star … In 1997, led the CIAU by gaining 697 yards on 47 catches … Added eight touchdowns, nine kickoff returns for 162 yards and 12 punt returns for 74 yards … Elected a first team All-Canadian and first team AUAA all-star … Nominated for the Hec Crighton Award as the CIAU’s top football player.

Notable

Has played in three Grey Cup games with the Calgary Stampeders and has won two CFL championships … Ottawa nominee (chosen by teammates) for Tom Pate Memorial Award for service to team and to community. Also received United Way of Ottawa Community Builder Award for his charitable efforts through various initiatives, including the “Aubrey’s All Stars” program in which Cummings and the team donate tickets to 20 patients from the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario and their parents for each Renegades home game. Cummings also supplies various novelty items and food vouchers to the CHEO kids and meets them for post-game autographs.

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For more information, please contact:

Barre Campbell

Director, Media Relations & Communications

Ottawa Renegades Football Club

(613) 231-5608 ext. 236 (office)

(613) 913-7719 (cell)

Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 by admin
CBC Radio Talks with Deputy P.M. Anne McLellan
The public is welcome to this free noon-hour speaking series

CBC Radio Talks! continues its season of provocative noon-hour
discussions with prominent people on Monday, March 29th with The
Honourable Anne McLellan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public
Safety and Emergency Preparedness. CBC Radio Talks takes place at the
National Arts Centre Fourth Stage, 53 Elgin Street.

Anthony Germain, host of CBC Radio One's OTTAWA MORNING and THE HOUSE,
will lead the hour-long chat with Minister McLellan. The event is open
to the public and admission is free. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. and seats
are first-come, first-served.

"In today's political climate there are many questions regarding
accountability in government," says Germain. "It's great to be able to
provide public access to Minister McLellan. This is the chance for
people to ask some very candid questions."

In her role as Public Safety Minister, Minister McLellan is also at the
forefront of Canadian security issues. These issues came to light again
this month with the terrorist attacks in Madrid.

Anne McLellan was first elected as Member of Parliament for Edmonton
West in 1993. She has held a range of cabinet posts over the years,
including Minister of Health, Minister of Justice and Attorney General
of Canada, and Minister of Natural Resources. Before her political
career, she held various professorial posts in the law faculties of the
University of New Brunswick and the University of Alberta. She has also
served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Civil Liberties
Association and Alberta Legal Aid.

Highlights from CBC Radio Talks! with Minister McLellan will be
broadcast that same day on ALL IN A DAY between 4 and 6 p.m., and the
following day on OTTAWA MORNING between 6 and 8:30 a.m. They can then be
heard online at http://ottawa.cbc.ca/radiotalks/.

Listen to CBC Radio One 91.5 for information on the next CBC Radio
Talks event. For details on CBC's regular programming, visit
ottawa.cbc.ca.

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For further information contact:
Kylee Mackay, senior communications officer
CBC Radio Ottawa
(613) 562-8471
E-mail:
kylee_mackay@cbc.ca
March 22, 2004

Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 by admin
Finland's LAIKA & THE COSMONAUTS predict "Local Warming" at Zaphod Beeblebrox
From Helsinki, Finland
Yep Roc/ Outside Recording Artists
LAIKA & THE COSMONAUTS
Wednesday, June 9 (Doors 8pm)

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada.
Age 19+/ General Admission
Tickets: $8 only at the door.

"...this is no novelty act." - LEXINGTON (Kentucky) HERALD-LEADER.

"If you like ‘em, this will be a treat. If you think you might like ‘em but have never had the honour
of hearing ‘em, now’s your chance." - www.chartattack.com.

"Mixed over pounding, urgent rhythms and smoother, even danceable grooves, these instrumentals rate
with classics from the likes of Dick Dale, The Ventures, Joe Meek, Montenegro and Schifrin, throwing
contemporary vim and vigor into the production." - www.milesofmusic.com

"Their influences are boundless, as they slide between a slinky spy theme and uber-gooey '70s pop on
"The Key Role" while "Rikki on the Loose" bursts with a joyous classic rock riff underpinned with a reedy piano
melody and "Liposuction" has a swaggering soul groove and wild, cartwheeling organ. While fans who first fell
for the band's surf authenticity may be surprised by the slick, almost free-jazz guitar noodling on songs like
"Haroosh," no matter how far out the band goes, their songs always abound with uniquely dreamy and vividly
detailed texture. "Meneito Paraiso" is built around a rollicking blues rock riff that's more Aerosmith than
Dick Dale, and "Mr. Melee" has a thick-as-molasses bass line perfect for banging your head."
- THE BOSTON GLOBE

Laika & The Cosmonauts was founded in 1987 by Mikko Lankinen (guitar), Janne Haavisto (drums), Matti Pitsinki (organ and guitar) and Tom Nyman (bass). Their first album "C'mon Do The Laika" was released already in 1988. The group has since then released five more studio albums, all with the same line-up.

Their popularity in Finland and the rest of the Europe began to rise, surprisingly, only after they had made themselves a household name among the surf/garage/punk/alternative audience in the USA! There this foursome has released three original CD's ("Instruments of Terror", "The Amazing Colossal Band" and "Absurdistan") as well as a compilation of their early stuff (from "C'mon do the Laika" and "Surfs you right!"). For these records they got rave reviews, good amount of airplay on the radio and won over the hearts of many famed musicians from "the king of surf guitar" Dick Dale to Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench. Other well-known Laika fans are Mike Palm from the surf-punk legend Agent Orange and John Jorgenson from The Hellecasters who, also played with Elton John for several years!

In US they have done six nationwide tours, one of which was as a supporting act for The Ministry on their "Filth Pig" tour. The singer of Ministry, Al Jourgensen wanted Laika & The Cosmonauts to join the stadium tour because, in his words; "They are the best f***ing band in the world!" Just check out their superb live album "Laika Sex Machine" (2000) and you'll come to the same conclusion yourself.

The music of the band has been also included in number of movies including Flipper, LA Without A Map, Fox Hunt, Blood and Donuts, The Iron Horsemen. Since the members are big fans of movies and soundtrack albums one of the main goals is to get the Laika-music on the big screen.

Laika & The Cosmonauts are also continually touring Europe and their home country. They have done dozens of TV appearances (including a live TV-show shown all over Europe called "Absolut Live") and hundreds of radio interviews/shows in the USA as well as in Europe. In Japan some people might even know the band members from their work as record producers with artists such as "Lemonator", "Super", "The JP's", "Värttinä".

Laika and the Cosmonauts first new studio album, LOCAL WARMING, was just released in January 2004 (January 13th in the USA & Canada and Jan.16th in Finland) The new release (on Yep Roc Records in the US/Grandpop Records in Finland) is by far the band's best and most rocking record, thus keeping up the high musical standards and manifesting the band's artistic ambition and constant development. 2004 will also see the band touring extensively both in the US and Europe. A US/Canada tour is in the works for May/June which will bring them to Zaphod's.

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LAIKA & THE COSMONAUTS' web site - http://www.laikaandthecosmonauts.com

Information:
LAIKA & THE COSMONAUTS - Stephanie Hardman/ Outside Music (416) 461-0655 x 23 promo@outside.on.ca
OR Angie Carlson/ Yep Roc Records (877) 733-3931 x 209 angie@redeyeusa.com
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX - Eugene Haslam (613) 237-5301 zaphods_ottawa@hotmail.com http://www.ZaphodBeeblebrox.com

Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 by admin
Hot dog!! Free franks on Thursdays* highlight Lynx 2004 Promo Schedule
A fine assortment of food, fun, and family promotions will be on tap when the Lynx start their 12th season of Triple-A Baseball in Ottawa when they take on the Scranton Wilkes-Barre Red Barons on April the 8th.
* children 14 & under only.

More info:
http://www.ottawalynx.com/LynxPressBox04/0322.html

Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 by admin
Ottawa 67’s Corel Centre Tickets On Sale Tuesday!
The Ottawa 67’s will play Game Five of their best of seven Ontario Hockey League playoff series at the Corel Centre in Kanata this Saturday, March 27 at 7:00 p.m.

Tickets for the game will go on sale on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004 at 10:00 a.m. Fans who wish to purchase tickets to the game can call 599-FANS (3267), visit the Corel Centre box office or go online to www.capitaltickets.ca for more information.

Tickets for the game will be $15.00 for adults, $13.00 for students and seniors and $10.00 for children 12 years and under plus all applicable Capital Ticket surcharges. Tickets bought at the Corel Centre box office in person will incur no additional Capital Ticket surcharges.

Season Ticket Holders who have pre-ordered their Home Playoff Game #3 tickets on or before March 19th can pick up their Corel Centre tickets on the concourse of the Civic Centre behind Section 25 on Tuesday night.

Season Ticket Holders who have not pre-ordered their Home Playoff Game #3 tickets are asked to call 599-FANS or visit the Corel Centre box office directly to purchase their playoff tickets at Ottawa 67’s Season Ticket Holder prices and to avoid any unnecessary confusion.

For further details, please contact Jason O’Connor at 232-6767 ext. 230.

Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 by ammatte
Youth theatre company donates $750 to the Alzheimer Society of Ottawa
The arts contribute to the city of Ottawa

Youth theatre company donates $750
to the Alzheimer Society of Ottawa

Ottawa, Monday, March 22, 2004 – Productions Nemesis, a bilingual theatre company of young amateur artists, has donated $750 to the Alzheimer Society of Ottawa today.

This donation follows the theatrical collaboration between Productions Nemesis and the Alzheimer Society of Ottawa. Last January, Alzheimer Awareness Month, the young theatre company presented Slipping Mind, a one-woman play about a family struggling with Alzheimer Disease.

The Alzheimer Society of Ottawa contributed to the show’s promotion. Due to this assistance, Productions Nemesis reached an important number of people who otherwise might not have heard about the show at all.

“Our collaboration reached beyond the scope of our respective target markets and educated, entertained and touched two sold-out audiences at the National Arts Centre,” says Alexandre Matte, treasurer of Productions Nemesis.

Thanks to this partnership, Productions Nemesis and the Alzheimer Society of Ottawa have encouraged the arts in the community and contributed to the worthy cause of fighting against Alzheimer Disease.

The arts have contributed yet again to the well-being of our community and Productions Nemesis hopes that the city’s councillors will bear this in mind when they review the city's proposed budget on Wednesday.

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For further information, please contact:
Arianne M. Matte, co-president
Productions Nemesis

(613) 567-6673
(613) 294-7749
email: ammatte@rogers.com
theatre@productionsnemesis.org
Website: www.productionsnemesis.com

Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 by admin
OTTAWA RAIDERS LOSE NWHL EASTERN FINAL
The Ottawa Raiders came within a game of moving onto the NWHL Finals in Toronto, ON with the loss of Game 3 on Saturday, March 20 to the Montreal Axion.

The second game of the playoff series against the Axion was held at the Goulbourn Recreational Complex on Friday March 19. Down in the 3 game series the Raiders came out in full force to ensure that the series would be heading back to Montreal. Down 3-1 Ottawa came back to tie the game before the end of the second period. After trading goals in the third period the Raiders took the lead for good and added a couple of empty net goals to win the game 7-4. Erica Olson lead the way for the Raiders with 3 goals and 2 assists. Also scoring for Ottawa were Andre-Anne Dionne, Jessica Lebeau, Andreanne Thibault, and Susie Laska.

The deciding game was held in Montreal on Saturday March 20 with the winner moving on to the NWHL Finals. The game was a back and forth battle between both teams with each getting a number of quality scoring chances with nothing to show for it. Late in the second period Montreal pounced on one of their scoring chances to go up in the game 1-0. Ottawa never backed down on trying desperately to tie the game but on a scramble in front of the Ottawa halfway through the third period Montreal snuck one in the net to lead the game 2-0. The game ended 3-0 with Montreal capturing the Eastern Conference 2 games to 1.

Montreal Axion will now head to Toronto for the NWHL Finals during the Easter weekend. The Championship game will be on CBC on Saturday, April 10 as part of CBC Sports Saturday.

Jason Perrier (613) 599-9165 or perrierj@sympatico.ca

Barry Madigan (613) 591-1021 or bmadigan1021@rogers.com

Visit our web site at www.ottawaraiders.com or www.nwhlhockey.com

Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 by admin
Ottawa Blues This Week -- 21 March 2004
This is a completely informal update of blues & blues-related events in Ottawa. The mailing list has been compiled from various sources and includes folks who are interested in blues. Please contact me at lizbluesottawa@aol.com to add or delete email addresses from the list.

‘Ottawa Blues This Week' is available on line at http://hometown.aol.ca/lizbluesottawa/thisweek.html.
The on-line version is updated throughout the week.

Please send your comments/suggestions to lizbluesottawa@aol.com. Thanks!
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OTTAWA ARTS NEEDS YOUR HELP BEFORE MARCH 24!
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The City of Ottawa's Draft Budget 2004 annihilates Ottawa's arts community. It proposes an 80% cut to all arts funding and elimination of all festivals. Supporters of arts for Ottawa have until March 24 (when City of Ottawa Councillors will approve the final budget) to make their voices heard. Please support the arts in Ottawa by writing the Mayor and Ottawa City Councillors to ask them to reinstate 100% of Ottawa's arts funding. You can find the e-mail addresses and information about the proposed budget at
http://www.ottawaartgallery.ca/budget2004/petition-en.php

The City of Ottawa's entire arts budget is equivalent to the cost of 1½ city intersections.

"If the new Ottawa budget goes through, Ottawa's arts spending will fall to 57¢ per capita, making the national capital a national disgrace – and an international laughingstock." National Post
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SPECIAL EVENTS THIS WEEK
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JW-Jones Blues Band
Smiths Falls Chocolate & Railway Festival Fundraiser
Smiths Falls Legion, Smiths Falls ON
Saturday, March 27 @ 9 pm; tickets $10 advance, $12 at the door

Dave Pringle organizes the music stage at the Smiths Falls Chocolate & Railway Festival (yep, that's the name!) This annual summer festival takes place the third weekend in July – JW-Jones was the headliner last year. JW is becoming something of a favourite in the Chocolate & Railway world (or maybe the Smiths Falls corner of the world!) – he played again in the Falls this past November, and he will be at the Legion on Saturday, as a fundraiser for the Festival.

Dave writes: "A few of us are on a mission to bring quality music to the Falls, and it's starting to work. The Rideau Canal Museum theatre hosts an event every month, with a wide variety of musical styles. Rob Roys Pub (perched over the falls...beautiful spot) has bands every Friday night – Shakedown Blues is becoming a fixture – and Saturday dinner jazz on a regular basis."

So for all you blues, chocolate & railway lovers (or any of the aforementioned!), perhaps it's time to make a ‘road trip' to Smiths Falls to check out the beautiful scenery, the Rideau Canal Museum, the wonderful old trains and train station, the Hershey chocolate (you can tour the factory and buy chocolate at a discount in the factory store!) ... and, last but not least, hear some great blues from the JW-Jones Blues Band.
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David Rotundo & the Blue Canadians
Tucson's, 2440 Bank Street
Saturday, March 27

Toronto blues harpist David Rotundo bought his first harmonica after seeing James Cotton perform at the El Mocambo in 1991. A passion for the blues led him to travel through the United States, spending time in many of the blues epicenters – New Orleans, Clarksdale, Austin, Memphis and Chicago – with little more than his wits and a bag full of harmonicas. He returned to Toronto with a greater perception of the blues and a heightened knowledge of the history of the music. In 1997, he started the Blue Canadians (with Peter Schmidt, Shane Scott, Julian Fauth and Walter Maclean) and began playing the Toronto circuit. They recorded their debut album, "Blowin' For Broke", in 2001. Since then, they have toured across the country, playing festivals and clubs; in January 2003, David Rotundo and the Blue Canadians were presented with the 2002 ‘Best New Artist' Award at the Mapleblues ceremony in Toronto. Their second CD, "Blues Ignited", was released last year.

David Rotundo & the Blue Canadians is a blues band that always delivers. Check them out at Tucson's this Saturday night.
(http://www.davidrotundo.com)
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Redwood Central
Rasputin's Folk Café, 696 Bronson Avenue
Saturday, March 27 @ 8 pm, tickets $8

Redwood Central formed in the summer of 1995. Michelle ‘Red' April and Al Wood realized a musical vision that married a strong sense of melody with a deep reverence for the blues and other forms of traditional music. These early days planted the seed for the Red Wood Central that now exists. However, it is when April made the big move to Ottawa in ‘97 that they "got real" and pondered taking the project to the next level. While living in the same city obviously facilitates the advancement of such endeavors, it should be noted that a good chunk of the original music on the first CD was written, crafted and selected during the early "separate cities" days. This era laid the foundation for the current well-oiled machine that is RWC.
(Thanks to Dean Verger)
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Record Show
Fenn Lounge, Carleton University
Sunday, March 28, 10 am - 4 pm; admission $3.00

Record Shows are where collectors meet to buy, sell, trade or just talk. The vendors are all private collectors themselves or have stores that specialize in unusual or hard-to-find discs. You wo''t see the likes of HMV or Towers or Sam The Record Man here – people come from around the world to find what they can't find in regular stores. Record Shows are especially popular in Southern Ontario and Quebec; there are dozens of them every year. The next Ottawa show takes place on Sunday, March 28; for further info on this show, contact Peter Phelps, mccshows@rogers.com
(Info from http://www.vibrations.on.ca/)
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Mandolin Workshop
with Joey Wright, Dan Whiteley & Marc Roy
Ottawa Folklore Centre, 1111 Bank Street
Sunday March 28 @ 3 pm
$20 for members; $30 for non-members

Three of the hottest young mandolin players in the country offer instruction and example. For more information: (613) 730-2887 or 1-800-385-FOLK.
(http://www.ottawafolklore.com)
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LOCAL HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK
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Weekly blues jam with Johnny Russell & Mike Ktenas
Irene's, 855 Bank Street
Thursday evenings, starting about 9 pm

This is a blues jam you want to check out. It's a favourite of Ottawa's top blues musicians. See ‘Southside Steve' Marriner on ... guitar? ... drums? ... piano? ... digery-do? Could happen ... at the Thursday Jam at Irene's! Is your idea of heaven seeing/hearing a half-dozen blues guitarists on stage together? Could happen ... at the Thursday Jam at Irene's! Want to see a touring rock star just chilling out with a beer and good blues? Could happen ... at the Thursday Jam at Irene's! You can count on Johnny Russell on the piano and Mike Ktenas is usually on the bass. The rest of the ‘band' could be just about any of our top-notch musicians ... on any instrument!

Irene's Pub serves food ... always a plus if you don't have time or want to cook dinner! The usual beverages are also available.
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WEEKLY EVENTS ON THE RADIO
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On CKCU-FM 93.1
The "Mighty 93.1"
Community Radio serving the Ottawa Carleton Region

Sundays: 9-11 pm
Black and Blues
with John Tackaberry

The show features a heavy dose of electric blues and rhythm and blues, with the occasional selection of sixties soul. The first hour is dedicated to artist profiles and reviews of recordings on particular labels. In the second hour there is a blues calendar, a run down of events in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa, and interviews with "new and reissued blues and rhythm and blues tracks on wax" alternating with "live blues and R&B for a Sunday night" in the last half hour of the show. On the last Sunday of every month, the show goes "down in the delta" for a selection of acoustic blues tracks in the final half hour of the program.

Wednesdays: 9-11 pm
In A Mellow Tone
with Ron Sweetman

Jazz from every era & every style - from 1917 To 2003. Each program features an artist, group, instrument, event, city or record label.

Wednesday, March 24 – The great jazz/blues pianist, Pete Johnson, was born March 25, 1904, so let's celebrate his centennial and his career!
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WEEKLY EVENTS ON THE SMALL SCREEN
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ALWAYS check local listings to confirm.

On Bravo - Ottawa Cable Channel 40
http://www.bravo.ca/programlistings/

Monday, March 22 @ 7:30 am
Talkin' Blues: BackBeat (2003)
A look at drummers in the blues; New York blues guitarist Bill Perry; acoustic guitarist Guy Davis talks about his visit to the Muddy Waters Cabin.

Tuesday, March 23 @ 4 pm
The Genius of Lenny Breau (1999)
Provocative documentary on the intriguing life of guitar virtuoso Lenny Breau. Commentary by Chet Atkins, Leonard Cohen, Burton Cummings, Liona Boyd, Randy Bachman and more.

Monday March 29 @ 7:30 am
Talkin' Blues: Headed South (2003)
Chicago musician Ronnie Baker Brooks; acoustic musician Chris Smither from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Tuesday, March 30 @ 6 am
Jazz Box: Suzie Arioli Swing Band (1999)
Montreal's famed Festival International de Jazz is celebrated in the MusiMax environment, with musicians performing in concert for an appreciative audience.
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REGULAR EVENTS THIS MONTH
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Mondays: Maria Hawkins @ the Rainbow
Tuesdays: Rainbow Open Jam with the Funky Miracles @ 9:30 pm
Wednesdays: Open stage with Shakedown Blues @ the Bayou
Thursdays: Dinner & acoustic blues @ Tucson's
Thursdays: Blues Jam with Johnny Russell & Mike Ktenas @ Irene's
Fridays: Amaryllis @ the Rainbow ... early show 5-7 pm
Saturday afternoons: Blues jam @ the Rainbow
Sunday afternoons: Guy del Villano & guests @ Royal Oak, Bank St.
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LOCALS THIS WEEK
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Wednesday, March 24
Voodoo Walters & the Rhythm Method @ the Rainbow

Thursday, March 25
Benefit show for "La Fondation Lani", hosted by Roxanne Potvin at
Collège de l'Outaouais Auditorium, 333 Cité-des-Jeunes, Gatineau, QC
@ 7:30 pm; tickets $7; $5 for 25 yrs & under

Friday, March 26
The Kathy Kennedy Band @ Tucson's

Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 by admin
Arthritis Research Centre of Canada partners with Coast Spas and Mermaid Pool and Spas to Introduce Wellness Spa
Mermaid Pools and Hot Tubs, Coast Spas and the Arthritis Research Centre are pleased to announce Ottawa’s first showing of the Wellness Spa™ at the Ottawa Home and Garden Show, March 25-28th, at Lansdowne Park. The Wellness Spa™ is the result of close collaboration between Coast Spas and the Arthritis Research Centre (ARC) of Canada, a major research, and consumer advisory body.

“We are thrilled to bring this new product to the Ottawa area, and believe that the Wellness Spa™ will have a beneficial role in the treatment of arthritis,” says Don Methot of Mermaid Pools and Hot Tubs.“

The most comprehensive therapeutic hot tub ever made, the Wellness Spa™ differs from ordinary spas in many ways, including extra water depth, handrails for security and easy movement, interior steps with a non-skid surface, powerful hydrotherapy jets, and built-in exercise devices. Coast Spas is the only spa manufacturer to receive ARC’s recommendation.

While, traditional hot tub seating may be uncomfortable for the mobility-restricted, the Wellness Spa™, with its body-locating seats and large foot wells, accommodates a wide range of sizes and shapes. Those who have had trouble entering or exiting hot tubs without assistance will appreciate the non-skid external handrail and interior balance ring. Standard hot tub dials may be hard to manipulate with sore hands, so the Wellness Spa uses levers instead. The seats’ ergonomic design allows exact placement of hydrotherapy jets. Extra foot well jets are also precisely located for maximum therapeutic benefit. The Wellness Spa includes a rowing seat, designed to improve users’ strength, aerobic conditioning, and range of motion. The included, exercise bands and oars attach easily with clips, and offer users several levels of resistance.

Mermaid Pools and Hot Tubs will donate $100 from the sale of each Wellness Spa™ to the Ottawa Chapter of the Arthritis Society to provide research for, and advance the causes of, those living with arthritis.

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Anyone interested in knowing more about the Wellness Spa™ is invited to contact

Don Methot
(613) 747 0321
dmethot@mermaidpools.com

Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 by admin
One of North America’s top wind sections in concert!
The Ottawa Chamber Music Society is delighted to present Piano and Winds showcasing the principal wind players of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in concert on Friday, March 26, 8:00 p.m. at the University of Ottawa’s The Chapel of Tabaret Hall, 550 Cumberland St. (at Wilbrod).

Joanna G’froerer - flute, Charles Hamann – oboe, Kimball Sykes – clarinet, Lawrence Vine – French horn, and Stéphane Lévesque – bassoon will join pianist Stéphane Lemelin in performing Jacques Hétu’s Quatre Miniatures pour trio d’anche; Ludwig van Beethoven’s Quintet for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon and Piano; Carl Nielsen’s Quintet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon; and Gordon Jacob’s Sextet in B flat for Piano, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon.

While some of these musicians have performed together at the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, this marks the first time this configuration of musicians will perform together in a chamber concert. “When I learned bassoonist Stéphane Lévesque joined the NACO, I knew there had to be a concert featuring winds in our Concert Series this season,” explains OCMS Artistic Director Julian Armour, “The NACO winds section is one of North America’s strongest winds sections; they’re fabulous musicians and I admire them tremendously. Their collaboration with renowned pianist Stéphane Lemelin really shows the stellar calibre of musicians in Ottawa.”

Clarinetist Kimball Sykes echoes Armour’s enthusiasm, “We play together all the time in an orchestral situation, so it’s wonderful for us to have the opportunity to perform in a chamber concert.”

The significance of this concert did not escape CBC Radio Two’s attention and it will be recorded for future broadcast nationally on In Performance.

To commemorate the new season and this happy event, the OCMS is asking concert-goers to bring non-perishable food items which will be collected by the Ottawa Food Bank.

Tickets for Piano and Winds are $20 for adults, $30 for reserved seating and $10 for students, and are available at the following outlets: Ottawa Chamber Music Society office, (613) 234-8008; The Book Bazaar (755 Bank Street); Compact Music (785-A Bank Street); CD Warehouse (1383 Clyde Avenue, 1717 St. Laurent Boulevard, 499 Terry Fox Drive); The Leading Note (370 Elgin Street); Nicholas Hoare Books (419 Sussex Drive); Books on Beechwood (35 Beechwood Avenue); Collected Works (1242 Wellington Street); Scotia Bank (366 Elgin St.); Ticketmaster – all outlets in Canada (www.ticketmaster.ca, 613-755-1111).

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For more information please check out www.chamberfest.com or contact:

Suzan Zilahi, Communications Director

Tel : (613) 234-8008 x. 241; e-mail : media@chamberfest.com

Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 by admin
Reminder: Karin Rabuka @ DALESMITHGALLERY, March 26-April 20 (vernissage March 26 @ 19:00)
Just a reminder that "The Living Room," an exhibition of new work by Karin A. Rabuka, opens at the DALESMITHGALLERY on Friday, March 26.
You're cordially invited to attend the vernissage (19:00-22:00).

Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 by admin
JAZZ FESTIVALS & SPECIAL EVENTS
Friday April 2 to Sunday April 4
Allegheny Jazz Society presents
Dan Levinson’s Americondon Band
Gardner Theatre, Meadville, PA
Tickets: 814-724-2163

Saturday April 3 @ NAC 4th Stage
John Geggie and Swedish bassist Anders Jormin
Box Office: 947-7000

Monday April 5 @ Centerpointe Theatre
Cleo Laine and John Dankworth
Ticket Office: 580-2700

Tuesday April 6 @ National Library & Archives
Mike Murley and David Occhipinti
Tickets: 992-9988

Friday 16 April @ NAC 4th Stage
Dominique Forest with Alternate Takes
Box Office: 947-7000

Sunday April 18 @ NAC
Jazz at Lincoln Center Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra and Omar Sosa
Box Office: 947-7000

Friday April 23 to Sunday April 25
Canadian Collectors’ Congress
Toronto
Info: 416-231-4055

Friday April 23 to Sunday May 2
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
www.nojazzfest.com

Thursday April 29
Hummingbird Centre in Toronto
The Blues On Tour

Tickets @ Ticketmaster

Friday May 14 to Sunday May 16
Allegheny Jazz Society presents
Rebecca Kilgore & Keith Ingham 4
Gardner Theatre, Meadville, PA
Tickets: 814-724-2163

Thursday May 20 to Monday May 24
Festival International de Musique Actuelle
Victoriaville, PQ
Info: 819-752-7912 of info@fimav.qc.ca

Saturday May 22 @ NAC 4th Stage
John Geggie and Icelandic pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs
with Justin Haynes on guitar
Box Office: 947-7000

Wednesday May 26 to Monday May 31
Vision Festival
New York City
www.visionfestival.org

Friday June 4 to Sunday June 6
Chicago Gospel Music Festival
moseinquiry@cityofchicago.org

Thursday June 10 to Sunday June 13
Chicago Blues Festival
moseinquiry@cityofchicago.org

Wednesday June 16 to Sunday June 20
International Association of Jazz Record Collectors’ Convention
St. Louis
www.euclidrecords.com/iajrc

Thursday June 24 to Sunday July 4
Ottawa International Jazz Festival
Info: 241-2633

Friday June 25 to Sunday July 4
Vancouver Jazz Festival
www.coastaljazz.ca

Friday June 25 to Sunday July 4
Calgary Jazz Festival
www.jazzfestivalcalgary.ca

Friday June 25 to Sunday July 4
Jazz City - Edmonton
www.jazzcity.ca

Friday June 25 to Sunday July 4
Saskatchewan Jazz Festival
Info: 306-652-1421

Tuesday June 29 to Sunday July 11
Montreal Jazz Festival
Tickets: 1-800-361-4595

Friday July 9 to Sunday July 18
Cisco Systems Ottawa Bluesfest
Info: 247-1188 or www.ottawa-bluesfest.ca

Friday July 9 to Sunday July 11
Wasaga Beach Bluesfest
Georgian Bay

Friday July 9 to Sunday July 18.
Atlantic Jazz Festival
Halifax
Info: 1-800-567-5277

Friday July 16 to Sunday July 25
Cisco Systems Toronto Bluesfest
Info: www.torontobluesfest.com

Friday July 23 to Sunday July 25
Sudbury Bluesfest

Thursday September 2 to Sunday September 5
Chicago Jazz Festival
moseinquiry@cityofchicago.org

Friday September 3 to Sunday September 5
Tanglewood Jazz Festival,
Lenox, Mass.
Tickets: www.bso.org or 888-266-1200

Wednesday September 8 to Sunday September 12
Guelph Jazz Festival
www.guelphjazzfestival.com or 519-763-4952

Monday September 13
Michel Lambert, Barre Phillips etc.
National Library & Archives
Tickets: 992-9988

Thursday September 16 to Sunday September 19
Jazz at Chautauqua
Tickets: 814-724-2163. Hotel:800-821-1881

Saturday October 23 to Saturday October 30
Jazz Party at Sea on Norwegian Sun
Departs/Returns Miami, Florida
Jcas@annualjazzpartyatsea.com

Wednesday November 10 to Wednesday November 17
Jazz Cruise on Radisson Seven Seas Navigator
Departs/Returns Tampa, Florida
Info: 800-458-2878
Confirm Ottawa events at: www.ottawabluesjazz.ca

Posted Saturday, March 20, 2004 by admin
Register by April 13 to meet the NCC Board of Directors May 12 1830 Congress Centre
Notice to Interest Groups: Meeting with the NCC's Board of Directors

Invitation to Interest Groups

Come share your ideas and support the NCCin fulfilling its mandate:

Communicating the Capital to Canadians;
Safeguarding and preserving national symbols and treasures; and
Creating a meeting place for all Canadians.
The ideas you submit will be discussed in the NCC's annual strategic planning process.

Wednesday, May 12, 2004 6:30 pm to 10 pm
Ottawa Congress Centre, Capital Hall
55 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario

Interest groups must register and send a written brief no later than Tuesday, April 13, 2004.

The public is also welcome to attend the meeting.

Please contact:

Elisabeth Lacoursière,
Public Consultations and Community Relations
Phone: (613) 239-5196;
Fax: (613) 239-5039;
E-mail: elacours@ncc-ccn.ca

National Capital Commission
202-40 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1C7

http://www.ncc.gc.ca/corporate/youropinions/meeting_board_directors_e.asp

Posted Saturday, March 20, 2004 by admin
A.C.T. AUDITIONS, SUCCESS STORIES & MORE!
For a complete list of audition notices, please visit the A.C.T. website at www.ACTottawa.com

This very important A.C.T. message includes:

1. SPRING SESSION - A.C.T. is now accepting registration for its Spring Session! NEW SPECIALTY WORKSHOPS
2. H20 Extra Update - All suitable candidates for extra work will be contacted soon
3. A.C.T. SUCCESS STORIES - Check out what A.C.T.'s alumni, students & instructors are up to!
4. AUDITIONS - Film - Film Thyme Productions
5. AUDITIONS - Theatre - Theatre Gargantua "Raging Dreams"
6. AUDITIONS - Graffititheatre "Blithe Spirit"
7. Clear Head Shot Envelopes - Get noticed today!
8. AUDITIONS - Theatre - The Ship's Company Theatre 2004 Season
9. AUDITIONS - Theatre - The Grand Theatre 2004-2005 Season
10. AUDITIONS - Theatre - Gateway Theatre General Auditions
11. AUDITIONS - Theatre - Theatre Calgary General Auditions 2004
12. AUDITIONS - Theatre - Theatre & Company General Auditions 2004-2005
13. AUDITIONS - Film -Studio 3 Films
14. AUDITIONS - Theatre - The Grand Theatre General Auditions 2004-2005
15. AUDITIONS - Theatre - The Ottawa Fringe Festival "Guineau Pig on a Wheel"
16. AUDITIONS - Theatre - Full Moon Rising Productions "Cha Cha Cha Blues"

Posted Saturday, March 20, 2004 by admin
Matt Haimovitz classical cellist returns to Canada
6/11/04, 10:00 p.m., Friday, Zaphod Beeblebrox

27 York St, Ottawa ON K1N 5S7

Tickets: $12, available at the door

www.zaphodbeeblebrox.com

World known Classical Cellist, Matt Haimovitz has been selling out and leaving audiences standing at acoustic music and jazz clubs, taverns and coffeehouses across the US and Canada. Israeli-born Haimovitz is a hipster driving across the country in a hybrid car, with just enough room for his cello and his CDs. His performance promises to leave audiences refreshed, engaged, and revived.

Cellist Matt Haimovitz tours extensively around the world, appearing with
today's greatest orchestras, conductors and chamber musicians. He has
performed with such distinguished artists as Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim,
Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman and Yo-Yo Ma.

Posted Saturday, March 20, 2004 by admin
INTRO TO SOLAR HOT WATER
Thursday April 1, 2004, 7-9:30pm, 101 Ben Franklin Place, Rm 1A, Nepean

Lecture will focus on methods of heating our domestic hot water, pool,
and space heating using the abundant energy of the sun. The following
areas will be covered: amount of solar energy available in our area,
types of solar hot water systems (collectors, pipes, tanks, pumps,
etc.), liquids used to transfer heat and prevent freezing, how to
assess your site for solar potential, cost, and resources. Water
heating is one of the most cost-effective uses of solar energy reducing
or eliminating the amount of fuel/electricity you need to heat water. :

Speakers: Paul Battle of INvironments & Jeff Knapp of Natural Resource
Canada's Department of Energy Efficiency Cost: $25 / $20 member;
payment required in advance (cheque, VISA, MC)

Cancellation Policy: no refund 2 weeks prior to lecture; full refund
if event cancels

More Info/To Register:
Seventh Generation Community Projects,
(613) 839-3997, info@seventhgeneration.ca,
www.seventhgeneration.ca

Upcoming Events:
April 17 -- Intro to Green Energy (Level 1)
April 22 -- Simple Living Workshop
May 1 -- Intro to Building with Straw Bales & Tour
May 2 -- Ecological Building & Renovations with Tour
May 6 -- Intro to Permaculture
May 15 -- Green Energy Level 2 & Tour
May 28-30 -- Straw Bale Workshop (timber frame incorporated with straw
ball walls)
June 12-13 -- The Art of Plastering Workshop
August -- Fundamentals of Permaculture Design Course

Posted Saturday, March 20, 2004 by admin
Meetings at Ottawa City Hall next week
The following meetings are scheduled during the week of March 22,
2004, at Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West, unless otherwise noted.
Agenda items that may be of special interest to citizens and the media have
been highlighted.

Ottawa Police Services Board - Monday, March 22, 5 p.m., Champlain Room
* 2004 Draft Operating Budget and Five-Year Capital Expenditure
Program
*
* Ottawa Public Library Board - Monday, March 22, 6 p.m., Orléans
Theatre (former Cumberland Town Hall Council Chambers), 255 Centrum
Boulevard
*
* Planning and Environment Committee - Tuesday, March 23, 9:30 a.m.,
Champlain Room
*
* City Council - Wednesday, March 24, 9:30 a.m., Andrew S. Haydon Hall
* 2004 City Budget Review

The agenda for these meetings and related reports will be posted on the
City's Web site at ottawa.ca and will be available at the respective
meetings.

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For more information:
Communications & Marketing
(613) 580-2450

Posted Saturday, March 20, 2004 by admin
LOCAL GRIDIRON ATHLETES HOPE TO SHINE AT CFL CAMP
Six players from the Ottawa region and Eastern Ontario will be showcasing their football talents this weekend at the Canadian Football League Evaluation Camp at Frank Clair Stadium, Lansdowne Park.

The camp, which begins on Saturday, March 20 at 9 a.m. in the Ottawa Renegades locker room, provides league general managers and coaches the opportunity to evaluate top players eligible for the 2004 CFL Canadian College Draft, to be held April 28.

The Renegades have the second and third overall selections during the upcoming draft, which will be held via conference call.

The players from the Ottawa region and Eastern Ontario attending camp on Saturday and Sunday, March 21 at Lansdowne Park are: Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) 2003 Lineman of the Year Ibrahim Khan (Simon Fraser) of Ottawa; defensive back Reid Smith (Acadia) of Inverary, Ont; defensive end Matt Kirk (Queen’s) of Kingston; offensive lineman Ryan Jeffrey (Wilfrid Laurier) of Lyn, Ont., defensive end Troy Cunningham (Concordia) of Mallorytown, Ont., and slotback David Azzi from the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees, an Ontario University Athletics first-team all-star.

Members of the media are welcome in designated areas during both days of camp. Interviews with players, coaches, managers and CFL personnel will be available through contact with media relations representatives at the camp.

On Saturday, drills begin in the Renegades locker room at 9 a.m. Photographers and camera operators will be permitted in the testing area from 12:30 – 1 p.m. on Saturday in the locker room.

On Sunday, drills begin under the dome at Frank Clair Stadium at 9:30 a.m.

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For more information, please contact:

Barre Campbell

Director, Media Relations & Communications

Ottawa Renegades Football Club

(613) 231-5608 ext. 236 (office)

(613) 913-7719 (cell)

Posted Saturday, March 20, 2004 by admin
Civic Appreciation Awards: They can't happen without you!
Time is running out to nominate that special volunteer for a City
of Ottawa Civic Appreciation Award. Please help the City say thank you to
the thousands of volunteers who give their time, talent and enthusiasm to
make our community a better place to live. If you wish to nominate someone
whose volunteer efforts should be recognized, please fill in a nomination
form and send it back before Friday, March 26, 2004, at 4 p.m. Nominations
received after this deadline will be kept for next year's Awards.

Awards will be presented in the following categories:
* Citizen of the Year (Youth, Adult and Senior)
* Brian Kilrea Amateur Coach Award (New!)
* Arts and Culture
* Community Activism (Youth, Adult, Senior, Group)
* Education
* Environment
* Health
* Heritage
* Humanitarianism
* Recreation and Leisure
* Rural/Agriculture
*
* To find out more about the Civic Appreciation Awards or to get a
nomination form:
* visit the City's Web site at ottawa.ca
* pick up a brochure at your local Client Service Centre, public
library or community centre
* call 613-580-2400 (TTY: 613-580-2401) or the volunteer hotline
number at 613-580-2624
* send an e-mail to volunteer@ottawa.ca

The Mayor and City Councillors will present the Civic Appreciation Awards at
a ceremony on Tuesday, April 27, 2004.

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For more information:
Communications & Marketing
(613) 580-2450

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Posted Saturday, March 20, 2004 by admin
SIMON WILCOX releases her sophomore CD at Zaphod Beeblebrox
aughter of famed Canadian blues/rock guitarist David Wilcox

From Toronto/ SHErecords-BMG Recording Artist
SIMON WILCOX

Wednesday, April 28 (Doors 8pm)
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada.
Age 19+/ General Admission
Tickets: $10 only at the door.

"..the young singer blew the crowd away, and at intermission, no one talked about anything but her.
The rumour is that she stole the show." - Jean-Christophe-Laurence, LA PRESSE, Montreal.

"the emotional intensity of her songs packs a wallop. Set against folky melodies infused with rhythm,
she writes lyrics with a sophistication that seems older and wiser than her 23 years. "
-Lynn Saxberg, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN

"There could also be some comparisons with Ani Difranco, especially in Simon Wilcox's particular
kind of ferocity and honesty." - THE ECTOPHILES' GUIDE

Her Story

I was born in Hamilton but I grew up in Ottawa. My dad was playing a gig in Toronto and he announced my birth onstage. Three days later I was at my first soundcheck. I hung out with both of my parents and their friends for the first three years of my life. My dad then left me with a friend who sort of 'adopted' me. I lived with her until I was sixteen. Her name is Mary and she had (and has) a great record collection. She and her boyfriend and her daughter introduced me to all kinds of amazing music (Dr. John, Frank Zappa, Elvis Costello, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Patti Smith, The Pretenders). I started writing and recording my own songs in grade five. My dad still has tapes of it, I think. Very funny and embarrassing songs about stuff I knew nothing about: girls, booze.

Okay - so I turned sixteen and my life changed dramatically. I left Mary's house and I started acting and I went to England for a bit (where my mom lives) and studied art at the Slade (University College of London). I went back to Ottawa and did more acting (in Toronto and Montreal) and then I left highschool and moved to Toronto. When I got to Toronto I lived alone in a little apartment and spent my days finishing highschool by correspondence and making 4 track recordings of my songs. At nineteen I decided to go to art school. I spent several years at the Ontario College of Art. One of those years was in Florence, where I finally struck out as a musician (I busked). I figured it was safe because no one could understand my songs. Well, no one apart from the tourists.

When I came back to Toronto my life changed again. My apartment burned down. I also started recording and playing shows and meeting great musicians who helped me enormously in terms of pursuing my dream. I kept meeting the right people at the right time and I was eventually able to put together a band and to make a record, Mongrel of Love.

After Mongrel came out my life changed again. I spent some time working in Los Angeles and in the UK, but nothing blew me away. So I came home.

I spent some time co-writing songs for other people (which I love to do) and made a pile of obscure recordings- pretty much anything you can imagine. Anyway, I lucked out, because I finally met some decent human beings with a whole lot of talent and we recently finished some recordings that will soon be available.

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SIMON WILCOX's web site - http://www.simonwilcox.com

Information:
SIMON WILCOX - Paul Lever/ BMG (613) 834-5458 paul.lever@bmg.com
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX - Eugene Haslam (613) 237-5301 zaphods_ottawa@hotmail.com http://www.ZaphodBeeblebrox.com

Posted Saturday, March 20, 2004 by admin
JASON PLUMB + MAYOR McCA in concert at Zaphod Beeblebrox
From Saskatchewan/ Maple Music Recording Artist
JASON PLUMB
(ex-THE WALTONS)

+ From Hamilton
MAYOR McCA

Friday, April 16 (Doors 8pm)

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada.
Age 19+/ General Admission
Tickets: $8 only at the door

"If this solo debut by ex-Walton Jason Plumb sounds suspiciously like it could be the best album
Starling never recorded, that's cuz he's enlisted the members of Ottawa's perpetual great white hope
to serve as his backing band. Smartly produced by Barenaked Lady Ed Robertson, Under And Over
merges a knack for near perfect pop hooks with slightly gritty alt-country charm that never sounds forced"
-NOW, Toronto.

Former Walton, Jason Plumb is on tour in support of his debut solo release. Produced by Barenaked Ladies' Ed Robertson and featuring Ian LeFeuvre, Peter von Althen, and Maury Lafoy of Ottawa's Starling, Under And Over includes the first single "Back At Me."

Sparse, bittersweet and unabashedly sentimental are some of the terms used to describe the music that Jason Plumb crafted during his years fronting the Waltons. "Those were real growing years," he says of his decade with the Waltons. "I learned a lot and I'm going to put those years to use with this project."

When Jason speaks of 'those years' he is referring to a remarkable time in the Waltons’ history. Their 1992 debut, Lik My Trakter, moved more than 80,000 units in Canada, and helped net the band a Juno Award for Best New Artist. Their sophomore effort, 1995’s Cock’s Crow, was released internationally and found the band touring the United States and Europe with acts like Barenaked Ladies, Bodeans and Jimmy Nail. However, in 1998, after recording and releasing a third album Empire Hotel, mutually and amicably, all members decided to take a break from music.

Jason returned to his hometown of Regina, Saskatchewan, where he hunkered down to work on film and television scores whilst producing other artists from the comfort of his own studio. Already accustomed to shared songwriting duties, Jason's hiatus from the Waltons granted him time to work with other well-known songwriters. Collaborators have included John Mann and Geoffery Kelly (Spirit of the West), Bernie Leadon (The Eagles/Burrito Brothers), Craig Northey and Stephen Drake (Odds). Jason also worked on solo material, much of which appears on Under and Over.

Perhaps some of Jason's greatest fans are his musical peers. Longtime friend Ed Robertson (Barenaked Ladies) co-wrote two of the album’s tracks and signed on as producer. In the studio, indie super-group Starling (Ian LeFeuvre, Maury LaFoy, Peter von Althen) acted as Jason’s backing band. Jason credits the in-studio chemistry with capturing the songs’ honesty, “Ed and Ian helped to see these tunes through the recording by allowing them to be what they were. Songs.” LeFeuvre also worked with David Travers-Smith in mixing the album.

Under and Over is a graceful return from one of Canada’s greatest songwriters. Jason sums it up “I haven’t felt this good about my music since 1989. I think it shows on this album.”

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"A strange yet fascinating hybrid of Ron Sexsmith and Tiny Tim, Mayor McCa plays guitar,
harmonica, kazoo, bontempi, bass drum, maracas, and ukelele, and performs with a
"shoe tambourine" (a tambourine attached to the bottom of his shoe)."
- MSN Entertainment.

"Mayor McCa is Christian Anderson Smith, a Hamilton-based one-man band ready to take over the world.
Sure, he listens to more Beatles albums than is healthy, but at least he's chosen the best Beatle
(John...does it really need to be said?) to emulate. Throw a little Primus and a pinch of Beck into the
shucking and jiving and you have an album that makes you smile, one of those ear-to-ear jobs.
Mixing lilting acoustic love songs (I'm Gonna Write You A Letter/Hold Me) with bizarre vaudevillian ditties
(Funky Fresh Beets/A Liddabidda Fun), Mayor McCa has struck a perfect balance between between
genius and stupidity. Definitely someone to watch. A Hamilton boy without one song about beer,
Tim Hortons or steel? Now that's an achievement."
- (4 out of 5 stars) NOW, Toronto.

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JASON PLUMB's web site - http://www.jasonplumb,com
MAYOR McCA's web site - http://www.mayormcca.com

Information:
JASON PLUMB - Sara McLaren (416) 961-4332 sara.mclaren@maplemusicrecordings.com
MAYOR McCA - Christian A. Smith (416) 821-9844 casmith@mayormcca.com
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX - Eugene Haslam (613) 237-5301 zaphods_ottawa@hotmail.com http://www.ZaphodBeeblebrox.com

Posted Saturday, March 20, 2004 by admin
SENATORS STANLEY CUP PLAYOFF TICKETS TO GO ON SALE
Having clinched a post-season position with their 2-0 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday, the Ottawa Senators 2004 Stanley Cup playoff tickets, for all individual first round home games, will go on sale Monday, March 22 at 10:00 a.m.

Playoff tickets for the Senators home games in the first round will be available starting at just $35 (taxes included, convenience charges may apply). There is a limit of six (6) tickets per person, per game for the Coca-Cola Family Fan Zone and GM Power seats section, and a limit of eight (8) tickets per person, per game for all other sections.

Stanley Cup playoff tickets can be purchased at www.capitaltickets.ca, by calling 599-FANS or 1-877-788-FANS, in person at all Ottawa-Gatineau area Sports Experts locations and at the Corel Centre box office. Fans can get guaranteed tickets for all playoff games and receive great savings by purchasing a ticket package for the 2004-05 season by calling 599-0200 or 1-800-444-SENS (7367).

SENS INSIDERS CONTEST

Each week, until Sunday, April 4, a Sens Insiders member will win a pair of club-seat tickets for a Stanley Cup playoff game at the Corel Centre.

To be a Sens Insiders, you can register free of charge at the Ottawa Senators website. You can receive a weekly electronic-newsletter, pre-game and post-game reports, participate in contests and more. In addition, members "go to the front of the line" to buy Stanley Cup playoff tickets before the general public on-sale Monday, March 22.

For further information, please contact:
Phil Legault, (613) 599-0327
Steve Keogh, (613) 599-0326
Tim Pattyson, (613) 599-0239

Posted Saturday, March 20, 2004 by admin
GUESS WHO’S THE NEW DAYTIME CO-HOST?
Rogers Television 22’s search for daytime’s new co-host has found a fresh new, local face in Derick Fage. Derick will co-host with Kristen Johnston for the remainder of the season. He will start his co-hosting duties on Monday, March 24.

“We were thrilled with the response we received and appreciate the enthusiasm of all five finalists for taking part in our search,” said Ray Skaff, Station Manager of Rogers Television, Cable 22. “It was a very tough decision. We welcome Derick to the daytime family. Kristen and Derick make a great team.”

“I am extremely excited about this opportunity,” said Derick Fage. “I look forward to working with and learning from the entire crew at Rogers Television. Most of all, I want to continue to bring Ottawa area viewers the excellence they've grown accustomed to.”

An Ottawa native, Derick’s passion for acting and being on camera is seen in his various acting roles in television commercials and film. His acting skills also extend to live shows, performing for Big Time Murder Production.

daytime is Ottawa in an hour, weekdays at 11:00 a.m.

Rogers Television provides timely and relevant programs about local matters. Every year, our stations produce over 19,000 hours of informative local programming, reinforcing Rogers Cable's commitment to the communities we serve. Rogers Television is a service available exclusively to cable customers as part of the basic service of Rogers Cable Inc., Canada's largest cable company, delivering high quality entertainment, information and communication services to 2.3 million customers in Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland. Rogers Television 22 serves the Ottawa community. For more information, visit www.rogerstelevision.com

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For more information:

Jennifer Vuong

Publicity Officer – Rogers Television 22

Telephone: (613) 759-8632

Email: Jennifer.Vuong@rci.rogers.com

Posted Saturday, March 20, 2004 by admin
RENEGADES ANNOUNCE GREY CUP TICKET BLITZ
The Ottawa Renegades Football Club is pleased to announce that single tickets for the 2004 Grey Cup Game at Frank Clair Stadium (Sunday, November 21) will be available for sale to the general public on Tuesday, March 30 at 10 a.m.

Single tickets at the $279, $239 and $199 price ranges (includes all taxes and service charges) will be available across Canada only at the Ticketmaster website (ticketmaster.ca). Fans in Ottawa can purchase single tickets online at ticketmaster.ca, or by phone by calling the Ticketmaster hotline (755-1166).

The Kickin’ it in the Capital Grey Cup Festival begins on Wednesday, November 17 at Lansdowne Park and at various venues throughout the Ottawa core.

Fans may purchase tickets for the 2004 Grey Cup, the premier annual live sporting event in Canada, before the March 30 general release by becoming a Renegades season ticket holder or purchasing a Renegades Fab Four pack. For more information, call the Renegades office at 231-5608.

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For more information, please contact:

Barre Campbell

Director, Media Relations & Communications

Ottawa Renegades Football Club

(613) 231-5608 ext. 236 (office)

(613) 913-7719 (cell)

Posted Thursday, March 18, 2004 by admin
Ontario offers families lots to discover during March Break
The McGuinty government is urging parents to
take advantage of the vast range of activities that Ontario's cultural
agencies, public libraries, community museums and heritage sites offer for the
entire family over March Break, Minister of Culture Madeleine Meilleur said
today.
"This is an ideal time to explore our wonderful cultural institutions and
to experience their special March Break activities," said Meilleur. "Our
libraries, museums, heritage sites and cultural agencies contribute to a high
quality of life in the province and help build strong, vital communities."
Libraries, community museums and heritage sites across the province will
be bustling with readings, crafts, performing arts and educational programs -
including lessons on cooking historic recipes and harvesting maple syrup.
The province's cultural agencies offer a wide variety of March Break
activities, some of which are listed below:
Art Gallery of Ontario: Massive, interactive installations fill the
rooms, and Off TheWall! offers creative play, painting and more.
www.ago.net
McMichael Canadian Art Collection: Faces and Figures Drop-In includes
musical performances, circus acts, artifact tables and making
self-portraits with plasticene. www.mcmichael.com
Ontario Science Centre: OMNIMAX films from morning until evening,
KidSpark for toddlers to eight-year-olds, and the interactive game show
Survivor Mars, among others. www.ontariosciencecentre.ca
Royal Botanical Gardens: Hands-on children's craft centres and
entertainment at Spring Into Bloom, and the Discovery Camps featuring
games, crafts, nature hikes and more. www.rbg.ca
Royal Ontario Museum: Interactive activities in the newly opened
CIBC Discovery Room, and hands-on Fun for Pharaohs, next to the Eternal
Egypt exhibition from The British Museum. www.rom.on.ca
Science North: Star-gazing parties, an interactive reptile zoo, and a
nature camp with indoor and outdoor activities for four- to nine- year-
olds. www.sciencenorth.on.ca
These agencies are financially supported by the government of Ontario.
All of the agency events are listed at www.culture.gov.on.ca.
Disponible en français
www.culture.gov.on.ca

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/For further information: Guy Lepage, Minister's Office, (416) 325-1689;
Gary Wheeler, Communications Branch, (416) 325-8391/

Posted Wednesday, March 17, 2004 by admin
OTTAWA 67's FIRST ROUND PLAYOFF GAMES ONLY ON ROGERS TELEVISION 22
Rogers Television 22 will provide exclusive, live coverage of the Ottawa 67’s first round playoff games against the Brampton Battalion, starting on Friday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m.

This season, Rogers Television has covered over 40 home and away regular season games. Rogers Television continues its commitment to provide the best in local sports with the action-packed live broadcast of the Ottawa 67’s playoffs.

Date Time Location

Friday, March 19 7:30 p.m. Brampton @ Ottawa

Sunday, March 21 2:00 p.m. Ottawa @ Brampton

Tuesday, March 23 7:00 p.m. Brampton @ Ottawa

Thursday, March 25 7:30 p.m. Ottawa @ Brampton

*Saturday, March 27 7:00 p.m. Brampton @ Ottawa

*Sunday, March 28 2:00 p.m. Ottawa @ Brampton

*Tuesday, March 30 7:00 p.m. Brampton @ Ottawa

*Game to be played if necessary

Catch Ottawa 67’s playoff action live, only on Rogers Television 22.

Rogers Television provides timely and relevant programs about local matters. Every year, our stations produce over 19,000 hours of informative local programming, reinforcing Rogers Cable's commitment to the communities we serve. Rogers Television is a service available exclusively to cable customers as part of the basic service of Rogers Cable Inc., Canada's largest cable company, delivering high quality entertainment, information and communication services to 2.3 million customers in Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland. Rogers Television 22 serves the Ottawa community. For more information, visit www.rogerstelevision.com

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For more information:

Jennifer Vuong

Publicity Officer

(613) 759-8632

jennifer.vuong@rci.rogers.com

Posted Wednesday, March 17, 2004 by admin
Open House in Ottawa: Become a teacher through part-time studies
PART-TIME TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM: THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT POTSDAM (in Ogdensburg)

Preparing Teachers of Tomorrow! Keep your full-time job and get certified to teach in Canada in 2 years...at a campus only 60 minutes from Ottawa

Ottawa Information Session/Open House:

WHEN: Thursday, March 25, 2004

TIME: 4:00 p.m. or 7:00 p.m.

WHERE: Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board Office, 570 West Hunt Club Road (near Merivale intersection)

RSVP for interested Students: For more information on SUNY Potsdam's teacher certification programs, contact Karen O'Brien at 1-800-458-1142 (ext. 1), www.potsdam.edu/gradprogram.html or via e-mail at graduate@potsdam.edu or join us by calling to reserve a seat.

Master of Science in Teaching program leading to certification in Elementary Education * Study part time evenings and weekends in Ogdensburg (across bridge from Prescott) * Complete teacher certification PLUS earn a Master's degree * Be assigned in Ontario for student teaching * Obtain a timely admission decision in a personalized, fast track process * Secure a preliminary admission decision prior to application * Graduates of these teacher certification programs may apply for registration with the Ontario College of Teachers * Start Fall 2004 and complete degree requirements by August 2006 * Program entry requires a bachelor's degree with competitive grades * Accepting applications now through June for 2004-2005 academic year

THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT POTSDAM preserves a tradition of excellence in the liberal arts, music and teacher education. The school is the oldest teacher education institution in New York State. Strong undergraduate liberal arts programs in business, computer science, mathematics and psychology prepare students with solid career skills for tomorrow, while the internationally recognized Crane School of Music is a center of excellence for music and the arts. Driving time from Ogdensburg Campus to Ottawa (60 minutes).

FOR MORE INFORMATION, MEDIA CAN CONTACT:

Chris Morrison, Hill & Knowlton, 613-786-9943, chris.morrison@hilllandknowlton.ca

Posted Wednesday, March 17, 2004 by admin
NACO, July 22-23: NAC Orchestra to perform The Lord of the Rings
This summer on July 22 and 23, The National Arts Centre
Orchestra will present The Lord of the Rings: A Symphony in Six Movements
for Orchestra and Chorus - a live concert of the spectacular music from the
three Oscar-winning films based on the epic trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien. The
composer Howard Shore, a Canadian who has now won three Oscars, a Grammy and
a Golden Globe for his contribution to the trilogy, will be in Ottawa for
the concerts, and for outreach activities organized through the NAC's music
education programmes. The Box Office opens to the general public on Tuesday,
April 13 after a priority period for NAC Orchestra subscribers from
Thursday, March 18 to Saturday, April 10.

John Mauceri, principal conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, will lead
the NAC Orchestra, as well as choruses from Ottawa (prepared by Laurence
Ewashko), and a number of vocal soloists. Original storyboard illustrations
by Alan Lee and John Howe will be projected onto the NAC's giant screen as
the music unfolds. Composer Howard Shore worked for four years on the
opera-like musical adaptation, which not only captures the sweeping emotion,
thrilling vistas and grand journeys of the film, but also echoes the very
construction of Tolkien's Middle Earth.

"It's really a two-hour piece, based on the 12 hours I wrote for the three
films," Shore says. "Each film was a four-hour composition. And the piece
takes you through the story of the Lord of the Rings in a narrative way,
using the choirs, using the singing."

Toronto-born Howard Shore has emerged as Hollywood's most eclectic composer.
His body of work includes the scores to over 40 films including The Silence
of the Lambs and Philadelphia (Jonathan Demme, director), and Ed Wood (Tim
Burton, director). He frequently collaborates with filmmaker David
Cronenberg including such films as Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly, Dead
Ringers, Naked Lunch, Crash and eXistenZ. Howard Shore was formally educated
at the Berkeley School of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, graduating in
1968. He was a member of the groundbreaking Canadian rock band Lighthouse
from 1969 to 1972, and was one of the original creators of Saturday Night
Live, where he served as Musical Director, composed the theme, wrote music
and conducted the band from 1975 to 1980.

In 1998, during the NAC's Generation X,Y,Z New Music Festival, Shore
conducted the Orchestra in a unique adaptation of his own score from
Cronenberg's film Crash with David Cronenberg as special guest.

The Lord of the Rings: A Symphony in Six Movements for Orchestra and Chorus
with the NAC Orchestra takes place Thursday, July 22 and Friday, July 23 at
19:30 in Southam Hall. Tickets are $37.00, 47.00, 57.00, 70.00 (GST and
Facility Fee included) and go on sale to NAC Orchestra subscribers in person
at the NAC Box Office (Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 21:00) on March 18.
Box Office opens to the general public on Tuesday, April 13 at which time
tickets may also be purchased through Ticketmaster at (613) 755-1111, or
through the NAC's website at www.nac-cna.ca.

Groups of 20 or more save up to 20% off of regular priced tickets to NAC
Music, Theatre and Dance performances. For information and reservations call
613-947-7000 ext: 384 or e-mail grp@nac-cna.ca

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Jane Morris
Marketing and Communications Officer
Agente de marketing et communications
National Arts Centre Orchestra/Orchestre du Centre national des Arts
Telephone/Téléphone: (613) 947-7000 x 335
Fax: (613) 996-2828

Posted Wednesday, March 17, 2004 by admin
WAX MANNEQUIN - "The President Of Indie Rock" at Zaphod Beeblebrox
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX & HERITAGE BREWERY
PRESENT...

"THE PRESIDENT OF INDIE ROCK"

From Hamilton/ Coqi Recording Artist/ CD Release "The Price"
WAX MANNEQUIN

+ STEVE ST. PIERRE

Wednesday, April 14 (Doors 8pm)

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada.
Age 19+/ General Admission
Tickets: $6 only at the door.

Wax Mannequin emerges from his early lo-fi, indie art-rock roots to bring us this heavy-hitting rock opus. With an astute ear for current garage-rock trends and an out-of-the-closet fondness for 80s stadium metal, Wax croons his way through ten confounding future classics with his other-worldly Freddie-Mercury-meets-Tom-Waits baritone - masterful rock epics about Heroes and Villains, Love and Diseases, Jimmy and the Doctor. But don't let the quirky/cool subject matter fool you. This is a serious rock record, straight to the core, pure and simple.

With the aid of seasoned engineer and largely unsung Canadian talent Philip Shaw Bova (Clark, The Hi-Lo Trons, Big Fish Eat Little Fish), Wax has enlisted some of the country's greatest secret musicians to produce this surprisingly unique and catchy album. The Price has already been heralded by the Globe and Mail as one of 2004s ten "hotly awaited" releases and it is highly anticipated in this country's independent community (the result of Wax's incessant touring, his legendary solo performances and his critically acclaimed sophomore record 'and Gun', distributed by Sonic Unyon). Wax Mannequin is poised to make international waves.

If ever there was an album to save rock and roll, this is it.

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WAX MANNEQUIN's web site - http://www.waxmannequin.com
STEVE ST. PIERRE's web site - http://www.stevestpierre.com

Information:
WAX MANNEQUIN - dean@coqirecords.com
STEVE ST. PIERRE - stevestpierre@hotmail.com
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX - Eugene Haslam (613) 237-5301 zaphods_ottawa@hotmail.com http://www.ZaphodBeeblebrox.com

Posted Wednesday, March 17, 2004 by admin
THE LUDES + THE PATIENTS check in to Zaphod Beeblebrox
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...March 17, 2004.
PLEASE ADD THIS INFORMATION TO YOUR LISTINGS.

Related Artists (The Ludes): THE SNITCHES, ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS, MOTT THE HOOPLE, THE SEEDS.
Related Artists (The Patients): REPLACEMENTS, BYRDS, GIN BLOSSOMS, BOB DYLAN.

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX & STELLA ARTOIS
PRESENT...

From Toronto
THE LUDES

+ From Toronto/ Permafrost Recording Artists
THE PATIENTS

Saturday, April 10 (Doors 8pm)

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada.
Age 19+/ General Admission
Tickets: $6 only at the door.

The Ludes are a rock and roll musical group from Toronto. The band’s current line-up took shape in the summer of 2000, although they have been together in various forms since 1992. During their career, The Ludes have released three albums and two EP's as well as toured throughout Canada and Europe. With grandiose pop hooks, tantric guitar playing and a ferocious back beat, The Ludes cover an unpredictable range of musical idioms. As the band has grown musically, their many influences have blended seamlessly into a unique and accessible style. The Ludes are huge fans of breakfast, which they consider to be the most important meal of the day.

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"Recorded at the acclaimed House of Miracles, The Patients’ debut EP adds another notch to producer
Andy Magoffin’s impressive resume. Mary Claire is a five-song EP that flirts with quirky power pop and
clever lyrical wordplay. EXCLAIM, Canada. Jan/ 2004.

"With a cocksure charm that suggests The Replacements under the influence of the Byrds and Dylan...
The Patients may not be "gorgeous", but they stagger out of these five bloodshot songs looking good nonetheless.
- EYE, Toronto. Nov/ 2003.

"The half-scornful, half-melancholy wailing of his vocal arrangements is both hypnotic and varied.
From the East Coast indie rock sounds of "Gimme All Your Affection" to the Gin Blossoms-inspired pop
of the title track, The Patients really mix it up. And when Stu’s voice slows down to a crawl in
the middle of "We’re Gorgeous", you’d swear Bob Dylan just popped in the room."
- SPARK, Nov/2003.

The Patients were formed in Toronto, 2002...

They are Stu Stout (vocals/guitar), John Wilson (guitar), Chad Byreiter (bass), Dave Schoonderbeek (keyboards), and Niamh O’Shea (drums).

Andy Magoffin (Two Minute Miracles, Royal City, Jim Guthrie) produced the bands’ 5 song EP at the House of Miracles in London.
In 2003, the band signed to Permafrost Records.

The Patients are currently touring in support of the EP.

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THE LUDES' web site - http://www.theludes.net
THE PATIENTS' web site - http://www.thepatients.net

Information:
THE LUDES - Eric Schwindt (416) 529-5498 iggthorne@hotmail.com
THE PATIENTS - Steven Himmelfarb steven@permafrostrecords.com
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX - Eugene Haslam (613) 237-5301 zaphods_ottawa@hotmail.com http://www.ZaphodBeeblebrox.com

Posted Wednesday, March 17, 2004 by admin
Good Friday a public holiday under Employment Standards Act, 2000
Many workers will get the day off with public
holiday pay on Good Friday, April 9, 2004. Good Friday is one of eight public
holidays under Ontario's Employment Standards Act, 2000.
QUALIFYING FOR GOOD FRIDAY ENTITLEMENTS
Generally, employees qualify for Good Friday entitlements unless they
fail, without reasonable cause, to work:
- their entire regularly-scheduled shift before or after Good
Friday; or
- their entire shift on Good Friday if they agreed or were required
to work that day.
Public holiday pay is an amount equal to an employee's regular wages
earned in the four work weeks prior to Good Friday plus any vacation pay
payable during that period divided by 20.
Employees who qualify for Good Friday entitlements can be full-time,
part-time, permanent or on a limited-term contract. They can also be students.
It does not matter how recently they were hired or how many days they worked
before Good Friday.
ENTITLEMENTS IF GOOD FRIDAY IS A WORKING DAY
Qualified employees are entitled to take off Good Friday with public
holiday pay. They can also agree in writing to work on Good Friday and:
- be paid their regular rate for all hours worked on Good Friday
plus receive a substitute holiday with public holiday pay; or
- if the employee and employer agree in writing, be paid public
holiday pay plus "premium pay" of one-and-a-half times their
regular rate for all hours worked on Good Friday.
ENTITLEMENTS IF GOOD FRIDAY IS A NON-WORKING DAY
If Good Friday falls on a non-working or vacation day, qualified
employees can either take a substitute work day off with public holiday pay
or, if they agree in writing, they can receive public holiday pay for Good
Friday with no substitute day off.
ENTITLEMENTS FOR NON-QUALIFIED EMPLOYEES
Generally, employees who don't qualify for public holiday entitlements
must work on Good Friday if asked by their employer. Most non-qualified
employees are entitled to be paid one-and-a-half times their regular rate of
pay for each hour worked on Good Friday. There is no substitute day off.
If a non-qualified employee is not asked to work on Good Friday, he or
she gets the day off with no pay.
SPECIAL RULES/EXCEPTIONS
Retail Employees
Most employees who work in retail businesses - businesses that sell goods
or services to the public - have the right to refuse to work on Good Friday
even if they don't qualify for public holiday entitlements.
Retail employees who have agreed to work on Good Friday may still refuse
the assignment if they give their employer 48 hours advance notice before the
first hour of work on Good Friday.
However, these rules for retail employees do not apply to those who work
for businesses that primarily:
- sell prepared meals (restaurants, cafeterias, cafés, etc.);
- rent living accommodations (hotels, tourist resorts, camps, inns,
etc.);
- provide educational, recreational or amusement services to the
public (museums, art galleries, sports stadiums, etc.); or
- sell goods and services that are incidental to the businesses
described above and are located on the same premises (museum gift
shops, souvenir shops in sports stadiums, etc.).
Under the Retail Business Holidays Act, most retail outlets must close on
Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
Hospital, continuous operations and hospitality employees
Employees in hospitals, continuous operations and the hospitality
industry may be required to work on Good Friday if it falls on a day they
would normally work and if they are not on vacation. This applies to employees
who work for hospitals, nursing homes, hotels, motels, tourist resorts,
restaurants and taverns, as well as to employees who work for continuous
operations (operations or parts of operations that do not stop or close more
than once a week such as oil refineries and alarm monitoring companies).
Elect-to-work employees
Elect-to-work employees - those who decide without penalty whether or not
to work when requested - are not covered by the public holidays provisions of
the Employment Standards Act, 2000 except for the right to be paid one-and-a-
half times their regular rate of pay for each hour worked on Good Friday.
EMPLOYEES NOT ELIGIBLE FOR PAID PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
Some employees are not eligible for Good Friday entitlements because
public holiday provisions under the Employment Standards Act, 2000 do not
apply to certain jobs. These employees include:
- seasonal workers (employees who work for an employer no more than
16 weeks in a calendar year) in a hotel, motel, tourist resort,
restaurant or tavern who are provided with room and board;
- taxicab drivers;
- professionals such as lawyers, doctors, teachers, architects,
chiropodists, chiropractors, dentists, massage therapists,
optometrists, pharmacists, professional engineers,
physiotherapists, psychologists, public accountants, surveyors,
veterinarians and those covered under the Drugless Practitioners
Act;
- students in training for any of the professions listed above;
- students who instruct or supervise children or who work at a
children's camp or recreational program operated by a charitable
organization;
- hunting and fishing guides, commercial fishers and some farm
workers;
- commissioned salespeople, except route salespeople, who normally
work away from their employer's place of business;
- employees who install and maintain swimming pools;
- employees in landscape gardening, mushroom growing, or the
growing, transporting and laying of sod;
- employees who grow flowers or trees and shrubs for retail and
wholesale trade;
- employees who breed and board horses on a farm or who keep
fur-bearing mammals for propagation or the production of pelts
for commercial purposes;
- construction workers who receive 7.3 per cent or more of their
wages for vacation pay or holiday pay;
- residential building superintendents, janitors or caretakers who
live in the building;
- firefighters; and
- registered real estate salespeople.
INFORMATION SOURCES
For more information, employees and employers may call the Ontario
Ministry of Labour's Employment Standards General Inquiry Line at
(416) 326-7160 or 1-800-531-5551, or they may check the blue pages of their
local phone book for the nearest Ministry of Labour office.
Written information - including employment standards fact sheets on
subjects such as public holidays - can be accessed via the Ontario Ministry of
Labour's:
- website at www.gov.on.ca/lab/
- Publications Office by calling 1-800-809-4731 toll free or
(416) 326-7731 in the Toronto area.
Disponible en français
For more information visit www.gov.on.ca/lab

Posted Wednesday, March 17, 2004 by admin
Eric Walker opens March 26 @ Ottawa Art Gallery
THE OTTAWA ART GALLERY
ERIC WALKER: HERE AND GONE
26 March 2004 to 30 May 2004
Curator: Renee Baert and Aoife MacNamara

Over a career spanning some 20 years, Ottawa artist Eric Walker has become known for his graphic, painted, mixed-media constructions depicting trains, ships, cityscapes, railway lands, telecommunication platforms and other icons of Canadian transport, telecommunications and industry.

While his work depicts specific objects and sites, his subject matter is more to be found in the political and social history of landscape and its uses, implied through his attention to signifiers of the economic forces that occupy and traverse space and place.

The exhibition title, Here and Gone, not only references aspects of transit and transaction between locales, but also suggests the abiding presence in our culture and imagination of residual relics of the industrial modes of a previous century, relative to the virtual and information economies that prevail today.

Events

Vernissage
Thursday 25 March at 5:30 pm

Co-curator Aoife McNamara talks about Eric Walker's work
Saturday 27 March at 2 pm

Artist Talk with Eric Walker
Friday 23 April at NOON

The Ottawa Art Gallery
Arts Court
2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6E2
(613) 233-8699 fax 569-7660
info@ottawaartgallery.ca
www.ottawaartgallery.ca

Posted Wednesday, March 17, 2004 by admin
Apr 22 1830: Organics & Classics - Ottawa s First Evening of Organic Food & Classical Music
Organics & Classics
Ottawa s First Evening of Organic Food & Classical Music
Earth Day, Thursday, April 22, 2004, 6:30 p.m.
Fairmont Chateau Laurier Hotel, Ottawa

The Canadian Organic Growers (COG), Ottawa Chapter and the Ottawa
Symphony Orchestra (OSO) cordially invite you to enjoy an elegant
dinner featuring organic foods prepared by Marcel Mündel, Executive
Chef of the Fairmont Chateau Laurier, and musical entertainment by
ensembles from the OSO.

Your evening will include fine organic wines and information on the
wines from Bonterra Winery, insights about the benefits of going
organic from Elizabeth May, Executive Director, Sierra Club of Canada
and noted chefs Jamie Kennedy and Michael Stadtlander, and a live and
silent auction of fabulous prizes.

Tickets: $125.00 per guest Information: (613) 747-3104 Dress: Cocktail

Ticket order forms can be downloaded at www.ottawasysmphony.com .
Methods of payment include: VISA, Mastercard, and Cheque. Please make
cheques payable to OSO. An income tax receipt of $50 per ticket will be
issued.

Ticket deadline: April 12, 2004. Mail to OSO, 501-1390 Prince of Wales,
Ottawa K2C 3N6 or fax to 613-747-1657

COG is a nation-wide organization dedicated to promoting organic food
http://www.cog.ca/ottawa

Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2004 by admin
RENEGADES AT BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS
Several Ottawa Renegades players, coaches and members of the team’s administration staff will attend the 13th Annual Breakfast of Champions in support of research for a cure to cystic fibrosis on St. Patrick’s Day; Wednesday, March 17 at the Confederation Ballroom of the Westin Hotel, 11 Colonel By Dr.

Doors open at 7 a.m. and the event is scheduled to begin at 7:30 a.m.

Special guest speaker will be former Boston Bruins goalie and coach Gerry Cheevers.

Cystic fibrosis is a fatal inherited disease that affects mainly the lungs and digestive system. It is estimated that one in every 2,500 children born in Canada has CF.

Persons with CF face a daily routine of therapy and visits to a specialized clinic. Advances in research and clinical care, brought about by fundraising events such as the Breakfast of Champions, have resulted in a growing number of children with CF surviving into adulthood.

There is no cure for CF as yet, but treatment programs have dramatically extended the life expectancy of persons with CF, many are living into their 20s, 30s and beyond.

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For more information, please contact:

Barre Campbell

Director, Media Relations & Communications

Ottawa Renegades Football Club

(613) 231-5608 ext. 236 (office)

(613) 913-7719 (cell)

Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2004 by admin
PAT WOODCOCK AND MELANIE REID HONOURED BY 65 ROSES CLUB
The Ottawa Renegades are pleased to announce that Melanie Reid of the Molson Canadian Light Ottawa Renegades Dance Team and her husband, Renegades receiver Pat Woodcock, have been named celebrity chairpersons of the Ottawa Renegades 65 Roses Sports Club for the 2004 season.

“We’re very pleased and honoured that Melanie and Pat have agreed to become associated with our club,” said Harold Moore, president of the Ottawa Renegades 65 Roses Sports Club. “We hope that their participation will help us in our fundraising work for research in cystic fibrosis.”

The Ottawa Renegades 65 Roses Club will introduce Melanie and Pat as celebrity chairpersons during the 13th Annual Breakfast of Champions on Wednesday, March 17 in the Confederation Ballroom of the Westin Hotel, 11 Colonel By Dr. The event is scheduled to begin at 7:30 a.m.

The Ottawa Renegades 65 Roses Club raises funds through events like the Breakfast of Champions to help extend the lives of Canadians suffering from cystic fibrosis.

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For more information, please contact:

Barre Campbell

Director, Media Relations & Communications

Ottawa Renegades Football Club

(613) 231-5608 ext. 236 (office)

(613) 913-7719 (cell)

Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2004 by admin
COREL CENTRE TO PROVIDE "PARENT'S ROOM" AT 50 Cent CONCERT
The Corel Centre today announced it will have a "parent's room" available during the 50 Cent concert on Thursday, April 22 at 8 p.m. 50 Cent will appear at the Corel Centre along with G Unit, David Banner, Kardinal Offishall and Melanie Durrant.

The "parent's room" will be located in Coliseum Room C and is accessible from GATE 2 at the Corel Centre. Parents driving their children to the concert will be able to use the room free of charge starting at 7 p.m., when doors open for the concert. Along with a place to wait for their children, parents will have access to beverages, newspapers, TVs and restrooms.

Tickets for the 50 Cent concert go on sale Friday, March 19, at 10 a.m. and are $65 or $55 and include all taxes but exclude CRF and convenience charges. Tickets can be purchased at www.capitaltickets.ca, by calling 599-FANS and 1-877-788-FANS, in person at all Ottawa-Gatineau area Sports Experts locations and at the Corel Centre box office.

Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2004 by admin
CFL ANNOUNCES EVALUATION CAMP INVITEES
The Canadian Football League announced today that the 2004 CFL Evaluation Camp is set to kickoff on Saturday, March 20 at Lansdowne Park in Ottawa. Forty CIS and NCAA players who have qualified as non-imports and an additional four junior players from the CJFL will attend. The Camp will encompass two full days from March 20 to March 21 and will include a series of strength, endurance and ability tests. A list of invitees is available at www.cfl.ca.

For both days there will be a media-only area. Attendants will be made available to help members of the media gain access to the Camp participants.

What: 2004 CFL Evaluation Camp

When: Saturday, March 20 & Sunday, March 21

Where: Ottawa

Saturday: Renegades dressing room. Media area upstairs in meeting room. Drills will begin at 9 a.m.

Please note: Photographers and camera operators permitted in testing area from 12:30 – 1 p.m. on Saturday.

Sunday: Frank Clair Stadium under the bubble, media area designated. Drills begin at

9:30 a.m.

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For more information, please contact:

Shawn Lackie

Director, Football Media
Canadian Football League

Phone: (416) 322 9650

Email: slackie@cfl.ca

Kevin McDonald

Manager, Football Operations
Canadian Football League

Phone: (416) 322 9650

Email: kmcdonald@cfl.ca

Barre Campbell

Director, Media Relations & Communications

Ottawa Renegades Football Club

(613) 231-5608 ext. 236 (office)

(613) 913-7719 (cell)

Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2004 by admin
Double CD Release - Tanya Janca w/ Mélissa Laveaux
Double CD Release - Tanya Janca w/ Mélissa Laveaux

Friday March 26, 2004, Doors 9 PM, Music 9:30 PM, 19+ (ID Required) At the Chateau Lafayette

For more information:

Tanya Janca: (613) 565-9508, tanya_janca@rogers.com, www.tanyajanca.com

Mélissa Laveaux: LAVEAUX@SYMPATICO.CA, http://www.overhear.com/opl/11505.php

Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2004 by admin
Ottawa Blues This Week -- 15 March 2004
This is a completely informal update of blues & blues-related events in Ottawa. The mailing list has been compiled from various sources and includes folks who are interested in blues. Please contact me at lizbluesottawa@aol.com to add or delete email addresses from the list and to pass along any comments.

‘Ottawa Blues This Week' is available on line at http://hometown.aol.ca/lizbluesottawa/thisweek.html. The on-line version is updated throughout the week.
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OTTAWA ARTS NEEDS YOUR HELP BEFORE MARCH 24!
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The City of Ottawa's Draft Budget 2004 annihilates Ottawa's arts community. It proposes an 80% cut to all arts funding and elimination of all festivals. Supporters of arts for Ottawa have until March 24 (when City of Ottawa Councillors will approve the final budget) to make their voices heard. Please support the arts in Ottawa by writing the Mayor and Ottawa City Councillors to ask them to reinstate 100% of Ottawa's arts funding. You can find the e-mail addresses and information about the proposed budget at
http://www.ottawaartgallery.ca/budget2004/petition-en.php

The City of Ottawa's entire arts budget is equivalent to the cost of 1½ city intersections.

"If the new Ottawa budget goes through, Ottawa's arts spending will fall to 57¢ per capita, making the national capital a national disgrace – and an international laughingstock." National Post
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SPECIAL EVENTS THIS WEEK
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Paul Reddick & the Sidemen
Rainbow Bistro, 76 Murray Street
Friday, March 19

Colin Linden has said that Paul Reddick is one of the most original and inventive singer-songwriters in blues today. Reddick is a strong, soulful vocalist whose focus and intensity connect him to the listener with genuine intimacy. He is an intuitive, self-taught musician who is always exploring and searching to express. His work has been influenced by such poets as William Blake, and William Carlos Williams as well as the music of Sleepy John Estes. His lyrics have a close-up, whisper in your ear quality of the best songs and poetry. His harmonica playing is a blend of complex rhythmic patterns, soaring solo lines, great dynamic range, toning and phrasing. Backed up by one of Canada's best blues bands, The Sidemen, this is a ‘must see' show.
(Info from Bluestar Productions)
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Penny Lang
with special guest The Echo Hunters
Black Sheep Inn, Wakefield QC
Sunday, March 21 @ 4:20 pm; tickets $10

Folk legend Penny Lang will perform her personal brand of gutsy, soulful folk music at Le Mouton Noir on Sunday afternoon. Penny Lang's songs are emotionally powerful observations of everyday life; poignant, humorous and memorable. Having performed and written folk music for over 40 years, Montreal's Lang is known for her passionate vocal style and her exceptional acoustic guitar playing. Her impressive repertoire includes powerful interpretations and originals in folk, blues, country, jazz and gospel styles. Described as a "cult legend of the Canadian folk scene" by the All Music Guide 2002, Lang believes that music is necessary part of everyday life.
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Acoustic Waves presents:
The Rick Fines Trio
with special guest The Wailin' Jennys
Great Canadian Theatre Company, 910 Gladstone Avenue
Sunday, March 21 @ 8 pm; tickets $22

Rick Fines is a cornerstone of the Canadian blues scene. He first came to national attention as the leader of Peterborough's acoustic blues sensation, Jackson Delta. Since the demise of that group, Fines has released several stellar solo albums that celebrate his love of blues, folk and country music. His latest musical offering, "Riley Wants His Life Back", is an all original collection that reflects Fines' love of jazzy blues sounds. He is once again performing with his exceptional trio. With Rob Phillips on piano and Richard Simpkins on upright bass, the Rick Fines Trio shines with a playfulness and level of comfort that shows their years of playing together. The trio's Acoustic Waves performance will be its first appearance in Ottawa since the release of "Riley Wants His Life Back" – although Fines has made several festival appearances over the past year.

In just two years Cara Luft, Nicky Mehta and Ruth Moody have made a sensational impact as the Wailin' Jennys. Performances by the trio from Winnipeg combine plenty of fabulous vocal harmonies with lots of fun as they move through originals and covers that combine country roots with folk and pop flourishes. The trio is currently touring the country from coast to coast to coast.
(Thanks to Joe Reilly for this info.)
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LOCAL HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK
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Documentary screening
"Carnival of the Blues: 10 days at the Ottawa Bluesfest"
National Press Club, 150 Wellington Street, 2nd floor
Saturday, March 20 @ 3 pm; admission is free

Hannabelle Productions is pleased to announce a special screening of "Carnival of the Blues: 10 Days at the Ottawa Bluesfest". The documentary, which features many international, Canadian and local artists, takes a look behind the scenes at the bluesfest.

Among the interviews: Gregg Allman, Great Big Sea, Daniel Lanois, Elvis Costello, Sue Foley, Pinetop Perkins, Dan Aykroyd and many others.
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Lou Rye All-Stars Reunion
The Bayou, 1077 Bank Street
Friday, March 19, 9 pm - 1 am; cover $8

Special reunion with former members of Santana and Ronnie Hawkins. Calling all blues lovers! Bill Stewart and George Reyes haven't played together with Lou since 1993! Lou Rye - guitar & vocals; Bill Stewart (former lead guitar for Ronnie Hawkins) - guitar & vocals; Mike Ktenas - bass; and George Reyes (formerly with Santana) - drummer. This is going to be one hot night!!
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Tony D Band
"The Jook Joint" CD release
Rainbow Bistro, 76 Murray Street
Saturday, March 20

This is Tony's 6th CD release and first full band recording since 2000. Heavily influenced by the haunting sounds of Mississippi blues, "The Jook Joint" is a blues cocktail, part Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix, and Argentenian Surf Tango. From the raw slide drenched ‘My Baby So Far' cradled by a hip-hop beat. to the feedback caresses of Hendrix's ‘If 6 Was 9', and Django-esque surf instrumental (‘AssTango'), "The Jook Joint" is a ‘montage homage' to all the great artists that have paved the way before us. The process became a labour of love and one of us even got afflicted with Cat Scratch fever ... perfect!
"We raise the dead with respect and order another round ...." Enjoy!
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WEEKLY EVENTS ON THE RADIO
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On CKCU-FM 93.1
The "Mighty 93.1"
Community Radio serving the Ottawa Carleton Region

Sundays: 9-11 pm
Black and Blues
with John Tackaberry

The show features a heavy dose of electric blues and rhythm and blues, with the occasional selection of sixties soul. The first hour is dedicated to artist profiles and reviews of recordings on particular labels. In the second hour there is a blues calendar, a run down of events in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa, and interviews with "new and reissued blues and rhythm and blues tracks on wax" alternating with "live blues and R&B for a Sunday night" in the last half hour of the show. On the last Sunday of every month, the show goes "down in the delta" for a selection of acoustic blues tracks in the final half hour of the program.

Wednesdays: 9-11 pm
In A Mellow Tone
with Ron Sweetman

Jazz from every era & every style - from 1917 To 2003. Each program features an artist, group, instrument, event, city or record label.
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WEEKLY EVENTS ON THE SMALL SCREEN
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ALWAYS check local listings to confirm.

On Bravo - Ottawa Cable Channel 40
http://www.bravo.ca/programlistings/

Monday, March 22 @ 7:30 am
Talkin' Blues: BackBeat (2003)
A look at drummers in the blues; New York blues guitarist Bill Perry; acoustic guitarist Guy Davis talks about his visit to the Muddy Waters Cabin.

Tuesday, March 23 @ 4 pm
The Genius of Lenny Breau (1999)
Provocative documentary on the intriguing life of guitar virtuoso Lenny Breau. Commentary by Chet Atkins, Leonard Cohen, Burton Cummings, Liona Boyd, Randy Bachman and more.
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REGULAR EVENTS THIS MONTH
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Mondays: Maria Hawkins @ the Rainbow
Tuesdays: Rainbow Open Jam with the Funky Miracles @ 9:30 pm
Wednesdays: Open stage with Shakedown Blues @ the Bayou
Thursdays: Dinner & acoustic blues @ Tucson's
Thursdays: Blues Jam with Johnny Russell & Mike Ktenas @ Irene's
Fridays: Amaryllis @ the Rainbow ... early show 5-7 pm
Saturday afternoons: Blues jam @ the Rainbow
Sunday afternoons: Guy del Villano & guests @ Royal Oak, Bank St.
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LOCALS THIS WEEK
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Wednesday, March 17
L'il Al's Combo @ the Rainbow

Thursday, March 18
Shakedown Blues @ the Rainbow

Friday, March 19
The Smacks @ Tucson's

Saturday, March 20
The Bayou Project @ the Bayou

Saturday, March 20
The Mud Boys @ Tucson's

Sunday, March 21
The Crowd @ the Rainbow, 4-7 pm

Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2004 by admin
NAC: There's nothing Simple about Simpl!
The National Arts Centre English Theatre is thrilled to announce
the World Premiere production of Peter Froehlich's new play Simpl. Inspired
by the life and work of German cabaret artist and beer-hall comedian, Karl
Valentin, this extraordinary piece of theatre seamlessly merges original
material with excerpts of actual sketches created by Karl Valentin and his
performance partner Liesl Karlstadt. Simpl runs in the NAC Studio, March 30
to April 10 (Preview March 29) at 20:00 with Saturday matinees at 14:00.
Tickets are available at the NAC Box Office in person or through Tickemaster
at (613) 755-1111.

Karl Valentin and his performance partner Liesl Karlstadt need no
introduction in their native Germany where the two are revered as cultural
icons. These two master comedians performed their hilarious intellectual
contortionism in the café theatres and music halls of Bavaria throughout the
early years of the twentieth century and into the grim days of the Third
Reich. Their genius for physical comedy, their ability to find humour in
the mundane and their elegant verbal acrobatics made them hugely popular in
their own time. Yet Valentin's political apathy has remained a troubling
conundrum for his admirers and one with which cultural historians grapple.

Commissioned by the NAC English Theatre's Play Development programme, the
play offers original material cleverly punctuated with excerpts from
actual sketches performed by Valentin and Karlstadt. Peter Froehlich's
creation is a delightfully funny, quirky, provocative and thoughtful play
which poses the question: What can it possibly mean to be a "non-political
artist" in horrific times?

Tarragon Theatre's Artistic Director Richard Rose directs this extraordinary
piece of theatre and brings together a wonderful team of actors and
designers to bring the unusual story to life. Yannik Larivée is Set and
Costume Designer, Martin Conboy is the Lighting Designer, and Original Music
and Music Direction are by John Millard. Lee Wilson is Assistant Director.

Peter Froehlich himself plays Karl Valentin, Halifax actor Nicola Lipman is
Liesl Karlstadt and Toronto's Peter Tiefenbach is Gerhard Krachmann.

The Stage Manager on this production is Laurie Champagne, working with
Apprentice Stage Manager Michelene A. Sutherland.

Simpl will transfer to Toronto's Tarragon Theatre, opening there on April
27.

Tickets for Simpl are available at the NAC Box Office in person or through
Ticketmaster at 755-1111, and on-line through the Ticketmaster link on the
NAC's web site at www.nac-cna.ca (a service charge applies to all purchases
made through Ticketmaster). Students (with a valid student card) may
purchase half-price tickets at the box office only. Ticket prices are from
$27.50 and $31.50. Students should visit the Live Rush(tm) page online at
www.liverushnac.ca to find out how to obtain Live Rush seats ($9.50)
available on a first-come, first-served basis after 18:00 on the day of
performance.

Simpl - Listings Info.
* March 30 to April 10 (preview March 29) No performances Sundays or
Mondays (aside from preview)
* NAC Studio
* 20:00 Tuesday through Saturday
* Saturday matinees 14:00, April 3 & 10
* Tickets available at NAC Box Office in person; through Ticketmaster
755-1111 or on-line through Ticketmaster link www.nac-cna.ca
* Tickets $27.50 and $31.50 (preview $18)
* Pre-Show Chat - An informal discussion before the Saturday Matinee
performance
Saturday, April 3 at 13:00 in the NAC Salon; Paul Lefebvre "Walking Theatre
Encyclopaedia"
* Thursday Talkbacks - A Post-Performance Question and Answer session
with performers -Thursday, April 8
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For more information contact:
Laura Denker, Publicity and Media Relations Coordinator, NAC English Theatre
(613) 947 7000 ext. 389; ldenker@nac-cna.ca
Digital photography: Production images from Simpl will be available for
download in digital format (jpeg) at http://www/nac-cna.ca/media Just follow
the links to Simpl

Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2004 by admin
CUFF THE DUKE + GOLDEN FAMILE + KATE MAKI twang it up at Zaphod Beeblebrox
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX & HOEGAARDEN
PRESENT...

Alt.Country-Punk-Psychedelic-Twang Extravaganza

From Oshawa/ Three Gut Recording Artists
CUFF THE DUKE

+ From Ottawa/ Music For Cats Recording Artists
GOLDEN FAMILE

+ From Sudbury/ CD rated ****1/2 stars by THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
KATE MAKI

Friday, April 9 (Doors 8pm)

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada.
Age 19+/ General Admission
Tickets: $10 only at the door.

"The fact that this album literally buries half the alt-country that came before it is just scary."

"Cuff the Duke is a high-energy band that plays fun alt-country music."

"Life Stories For Minimum Wage sounds like they suckled at the teat of heartbreak cowboy
Hank Williams, shot BB guns with Loretta Lynn and learned to read from Stephen Malkmus."

"Post-teen psychedelic cow punks makin' down-home country cool"

"Cuff the Duke's newest release is just that; genuine, mature and cohesive. Recorded by Andy Magoffin
(Royal City, Slight Return, Constantines) this album has all the conventions of a classic country/western album.
These boys are very young, yet their debut sounds as though they have been in the game for quite sometime...
By the end of this record you'll be convinced that you don't have to be old to enjoy a good ol' country ho-down."

CUFF THE DUKE recently spent a couple of weeks shacked up in Hawksley Workman's studio chopping wood, writing new songs, and remembering old ones. The super talented Paul Aucoin (Hylozoists/Sadies/Bodega) was recording the band.

If you'd tried to track down Cuff The Duke a year and a half ago, you'd only have found a couple of kids (Jeff Peers and Wayne Petti, specifically) doing their absolute best to top the Beach Boy's Pet Sounds on Jeff's four-track. With the recording and the subsequent shows as a two-piece well-received, they decided to take the project to another level: With Brad Fudge and Paul Lowman coming on board to look after the rhythm section, Cuff The Duke came to life and made their debut in the band's current form at Toronto's Horseshoe Tavern early in the summer of 2000. Since then, Cuff The Duke has been busy. From being signed to Three Gut Records to playing shows with the likes of Versus, The Carnations, and Joel Plaskett.

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"Golden Famile have made a better Neil Young album than Young has himself in recent years...
Impassioned vocals, stirring harmonica and conversational guitar work...this group is genuine -- a rare
alt-country act who aren't trying on flannel as they perform...it will appeal to a wide variety of
listeners, but its songs have more current punk roots."
Golden Famile create a constantly evolving sound which ranges from lo-fi back porch numbers to two minute pop songs to full blown psychedelic rock arrangements with lots more in between.

Formed in 2001, Golden Famile are fast becoming veterans of the Ottawa indie music scene. The critically acclaimed 'Eastern, Cloudy' cd was released in early 2003 and became a local favorite as displayed by its #2 position on the CKCU Top 50 for 2003.
The same year also saw numerous performances where Golden Famile shared the stage with luminaries such as Asteroid #4, the Deadly Snakes, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, and Bonnie Prince Billy. Rounding it all off was a high profile slot at the 2003 Ottawa Bluesfest.

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Much like her childhood home of Sudbury, Ontario, the music of singer-songwriter Kate Maki is stark and sadly beautiful. Her passion for music was born early on, when as a toddler she would steady herself at the family turntable to spin hits from 70`s darlings Boney M. Kate`s passion and talents would continue to grow during her high school years where she began writing songs on guitar and piano. While attending university in Halifax, Kate began performing at open-mic nights about the city, establishing herself as a considerable talent in one of Canada`s most fertile music scenes.

After having gained experience with various country-rock bands over the past few years, including Pith Kitty (Halifax) and The John Henrys (Ottawa), Kate has decided to go it alone. Her debut album, Confusion Unlimited, recorded and co-produced with Dave Draves of Little Bullhorn Productions, displays a vulnerability and weariness that betrays her years. Declared "one of the best records of 2003" by The Ottawa Citizen, Confusion Unlimited blends traditional country with infectious pop-hooks and amped up rockers.

Touring non-stop since stepping away from her teaching career last June, Kate has shared the stage with the likes of Nathan Wiley, Jim Bryson, Joel Plaskett, The Sadies, Tegan and Sara, Howe Gelb, Matt Mays, Oh Susanna, Mark Bragg, Fred Eaglesmith, The Silverhearts, Cuff the Duke, Ruth Minnikin and Ox.

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CUFF THE DUKE's web site - http://www.cufftheduke.com
GOLDEN FAMILE's web site - http://www.musicforcatsrecords.com/goldenfamile.html
KATE MAKI's web site - http://www.katemaki.com

Information:
CUFF THE DUKE - William Tenn (416) 690-6421 skinny@pmwtm.com
GOLDEN FAMILE - Darrell Angus goldenfamile@hotmail.com
KATE MAKI - kate@katemaki.com
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX - Eugene Haslam (613) 237-5301 zaphods_ottawa@hotmail.com http://www.ZaphodBeeblebrox.com

Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2004 by admin
RENEGADES GET A ROCKET IN LOCKETT
The Ottawa Renegades are pleased to announce the signing of import wide receiver and kick returner Aaron Lockett to a one-year contract with a club option for the 2005 season.

Drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (seventh round) during the 2002 NFL draft, the 5-foot-8, 165-pound Lockett from Tulsa, Oklahoma, arrives in Ottawa with NFL experience with the Buccaneers and the San Francisco 49ers.

Known for his extraordinary speed (he has been timed at 4.28 seconds in the 40-yard dash), Lockett had a standout collegiate career at Kansas State University where he recorded over 2,400 receiving yards on 137 catches, 845 yards on 54 career punt returns and 709 career yards on 28 kickoff returns.

In 2001, Lockett was a semi-finalist for the Mosi Tatupu Award given to the top special teams player in U.S. college football.

“Aaron has a chance to be a special player in this league,” said Eric Tillman, Renegades general manager. “On this big field, he should be very exciting with his speed and quickness, both as a receiver and as a return man.”

AARON LOCKETT

Position: Wide Receiver

Nationality: American

Height, Weight: 5-8, 165

University: Kansas State

Birthdate (Opening Day Age) Hometown: September 6, 1978 (25) Tulsa, OK

Acquired: Free agent; March 15, 2004

Yrs CFL / Yrs Renegades: 1st / 1st

Draft: Seventh round (254th overall) 2002 NFL Tampa Bay

Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2004 by admin
THREE WINERIES IN THE REGION
The “Association des Viticulteurs de l'Est Ontarien” (AVEO) is having its 5th Annual General Meeting on Saturday, April 24th, 2004, at 10 am at the Château Bourget in Bourget Ontario. AVEO members have been very active during the 2003-2004 season. In addition to the existing operation of the Château Bourget, Le Domaine du Cervin in Chesterville has recently obtained its licence and Le Vignoble du Clos Baillie in Aylmer will soon be in operation and opened to the public. In August 2004, the Association is planning a trip to Côte de Beaupré and Orléans Island near Québec City.
Cold climate grape varieties were planted in June 2003 at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa. Local commercial wineries will make a presentation on equipment needed to start up in business. A wine expert from Brock University will be attending our annual meeting to talk to us about his philosophy on growing grapes and marketing wine. Mr. Denis Perrault, President of AVEO will report on our trip to Prince Edward County last August.

Château Bourget is located at 1818 St. Felix Road in Bourget, Ontario. Cost for the day is $30 for members, which includes lunch and the annual renewal fee of $20. For $40 non-members can attend and it will include lunch and their membership card. Membership pertains to a business, a winery, a couple or an individual. AVEO members are invited to bring wines produced from their vineyard for a wine tasting session during lunch.

Please make your reservations before April 14th 2004, by e-mail at clos.baillie@videotron.ca or by phone at 819-827-3220. See us on the Web: http://aveo3.site.voila.fr/

Posted Monday, March 15, 2004 by admin
Ottawa 67’s To Face Battalion in First Round
The Ottawa 67’s learned Sunday evening that they will face the Brampton Battalion in their best of seven series in the first round of the 2004 Ontario Hockey League Playoffs beginning this Friday, March 19th at 7:30 p.m. at the Civic Centre.

The 67’s finished in top spot in the East Division for the second straight season and will face the Battalion in post-season play for the first time since Brampton’s inception in 1998-1999. The Battalion held the edge in regular season meetings this season as they compiled a 3-0-1-0 (one win was in overtime) record against the 67’s in four games, outscoring Ottawa by a count of 16-11. In their last meeting of the regular season, the two teams battled to a 3-3 tie.

Ottawa 67’s playoff ticket prices for the duration of the playoffs, regardless of what round it may be, will be $15.00 for adults, $13.00 for students and seniors and $10.00 for children 12-years old and under.

Date Time Location

Friday, March 19, 2004 7:30 p.m. Brampton @ Ottawa

Sunday, March 21, 2004 2:00 p.m. Ottawa @ Brampton

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 7:00 p.m. Brampton @ Ottawa

Thursday, March 25, 2004 7:30 p.m. Ottawa @ Brampton

***Saturday, March 27, 2004 7:00 p.m. Brampton @ Ottawa
(Saturday’s Game to be Played at the Corel Centre)
***Sunday, March 28, 2004 2:00 p.m. Ottawa @ Brampton

***Tuesday, March 30, 2004 7:00 p.m. Brampton @ Ottawa

***Game to be Played If Necessary

For additional information, please contact Jason O’Connor at 232-6767 x230.

Posted Monday, March 15, 2004 by admin
Teen Massacre Press Release
Multi-award winning Ottawa filmmaker, Jon Knautz (kuh-NOTS), will be
Lee Demarbre’s guest on “Drunken Master Revue”, Demarbre’s CKCU radio show
(93.1 FM), on Wednesday, March 17th at 5 p.m. to promote his new independent
horror film, TEEN MASSACRE, which has been slated to premier at Barrymore’s
on March 20th. Two hot local bands, Seismic and The Bronze, will provide the
musical entertainment. Tickets are $6 in advance or $8 at the door.

For more information, please contact Kelly J. Compeau at
mail@showbizmediaservices.com or (613) 276-0032.

LINKS:

CKCU FM http://www.ckcufm.com
Lee Demarbre http://www.odessafilmworks.com
Barrymore’s Music Hall http://www.barrymores.on.ca
Seismic http://members.rogers.com/seismic

Posted Monday, March 15, 2004 by admin
Reminder: Concerts Cumberland
Thirteen Strings, dir. J.-F. Rivest
& 2 winners of Capital Concerto Competition
Nina He, piano & Yolanda Bruno, violin
pre-concert talk & fencing demonstration
(in relation to Biber's Battalia)

Sunday, March 14, 2004 7:10 p.m.
Orleans United Church, 1111 Blvd. d'Orléans

Tickets: 20$ adults, 16$ seniors, 5$ students (-25 yrs)
Information et reservation: Suzanne 837-6104
Web site: www.concertscumberland.org

Thirteen Strings, dir. J.-F. Rivest
& 2 gagnants/es du Concours concerto de la Capitale
Nina He, piano & Yolanda Bruno, violon
causerie pré-concert & démonstration d'escrime
(reliées à la pièce Battalia de Biber)

dimanche 14 mars 2004 19h10
Église unie d'Orléans, 111, boul. d'Orléans

Billets: 20$ adultes, 16$ aînés, 5$ étudiants (-25 ans)
Information et réservation: Suzanne 837-6104
Site Web: www.concertscumberland.org

Posted Monday, March 15, 2004 by admin
OTTAWA TO HOST TEAM CANADA'S TRAINING CAMP FOR WORLD CUP OF HOCKEY 2004
Ottawa, ON will be the site for Team Canada's training camp for the World Cup of Hockey 2004 and Ottawa's Corel Centre will host three exhibition games (the 'Team Canada International Series'), which includes two of Team Canada's exhibition games on August 25 and August 28 and the Russia vs. Slovakia game on August 29.

Team Canada's training camp will open on August 20th at the University of Ottawa, where the team will train for three days and then relocate to the Corel Centre. Canada will play their first game of the World Cup of Hockey 2004 on August 31 versus Team USA at the Bell Centre in Montreal.

TEAM CANADA INTERNATIONAL SERIES (3 game ticket package)

· Wednesday, August 25, 2004 Canada vs. USA 7:30pm ET Corel Centre, Ottawa, ON

· Saturday, August 28, 2004 Canada vs. Slovakia 7:00pm ET Corel Centre, Ottawa, ON
· Sunday, August 29, 2004 Russia vs. Slovakia 7:00pm ET Corel Centre, Ottawa, ON

Three game ticket packages for the 'Team Canada International Series' at the Corel Centre will go on sale to the general public on Monday, April 5 at 10:00 a.m. (ET). Three game ticket packages start at $105 (plus applicable taxes and service charges).

Three game ticket packages can be purchased by the general public on-line at www.capitaltickets.ca, by calling 613-599-FANS or by calling toll free: 1-877-788-FANS. Tickets can also be purchased in person at the Corel Centre box office and at all Sports Expert locations in Ottawa-Gatineau.

Team Canada will play a third exhibition game in Columbus, OH:

· Monday, August 23, 2004 Canada vs. USA Nationwide Arena, Columbus, OH

Ticket information for Team Canada's game in Columbus, OH is not yet available.

For more information on the World Cup of Hockey 2004, visit www.wch2004.com. For information on Team Canada and Hockey Canada, visit www.hockeycanada.ca .

Posted Monday, March 15, 2004 by admin
New Works by Heidi Conrod : Vernissage : Friday March 19
New paintings and print work
by
Heidi Conrod
March 19 - April 21 2004

Vernissage
Friday March 19 2004 7:30 - 10:30 pm

ARTGUISE GALLERY
590 Bank St. Ottawa

Artguise invites you to attend the vernissage of new works by Ottawa painter Heidi Conrod. This show, Heidi's second with the gallery is a combination of encaustics on canvas and framed plate prints on paper. Heidi's work boasts bold colour usage and expressive brush work. Her compositions are built around nostalgic themes where figures are shrouded by atmospheric hues and emphasized by punchy trowelings of rich colour. The body of work is an endearing jaunt through the artist's recollections of life and growth; imagine a photo album comprised of paint and tactile textures. Her warm palette is inviting and gives pause to sentimental introspection, harkening the viewer back to memories of youthful times. This show comes at the perfect time as the spring season gives rise to regeneration and a welcome return of colour. Artguise is proud to reintroduce Heidi's beautiful pieces to its walls.

Media and/or other interested parties, please contact Jason or Brandon at Artguise,
via email or at 613-238-3803.

Posted Monday, March 15, 2004 by admin
RAISING THE FAWN + GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS make dreamy, delicate music at Zaphod Beeblebrox
From Toronto/ Sonic Unyon Recording Artists
RAISING THE FAWN
Featuring John Crossingham from
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE

+ From Toronto/ Weewerk Recording Artists
Winner "Favourite Folk/ Roots Artist" - 2004 Canadian Independent Music Awards
GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS

Thursday, April 8 (Doors 8pm)

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada.
Age 19+/ General Admission
Tickets: $8 only at the door.

"The North Sea is good enough to put Raising The Fawn on the level of buzzed-about Toronto indie
collective Broken Social Scene, with which RTF is touring through March. The album strikes a nice balance
between avant-pop experiments like The News and the title track (a tempo-shifting epic) and the more
accessible, Radiohead-like Drownded."
-CANADIAN MUSIC NETWORK

"Dripping with beauty, the trio's sombre brand of epic dream pop will inspire fuzzy feelings during those cold winter nights."
-CHART MAGAZIINE

"The North Sea is a beautifully sombre and hypnotic work of post-pop melancholy and introspection. Most of
these eight tracks are ambitious and artful mini-epics, with a uniquely compelling musical sensibility that
seamlessly merges elements of chamber-folk and orch-pop with echoes of Radiohead and Pink Floyd...Strikingly
original and impressively accomplished, The North Sea is a fairly historic achievement no matter how you slice it."
-THE WINNIPEG SUN

Raising the Fawn is the brain child of one John Crossingham (of ThanatoPop fame). Other members include Scott Remila (bass, vocals) and Dylan Green (drums). Raising the Fawn is now based in Toronto.

Raising the Fawn is a "solo project" by John Crossingham that was started on a home-base level in 1997. It was a means to explore a quieter, more personal route than was allowed by his "normal" band, ThanatoPop. The original mandate to make personal, quiet, patient music has not been altered. These are songs to inspire long sleeps filled with complicated dreams.

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"Largely the work of one man, Toronto-based singer/songwriter Tony Dekker, the music relies on a delicate
combination of voice and acoustic guitar -- lightly coloured by piano, accordion, lap steel and a low, choral
hum of crickets -- to create an incomparably intimate relationship between music and listener."
-THE TORONTO STAR.

"This is the album I've been waiting for Neil Young to release all these years.
...Definitely one of the best disks I've heard this year."
-WWW.ALTCOUNTRYTAB.COM

Recently voted Favourite Folk/Roots Artist at the 2004 Canadian Independent Music Awards, Great Lake Swimmers make wonderfully understated, heart-wrenching music. Led by songwriter-vocalist Tony Dekker, their haunting sound finds its roots in vintage folk and alt-country colourings, shaped by accordion and piano, lap steel and acoustic guitar, with a voice that seems to come from the walls. Glistening with ten delicate tracks, their self-titled debut album was recorded over several months in an abandoned grain silo in Southern Ontario. Its echoes of rural and urban landscapes include the ambient sounds of crickets and the Toronto subway. The record was released in Canada by weewerk in March 2003 and in Europe by Fargo Records in March 2004. For live shows, the Toronto-based band expands to include percussion, bass and banjo.

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RAISING THE FAWN's web site - http://www.raisingthefawn.com
GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS' web site - http://www.greatlakeswimmers.com

Listen to RAISING THE FAWN courtesy of Canoe.ca - http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicRealAudio2/rtf.mp3

Information:
RAISING THE FAWN - Sean Palmerston/ Sonic Unyon (905) 777-1223 sean@sonicunyon.com
GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS - Phil Klygo/ Weewerk Records (416) 365-7056 info@weewerk.com
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX - Eugene Haslam (613) 237-5301 zaphods_ottawa@hotmail.com http://www.ZaphodBeeblebrox.com

Posted Monday, March 15, 2004 by admin
Meetings at Ottawa City Hall
The following meetings are scheduled during the week of March 15,
2004, at Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West, unless otherwise noted.
Agenda items that may be of special interest to citizens and the media have
been highlighted.

Corporate Services and Economic Development Committee - Tuesday, March 16,
1:30 p.m., Champlain Room
* Motions deferred from Corporate Services and Economic Development
Committee Budget Meeting of March 1, 2004 / Fee increases
* Indexing of Development Charges
* Auditor General Hiring Sub-Committee - Selection Panel
* Reconstitution - Long Range Financial Plan Sub-Committee

The agenda for these meetings and related reports will be posted on the
City's Web site at ottawa.ca and will be available at the respective
meetings.

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For more information:
Communications & Marketing
(613) 580-2450

Posted Friday, March 12, 2004 by admin
50 Cent with G Unit will bring their "Beg for Mercy" tour to the Corel Centre
TME ENTERTAINMENT announced today 50 Cent with G Unit will bring their "Beg for Mercy" tour to the Corel Centre on Thursday, April 22, at 8 p.m. They will be joined by David Banner, Kardinal Offishall and Melanie Durrant.

Posted Friday, March 12, 2004 by admin
Ball and Chain and the Wreckers - March 13 at The Bayou Blues and Jazz Club
Ball and Chain and the Wreckers
March 13
At
The Bayou Blues and Jazz Club
1077 Bank St.
9pm showtime, $8.00 cover

Jody and Michael go together like mashed potatoes and gravy. Jody Benjamin's singing style is an easy marriage of sincerity and humour that comes from her wit and her love of the old country music she sings. Michael Ball has a sweet tone to his fiddle playing and an ear for melody and space seldom heard from players who were born after 1920.

For the first time since Halloween/03 Ball and Chain and the Wreckers will play at their favourite Ottawa venue. Jody and Michael are just back from their cross Canada winter tour and are so happy to be home. There's sure to be lots of fun and don't forget Jody and Michael will give Cajun 2 step and waltz lessons in the break.

Also note that the Bayou has opened the kitchen and is serving Pub fare throughout the evening so there's no need to go home hungry. Check out www.thebayou.ca for more details.

Classic Country and Western and Cajun dance music delivered to your ears with love and respect. It's a dream come true. See you there.

www.ballandchain.ca mj@ballandchain.ca

Posted Friday, March 12, 2004 by admin
OTTAWA ARTS NEEDS YOUR HELP BEFORE MARCH 24
My Ottawa
includes
Culture
Support the Arts

The current per capita spending on the arts in Canada's four largest cities:

Montreal..........$26.62
Vancouver.......$17.71
Toronto...........$14.64
Ottawa............$3.89 (Current)
Ottawa............57¢ (If Draft Budget 2004 is approved)

The City of Ottawa's Draft Budget 2004 annihilates Ottawa's arts community. It proposes an 80% cut to all arts funding and elimination of all festivals. Supporters of arts for Ottawa have until March 24 (when City of Ottawa Councillors will approve the final budget) to make their voices heard. Please support the arts in Ottawa by writing the Mayor and Ottawa City Councillors, letting them know that Ottawa will not be a travel destination for you if they approve this budget. Please ask them to reinstate 100% of Ottawa's arts funding. You can find the e-mail addresses and information about the proposed budget here:

www.ottawaartgallery.ca/budget2004/petition-en.php.

You can also cut and paste the addresses and message below into an e-mail.

The City of Ottawa's entire arts budget is equivalent to the cost of 1½ city intersections.

"If the new Ottawa budget goes through, Ottawa's arts spending will fall to 57¢ per capita, making the national capital a national disgrace-and an international laughingstock." -National Post

SAMPLE LETTER TO SEND TO MAYOR CHIARELLI AND CITY OF OTTAWA COUNCILLORS:

Dear Mayor Chiarelli and City of Ottawa Councillors,

It is with great concern that I write you about your plans to cut funding to the arts in Ottawa.

A vibrant arts community is essential to any successful urban area. By abandoning the arts at the municipal level, you rob the citizens of Ottawa of their voice. You will cause a collapse in the investment of local artists and audiences. In addition, the Ontario and Canadian granting agencies will cut funding as a direct result of lack of local support.

As the artists and arts organizations in Ottawa have proven, Ottawa is more than just a federal workplace. It is a real and vital city due to its artists, local arts organizations, and the many people who are entertained, educated and served by them. To cut arts funding will initially seem to save money, but it is ultimately self-defeating.

I urge you to reinstate 100% of the City of Ottawa's arts funding,

[Name]
[City]

Posted Friday, March 12, 2004 by admin
Stepping Out with Le Jazz Hot
Le Jazz Hot Dance Company. Stepping Out with Le Jazz Hot - 7:00pm wine reception / 7:45pm studio performance.Thursday, April 1, 2004. $20. Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue, 564-7240.

Posted Friday, March 12, 2004 by admin
HOT 89.9 presents 50 CENT - "Beg for Mercy Tour"
TME ENTERTAINMENT announced today 50 Cent with G Unit will bring their "Beg for Mercy" tour to the Corel Centre on Thursday, April 22, at 8 p.m. They will be joined by David Banner, Kardinal Offishall and Melanie Durrant.

Tickets are $65 or $55 and include all taxes but exclude CRF and convenience charges. Tickets go on sale Friday, March 19, at 10 a.m. and can be purchased at www.capitaltickets.ca, by calling 599-FANS and 1-877-788-FANS, in person at all Ottawa-Gatineau area Sports Experts locations and at the Corel Centre box office. There will be reserved seating in the arena bowl seats and general admission on the arena floor.

Nowadays, it's a prerequisite in hip-hop: You blow; you put your crew on. You've seen it happen time and time again, so it should come as no surprise that 2003's Cinderella Story/Rookie of the Year/Top Selling Artist is touring with G Unit.

You know his name: 50 Cent. And if you've been listening, you know his crew: G Unit. G Unit was formed by 50 Cent. Combined they have sold over 800,000 records in Canada alone (700,000 plus for 50 Cent's "Get Rich Or Die Tryin'" and more than 100,000 for G Unit's "Beg for Mercy"). "Get Rich or Die Trying" featured the hit singles "In da Club", "P.I.M.P" and "Don't Push Me" featuring Lloyd Banks and Eminem.

"I've been promoting G Unit since before I even had a record deal," says 50. "All the music I put out music on the mixtape circuit was 50 Cent and G Unit." G Unit is 50 Cent flanked by the metaphor-laden rhyme animal Lloyd Banks, aggressive Southern street soldier Young Buck and supported by the still-incarcerated Tony Yayo.

David Banner's rise to stardom was immediate, assertive and momentous, much like that of his namesake's. David Banner broke through the music industry's concrete boundaries with the force of a super hero, single handedly putting Mississippi on the map as a force to be reckoned with. In the spring of 2003, Banner released his major label debut Mississippi: The Album delivering such aurally entertaining gems as the hard hitting party anthem "Like A Pimp" and the conscious, thoughtful "Cadillac on 22's."

Kardinal Offishall has changed many preconceived notions of what a hip-hop artist is. He doesn't hail from New York, L.A., or Atlanta; he embraces his Toronto/Jamaican heritage. He is the unofficial ambassador of Toronto. As his newly adopted moniker, Living History, suggests, he is creating history with both the music he creates, and the responses garnered from it. "Quest for Fire" prompted several requests for work from several industry heavyweights. Melanie Durrant's single "Let Me" featured Kardinal Offishall.

For further information, please contact:
Colin Lafreniere - TME Entertainment, (613) 843-1297, colinlaf@aol.com
Tim Pattyson - Corel Centre, (613) 599-0239, pattysont@ottawasenators.com

Posted Friday, March 12, 2004 by admin
City Council Meeting Highlights
New City Manager named
City Council endorsed the appointment of Kent Kirkpatrick to the position of
City Manager. Mr. Kirkpatrick was chosen following a national search, and
was the selection panel's top choice from a short list of excellent internal
and external candidates.

The new City Manager, whose appointment is effective immediately, brings a
wealth of experience to the position. He first joined Ottawa-Carleton
Regional Government in 1988, developing a strong administrative track record
in the areas of environmental services, health and finance. Mr. Kirkpatrick
has been the General Manager of the City's Corporate Services Department
since July 2000.

"Kent Kirkpatrick will provide our city administration with continuity as we
work together to maintain Ottawa's high quality of life," said Mayor Bob
Chiarelli. "He understands Ottawa's strengths, and his financial experience
at the municipal government level will be a huge asset for our city."

Phase One of Downtown Ottawa Urban Design Strategy 20/20 approved
City Council approved Phase One of the Downtown Ottawa Urban Design Strategy
20/20, a comprehensive design policy and implementation plan that will guide
future downtown development and property decisions.

Over the next 20 years, the Strategy will: create a shared downtown design
vision among the City, the National Capital Commission, adjacent
neighborhoods, the business community and potential development partners;
propose area-wide and site-specific urban design guidelines and Phase 2
design projects to help assess development applications, streetscape
infrastructure plans and other public realm improvements; establish
priorities for undertaking both short- and long-term civic investment in the
downtown; and provide urban design guidance to public and private sector
land development.

City staff will now prepare an amendment to the Official Plan to incorporate
the Downtown Design Strategy's main policy recommendations and strategic
directions. Of the Strategy's 41 individual initiatives or strategies,
12 are considered priorities. Council today approved the undertaking of two
of the initiatives - subject to the 2004 budget review - as the first Phase
2 projects to begin the implementation of the Strategy. The Upper Rideau
Street/Eastern Market Plan involves using a 3-D model to identify available
development parcels and to formulate building typologies and design
guidelines, including maximum heights. The Escarpment District Plan provides
the City with an opportunity to proactively plan the future redevelopment of
an area that links Lebreton Flats with the western part of downtown Ottawa.

The Downtown Design Strategy will help achieve the approved directions for
the City outlined in the Ottawa 20/20 Guiding Principles. In particular, it
will contribute to making Ottawa a "creative city rich in heritage, unique
in identity."

Other items of interest

* Harmonized Open Air Fire By-Law to go into effect May 1
City Council approved a harmonized Open-Air Fire By-law that will go
into effect on May 1, 2004. For the purposes of the By-law, open air fire
means the burning of material such as wood, tree limbs, and branches where
the flame is not wholly contained and includes campfires, brush fires, burn
drums, windrows, chimineas and other outdoor fireplaces, but does not
include barbecues. The new By-law, which aims to maintain public safety and
protect property, will regulate: areas where fires are permitted, while
recognizing the distinct needs of rural communities; the size of the fire;
permitted materials to be burned; permitted distances from other material
and public roadways; as well as the times of day during which open-air fires
may be safely set and maintained. The By-law will also establish a City-wide
permit program with an annual $10 fee for setting open-air fires, and a $50
fee for specific events in no-burn areas within the city.

* Home Child Care Task Force Report approved
City staff will begin working with the home child care community to
adopt and/or implement a number of recommendations from the Home Child Care
Task Force Report, which identifies ways to improve child care services in
Ottawa. Based on the report, staff will consider during the budget process,
a systematic increase in rates paid to home child care providers, dependant
on provincial funding. Following Council's direction, staff will also now
work with the home child care community to implement a voluntary
registration program for providers.

* Council asks for review of home care needs
Because provincial funding has not kept pace with the growing
demands for service at the Ottawa Community Care Access Centre (CCAC), City
Council voted to request that the Ontario Minister of Health review the home
care needs of Ottawa's seniors and disabled, as well as the CCAC's ability
to meet those needs. The request will be circulated to area MPPs, the Ottawa
CCAC and the Champlain District Health Council. Due to the lack of funding -
and despite a growing number of seniors and disabled residents - the CCAC
has budgeted only for 40,000 home visits this year, compared to 55,000 last
year. Because of the reduction, which will have a significant financial
impact on the City's programs and services, Council directed staff to
prepare a report that identifies how program and service delivery will be
affected.

* Building permit fees raised
Council voted to increase 2004 building permit fees from $11.33 to
$12.50 per $1,000 of construction. The new fees, which were included in the
City's 2004 Draft Budget, are intended to recover the current costs of
administering and enforcing the provisions of the Building Code Act, and go
into effect immediately.

* Gamma House designated under Part IV of Ontario Heritage Act
City Council approved the designation of the Gamman House under Part
IV of the Ontario Heritage Act, as a property of cultural heritage
significance. The City-owned building, located at 306 Cyr Avenue in Vanier,
is a modest one-and-a-half storey, mansard-roofed, wood frame cottage built
in 1875. The Ottawa Worker's Heritage Committee is currently interested in
using the home as an office and resource centre.

* Innovation, Development and Partnerships Branch to change names
City Council today endorsed a name change for the Innovation, Development
and Partnerships Branch, which will now be known as the Cultural Services
and Community Funding Branch. The name change was instituted to more
accurately reflect the services the Branch provides, and to ensure that
Council and the public have a clear indication of the Branch's purpose.

Next City Council meeting:
Wednesday, March 24, 2004

For more information:
Communications and Marketing
(613) 580-2450

Posted Friday, March 12, 2004 by admin
CBC Radio Talks! with National Ballet Dancer Rex Harrington
CBC Radio Talks! continues its season of provocative noon-hour
discussions with prominent people on Friday, March 19th with Rex
Harrington, principal dancer with The National Ballet of Canada. This
special edition of CBC Radio Talks! moves from its regular location to
The School of Dance, 200 Crichton Street.

Lucy van Oldenbarneveld of CBC Radio One's OTTAWA MORNING will lead the
hour-long chat with Harrington. The event is open to the public and
admission is free. Doors open at 11:30 a.m.

One of the finest dancers of his generation, Harrington is now
celebrating 20 years with The National Ballet. This season will mark his
retirement as a principal dancer, although not as an artist with the
company. An Officer of the Order of Canada, Harrington was born in
Peterborough, Ontario and joined The National Ballet in 1983. He has
given countless memorable performances, including Romeo in Romeo and
Juliet, the Prince in Swan Lake and Eugene Onegin in Onegin.

James Kudelka, artistic director of The National Ballet writes: "For
over twenty years, Rex Harrington has contributed not just to the
artistic success of The National Ballet of Canada, but has helped shape
its character and public identity. His unforgettable, dynamic
performances have transcended the stage and served to secure the
company's place in the national culture."

Highlights from CBC Radio Talks! with Rex Harrington will be broadcast
the following day on OTTAWA MORNING between 6 and 8:30 a.m., and can
then be heard online at http://ottawa.cbc.ca/radiotalks/.

The next CBC Radio Talks! event happens on Monday, March 29th, when The
Honourable Anne McLellan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public
Safety and Emergency Preparedness, joins Anthony Germain at the National
Arts Centre Fourth Stage at noon.

CBC Radio One airs on 91.5 in Ottawa. For more information on CBC Radio
programming, visit ottawa.cbc.ca.

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For further information contact:
Kylee Mackay, senior communications officer
CBC Radio Ottawa
(613) 562-8471
E-mail: kylee_mackay@cbc.ca
March 11, 2004

Posted Friday, March 12, 2004 by admin
Canada's National Arts Centre to announce major Alberta arts and culture festival on March 17
The National Arts Centre will announce a major arts and culture festival that will celebrate Alberta and its artists on Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at a news conference in the morning in Edmonton and at a reception in Calgary, later the same day.

Speakers at the Edmonton news conference will include: Deputy Prime Minister of Canada the Honourable Anne McLellan, Alberta Minister of Community Development and Deputy Government House Leader the Honourable Gene Zwozdesky, President and CEO of EPCOR Don Lowry, CBC Edmonton Radio and Television Station Manager Tim May, President and CEO of the National Arts Centre Peter Herrndorf and Producer and Executive Director of Alberta Scene Heather Moore. In addition, musicians and singers from Alberta will be performing at both Edmonton and Calgary events.

Edmonton News Conference

Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Time: 9:45 a.m. (Mountain Standard Time)

Location: Citadel Theatre, Tucker Amphitheatre Room, 9828-101A Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta

Calgary Reception

Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Time: 7:00 p.m. (Mountain Standard Time)

Location: EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts, Jack Singer Concert Hall Lobby, 205-8th Avenue S.E. Calgary, Alberta

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Media Information:
Jayne Watson

Director of Communications

National Arts Centre
(613) 947-7000, ext 260

jwatson@nac-cna.ca

Manon Champagne

Communications Advisor

National Arts Centre

(613) 947-7000, ext 560

mchampag@nac-cna.ca

Posted Thursday, March 11, 2004 by admin
WaterCan's 10th Annual Embassy Dinner
Tickets are now available for WaterCan's Annual Embassy Dinner to be held at the Aberdeen Pavilion on Friday, May 7, 2004. Over 500 people will dine and mingle with WaterCan's Honourary President Margaret Trudeau, our new Executive Director, Gary Pluim and many other notable guests. This is the 10th Anniversary for the event that raises money for clean water, health and sanitation projects in developing countries. Guests will dine on International culinary dishes - prepared and served by over 40 Embassies that support WaterCan's mission of Clean Water for All.

This year, the evening will also feature the Governor General's Foot Guard band, a silent and live auction with items that include the lease of a silver 2004 AUDI A4 Turbo, the commissioning of an original painting by Ben Babelowsky and dinners in various embassies including the Embassies of Egypt and Sweden.

The reception begins at 6:30 p.m. with dinner to follow at 7p.m. Tickets are $100 each and corporate tables of 8 are $1000. Tickets can be purchased by calling WaterCan at 230-5182 or by visiting the WaterCan website at www.watercan.com.

Media Contacts:

Alyson Fair
WaterCan Committee Member
Tel: (613) 692-6055
Fax: (613) 692-1840
Email: alyson@faircreative.com

Posted Thursday, March 11, 2004 by admin
THE NORTHERN PIKES HIT THE ROAD
The Northern Pikes are setting out to conquer Canada all over again, one city at time. The first three gigs have been booked for Montreal, Ottawa, and Kingston.
Thursday March 18th, Bourbon Street West, Montreal PQ
Friday March 19th, Lonestar Café, Ottawa ON
Saturday March 20th, Iron Horse Saloon, Kingston, ON (presented by BOB FM)

The Northern Pikes are back on the scene with their first national release in over a decade. It’s A Good Life was released December 2, 2003 on Sextant Records. This also coincides with The Pikes 20th anniversary of being a band and Canadian institution. The Pikes are in fine form with this very potent, melodic, immediate and vital pop release. It’s a CD for the optimist, the romantic and music lover who begs for sun drenched waves of sonic bliss to wash over them again and again. The title encompasses the message and passion; "It's A Good Life"!
In the span of their career, The Pikes have sold well over 400,000 units In Canada and the U.S. They have toured with everyone from Robert Palmer, Peter Frampton and David Bowie. Their albums, Big Blue Sky, Secrets of the Alibi, and Neptune have all gone GOLD. Snow in June (hit track – “She Ain’t Pretty”) went double Platinum!
With their second single “Underwater” already at radio, and a video delivered last week, The Northern Pikes are looking forward to getting back on the road.

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To set up an interview or for more information contact – jcloughley@sextantrecords.com or bblight@sextantrecords.com -
Ph: 905-470-5177 www.sextantrecords.com

Posted Thursday, March 11, 2004 by admin
THE UNICORNS horn in on Zaphod Beeblebrox
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX & HERITAGE BREWERY
PRESENT...

Canada's most promising new band,
and planet Earth's next big thing.

From Montreal via Campbell River, B.C./ Alien8 Recording Artists
THE UNICORNS

+ From Montreal
THE BESNARD LAKES

Wednesday, April 7 (Doors 8pm)

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada.
Age 19+/ General Admission
Tickets: $10 only at the door.

"Occasionally we all look north at Canada and chuckle a little. Those crazy canucks, with their
socialized healthcare system, decriminalized pot, and gay marriages. What are they thinking?
The Unicorns make it clear that Canadians are just as out-there when it comes to pop music as
they are with liberal government policies. And that's a really, really good thing."
-COKE MACHINE GLOW

"The Unicorns are a monster. They are pop music done the way pop music should have always been done."
-DIGITAL INDUSTRIES

The Unicorns give you the best of quirky, fucked up, frail, fantastic, and goddamned intimate pop music! With a sound both silly and sentimental, the Unicorns could be Canada’s answer to the Flaming Lips. Here the magical young lads with horns give listeners what they love and crave.

The Unicorns are a three-headed beast; though they were birthed as a two-headed beast in small-town seaside canadiana on an exotic island on the western coast. Nicholas 'niel' Diamonds & Alden Ginger rode pigs to school and hunted wild boar for pleasure (now they adopt a strict fruitarian lifestyle. More on that later). Diamonds ran away from home at a young age, relocating to Montréal - Canada's gay, petit-paris, to pursue a career in homology as it pertains to animal husbandry, then moonlighting as a street strumpeteer in the city's slummier, more historical neighbourhoods, leaving poor Ginger toiling on an increasingly unwelcome island, complete with rampant polygamy and blindfolded barnfights (more on that later).

In Montreal, Diamonds was introduced to J'aime Tambeur, a young hustler from the east end. A hearty friendship ensued.

In February 2003, Ginger was attacked in a knife fight (he escaped with a handful of flesh wounds) & banished from his family home. He boarded a bus & headed towards Montréal, detained briefly in Regina, Saskatchewan on shoplifting charges + impersonating a police officer (#C3808), armed only with his trusty 6-string & a few changes of underwear.

When Ginger finally arrived, the 2 boys released some early home recordings to little fanfare, some acclaim & a recording contract with a strange esoteric Japanese label.

Then the 3 joined forces to refine the old songs & occasionally write new ones. After a few productive months, they were whisked away - their first tour - by a group of gypsy elder rock musicians, heading west & being shown the ropes along the way.

By October 2003, after more arrests (drug possession, grand theft auto), self-immolation, and the loss of virginity, the gang, now taut like stretched elastic, returned to their second home (Montréal) only to pull up their roots & leave soon after... but not before the celebrated release of their P.H.D.'d sophomore album which has brought them across the continent.

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THE UNICORNS' web site - http://www.theunicorns.net
THE BESNARD LAKES' web site - http://www.thebesnardlakes.com

Information:
THE UNICORNS - alien8@alien8recordings.com & Dan Seligman/ Manager (514) 842-1919 danager@theunicorns.net
THE BESNARD LAKES - Dan Seligman/ Manager (514) 842-1919 danager@theunicorns.net
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX - Eugene Haslam (613) 237-5301 zaphods_ottawa@hotmail.com http://www.ZaphodBeeblebrox.com

Posted Thursday, March 11, 2004 by admin
THE MAHONES - Canada's Celtic Rock 'n' Roll Ruffians at Zaphod Beeblebrox
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX & GUINNESS
PRESENT...

"Canada's Celtic Rock 'n' Roll Ruffians"

From Kingston/ True North Recording Artists
THE MAHONES

Saturday, April 3 (Doors 8pm)

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada.
Age 19+/ General Admission
Tickets: $10 only at the door.

"...this is rock 'n' roll. Yeah, the reel-and-jig trappings are there. The tin whistle, the bodhran and the little accordion.
But there is backbone and tragedy; more than just frat party anthems."
- THE EDMONTON SUN

"The band's arsenal of accordions, tin whistles, mandolins, and bodhrans is still there, but the only overtly-Celtic
things reeling are the famously stout-soaked Mahones themselves."
-THE TORONTO SUN.

Since one fateful St. Patrick's Day in 1990, The Mahones have built a strong following throughout Canada and the globe. Their songwriting has matured over the course of five albums, "Clear The Way"(1993), "Draggin' The Days"(1994), "Rise Again"(1996), "The Hellfire Club Sessions"(1999), and "Here Comes Lucky"(2001). "Paint The Town Red"(2003), which also includes the bonus cd "Live at the Horseshoe", is the best illustration to date of The Mahones unique musical chemistry.

On the strength on their five previous albums, The Mahones have toured and appeared on television shows extensively throughout North America and Europe. Also on many occasions, The Mahones have appeared at festivals in Holland, Germany, Belgium, Canada, and the U.S.A.

Movie soundtracks have also crossed their path with "100 Bucks" in the Bruce McCullough (Kids in the Hall) directed Dog Park (Lions Gate Films 1999) starring Luke Wilson and "Celtic Pride" the title track for the movie Celtic Pride (Hollywood Pictures 1996) starring Dan Aykroyd and Daman Wayans.

The Mahones prepare to storm centre stage again, bringing their musical adventure to Zaphod's.

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THE MAHONES' web site - http://www.themahones.com

Information:
THE MAHONES - Finny McConnell (416) 854-2770 finnymcconnell@yahoo.com
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX - Eugene Haslam (613) 237-5301 zaphods_ottawa@hotmail.com http://www.ZaphodBeeblebrox.com

Posted Thursday, March 11, 2004 by admin
All things BRIGHTON beautiful at Zaphod Beeblebrox
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX & HOEGAARDEN
PRESENT...

"Night Of The Rising Stars"

From Montreal
BRIGHTON

+ KRIS WARD
+ DYLAN SHIELDS

Friday, April 2 (Doors 8pm)

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada.
Age 19+/ General Admission
Tickets: $6 only at the door.

"A band to watch out for! a richly textured sound fronted by strong vocals...catch them while you can!"
- Yvonne Matsell, Director, NXNE Music Festival.

""Brighton...they're going to conquer this country!"
-TooTall, DJ @ CHOM-FM, Montreal.

"Gorgeous! like vintage collectibles. The band members have a whiff of crusader about them...
which compels otherwise rational girls to gaze longingly!"."
- Marc LePage, THE MONTREAL GAZETTE.

Montreal-based Brighton has established themselves as real contenders. All five members possess both musical maturity and a determined commitment to artistic evolution. The Brighton sound is based on a combination of melodic vocals and songs that display both musical and lyrical freshness. The result is contemporary pop-rock.

Audiences have already responded very positively to Brighton, for they are a highly compelling group in performance. Their songs have garnered airplay on Montreal's CHOM 97.7 FM, Toronto's THE EDGE 102.1 FM and Vermont's The Buzz 99.9 FM. Music critics have also been seduced by the group's charm. They were voted "Artists To Watch For In 2004" by Jordan Zivitz of The Montreal Gazette. "Their work ethic is an integral part of their playing ethic... Keep an eye out." wrote Jamie O'Meara, Music Editor of Montreal's Hour magazine. Mark Lepage of The Montreal Gazette praised, "Gorgeous! Like vintage collectibles. The band members have a whiff of crusader about them." Montreal's CHOM-FM radio personality, Too Tall, told Canadian Musician magazine, "they're going to conquer this country."

Brighton has showcased at the CMW festival, NXNE and the Pop Montreal Festival. The band has played prestigious clubs like The Horseshoe (Toronto), Club Soda (Montreal), The Bowery Ballroom and Sin-E (New York). They have also shared the stage with Ours, Pilate, and Music For Mapmakers.

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Kris Ward will be appearing with his full backup band. When the tough leave, the rest go solo, or maybe that is not exactly how the saying goes. However, that seems to be the case for Ottawa born singer/songwriter Kris Ward. Seven years of band experience has left Kris on his own for the first time in his young career. With the disbanding of his last group The Wellwishers, he was left to ponder what was next. After toying with many different career oppourtunities, taking the solo road just seemed natural.

Kris Ward has made two albums with his previous bands, has played over a hundred gigs both in Ottawa and on the road and has appeared in newspaper and television and has had his songs played on radio. Not bad for someone who taught himself how to play guitar at the age of 14. This latest installment sees the performer taking on sole songwriting duties, nothing he isn't used to but something you think one would be scared about. The past has been great, but the future looks even brighter, expect to hear the first recording mid-2004 with some touring to follow.

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Dylan Shields has been setting up his own shows in and around Ottawa with local singer/songwriter friends that he has made through his travels. On stage, Dylan uses loops and delays to enrich the sound of typical solo guitar playing singer. Adding layer upon layer, audiences confuse themselves trying to find other musicians who are supplying the music with such a full sound. Keep your ear to the ground frequently to follow Dylan's musical endeavours.

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BRIGHTON's web site - http://www.brightonhq.com
KRIS WARD's web site - http://www.krisward.com
DYLAN SHIELD's web site - http://www.dylanshields.com

Information:
BRIGHTON - Patrick Turgeon/ Just Talent (514) 738-4600 justtalent@fusion3.com
KRIS WARD - info@krisward.com
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX - Eugene Haslam (613) 237-5301 zaphods_ottawa@hotmail.com http://www.ZaphodBeeblebrox.com

Posted Thursday, March 11, 2004 by admin
International Reading Series at NAC
The National Arts Centre English Theatre invites you to join us at
the next International Reading Series presentation of Jules Romain's
brilliant satire Knock in a new translation by Ottawa's own Stewart Boston.
Don't miss this opportunity to see work that is rarely, if ever, performed
in the Ottawa region!

This amusing 1965 satire dramatizes the ability of a charismatic doctor to
exploit the fear, greed and credulity of an entire town.

The French poet, dramatist and novelist Jules Romains was a prolific writer,
but is best remembered for his 1924 play Knock. This satire on the power of
medicine to impose on human credulity is regarded as "a masterpiece of
irony, wit and comic invention." This is the work that established Romains
as a comic dramatist and gained him a lasting place in the international
repertory.

An award-winning playwright, Stewart Boston has also translated a number of
classics. His translation of Racine's Phèdre (directed by Marti Maraden) was
part of the National Arts Centre's 1999 On the Verge. His verse translation
of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde was published by the Folio Society of
Great Britain in 1990 and he is currently translating the medieval narrative
poem Pearl into modern verse for the Folio Society. His plays have been
published by Simon and Pierre and the University of British Columbia in
Canada and by Dramatic and Performance Publishing in the United States.
Counsellor Extraordinary was the first full-length Canadian play
commissioned and produced by Edmonton's Citadel Theatre.
Mr. Boston has also had 18 plays and several short stories broadcast by CBC.
In addition, a number of his essays, short stories and poems have been
published and broadcast nationally and internationally.

Knock is directed by David William, former Stratford Festival Artistic
Director, and features the talents of Pierre Brault, Todd Duckworth, Mary
Ellis, Kate Hurman, John Koensgen, Jeff Lawson, Michael Mancini, Paul
Rainville and Alix Sideris.

The reading takes place in the intimate NAC Fourth Stage at 19:30 on Monday,
March 15. Tickets to Knock are available at the NAC Box Office and are only
$10 for adults/$5 for students.

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For more information, please contact:
Laura Denker, Publicity and Media Relations Coordinator
NAC English Theatre
(613) 947-7000 ext. 389; ldenker@nac-cna.ca

Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2004 by admin
Mar 15/18 7pm: Seed of Hope courses begin
Seeds of Hope course for east enders starts THURSDAY evenings, March 18
at TUCKER HOUSE in Clarence-Rockland.

MONDAY, MARCH 15 - SEEDS OF HOPE ORGANIC GARDENING COURSE begins at
BETHANY BAPTIST CHURCH (cr. Baseline Rd and Centrepointe Drive West),

7:00 - 9:15 PM.

Learn how to grow healthy vegetables and beautiful flowers in a people-
friendly and Earth-friendly way. 6 Monday evenings for $50 (includes
seeds, soil, the "Community Garden Guide" and organic refreshments).

Facilitators include Rev. Isobel McGregor, master gardener Gillian
Boyd, and other veteran organic growers in the Ottawa area. Using
nature's nontoxic methods, the hands-on course includes seed starting,
transplanting, composting and permaculture principles.

Registration: call Zdena at 226-5023 or see .

Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2004 by admin
Winners of LES PRIX GOLDEN CHERRY AWARDS
GENERAL

Best Critic
Anita Euteneier (Ottawa XPress)

Best Philanthropist
Joe Friday

Most Dedicated Volunteer
Tyler Naitok

Best Cultural Worker
Cathy Busby (Ottawa Art Gallery)

Best Festival
Ottawa International Animation Festival

Sexiest Artist
Juan Carlos Noria

Biggest Ego
Nichola Feldman-Kiss

Best Arts Organization
Sensibilités: Amalgame de femmes multiethniques

Biggest Architectural Eyesore
American Embassy

VISUAL AND MEDIA ARTS

Best Gallery
Galerie SAW Gallery

Best Curator
Johanna Mizgala (The Portrait Gallery of Canada)

Best Photographer
Colwyn Griffith

Best Artist in Installation or Sculpture = Tie
Kenneth Emig
Ron Noganosh

Best Artist in Painting, Drawing or Printing
Garry Neill Kennedy

Best Filmmaker
Pixie Cram

Best Video Artist
Véronique Couillard

Best Emerging Artist
Brad Snow

Best Graphic Designer
Code régional

DANCE

Best Company
Le Groupe Dance Lab

Best Production
Perfect Nowhere (Le Groupe Dance Lab)

Best Choreographer
Yvonne Coutts

Best Dancer
Juliana Pulford

THEATRE / THÉÂTRE

Best Company
A Company of Fools

Best Actor
Patricia Collins

Best Director
Charles McFarland

Best Playwright
Bryden MacDonald

MUSIC

Best Band
Afro Connexion

Best Singer-Songwriter
Le Shah Loskar

Best Live Performance
Lovin Body Parts

Best DJ - Tie
Linus
Ruby Jane

Best Local Label
Little Bullhorn

Best Indie Record Store
Organised Sound

Best Radio Show
All In A Day (CBC)

Best Experimental, Electro-Acoustic or Electronica
If Then Do

LITERATURE / LITTÉRATURE

Best Zine
Burnt Toast

Best Poet
Oni the Haitian Sensation

Best Fiction
Suki Lee

Best Erotica
Oni the Haitian Sensation

Best Indie Bookstore
Mother Tongue Books

If you require any additional information, please contact us anytime. We
have images of the event taken by Ryan Stec, that are available for your
use. We can also put you in touch with the awarded artists.

Kind regards,

Stefan St-Laurent and Tam-Ca Vo-Van
Co-Artistic Directors
Galerie SAW Gallery
67, rue Nicholas Street
Ottawa (Ontario)
CANADA K1N 7B9
T: 613.236.6181
F: 613.238.4617
sawgallery@artengine.ca
www.artengine.ca/saw

Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2004 by admin
Renegades coach Joe Paopao elected Intergold CFLPA Coach of the Year
The Ottawa Renegades are very proud to announce that head coach Joe Paopao has been named the Intergold Canadian Football League Players’ Association Coach of the Year, as selected in balloting by CFL coaches, players and fans.

“This is a great honour,” said Paopao. “It’s always nice to be recognized by your peers and the fans.”

In addition to the Coach of the Year honour, Paopao was also named the East Division All-Star coach.

The second-year Renegades finished the 2003 regular season with seven wins in 18 games and were in the running for playoff qualification until the final week of the schedule.

Wally Buono of the BC Lions was named the West Division All-Star coach.

Two Renegades players from the 2003 season were named to the Intergold CFLPA All-League team; safety Donnavan Carter and placekicker Lawrence Tynes.

Carter and Tynes were also named to the East Division all-star team. Other Renegades on the East Division team are guard Val St. Germain, running back Josh Ranek, slotback Demetris Bendross, defensive tackle Jerome Haywood, and linebacker Gerald Vaughn.

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For more information, please contact:

Barre Campbell

Director, Media Relations & Communications

Ottawa Renegades Football Club

(613) 231-5608 ext. 236 (office)

(613) 913-7719 (cell)

Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2004 by admin
SENATORS ACQUIRE 2004 THIRD ROUND PICK FROM NASHVILLE
Ottawa Senators general manager John Muckler today acquired the Nashville Predators' third round draft pick in 2004, as obtained from the Colorado Avalanche, for defenceman Shane Hnidy.

The draft pick in question is in relation to a trade made between the Predators and the Avalanche on July 1, 2003. Nashville sent defenceman Karlis Skrastins to Colorado for the Avalanche's third round selection in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft.

Hnidy, 28, had been acquired by the Senators from Detroit for Ottawa's 8th round pick in the 2000 draft on June 25, 2000. In 37 games this season, the native of Neepawa, Man. recorded five assists, 72 penalty minutes and a +2 rating. Because of injuries to forwards, he played right wing in seven games and was a healthy scratch 17 times. Hnidy also missed 13 games to injuries (bruised leg and foot) and one to the flu.

In 189 career games with Ottawa, Hnidy recorded 20 points (4-16) and 343 penalty minutes.

For more information, please contact:
Phil Legault, (613) 599-0327
Steve Keogh, (613) 599-0326
Tim Pattyson, (613) 599-0239

Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2004 by admin
SENATORS ACQUIRE DEFENCEMAN GREG de VRIES FROM NEW YORK
Ottawa Senators general manager John Muckler acquired today Stanley Cup winning defenceman Greg de Vries from the New York Rangers in exchange for defenceman Karel Rachunek and forward Alexandre Giroux.

de Vries, 31 years old and a nine-year NHL veteran, has played in 53 games with the Rangers this season, recording three goals and 12 assists, 37 penalty minutes and +12 in the plus-minus rating. He ranked first among defencemen and second on the team in +/- and was the third leading scorer among Rangers defencemen. In his last game with New York, he had one assist, two shots on goal and was -2 in 15:41 of ice time in a 7-4 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins (March 7). de Vries has missed 15 games due to a knee injury this season along with one game due to the flu.

In 553 career NHL games, de Vries has recorded 33 goals and 81 assists with 496 penalty minutes, playing with the Rangers, Colorado, Nashville and Edmonton. In career post-season action, de Vries has six goals and 13 assists with 77 penalty minutes in 94 games, highlighted by a Stanley Cup in 2001 with the Colorado Avalanche.

The Sundridge, Ont. native began his NHL career when he was signed as a free agent by Edmonton on March 20, 1994. He was traded to Nashville by Edmonton with Eric Fichaud and Drake Berehowsky for Mikail Shtalenkov and Jim Dowd, on Oct. 1, 1998. Later that year he was traded to Colorado by Nashville for Colorado's second round choice (Ed Hill) in the 1999 entry draft on Oct. 24, 1998. After four-and-a-half years in Colorado, de Vries signed as a free agent with the New York Rangers on July 14, 2003.

Rachunek was in his fifth season with the Senators. Ottawa selected the 24-year old native of Zlin, Czech Republic in the 9th-round, 229th overall, of the 1997 draft. This season, he had 17 points (1-16), 29 penalty minutes and a +17 in 60 games. In his career with the Senators, he played in 246 games recording 97 points (11-86) and 145 penalty minutes.

In his third season in the Senators organization, Giroux is second in team scoring with 42 points (19-32) and 79 penalty minutes in 59 games with Binghamton of the American Hockey League (AHL). The 22-year old native of Quebec City was drafted by the Senators in the seventh round, 213th overall, in the 1999 draft and played his first pro season with Ottawa's AHL affiliate in Grand Rapids in 2001-02 and in Binghamton during the 2002-03 campaign.

GREG de VRIES, Defence, Shoots left, 6'3", 215 lbs.
Born: Jan. 4, 1973, Sundridge, Ont.
Drafted: Not drafted
Transactions: Signed as a free agent by Edmonton March 20, 1994. Traded to Nashville by Edmonton with Eric Fichaud and Drake Berehowsky for Mihail Shtalenkov and Jim Dowd, Oct. 1, 1998. Traded to Colorado by Nashville for Colorado's second round choice (Ed Hill) in the 1999 entry draft, Oct. 24, 1998. Signed as a free agent by the New York Rangers, July 14, 2003.

Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2004 by admin
OTTAWA RAIDERS LOSE FIRST GAME IN BEST OF 3
The Ottawa Raiders hit the road to start a 3-game playoff series against the Montréal Axion on Saturday, March 6.

The first period looked to be a good start for the Ottawa Raiders as they took control of the play and put together several scoring opportunities only to be stopped by Montréal net minder Charline Labonte. Montréal took advantage of power plays to end the first period 2-0.

Montreal stepped up their play in both the second and third period notching three goals in each period to finish the game with a victory 8-0. Ottawa had several chances in the game to get back in but went 0-9 on the power play.

Ottawa have less then two weeks to regroup for Game 2 with the goal of making a return trip to Montréal for Game 3.

Ottawa will be hosting its only home game of the series on Friday, March 19 at the Goulbourn Recreation Complex. Game time will be 8:30pm.

Ticket Prices:

Adults: 5$
Students: 3$
Children (Under 8): Free

Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2004 by admin
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX - March & April Concert Listings
NEW!!!- Every Wednesday - after the bands - FREE!!!
DJs GAZ & EMMETT
present
READY! STEADY! GO!
Motown, Mod, Brit-Pop, Rock, Soul

MUSIC - DANCE - FASHION - BOOZE
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
NEW!!!- Every Thursday - after the bands - FREE!!!
DJ SELLOUT
presents
FULL FLAVOUR THURSDAYS
Stop thuggin' and check out the Old-Skool jams

MUSIC - DANCE - ANGST - BOOZE
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX
27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada.
CONCERT & EVENTS LISTINGS

WIN TICKETS TO ZAPHOD'S SHOWS FROM OTTAWASTART.COM.
http://www.ottawastart.com
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ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX , 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada. K1N 5S7
OPEN FROM 4PM EVERY DAY.
FINE BEERS, COCKTAILS & FOOD.
Bands onstage at 9pm, unless otherwise indicated.
Licenced bar. Age 19+ unless otherwise indicated. Valid photo i.d. required.
(613)562-1010 http://www.zaphodbeeblebrox.com
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The Legendary ELECTRIC BALLROOM
Every Day from 9pm, or after the bands.
No cover charge Monday to Thursday
Fri. & Sat. $3 from 11pm to close.

Sundays - punXercise - The best pop/punk/mod/rock from any era - DJs NATASHA BEAUDIN, TRES ROMANTIQUE, MICHAEL A. HURTZ and TIM HARE
Mondays - CLUB ZAPHOD - Indie.rock/College.rock/Alt.rock/Modern.rock/Requests - DJ SHANE
Tuesdays - INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH - Industrial and Dark Techno - DJ LESLIE
Wednesdays - READY! STEADY! GO! - Explosive Indie/Brit-Pop/Motown/Mod/Rock & Soul/Requests - DJ GAZZ + DJ EMMETT
Thursdays - FULL FLAVOUR THURSDAYS - Old-Skool Jams/ Requests - DJ SELLOUT
Fridays - THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM - Everybody's favourite Alternative/ Brit-Pop/ Big Beat/ Electrionica/ Rock/ Soul/ Requests
- DJ GAZ
Saturdays - THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM - Everybody's favourite Alternative/ Brit-Pop/ Big Beat/ Electrionica/ Rock/ Soul/ Requests -
DJ STEPH
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LIVE BANDS - DOORS 8PM - OPENING BAND AT 9PM - HEADLINE AT 10PM - OR AS STATED
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Tue. Mar 9 -INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH with DJ Leslie (Free)
Wed. Mar 10 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Heritage Brewery present ($6)
Managed by Bob Hallett from GREAT BIG SEA
From St. John's, Newfoundland
BROTHERS IN STEREO (http://www.brothersinstereo.com)
+ THE REAL GONE DADDIES (http://www.realgonedaddies.com)
+ READY! STEADY! GO! with DJs Gaz & Emmett
Thu. Mar 11 - Zaphod Beeblebrox, Steam Whistle & Jagermeister present ($8)
From the UK Band JAMES
MIKE KULAS (http://www.medium.ca/interloper)
+ KATIE GRIFFIN (http://www.katiegriffin.com)
+ JEFF MOFFATT (http://www.jeffmoffatt.com)
+ FULL FLAVOUR THURSDAYS with DJ Sellout
Fri. Mar. 12 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Hoegaarden present ($6)
SEISMIC (http://www.seismicmusic.com)
+ PACER
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Gaz
Sat. Mar. 13 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Stella Artois present ($6)
From Toronto/ Paper Bag Recording Artists
CONTROLLER.CONTROLLER (http://www.controllercontroller.com)
+ PAPERJACK (http://www.kelprecords.com/bands/paperjack/index.html)
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Steph
Sun. Mar 14 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Labatt 50 present ($2)
THE JEZEBELS performing/ leading punXercise ("Exercise your punk rock side")
+ with DJ's NATASHA BEAUDIN, TRES ROMANTIQUE, MICHAEL A. HURTZ & TIM HARE
Mon. Mar 15 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, The Ottawa Sun & Sleeman Brewery present "Showcase Mondays" (Free)
TREVOR STRANGE (http://www.trevorstrange.com)
+ MOONRAKER (http://www.moonrakerband.com)
+ ISADORA
+ CLUB ZAPHOD with DJ Shane
Tue. Mar 16 -INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH with DJ Leslie (Free)
Wed. Mar 17 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Heritage Brewery present (Free)
NO IRISH WANNABEES! NO GREEN BEER!
+ READY! STEADY! GO! with DJs Gaz & Emmett
Thu. Mar 18 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, Steam Whistle & Jagermeister present ($6)
AUGUST ELLIOT (http://www.augustelliot.com)
+ BANANA JANE
+ STEFANI JAXSN (http://www.stefanijaxsn.com)
+ FULL FLAVOUR THURSDAYS with DJ Sellout
Fri. Mar 19 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Hoegaarden present ($6)
ONE WORLD BEAT Global Music Festival/ Benefit for KEEP A CHILD ALIVE
SAWDOGS
+ NUGINDUCK (http://www.nuginduck.com)
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Gaz
Sat. Mar 20 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Stella Artois present ($6)
ONE WORLD BEAT Global Music Festival/ Benefit for KEEP A CHILD ALIVE
#1 on CKCU-FM
AS THE POETS AFFIRM (http://www.asthepoetsaffirm.com)
+ From Winnipeg/ Warner Music Recording Artists
THE WAKING EYES (http://www.thewakingeyes.com)
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Steph
Sun. Mar 21 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Labatt 50 present ($2)
THE JEZEBELS performing/ leading punXercise ("Exercise your punk rock side")
+ with DJ's NATASHA BEAUDIN, TRES ROMANTIQUE, MICHAEL A. HURTZ & TIM HARE
Mon. Mar 22 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, The Ottawa Sun & Sleeman Brewery present "Showcase Mondays" (Free)
J.J. ANTROBUS (http://www.jjantrobus.com)
+ THE POPULARS (http://www.thepopulars.com)
+ ROMEO LIQUOR STORE (http://www.romeoliquorstore.com)
+ CLUB ZAPHOD with DJ Shane
Tue. Mar 23 -INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH with DJ Leslie (Free)
Wed. Mar 24 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Heritage Brewery present ($6)
BLUESTONE
+ ANODE
+ READY! STEADY! GO! with DJs Gaz & Emmett
Thu. Mar 25 - Zaphod Beeblebrox, Steam Whistle & Jagermeister present ($8)
Rebirth Of Cool Tour
BLUES UNDERDOG (http://www.bluesunderdog.com)
+ guests
+ FULL FLAVOUR THURSDAYS with DJ Sellout
Fri. Mar 26 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Hoegaarden present ($8)
THE FULLY DOWN (http://www.thefullydown.com)
+ HARTSFIELD (http://www.hartsfieldrock.tk)
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Gaz
Sat. Mar 27 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Stella Artois present ($8)
French Kiss/ MapleNationwide Recording Artist
BLINKER THE STAR (http://www.blinkerthestar.com)
+ RED LETTER DAY
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Steph
Sun. Mar 28 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Labatt 50 present ($2)
THE JEZEBELS performing/ leading punXercise ("Exercise your punk rock side")
+ with DJ's NATASHA BEAUDIN, TRES ROMANTIQUE, MICHAEL A. HURTZ & TIM HARE
Mon. Mar 29 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, The Ottawa Sun & Sleeman Brewery present "Showcase Mondays" (Free)
RADIODAZED (http://members.tripod.com/radiodazed/)
+ WALKERS LINE (http://www.walkersline.com)
+ CLUB ZAPHOD with DJ Shane
Tue. Mar 30 -INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH with DJ Leslie (Free)
Wed. Mar 31 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Heritage Brewery present ($3)
WAKING LIFE
+ MAGNETIC KILL
+ RIDING PINE
+ READY! STEADY! GO! with DJs Gaz & Emmett
Thu. Apr 1 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, Steam Whistle & Jagermeister present ($8)
From Toronto/ Paper Bag Recording Artists
FEMBOTS (http://www.fembots.net)
+ From London/ Teenage USA Recording Artists
TWO MINUTE MIRACLES (http://www.teenageusarecordings.com)
+ FULL FLAVOUR THURSDAYS with DJ Sellout
Fri. Apr 2 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Hoegaarden present ($6)
From Montreal
BRIGHTON (http://www.angelfire.com/pq/brightonband/Bright1.html)
+ KRIS WARD (http://www.krisward.com)
+ DYLAN SHIELDS (http://www.dylanshields.com)
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Gaz
Sat. Apr 3 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Guinness present ($10)
From Kingston/ True North Recording Artists
THE MAHONES (http://www.themahones.com)
+ guests
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Steph
Sun. Apr 4 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Labatt 50 present ($2)
THE JEZEBELS performing/ leading punXercise ("Exercise your punk rock side")
+ with DJ's NATASHA BEAUDIN, TRES ROMANTIQUE, MICHAEL A. HURTZ & TIM HARE
Mon. Apr 5 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, The Ottawa Sun & Sleeman Brewery present "Showcase Mondays" (Free)
SOMATIK (http://www.somatik.com)
+ From Victoria via The Yukon/ Aquarius Recording Artists
ALEX MURDOCH (http://www.alexmurdoch.com)
+ CLUB ZAPHOD with DJ Shane
Tue. Apr 6 -INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH with DJ Leslie (Free)
Wed. Apr 7 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Heritage Brewery present ($10)
From Montreal via B.C.
THE UNICORNS (http://www.the-unicorns.com)
+ From Montreal
THE BESNARD LAKES (http://www.thebesnardlakes.com)
+ READY! STEADY! GO! with DJ Gaz
Thu. Apr 8 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, Steam Whistle & Jagermeister present ($8)
From Toronto/ Sonic Unyon Recording Artists
RAISING THE FAWN (http://www.raisingthefawn.com)
+ guests
+ FULL FLAVOUR THURSDAYS with DJ Sellout
Fri. Apr 9 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Hoegaarden present ($10)
From Oshawa/ Three Gut Recording Artists
CUFF THE DUKE (http://www.cufftheduke.com)
+ GOLDEN FAMILE (http://www.musicforcatsrecords.com/goldenfamile.html)
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Gaz
Sat. Apr 10 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Guinness present ($6)
From Toronto
THE LUDES (http://www.theludes.net)
+ From Toronto/ Permafrost Recording Artists
THE PATIENTS (http://www.thepatients.net)
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Steph
Sun. Apr 11 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Labatt 50 present ($2)
THE JEZEBELS performing/ leading punXercise ("Exercise your punk rock side")
+ with DJ's NATASHA BEAUDIN, TRES ROMANTIQUE, MICHAEL A. HURTZ & TIM HARE
Mon. Apr 12 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, The Ottawa Sun & Sleeman Brewery present "Showcase Mondays" (Free)
A FACE FOR RADIO (http://www.afaceforradio.com)
+ THE SECOND GLANCE (http://www.thesecondglance.com)
+ SKANKTANKS (http://www.skanktanks.com)
+ CLUB ZAPHOD with DJ Shane
Tue. Apr 13 -INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH with DJ Leslie (Free)
Wed. Apr 14 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Heritage Brewery present ($6)
From Hamilton/ Coqi Recording Artist
WAX MANNEQUIN (http://www.waxmannequin.com)
+ guests
+ READY! STEADY! GO! with DJ Gaz
Thu. Apr 15 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, Steam Whistle & Jagermeister present ($6)
KID YOU RUN (http://www.kidyourun.com)
+ DAWNPATROL
+ THE SUBURBAN POP PROJECT (http://www.thesuburbanpopproject.com)
+ FULL FLAVOUR THURSDAYS with DJ Sellout
Fri. Apr 16 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Hoegaarden present ($8)
From Winnipeg/ MapleMusic Recording Artist
JASON PLUMB (ex-THE WALTONS) (http://www.jasonplumb.com)
+ MAYOR McCA (http://www.mayormcca.com)
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Gaz
Sat. Apr 17 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Stella Artois present ($6)
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
+ guests
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Steph
Sun. Apr 18 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Labatt 50 present ($2)
THE JEZEBELS performing/ leading punXercise ("Exercise your punk rock side")
+ with DJ's NATASHA BEAUDIN, TRES ROMANTIQUE, MICHAEL A. HURTZ & TIM HARE
Mon. Apr 19 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, The Ottawa Sun & Sleeman Brewery present "Showcase Mondays" (Free)
FOR THE MATHEMATICS (http://www.forthemathematics.com)
+ FORTY CENT FIX (http://www.fortycentfix.com)
+ THE DRIVE HOME (http://www.thedrivehome.ca)
+ CLUB ZAPHOD with DJ Shane
Tue. Apr 20 -INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH with DJ Leslie (Free)
Thu. Apr 22 -Zaphod Beeblebrox, Steam Whistle & Jagermeister present ($6)
From Toronto
SPACE ELEVATOR (http://www.apaceelevator.ca)
+ THE FORTUNATE SONS
+ From Sault Ste. Marie
STARTLEFISH (http://www.startlefish.com)
+ FULL FLAVOUR THURSDAYS with DJ Sellout
Fri. Apr 23 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Hoegaarden present ($6)
GOOD 2 GO (http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Good_2_Go/)
+ MORAL HAZARD (http://www.moralhazard.ca)
+ THE BELLA BOMBS (http://www.thebellabombs.com)
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Gaz
Sat. Apr 24 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Stella Artois present ($6)
PHAT BASTARD (http://www.phatbastard.org)
+ NO OTHER WAY (http://www.nootherway.com)
+ THE THREAT
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Steph
Sun. Apr 25 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Labatt 50 present ($2)
THE JEZEBELS performing/ leading punXercise ("Exercise your punk rock side")
+ with DJ's NATASHA BEAUDIN, TRES ROMANTIQUE, MICHAEL A. HURTZ & TIM HARE
Tue. Apr 27 -INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH with DJ Leslie (Free)
Fri. Apr 30 -Zaphod Beeblebrox & Hoegaarden present ($6)
CD Release
SCRATCH (http://www.scratchnet.com)
+ guests
+ THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM with DJ Gaz
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CHECK OUT OUR WEB SITE: http://www.zaphodbeeblebrox.com
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX , 27 York Street, Ottawa, CANADA. K1N 5S7

Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2004 by admin
FEMBOTS + TWO MINUTE MIRACLES create musical marvels at Zaphod Beeblebrox
From Toronto/ Paper Bag Recording Artists
FEMBOTS

+ From London/ Teenage USA Recording Artists
TWO MINUTE MIRACLES

Thursday, April 1 (Doors 8pm)

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada.
Age 19+/ General Admission
Tickets: $8 only at the door.

Founded in 1998 by Dave MacKinnon and Brian Poirier as a home recording experiment, FemBots quickly outgrew the studio to become a critical favourite of the Canadian Independent music scene. 'Small Town Murder Scene' is their second release. This record finds the band moving beyond their innovative "budgetronica" to explore a darker, more roots-based sound. 'Small Town Murder Scene' also showcases the duo's growing strength as songwriters.

"The FemBots are a constant revelation. They create some of the most moving, unexpected, inspiring and
genuine music I have ever heard."
- John K. Sampson, THE WEAKERTHANS.

"There is a future for the FemBots, whether it be a little indie band that the underground just adores or
if it be a band that a prominent independent label picks up and becomes a college fave, that's all left to be
determined. Either way, the FemBots have recorded a great little album that should please many people."
- MUSICEMISSIONS.COM

"Deeply evocative songwriting that finds poetry - lyrical and aural - in the mundane."
- John Sakamoto, EYE Anti-Hit List

FemBots have expanded into a larger ensemble, featuring Julie Penner on violin and Jason Tate on drums and bowed saw. They have opened for the Dirty Three and the Tindersticks, and joined The Weakerthans on their past Canadian Fall Tour.

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Andy Magoffin, Aaron Curtis, John F. Higney Jr., Mississauga Slim and Clayton Corneil, are known collectively as the Two Minute Miracles. The long awaited third volume of the Miracles finds them mining familiar alt-country pop territory with a few twists and turns to lead you to inner salvation.

A Two-Minute Miracles show can hectic. But it does not pretend to be something that it is not, and it does not rely upon loud volume for its intensity. The Miracles will be leaving their hometown of London, Ontario, to showcase all the hits from "Volume III", and more, at a select number of shows. Welcome them to your town and give them vegetables.

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FEMBOTS' web site - http://www.fembots.net
TWO MINUTE MIRACLES' web site - http://www.teenageusarecordings.com

Information:
FEMBOTS - Amanda Newman / Paperbag Records (416) 570-7148 amanda@paperbagrecords.com
TWO MINUTE MIRACLES - Phil Klygo/ Teenage USA (416) 341-0049 phil@teenageusarecordings.com
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX - Eugene Haslam (613) 237-5301 zaphods_ottawa@hotmail.com http://www.ZaphodBeeblebrox.com

Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2004 by admin
BLINKER THE STAR shines bright at Zaphod Beeblebrox
From Montreal via Los Angeles and Pembroke
French Kiss/ MapleNationwide Recording Artist
BLINKER THE STAR

+ RED LETTER DAY

Saturday, March 27 (Doors 8pm)

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada.
Age 19+/ General Admission
Tickets: $8 only at the door.

"I truly don't believe I've heard an album that has studied the past history of rock and incorporated it
so well since The Clash's masterpiece London Calling. Not only has Blinker The Star brought elements
from the past forward, he has also taken modern rock elements and incorporated them, as well as elements
we didn't know we were ready for, until now. From the sound of this CD, I have seen the light at the end of
the tunnel, and kiddies, you had better be on the lookout for Blinker The Star, this album rocks!"
- Punk Reviews/ www.rikksrevues.com

"A turbo-charged blast of crunching power-chord guitar riffs, fist-pumping beats, flawless glam-pop hooks
and Zadorozny's Paul Stanleyesque pipes, Still in Rome delivers 10 of the best songs that KISS,
Ozzy Osbourne and David Bowie never wrote."
- The Winnipeg Sun
This tale begins in 1994 when Jordon Zadorozny, fresh from his ancestral wilds of Pembroke, packed up and moved to Montreal in search of his first big city music experiences. He answered the call from local darlings Tinker, who were searching for a guitar player. Jordon joined the group and was a perfect spoke in the Tinker wheel, adding a sonic guitar splash. Tinker was enjoying a charmed run when bassist Melissa Auf der Maur packed her bags for Seattle, joining forces with Courtney Love’s Hole. Tinker was left to fend for itself.

Undaunted, and all the while recording his own material, Jordon left Tinker to form his own band in his own vision. Blinker the Star, meaning “blinking star” in Gaelic, Icelandic and Jive, released their eponymous debut album through Vibracobra/Treat and Release Records in 1995. The sophomore release, A Bourgeois Kitten, a more detailed but no less howling effort than its predecessor, soon caught the attention of fans and musicians alike. One such fan was Hole’s Courtney Love, who caught the band in New York in the summer of 1996.

August Everywhere, Blinker the Star’s third album and first for the Dreamworks label would mark a shift in musical direction for the band. Turning his back on the day’s major label grunge-lite culture (and on his guitar, largely), Jordon set about to record an album of lush orchestral beauty.

Still In Rome, Blinker the Star’s fourth album, was released in the fall of 2003 through MapleNationwide. A dark, edgy, yet joyfully ecstatic rock record, the LP represents a rejuvenated Jordon with a renewed ideal: to give rock fans the music they crave and deserve, music that encapsulates the untamed stubbornness of the best 1970s rock with a forward thinking attitude towards process and presentation. With a live band cocked and loaded, Jordon’s plans for Blinker the Star are to see the band release albums in much quicker succession than in the past, easier now that the band has its own studio.

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BLINKER THE STAR's web site - http://www.blinketthestar.com

Information:
BLINKER THE STAR - Cam Carpenter (416) 603-7500 cam@smokeandmirrorspromotions.com
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX - Eugene Haslam (613) 237-5301 zaphods_ottawa@hotmail.com http://www.zaphodbeeblebrox.com

Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2004 by admin
rostbite Winter Punk Extravaganza Hits Ottawa March 18
THURSDAY MARCH 18 - FROSTBITE 2004 TOUR w/ MAD CADDIES, CHOKE, PULLEY, IRISH
CAR BOMB and CLOSET MONSTER - CAPITAL MUSIC HALL - 6PM - $18 ADV.

Just in time for the cold snap the "tour formerly known as Snojam" brings
the best in punk, ska and hardcore to Ottawa to warm things up at Capital
Music Hall Thursday March 18th...

For eight years the Snojam tour wound it's way across Canada taking on
winter's March madness to signal the trading of snowboards for skateboards,
bringing the best in US, Canadian and International punk bands from
Vancouver to Quebec City...

... until the corporations bit the underground and started their own tour
under the same moniker to create a youth marketing bazaar featuring music,
extreme sports, and your favourite soft drinks, snack foods and personal
hygiene products.

Frostbite takes over where the original Snojam left off bringing the hottest
mix of all the sub genres of punk rock to warm up the blustery Canadian
winter.

This year's lineup includes: Mad Caddies, Choke, Pulley, Irish Car Bomb and
Closet Monster.

Doors open at 6pm, this event is all ages with a licenced area. Tickets are
$18 in advance available at all ticketmaster locations as well as at Record
Runner (212 Rideau Street.)

Capital Music Hall is located at 200 Rideau Street at the corner of
Cumberland. There is ample parking behind the venue.

For Mad Caddies interviews please contact Melanie Kaye at Fat Wreck -
416-408-3223 or email - melanie@fatwreck.com

For more information contact Shawn Scallen (scallen@spectrasonic.com) or
Kelly Wren (kwren@prsconcerts.com) or call 232-8933

Band bios and websites follow.

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Mad Caddies http://www.madcaddies.com

The eclectic Mad Caddies have once again brought forth their fresh and
youthful sound and captured it on their newest full length, ³Just One More².
The record takes it¹s name from a sign prominently displayed at a Santa
Barbara dive bar where the Caddies spend most of their time and even more of
their money. It seems as though the music of the islands have had a strong
influence because time around the Mad Caddies focus on the downbeat melodic
sounds of reggae, dancehall, and even salsa. It makes for a very infectious
and rhythmic record, and as the cover art displays, the album has a very
mellow ³speakeasy² aesthetic. One listen will have you mixin¹ drinks and
lightin¹ stogies!

Hailing from the central coast of California, the mayhem-core ensemble known
as the Mad Caddies came into existence in the summer of 1995. Late in 1996,
having grown tired of the regular sun, sand, and surf routine, they opted to
lock themselves in a barn where they could truly focus on their music. At
this point in the story things could have gotten ugly. Luckily when the band
reemerged from the ramshackle studio they had completed their debut album,
³Quality Softcore². Punk rock pariah Fat Mike heard their stuff and wasted
no time bringing the young upstarts aboard his label, Fat Wreck Chords.

The Mad Caddies talents reach far beyond the boundaries of ska and punk,
enabling them to throw a musical curve ball into the mix without notice.
Rockabilly, reggae, dixie, jazz, surf, country, and swing are all styles in
which the group is well versed and aren¹t afraid to inject to their unique
brand of rock. The members of the Mad Caddies are as diverse as the music
they perform, but their most notable member is lead vocalist Chuck. Despite
his penchant for booze and all things smokable, Chuck¹s sweet voice prevails
and his crooning could make even Morrissey blush.

Choke - http://www.chokeonline.com/

Considered one of the best punk bands in Canada at this time, Choke are
known for their innovative style and intriguing musical sense. They create
music that can only be classified by their dedication and love for it.

Combining influences from jazz to punk to metal and more, Choke fosters a
sound that is uniquely their own. It is a refreshing extension of the punk
music that has influenced their song writing over the last 8 years. Since
their inception in 1994 they have toured non-stop in Canada and the USA and
have established a reputation for their groundbreaking music and intense
live shows.

Their fifth and most recent album ³There¹s a Story to This Moral² once again
moves Choke in a new direction from their past four records, with melodies
and guitar lines that soar. Recorded in Vancouver, BC with Paul Forgues
(Slayer, Nine Inch Nails, Treble Charger), the album catches all of Choke¹s
musical intricacies with incredible clarity and power.

Pulley - http://www.x-members.com/

Like a guard dog gnawing on the mail carrier's shoe, ³Matters², Pulley's
fifth album for Epitaph, is steeped in tenacity and conviction. As the
disc's dozen tracks attest, the Simi Valley-bred quintet's undeviating drive
to craft vibrant, able-bodied anthems gives the group a distinct edge over
the bulk of California's punk merchants.

Simply put, ³Matters² produced by Matt Hyde (Slayer, No Doubt, Fu Manchu)
has more hooks than a Home Depot aisle. Just check "Huber Breeze," an
amalgam of SoCal punk ferocity and Beach Boys-inspired harmonies, or "A Bad
Reputation," which inaugurates this mighty rekkid with an unforgettable,
don't-fuck-with-me tact.

"We kind of just stumbled into each other," explains frontman Scott
Radinsky, talking about Pulley's studio dalliance with Hyde. "It was good
timing and a learning experience for all of us. It was cool to be working
with someone different for the first time in awhile, but everyone hit it off
and we're obviously really proud of the outcome."

Formed in the mid-90s, when Radinsky then balancing punk rock with a
career as a major league relief pitcher exited Ten Foot Pole. From there,
the prolific PULLEY was born, carving out three well-received long players
(1996's Esteem Driven Engine, '97's 60 Cycle Hum, and '99's self-titled
release) in its first three years. With the advent of 2001's Together Again
For The First Time, the second in a series of discs made with producer Ryan
Greene, the troupe finally had the opportunity to engage in extensive
trekking. It was that touring that resulted in a longer-than-usual wait time
for ³Matters².

Irish Car Bomb -
http://www.purpleskunkrecords.com/purple_files/bands/irish/irishcarbomb.htm

>From Ft Lauderhell Florida comes Irish Car Bomb. Formed in late 2000 the
band consists of members Pete 'el guapo' Gordon, Chris Goldbach, Shannon
Gabriel and Chris 'with a Z' Hawkinz.

All members of Car Bomb have toured and played in bands such as,
Radiobaghdad, Against All Authority, Anchorman, No Use 4 A Name, Hudson and
Nuclear Beer. The bands diverse sound comes from the infamous "switcharoo".
Both Hawkins and Goldbach take turns at pounding the drums, turning guitar
chords into a melodic machine and belting out agressive but tamed vocals to
complete this four piece's unique sound. This switch deprives the band of
any monotony and puts out a full on assault of sounds that will keep one
bouncing of the walls. It¹s 2002 debut CD entitled "Tacos & Pornos" was
released on Purple Skunk Records. Irish Car Bomb opened both of last year¹s
sold-out Ottawa No Use For A Name shows to rave reviews.

Closet Monster http://www.closetmonster.com/

Closet Monster has been rocking the North American continent DIY styles
since 1997. This young band from Ajax, Ontario have 3 EP's and 2 full
lengths under their socialist belts and have firmly established themselves
on the Canadian punk rock scene, through constant touring, recording,
dedication and a message that's hard to forget. The music is powerful,
passionate, anthemic, catchy, meaningful, stick-in-your-head punk rock,
straight from the heart as exemplified in "Killed The Radio Star", their
latest full length. Although the music features some amazing melodic punk
writing, the message is not your average pop punk fare, it's clearly
political in nature and is an energetic call to arms for a future free of
racism, sexism and oppresion. There's no doubt that Closet Monster is the
real deal, several members left a highly successful commercial band to
commit themselves to a music and scene that was true to themselves and their
political leanings.

"The message is just as vital as the melody, but the music is most important
as a whole. It's rock and roll... but it's also about trying to help make
this world a better place, one step at a time, and how the first thing to
change is ourselves and each other". -Closet Monster

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THERE'S A WELCOME JUST FOR YOU DURING IRISH WEEK 2004-Irish Society of the National Capital Region
Irish Society of the National Capital Region

126 Woodgate Way

Nepean, ON K2J 4E5

www.irishsocietyncr.com

NEWS RELEASE

THERE’S A WELCOME JUST FOR YOU DURING IRISH WEEK 2004

You don’t have to be Irish to enjoy the festivities of Irish Week 2004. Everyone is welcome and considered honourary Irish for the week.

OTTAWA, ONTARIO, March 9, 2004 – Irish Week festivities get under way on Wednesday, March 10 at dawn when the Irish flag is raised at Ottawa City Hall. The Week gets off to a lively start with a University Pub Night, a fun-filled evening celebrating St. Patrick, himself. University and college students (and those pretending to be) are invited. It starts at 6:00 p.m. at Mother McGintey’s, 67 Clarence Street in the Byward Market.

Also on Wednesday, March 10, is the Tara Players production of Amphibians. Written by Billy Roche and directed by David Parry, Amphibians takes a hard look at the slow death of fishing as a traditional way of life in Ireland. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the door at the Bronson Centre Theatre, 211 Bronson Avenue. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the play starts at 8:00 p.m.

On Thursday, March 11, the Clogging Up the Gatineau tour departs from the Heart & Crown Irish Pub, 67 Clarence Street, at 12:00 Noon. The tour is an entertaining trip up the Gatineau where many Irish immigrants settled. There will be musicians, dancers and singers on the bus and stops at the Black Sheep Inn in Wakefield and at Brennan’s Hill before an early dinner of Irish stew at the Lodge at Mont Ste. Marie. Tickets are $40. Call Shaun Logue at 783-8812, Kevin Logue at 239-8270 or Dan Dunlop at 786-7210.

The annual Erin Lunch in support of St. Patrick’s Home takes place on Friday, March 12. We are pleased to announce that this event is sold out.

Floats, bands and clans are all part of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday, March 13 starting at 11:00 a.m. at Ottawa City Hall (Laurier Avenue West at Elgin). The Parade will be led by our 2004 Grand Marshal, Charlie Logue and will proceed down Laurier Avenue West to Bank Street, then south on bank to Lansdowne Park. Please note that Queen Elizabeth Driveway between Somerset Avenue West and the Laurier Avenue Bridge will be closed to all vehicular traffic from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 Noon.

Following the Parade, join us for a Grand Irish Party from 12:00 Noon until 4:00 p.m. in Salons A, B and C of the Civic Centre. Irish singers, musicians and dancers will entertain you throughout the afternoon. Food and bar services will be available. Admission is $5.00 with no charge for children 13 and under.

Take the family out for a special Irish Week Brunch with Irish Storytelling for Children on Sunday, March 14 between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. at the Black Rose pub, 67 Clarence Street. There will be a craft table, basic Irish language and music lessons and a special children’s menu for only $3.25.

The “Last Chance Reunion” will be held on Monday, March 15 between 5:00 and 9:00 p.m. at The Prescott Hotel, 379 Preston Street. We hope to rekindle some old friendships and memories created at this Ottawa landmark. The evening includes Irish entertainment, raffle prizes and lots of blarney. There is no cover charge. A special invitation is extended to St. Pat’s and Notre Dame grads.

On Tuesday, March 16, join us as we celebrate James Joyce, one of Ireland’s famous writers. Stephen Dunne and his band of lawyers, actors, dancers and singers conduct a workshop commemorating the 100th anniversary of Ulysses. It starts at 7:00 p.m. at the Earl of Sussex Pub, 431 Sussex Drive.

St. Patrick’s Day is on Wednesday, March 17. Plan to attend ’s Day, March 17, the St. Patrick’s Day Mass at the historic St. Patrick’s Basilica at 10:30 a.m. Later in the evening, St. Brigid’s Church (corner of Cumberland and St. Patrick) hosts a St. Patrick’s Day Concert and Real Kitchen Ceiligh. The concert starts at 7:30 in the church and includes traditional and modern music, poetry and dance. There will be free-will donation to the St. Brigid’s Restoration Fund. The Kitchen Ceiligh is a rip roaring sing-a-long that starts at 9:00 p.m. in the Church hall. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own instruments and join in! There will be soda bread, treats and a cash bar. Tickets are $10 at the door.

About Irish Week. Irish Week is a week long celebration of Irish culture and the rich Irish heritage of the greater Ottawa Valley.

About the Irish Society of the National Capital Region. The Irish Society of the National Capital Region was formed to assist Irish immigrants in adapting to their new surroundings and to provide financial assistance when required through the Society’s benevolent fund. The Society is committed to promoting Irish culture throughout the region and to preserving the rich heritage of the Irish immigrants who helped build this country and our community.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Mike McNamara

Director of Communications

Irish Society of the National Capital Region

Telephone: (613) 226-2707

e-mail: mikem99@rogers.com

Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2004 by admin
Everybody Learns Project off to successful start
The Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board’s Everybody Learns Project is an
innovative program that has enjoyed a great deal of success so far this
year.

The project, which was implemented in September 2003, focuses on
increasing the academic performance and confidence of children in 11 of
the Board’s most needy schools. The project also focuses on increasing the
capacity of teachers to meet the instructional challenges in these schools.

More than 600 “readiness bags” have been distributed to the schools to
help junior and senior kindergarten children improve their reading skills.
In addition, literacy coaches have been placed in each of the 11 schools.

A Steering Committee has been established by the Board to oversee this
project. The committee, comprised of the principals of the 11 Everybody
Learns Schools, as well as experts from the Educational Programs, Student
Services, and Continuing and Community Education Departments, meets every
month to review how the program is progressing in the schools. In-school
teams have also been established, and they have been very active in
coordinating in-school initiatives.

The Everybody Learns Project offers a number of other supports for student
literacy. Some of these include literacy rooms, homework clubs, tutors in
the schools, the availability of mentors from the University of Ottawa,
ambassadors from Jean Vanier Catholic Intermediate School, a literacy
workshop for parents, and taped stories played over the schools’ public
address systems to help students improve their listening skills.

June Flynn-Turner, Board Chairperson, said the Board is very proud of this
program. She praised the teachers and the Board’s Administrative staff for
their hard work in helping students in these needy schools achieve success.

For more information or to arrange an interview for a feature on this very
exciting program, please contact Terry Shaw, Communications Officer,
224-4455, extension 2326

Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2004 by admin
The Ottawa Partnership announces new members
The Ottawa Partnership (TOP), a group of private and public sector
leaders who provide strategic advice on Ottawa's economy and overall quality
of life is pleased to announce that the following business people have
joined the board as private sector representatives for 2004-2005:

* Dr. Jozef Straus, Founder Emeritus and Advisor to
the CEO of JDS Uniphase Corporation; and

* Mr. David B. Watters, President, Global Advantage
Consulting.

The following individuals have been appointed as TOP's new Small Business
(English sector) Representatives for 2004:

* Mr. Brian Roberts, Manager of the Commercial
Division of The Regional Group of Companies Inc. and the current President
of Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA); and

* Mr. Earl Stanley, current owner and proprietor of
Stanley's Olde Maple Lane Farm in Osgoode and member of the Coalition for a
Successful Ottawa Economy.

TOP also announced that:

* Mr. Bob Gillett, President, Algonquin College and TOP's
current post-secondary (college) representative, is confirmed in that
position for an additional year, ending December 31, 2004.

* Dr. Gilles Patry, Rector, University of Ottawa is
rejoining TOP as the post-secondary (university) representative for
2004-2005.

TOP wishes to thank its departing members Don Hewson, President & CEO,
Hewson, Bridge and Smith, Rick Van Loon, President, Carleton University, and
Claudia Chowaniec, President, Precept Inc. for their dedication and
outstanding effort over the past two years.

TOP provides strategic leadership and advice on growing and enhancing
Ottawa's economy and quality of life. It acts as a steward of economic
development, measuring progress, and identifying a vision and supporting
initiatives to strengthen Ottawa's profile as a world-class city.

TOP is co-chaired by Mayor Bob Chiarelli and Kirk Mandy, Vice Chairman,
Zarlink Semi- Conductors, and includes representation from City Council, the
Ottawa Centre for Research & Innovation (OCRI), the Ottawa Tourism and
Convention Authority (OTCA), Ottawa Life Sciences Council (OLSC), the
National Research Council (NRC), the Regroupement des gens d'affaires (RGA),
post-secondary institutions, and the private sector.

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For more information:
John Crupi, Press Secretary, Office of the Mayor
(613) 580-2424, ext. 28867

Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2004 by admin
Three Sopranos together in concert!
The Ottawa Chamber Music Society is pleased
to present a unique concert, Three Sopranos and a Piano on Tuesday, March
16, 8:00 p.m. at the Chapel of Tabaret, University of Ottawa (550 Cumberland
at Wilbrod).

Sopranos Chantal Lambert, Natalie Paulin, Pascale Beaudin and pianist
Tristan Lauber will be combining forces for this project. “I simply adore
these women, they are remarkable musicians,” explains Lauber, “It is an
amazing collaborative effort for the four of us to work together.”

Lauber approached OCMS Artistic Director Julian Armour with the idea. “I was
immediately intrigued by this unique concept and agreed this would be an
exciting component of our Concert Series,” said Armour, “It is so rare to
have three excellent sopranos performing together.”

The four musicians worked together to assemble a captivating programme that
includes works by Francis Poulenc, César Franck, Gabriel Fauré, Sergei
Rachmaninov, Antonin Dvorák and Richard Strauss.

Nathalie Paulin is widely acclaimed as one of Canada's outstanding sopranos
on the operatic stage and in concert. She frequently performs and has also
toured in the Far East with Toronto’s baroque opera company, Opera Atelier.
She has sung leading roles in the United States and Europe.

Chantal Lambert pursues an active career both as a singer and, since 1990,
as Director of the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal. With pianist
Michael McMahon she gave a critically acclaimed recital for Pro Musica in
2001, and in 2003, she performed in the Pro Musica’s prestigious Emerald
Series.

Pascale Beaudin holds degrees from both the University of Ottawa and the
Université de Montréal. She travels extensively performing both as a
soloist and in major opera companies throughout the world.

Tristan Lauber has toured Asia three times as guest artist of the Canadian
and Swiss embassies. He has performed in Seoul, Pusan, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur,
Kobe, Osaka and Singapore, and was invited to give master classes at the
University of the Phillipines in Quezon City.

Tickets for Three Sopranos and a Piano are $20 for adults, $30 for reserved
seating and $10 for students, and are available at the following outlets:
Ottawa Chamber Music Society office, (613) 234-8008; The Book Bazaar (755
Bank Street); Compact Music (785-A Bank Street); CD Warehouse (1383 Clyde
Avenue, 1717 St. Laurent Boulevard, 499 Terry Fox Drive); The Leading Note
(370 Elgin Street); Nicholas Hoare Books (419 Sussex Drive); Books on
Beechwood (35 Beechwood Avenue); Collected Works (1242 Wellington Street);
Scotia Bank (366 Elgin St.); Ticketmaster – all outlets in Canada
(www.ticketmaster.ca, 613-755-1111).

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For more information please check out www.chamberfest.com or contact:

Suzan Zilahi, Communications Director

Tel : (613) 234-8008 x. 241; e-mail : media@chamberfest.com

Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2004 by admin
Social Justice Week - Carleton University
From: Global Peace Coalition Carleton University

Contact Person: Mike Gutsell

Contact Phone: 688-2300 ext. 6963

Event Address: Baker?s Lounge, 4th floor Unicentre, Carleton
University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B7

Event Date: March 8-12, 2004

*For Immediate Release*

-Social Justice Week-

March 8th-12th- The Global Peace Coalition at Carleton University will
be hosting ?Social Justice Week? in Baker?s Lounge from 10am-4pm daily.
Each day will revolve around one of five themes related to social
justice. Monday: Environment, Tuesday: Corporate Awareness, Wednesday:
Democracy, Thursday: Human Rights, Friday: Poverty.

Guest speakers throughout the week include:
-Ed Broadbent, NDP candidate for the Ottawa Centre riding and former
leader of the national NDP, Friday 2:00 p.m.
-Sophie Harkat, wife of non-status Algerian Mohamed Cherfi, who is
currently in refuge, Wednesday 12:30-1:00 p.m., 2:00-2:30 p.m., all day
Thursday.
-Jane Scharf, local anti-poverty activist, Friday 11:00 a.m.
-Dennis Howlett, executive-director of the National Anti-Poverty
Organization, Friday 12:00 p.m.
-Rob Eady and Meghann Darroch, Shepherd's of Good Hope, Friday 1:00 p.m.

Other groups within the community which will be involved throughout the
week include Eco-Action, Animal Rights, OPIRG Carleton, Science for
Peace, International Socialists, Canadian Council for International
Co-operation, The Salvation Army, The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,
Transgender Centre.

The week will consist of raising awareness through guest speakers,
displays, videos and workshops.

For more information visit www.gpccarleton.org.

Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2004 by admin
Ottawa Blues This Week -- 7 March 2004
This is a completely informal update of blues & blues-related events in
Ottawa. The mailing list has been compiled from various sources and includes
folks
who are interested in blues. Please contact me at lizbluesottawa@aol.com to
add or delete email addresses from the list and to pass along any comments.

A website for â€˜Ottawa Blues This Week' is currently being developed and
tested. Please check it out at
http://hometown.aol.ca/lizbluesottawa/thisweek.html
and email any comments to me at lizbluesottawa@aol.com. Thanks!
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LOCAL HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK
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Rocket Rached & the Fat City 8
Rainbow Bistro, 76 Murray Street
Friday, March 12

From Jed Rached:
"Just a quick note to let you know that this city's premier rockin' swingin'
and boppin' blues band, Rocket Rached & The Fat City 8, are playing this
Friday night at Ottawa's famed Rainbow Bistro. Show time is 9.45 pm, so make
sure
to bring your dancing shoes! It's a birthday party, so make sure you're
ready for a blow out of epic proportions â€“ you only reach 39 once, you know!
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Shane Simpson & Paul Bourdeau
opening Kevin Cardamore
Rasputin's Folk CafÃ©, 696 Bronson Avenue
Friday, March 12 @ 8 pm; tickets $12

Ottawa guitarists Paul Bourdeau and Shane Simpson have joined musical forces
numerous times over the past two decades. From standard jazz electric duo to
acoustic excursions into blues and popular music, they have sought to blur the
borders on various styles through their guitar playing. Wild Rice is a
culmination of this collaboration, fusing bluegrass and jazz across 12 original
compositions. Instrumental skill, crafty compositions, and plenty of head room
for improvising drive these two off leash and have them bounding over musical
fences for an acoustic romp in the jazzgrass.

Kevin Cardamore is a steel string fingerstyle guitarist living in Ottawa.
His repertoire consists entirely of original solo guitar pieces, 14 of which are

on his recently released CD "Steel Strings", which he co-produced with Don
Ross. Kevin's style has been influenced by other fingerstyle guitarists
including Bruce Cockburn, Don Ross, Leo Kottke, Lenny Breau, and Pierre
Bensusan.
Kevin has performed at many concert settings including the Ottawa Folk Festival
and The Museum of Civilization. Kevin is working on his next CD, to be
released early 2004. He plays Lowden SLE Fingerstyle and O-12 guitars, built in
Ireland.
(Thanks to Dean Verger.)
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Ball & Chain
Bayou Blues & Jazz Club, 1077 Bank Street
Saturday, March 13 @ 9 pm; cover $8

From Michael Ball:
"Ball and Chain and the Wreckers, Ottawa's finest and only band dedicated to
Classic Country and Western and Cajun dance music, will play at their favorite
club, The Bayou, on Saturday. It will be their first appearance since
Halloween 2003. We've got lots of new material ... and ... we'll give a cajun
dance
lesson in the break, as usual. Hurray for live music!!"
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WEEKLY EVENTS ON THE RADIO
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On CKCU-FM 93.1
The "Mighty 93.1"
Community Radio serving the Ottawa Carleton Region

Sundays: 9-11 pm
Black and Blues
with John Tackaberry

The show features a heavy dose of electric blues and rhythm and blues, with
the occasional selection of sixties soul. The first hour is dedicated to
artist profiles and reviews of recordings on particular labels. In the second
hour
there is a blues calendar, a run down of events in Toronto, Montreal and
Ottawa, and interviews with "new and reissued blues and rhythm and blues tracks
on
wax" alternating with "live blues and R&B for a Sunday night" in the last
half hour of the show. On the last Sunday of every month, the show goes "down
in
the delta" for a selection of acoustic blues tracks in the final half hour of
the program.

Wednesdays: 9-11 pm
In A Mellow Tone
with Ron Sweetman

Wednesday, March 10
Women In Jazz: An International Women's Day special on some contemporary
female jazz musicians. Listen for Carla Bley, Jane Ira Bloom, Jane Bunnett,
Marilyn Crispell, Ingrid Jensen, Peggy Lee, Myra Melford, Renee Rosnes and
others.
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WEEKLY EVENTS ON THE SMALL SCREEN
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ALWAYS check local listings to confirm.

On Bravo - Ottawa Cable Channel 40
http://www.bravo.ca/programlistings/

Monday, March 8 @ 7:30 am
Talkin' Blues: Field Hollerin' (2003)
A profile of Chicago musician Fruteland Jackson; Kelly Joe Phelps; Super
ChiKan.

Tuesday, March 9 @ 6 am
Jazz Box: Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas (1999)
Montreal's famed Festival International de Jazz is celebrated in the MusiMax
environment, with musicians performing in concert for an appreciative
audience.

Monday, March 15 @ 7:30 am
Talkin' Blues: Lick & Stick (2003)
An in-depth look at the harmonica, featuring Mark Hummel, Paul Reddick and
Sugar Ray Norcia.

Tuesday, March 16 @ 8:30 pm
Garrett and Dutch Mason: Out of the Blues (2002)
An intimate look at the music legacy blues veteran Dutch Mason is passing
along to his son, 19-year-old Nova Scotian Garrett Mason.

On PBS
Ottawa Cable Channel 64 (WPBS from Watertown, NY) is not showing this, but
those of you with satellite dishes can perhaps pick up this show from other PBS
stations.
http://www.pbs.org/klru/austin/tvschedule/

Saturday, March 13 @ 10 pm
Austin City Limits: Shemekia Copeland is the first young female blues
sensation to emerge in a generation. Her performance features "2 A.M.", a 2001
W.C.
Handy Award winner. Texas blues guitar-slinger Jimmie Vaughan incorporates
an array of influences into his own unique sound. Lou Ann Barton joins him for
"Sugar Coated Love".
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REGULAR EVENTS THIS MONTH
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Mondays: Maria Hawkins @ the Rainbow
Tuesdays: Rainbow Open Jam with the Funky Miracles @ 9:30 pm
Wednesdays: Open stage with Shakedown Blues @ the Bayou
Thursdays: Dinner & acoustic blues @ Tucson's
Thursdays: Blues Jam with Johnny Russell & Mike Ktenas @ Irene's
Fridays: Amaryllis @ the Rainbow ... early show 5-7 pm
Saturday afternoons: Blues jam @ the Rainbow
Sunday afternoons: Guy del Villano & guests @ Royal Oak, Bank St.
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LOCALS THIS WEEK
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Wednesday, March 10
Voodoo Walters & the Rhythm Method @ the Rainbow

Thursday, March 11
The Crowd @ the Rainbow

Friday, March 12
Rocket Rached & the Fat City 8 @ the Rainbow

Friday, March 12
Southside Steve & the Swindlers @ Tucson's

Saturday, March 13
Ball & Chain with the Wreckers @ the Bayou

Saturday, March 13
Tony D Band @ Tucson's

Sunday, March 14
Johnny Russell Band @ the Rainbow, 4-7 pm

Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2004 by admin
Concerts Cumberland presents THIRTEEN STRINGS
March 14 mars, 2004 19:10/19h10

Église Orleans United Church, 1111, boul. d'Orléans Blvd.

JEAN-FRANCOIS RIVEST,
conductor/chef d'orchestre

Capital Concerto Competition winners/ gagnantes du
Concours concerto de la Capitale

pre-concert talk & fencing demonstration/causerie
pré-concert & démonstration d'escrime

PROGRAMME

Battalia
Heinrich Biber

Sonata : Die liederliche Gesellschaft von Allerly Humor : Der Mars :
(1644 - 1704)

Presto : Aria : Die Schlacht : Lamento der Verwundten Musquetirer

Divertimento in E flat/en mi bémol, H.II:VI
Franz Joseph Haydn Allegro :Menuet : Adagio cantabile:
(1732 - 1809)

Menuet : Presto

Commissioned work for String Orchestra (2003 - 04)
Alan Belkin

Oeuvre commanditée pour Orchestre de cordes
(1951 - )

Nina He, piano, soloist and winner/ soliste et gagnante Concerto in F minor/en
fa mineur, BWV 1056 Bach

INTERMISSION/ENTRACTE

Five Pieces for String Orchestra /Cinq pièces pour Orchestre de cordes
Heino Eller

Andante con moto : Allegro moderato : Vivo :
(1897 - 1970)

Lento assai poco rubato : Cantando espressivo

Yolanda Bruno, violin/violon, soloist & winner/soliste & gagnante Concerto #9
Locatelli

Divertimento No. 1, Op. 20
Leo Weiner

Tempo di Csárdás : Vivace : Allegro moderato :
(1885 - 1960)

Tempo di Marcia : Presto

Posted Saturday, March 6, 2004 by admin
RENEGADES ANNOUNCE NEW COMMUNITY INITIATIVE
The Ottawa Renegades are proud to announce details of a new and exciting community youth program.

Renegades players are launching bilingual football camps, entitled “Future Renegades” that will benefit at least 800 minor football players in Ottawa, Gatineau and surrounding regions.

The camps will take place at various locations throughout the region and will feature several Renegades players.

The first Future Renegades camp takes place on Monday, March 8 with the Bell Warriors (ages 13-15) at D. Aubrey Moodie Intermediate School, 595 Moodie Dr., from 6-8 p.m. Renegades linebackers Tim Fleiszer and Kelly Wiltshire, running back Darren Joseph, receiver Pat Woodcock and offensive lineman Mike Sutherland will conduct Monday’s camp.

On Tuesday, March 9, the players will conduct another Future Renegades camp with the Gloucester South Raiders (Peewee and Bantam age) from 6-8 p.m. at Sawmill Creek Elementary School, 3400 D’Aoust Av.

“We’re very excited about this project,” said Tim Fleiszer. “It is our hope that this will be the beginning of a strong relationship with minor football in Ottawa and Gatineau for years to come.”

Fleiszer added the non-contact camps will provide individual attention to camp attendees, with a ratio of at least one Renegade for every 10 football players.

Other features of the camps will include:

· Player-developed drills providing instruction in the best and latest football techniques.

· Fun and informative sessions with maximized interaction between the Renegades pros and the campers.

· A non-contact environment to minimize injuries and allow a focus on essential football skills.

· Promotion of the values of teamwork, tenacity and discipline required for football success.

· An emphasis on the importance of education and healthy living.

Members of the media are welcome to attend either of the first Future Renegades sessions.

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For more information, please contact:

Barre Campbell

Director, Media Relations & Communications

Ottawa Renegades Football Club

(613) 231-5608 ext. 236 (office)

(613) 913-7719 (cell)

Posted Saturday, March 6, 2004 by admin
PSYCHO-A-GO-GO & BURLESQUE SHOW at Zaphod Beeblebrox
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX & HERITAGE BREWERY
PRESENT...

"Big Beat, Raunchy, Psycho-A-Go-Go"

"THE KINGS (AND QUEENS) OF ROCK 'N' ROLL VAUDEVILLE"

Devil Sauce Recording Artist
BIG JOHN BATES & THE VOODOO DOLLZ
with THE BAD GIRLS OF BURLESQUE

+ THE BELLA BOMBS

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada.
Age 19+/ General Admission
Tickets: $8 only at the door.

"The idea of a hellbent psychobilly band joining forces with two gorgeous, PVC-clad burlesque dancers
sounds too good to be believed - a promoter's wet dream come true."
- Vue Magazine

"Psychobilly surfrock and a burlesque go-go dance troupe together, at last. A great combination.
While Big John Bates and Co. played their asses off, delivering an excellent set of fast, driving
surf/rockabilly/whatever the heck it is, his duo of scantily-clad bombshells gyrated and stripped in time,
all as one cohesive unit of psychobilly madness. Big John Bates drew in the crowd, but the girls earned
everyone's attention: They blew fire, waved flaming batons, dressed up in vinyl cat suits with whips and had
a cat fight. They even dragged some poor girl out of the audience, ripped her clothes off and smeared
lipstick all over her face. Now that's entertainment." - Nerve Magazine

PSYCHO-A-GOGO is what they call this psychobilly-tainted rock 'n' roll show that also features the bad girls of burlesque Jailbait Jenny & Rowdy Rosie & their dead sexy twists on BJB's lyrics. Often compared to cult favorites like the Cramps, Deadbolt and Reverend Horton Heat; BJB & the Dollz bring out a live show that heats up the devil sauce in everyone. While the swivel-hipped sCare-oline spanks her upright bass & belly-dances and heavy-handed motorsickle maniac L'il Bastard provides the swinging beats, BIG John blisters his beloved Gretsch and howls like the devil's waiting in the wings! Make sure you're ready for a helluva night.

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BIG JOHN BATES' web site - http://www.bigjohnbates.com
THE BELLA BOMBS' web site - http://www.thebellabombs.com

Information:
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX - Eugene Haslam (613) 237-5301 zaphods_ottawa@hotmail.com http://www.zaphodbeeblebrox.com

Posted Saturday, March 6, 2004 by admin
Flooded wading pools pose danger to children
The City is asking residents to ensure that children are kept away
from wading pools located near a river. A rise in water levels, particularly
of the Rideau River, could result in water backups in at least two wading
pools: Brantwood Pool (off Onslow Street) and Strathcona Pool (corner of
Laurier Avenue East and Range Road). If the pools fill up, the two to three
feet of water cannot be drained and could pose a hazard to young children.

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For more information:
Communications & Marketing
(613) 580-2450

Posted Saturday, March 6, 2004 by admin
On the Verge 2004 News Release
On the Verge is on the road! For the first time in its eight-year
history, The National Arts Centre English Theatre's annual festival of new
play readings will take place outside the nation's capital! On the Verge
2004 will be held in Edmonton from June 14 to 19, 2004 to showcase the best
new work from across the country during the Magnetic North Theatre Festival.

The 2004 line-up will be announced by NAC Artistic Director, Marti Maraden
and Alberta Playwrights' Network Executive Director, Ken Cameron tonight at
the Alberta Theatre Projects' playRites Festival in Calgary. On the Verge
is coordinated by Lise Ann Johnson, NAC Artistic Associate and Literary
Manager and Deena Aziz of Montreal.

THE LINE-UP FOR ON THE VERGE 2004 IS:
Wreckage by Sally Stubbs
(Playwrights Theatre Centre - B.C.)
Luck by Chris Craddock
(Alberta Playwrights' Network - Alta.)
Mathilde by Véronique Olmi, translated by Morwyn Brebner
(The Banff playRites Colony - Alta.)
A Giraffe in Paris by Mark Haroun
(The Citadel Theatre - Alta.)
MacGregor's Hard Ice Cream and Gas by Daniel Macdonald
(Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre - Sask.)
Mollie's Veil by Sharon Bajer
(Manitoba Association of Playwrights - Man.)
Lake Nora Arms adapted by Jane Miller & Brian Quirt
from the book by Michael Redhill
(Nightswimming - Ont.)
The Blue Light by Mieko Ouchi
(The National Arts Centre - Ont.)
Freeport, Texas by Michael Springate
(Playwrights' Workshop Montreal - Que.)
Cheech or The Chrysler Guys are in Town by François Létourneau
Translated by Rick DesRochers
(Centre des auteurs dramatiques - Que)
There is a Land of Pure Delight by Don Hannah
(Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre - N.S.)

In addition to this superb line-up we are extremely pleased to announce a
brand new partnership. On the Verge 2004 will be presented in association
with the new network of Playwrights' Development Centres of Canada. The
network is comprised of ten independent, non-producing centres devoted
entirely to nurturing new Canadian plays and playwrights. The 2004 line-up
features work currently in development at the Playwrights Theatre Centre in
Vancouver, the Alberta Playwrights' Network in Calgary, the Banff playRites
Colony in Banff, the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre in Saskatoon, the
Manitoba Association of Playwrights in Winnipeg, Nightswimming in Toronto,
Playwrights' Workshop Montreal in Montreal, the Centre des auteurs
dramatiques in Montreal, and the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre. In
addition to these nine readings, On the Verge 2004 will also showcase work
commissioned by the NAC English Theatre and by our Edmonton partner - the
Citadel Theatre. With almost every region of the country covered, On the
Verge 2004 will be a truly national event.

On the Verge is thrilled to continue its collaboration with Magnetic North,
the new national festival of Canadian Theatre. In 2003, the NAC English
Theatre produced On the Verge in Ottawa to coincide with this new festival,
and the result was our most successful On the Verge to date. The goal of
On the Verge is to celebrate and promote new Canadian plays that are "on the
verge" of production. Over the past eight years, our festival has been
instrumental in matching playwrights with potential producers, with great
success. Holding On the Verge during Magnetic North allowed us to take
advantage of the large number of theatre professionals in town for the new
festival. So... when Magnetic North invited us to join them in Edmonton, it
was an offer we simply couldn't refuse.

The 2004 line-up was selected in part by a national reading committee
comprised of Katrina Dunn, Artistic Director of Touchstone Theatre in
Vancouver; Rory Runnells, the Coordinator of the Manitoba Association of
Playwrights; Nicole Stamp, freelance director and actor in Toronto; and
Wendy Lill, award-winning playwright and the honorable Member of Parliament
for Dartmouth and Lise Ann Johnson, NAC Literary Manager.

All On the Verge 2004 readings will take place in the PCL Studio Theatre at
the TransAlta Arts Barns in Edmonton (10330-84th Avenue). Admission is a
pay-what-you-can donation at the door. All proceeds to benefit the Actors'
Fund of Canada and the Foundation for the Recognition of Excellence in
Drama.

Dates and time for On the Verge 2004:
Monday, June 14 14h30 and 22h30
Tuesday, June 15 14h30 and 22h30
Wednesday, June 16 14h30 and 22h30
Thursday, June 17 14h30 and 22h30
Friday, June 18 14h30 and 22h30
Saturday, June 19 14h30
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For more information about On the Verge in Edmonton, please contact:
Laura Denker, Publicity and Media Relations Coordinator, NAC English Theatre
(613) 947-7000, ext. 389; ldenker@nac-cna.ca

Posted Saturday, March 6, 2004 by admin
New Ottawa Repertory Theatre Presents Premiere of "With Honor and Grace" by Paul Dervis
New Ottawa Repertory Theatre is pleased to present the premiere production of With Honor and Grace, written by acclaimed playwright Paul Dervis, and directed by Corry Burke.

With Honor and Grace tells the complex stories of two women, as shown through their twenty-year friendship, and their relationships with the men in their lives – fathers, boyfriends, husbands, colleagues.

Paul Dervis’ superb use of dialogue draws audiences into his characters’ lives as if someone they knew had shown them a new side, dark or light. His plays have received accolades from audiences and critics alike. One critic has said, “If there's one thing you can count on from the New Ottawa Repertory Theatre, it's that no one -- neither the characters nor the audience members watching -- will come out the same as when they went in.”

New Ottawa Repertory Theatre is recognized as one of Ottawa’s important young companies. attracting attention for new North American theatre pieces that emphasize the human condition, presented by some of Ottawa’s best theatre artists. Past productions also include works by David Mamet, Israel Horowitz and David French.

"With Honor and Grace" will run from Tuesday March 9 to Saturday 13 at 8:00 p.m., and Sunday March 14 at 3:00 p.m. at the Saw Gallery, Arts Court, , 67 Nicholas Street (at Daly Avenue).. Tickets are $15, available at the door, or they can be reserved by calling the office at 799-4446. Group rates are also available.

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For more information, please contact:

Caryl McKay, Publicist

231-5560

carylmckay@hotmail.com

Posted Saturday, March 6, 2004 by admin
NACOA, Mar. 13: "For Your Information" a behind-the-scenes look
"For Your Information" series continues its behind-the- scenes look at the
NAC Orchestra with Daphne Burt, Manager of Artistic Planning on Saturday,
March 13

The third in this season's series of "For Your Information" talks on
Saturday, March 13 is with Daphne Burt, Manager of Artistic Planning for the
Orchestra. She will talk about the two or more years of planning and
juggling that go into putting together an orchestra season, as well as
answering questions people may have about the recently announced 2004-05 NAC
Orchestra line-up.

Daphne Burt is in her third season as Manager of Artistic Planning for the
NAC Orchestra. She works closely with Music Director Pinchas Zukerman to
coordinate the research and selection of artists and repertoire, engage the
guest artists and guest conductors of the Orchestra.

Daphne Burt was formerly the artistic manager of the Milwaukee Symphony
Orchestra from 1996 to 2001, and associate artistic administrator of the
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra from 1992 to 96.

This is the fourth year that NACOA has run these Saturday morning coffee
get-togethers and they have proven highly popular with orchestra
subscribers.
All proceeds benefit the Orchestra's music education programmes and the
National Arts Centre Young Artists' NACOA Scholarship. The remaining session
will be held on May 8.

Time: Saturday, March 13 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Place: Le Salon, National Arts Centre
Price: $10.00 per person ($5.00 per child/student)
For tickets, contact Muriel Barber (613) 828-3971
Tickets will also be available at the door.

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Media inquiries:
Jean Seasons
(613) 728-1486
jeanseasons@sympatico.ca

Posted Saturday, March 6, 2004 by admin
Meetings at Ottawa City Hall next week
The following meetings are scheduled during the week of March 8,
2004, at Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West, unless otherwise noted.
Agenda items that may be of special interest to citizens and the media have
been highlighted.

License Committee - Monday, March 8, 9:30 a.m., Champlain Room

Ottawa Public Library Board - Monday, March 8, 6 p.m., Champlain Room

Planning and Environment Committee - Tuesday, March 9, 9:30 a.m., Andrew S.
Haydon Hall
* 2004 Planning and Environment Committee Budget Review

* City Council - Wednesday, March 10, 1:30 p.m., Andrew S. Haydon Hall
*
* Emergency and Protective Services Committee - Thursday, March 11,
9:30 a.m., Andrew S. Haydon Hall
* 2004 Emergency and Protective Services Committee Budget Review
* Ottawa Paramedic Service - Year Three Review
*
* Health, Recreation and Social Services Committee - Friday, March 12,
9:30 a.m., Andrew S. Haydon Hall
* 2004 Health, Recreation and Social Services Committee Budget Review

The agenda for these meetings and related reports will be posted on the
City's Web site at ottawa.ca and will be available at the respective
meetings.

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For more information:
Communications & Marketing
(613) 580-2450

Posted Saturday, March 6, 2004 by admin
$2.3 Million Slated to Enhance Vacations of 500 Power Boaters
Contacts: 1. Dr. Kathryn Adeney

Phone: 613-623-1961 e-mail: Kathryn_Adeney@realnumbersinc.com

2. Michael Campbell, President, Willola Beach Property Owners Association

Phone: 613-623-0272 e-mail: mjcampbell@sympatico.ca

Participatory democracy was alive and well in Ottawa at Monday’s meeting of the Committee for Corporate Services and Economic Development, a City Council committee charged with making recommendations concerning the 2004 budget. While the strong majority of presenters pleaded to avoid cuts to important services and programs, one presenter stood out by requesting that the City take back some money. Dr. Kathryn Adeney, speaking on behalf of the Willola Beach Property Owners Association, requested that City Council take back $350,000 that has been allocated to construct a bypass to allow power boats to be towed around a dam in the Ottawa River near Fitzroy Harbour.

Adeney noted that, since only about 500 boat-owners are expected to use the service, the money could be used more effectively for maintenance of the City’s soccer fields and arenas, services for the disadvantaged, support for the festivals that draw tourism to Ottawa, or any of a thousand other worthy programs currently facing cuts. A facility to perform the bypass service currently exists on the Quebec side of the river, towing boats between Quyon and Norway Bay.

In fact, the City’s share is only a small part of a budget that has grown to over $2.3M from an initial $1.5M, with other funding drawn from the Province and from Ontario Power Generation. This translates into $4,600 of public money per boater served. Similar bypasses upstream incur annual operating losses that are not covered in the project budget, so still more public money could be required to keep the bypass operational once it is built.

As well as its questionable fiscal responsibility, the bypass plan is facing logistical hurdles. The currently proposed route involves dredging and construction of large concrete structures in an area described in a 2003 report by Ontario Parks as containing “habitat-selective” significant species. Environmental groups such as the Sierra Club of Canada, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, and the Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority, have expressed concerns about the environmental impacts of the route. Numerous other routes have been considered and rejected; Adeney points out that there may in fact be no route that satisfies both financial and environmental constraints.

Presentations similar to Adeney’s have been made in several other meetings with City Councillors. So far, the Council’s response to suggestions that Ottawa pull its share of the bypass funding has been cool. Mayor Chiarelli’s comments suggested that the City’s money would continue to flow into the boat bypass as long as no environmental laws were violated. Councillors didn't seem concerned that on-going subsidization might be required, suggesting that they're taking a short-term view of such expenditures.

Posted Saturday, March 6, 2004 by admin
City Budget Protest Rally
ATTEND A CITY BUDGET PROTEST RALLY
ON MARCH 10TH, 2004
AT CITY HALL FROM 4-6PM.
LAURIER ENTRANCE TO CITY HALL

CITY BUDGET PROTEST RALLY

Say NO to a tax increase.

STOP misspending of our tax dollars.

Become ACCOUNTABLE Mayor Bob and Councillor's.

SAY NO to back room deals.

The People of Ottawa are fed up! No Tax Increase.

City Council and the Mayor are not listening to the tax payers of this city.

BRING SIGNS
BRING YOUR VOICE
BRING PETITIONS

PRINT OFF THE ATTACHED FLYER, HAND OUT TO FRIENDS, NEIGHBOURS, BULLETIN BOARDS....SPREAD THE WORD!

Posted Saturday, March 6, 2004 by admin
OTTAWA RAIDERS SET FOR THE NWHL PLAYOFFS
The Ottawa Raiders will be facing the Montréal Axion in a 3-game playoff series on the road to the NWHL Championships.

The first game of the series will be taking place in Montréal on Saturday, March 6 at 8pm. Ottawa will be hosting its only home game of the series on Friday, March 19 at the Goulbourn Recreation Complex. Game time will be 8:30pm.

The third game of the series will be a return trip to Montréal on Saturday, March 20 at 8pm.

Jason Perrier (613) 599-9165 or perrierj@sympatico.ca

Barry Madigan (613) 591-1021 or bmadigan1021@rogers.com

Visit our web site at www.ottawaraiders.com or www.nwhlhockey.com

Posted Thursday, March 4, 2004 by admin
GordonGartrell sponsor a child in Zambia
Following a musical sabbatical that have fueled reports of their imminent break-up, GordonGartrell are pleased to put the hammer to the pepperoni (we have no idea what that means either) this upcoming March 13 in hopes of breaking the knee-caps of naysayers everywhere.

Expect a few new songs as the band takes the stage at Café Dekcuf on a Saturday night to end all others. Supporting the bill for this celebration of longevity (four years now children) will be the musical Vaseline of Money Money and the much anticipated Ottawa debut of Peterborough golden-boys Electrashine.

WHO: GordonGartrell with special guests money, money and Electrasine

WHEN: Saturday March 13, 2004 show starts sometime after 9:30 p.m. Gartrell will take the stage sometime after 11:30…likely closer to midnight….perhaps even later….we really don’t know when the hell they hit the stage.

Posted Thursday, March 4, 2004 by admin
VIEWERS TO DECIDE DAYTIME’S CO-HOST
Rogers Television 22 has narrowed down the search for daytime’s new co-host to five talented finalists. During the week of March 8, each of the five hopefuls will share the lime-light on daytime with co-host Kristen Johnston.

From moms to students to television veterans, Rogers Television received over 100 applications for the vacant co-host position.

“It was a very tough decision,” said Ray Skaff, Station Manager of Rogers Television, Cable 22. “We‘ve tapered it down to five fabulous people, but now, it’s up to our viewers to help us decide who will bring them the best in local matters.”

Watch daytime and have your say! Visit the Rogers Television website at www.rogerstelevision.com and tell us what you think of each of the contending co-hosts. You be the judge!

The five finalists are:

DATE CO-HOST FINALISTS

Monday, March 8 Richard Provencher

Host, OHL Prime Time

Tuesday, March 9 Derek Fage

Local actor

Wednesday, March 10 Catherine Marion

Fashion Coordinator

Thursday, March 11 Erin Loney

Hot 89.9, Marketing and Promotions Manager

Friday, March 12 Frank Papineau

Local broadcaster and producer

Stay tuned as Rogers Television announces the final results on Wednesday, March 17.

daytime is Ottawa in an hour, weekdays at 11:00 a.m.

Rogers Television provides timely and relevant programs about local matters. Every year, our stations produce over 19,000 hours of informative local programming, reinforcing Rogers Cable's commitment to the communities we serve. Rogers Television is a service available exclusively to cable customers as part of the basic service of Rogers Cable Inc., Canada's largest cable company, delivering high quality entertainment, information and communication services to 2.3 million customers in Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland. Rogers Television 22 serves the Ottawa community. For more information, visit www.rogerstelevision.com

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For more information contact:

Jennifer Vuong

Publicity Officer – Rogers Television 22

Telephone: (613) 759-8632

Email: Jennifer.Vuong@rci.rogers.com

Posted Thursday, March 4, 2004 by admin
Ed Broadbent Campaign Kickoff With Stephen Lewis
Ed Broadbent, the NDP candidate in Ottawa Centre, will launch his
campaign at the Ottawa Congress Centre, Salon A at 7pm on March 10.
The Keynote speaker will be Stephen Lewis, UN Special Envoy for
HIV/AIDS in Africa.

The prime minister must announce the date of the by-election by Mar. 7.

For information, call 232-1888 or email info@edbroadbent.ca

Campaign contacts:
Campaign Office 520 Bronson Avenue, 1st Floor Ottawa, ON K1R 7Y9
Phone: (613) 232-1888
Fax: (613) 232-8866
E-Mail: info@edbroadbent.ca

Posted Wednesday, March 3, 2004 by admin
Volunteers needed - OttawaStart
Looking for volunteers to post press releases on OttawaStart. Contact us via http://ottawastart.com/contact.php if you can help out.

Posted Wednesday, March 3, 2004 by admin
RENEGADES SIGN THREE PLAYERS
The Ottawa Renegades are pleased to announce the signing of import running back Sean Bennett, import linebacker Dru Grigson, and import free agent linebacker Tony White who played for Ottawa during the 2003 season. All players agreed to one-year contracts with a club option for the 2005 season.

Bennett, a 28-year-old graduate of Northwestern, arrives in Ottawa with experience in the National Football League. The 6-foot-1, 230-pound running back played 16 regular-season games with the New York Giants after being selected in the fourth round (112th overall) of the 1999 NFL draft.

Bennett scored one touchdown in the NFL, during the 1999 season on a one-yard run on November 28 against the Arizona Cardinals.

He had 28 carries for 122 yards and five catches for 27 yards with the Giants in 1999 and 2002. Bennett missed the 2000 and 2001 seasons due to injury.

Bennett is from Evansville, Indiana, the same hometown as former Ottawa Lynx infielder and current Montreal Expos infielder Jamey Carroll. Bennett and Wes Carroll, the younger brother of Jamey, played on the same Legion baseball team.

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White, 24, returns to the Renegades after playing two games for Ottawa during the 2003 season.

The 6-foot-1, 250-pound graduate of UCLA made his CFL début for the Renegades on July 31 at Frank Clair Stadium against the Edmonton Eskimos. White also played for Ottawa on August 7 against the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

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Grigson, a 24-year-old linebacker from Highland, Indiana, arrives in Ottawa after taking the long and winding road to professional football.

The 6-foot-1, 240-pound graduate of William Penn University is renowned by scouts for his ability to make hard hits, and his tenacity in the weight room. Grigson benched 225 pounds 33 times once during a legendary session in the workout room.

Grigson began his collegiate career at New Mexico State in 1997. Pegged as a starting rush end for the 1998 season, hard luck arrived when Grigson broke his right leg during spring drills. He missed the 1998 season and also was forced to the sidelines in 1999 when he developed an infection in the same leg.

He transferred to Northern Iowa University where he spent two years before transferring to William Penn University after receiving permission for a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA.

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Further information on all three players signed today appears below:

SEAN BENNETT

Position: Running Back

Nationality: American

Height / Weight: 6-1, 230

University: Northwestern

Birthdate (Opening Day Age) Birthplace: November 9, 1975 (28) Wurzburg, Germany

Acquired: Free agent; March 3, 2004

Yrs CFL / Yrs Renegades: 1st / 1st

Draft: Fourth round (112th overall) 1999 NFL NY Giants

2003 Highlights

Signed by the NFL’s New York Jets on April 2 … Played in the Hall of Fame Game vs. Tampa Bay on Aug. 2 in Tokyo … Had one carry for three yards … Released Aug. 25

Professional

NFL Experience: Has played in 16 regular-season games with two starts … Has 29 career NFL carries for 126 yards (4.3 average) and one touchdown … 1999: Had 28 carries for 122 yards and one touchdown and five receptions for 27 yards for the NFL’s New York Giants … Became first Giants rookie to start season-opener since Tiki Barber in 1997 … Suffered sprained knee against New England on Sept. 26 … Returned to action later in the season and scored his first (and only) NFL touchdown on Nov. 28 during a 34-24 loss to Arizona on a one-yard run … 2000: Spent the entire season on injured reserve after undergoing season-ending knee surgery prior to the beginning of the season … 2001: Missed football for second straight year … A hamstring injury forced him to miss training camp practices … Placed on physically unable to perform list on Aug. 27 … Waived off the PUP list on Sept. 2 … 2002: Re-signed by the Giants on Jan. 15 … Played in seven games as a reserve running back and as a receiver later in the season … Had five catches for 37 yards … Also worked on special teams.

High School / University

1994-1995: Played baseball at the University of Illinois … 1996-1997: Played two years of football at the University of Evansville … Gained 2,856 yards on 465 carries at Evansville (Div. 1-AA) … Also had 25 touchdowns … Named first-team Academic All-American in 1996 and third-team All-American … Set seven school records, including career rushing (2,856), single-season rushing (1,667), single-game rushing (313), career scoring (234 points), single-season scoring (122 points), touchdowns in one season (20) and career touchdowns (39) … 1998: Played one season at Northwestern and a running back, receiver and kickoff returner … Had 32 carries for 160 yards and one touchdown in 12 games … Also contributed 17 catches for 228 yards and 11 kickoff returns for 220 yards … High School: Named all-state by the Associated Press and the Herald-Times …

TONY WHITE

Position: Linebacker

Nationality: American

Height, Weight: 6-1, 235

University: UCLA

Birthdate (Opening Day Age) Birthplace: March 22, 1979 (25) Key West, FL

Acquired: Free agent; March 18, 2003; re-signed March 3, 2004

Yrs CFL / Yrs Renegades: 2nd / 2nd

CFL Games / Renegades Games: 2 / 2

2003 Highlights

Rookie played two games: July 31 vs Edmonton and Aug. 7 vs Saskatchewan … Spent remainder of season on practice roster… One of the last cuts by Renegades during 2003 training camp, but re-joined team in mid-season.

High School / University

1997-2000: Played four seasons for the UCLA Bruins… 1997: Recorded first college interception against Houston… Recovered a fumble vs. Oregon that led to a touchdown and an eventual victory in overtime… Had eight tackles in the Rose Bowl game vs. Wisconsin… Played in nine games as a freshman… Spent time on defence and special teams… 1998: Started 12 games … 1999: played in the final nine games of the season… Had 53 tackles… 2000: Ranked sixth on the Bruins defence with 64 tackles during senior year… Had nine tackles for losses and two sacks… Recorded a career-high 13 tackles @ Oregon in the season-opener… Made two tackles and had one interception vs. Stanford… Had seven defensive tackles in Sun Bowl vs. Wisconsin.

DRU GRIGSON

Position: Linebacker

Nationality: American

Height, Weight: 6-1, 240

University: William Penn

Birthdate (Opening Day Age) Birthplace: August 14, 1978 (25) Highland, Indiana

Acquired: Free agent; March 3, 2004

Yrs CFL / Yrs Renegades: 1st / 1st

High School / University

Grigson has taken the long and winding road to professional football … 1996: Attended Fork Union Military Academy in Virginia where he was a roommate of Plaxico Burress, who later became a Pittsburgh Steelers receiver … 1997: Recruited by New Mexico State and spent the year on the scout team as a redshirted defensive end … 1998: Pegged as a starting rush end, but suffered a right leg fracture during spring drills, wiping out season … Underwent surgery to have a 13-screw, two-inch plate inserted in the broken leg … 1999: In the summer, developed an infection in the leg and required surgery … Did not attend school and opted to transfer to Northern Iowa University after mourning the loss of a close family member … 2000: Appeared in four games as a reserve defensive end at Northern Iowa. Had five tackles (three solo) … Missed seven games due to a hernia that required surgery following the season … 2001: On the Northern Iowa roster … Did not see much action … Opted to transfer to William Penn University (NAIA) in Oskaloosa, Iowa … 2002: Granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA … Rated a Super Sleeper Team honourable mention by The NFL Draft Report … Started four of 11 games at middle linebacker … Had 54 tackles (40 solo), two sacks, two quarterback pressures and 11 tackles for losses (44 yards) … Also deflected two passes and forced one fumble … Made seven solo tackles during his début game (off bench) against Midland Lutheran … Invited to the Paradise Bowl and held his own with Big 12 and Big Ten players. Quote: “There was a time when it was a real test to my faith. There were some real gut-checks, and there were times when I was frustrated with myself and my career” – as told to The Times of Northwest Indiana.

Notable

Rated the No. 15 linebacker by Pro Football Weekly for the 2003 NFL draft … Considered a hard-hitting overachiever by scouts … Possesses a “take no prisoners” attitude and tries to do whatever he can to take an opponent down … Has abilities as a long snapper … Is a machine in the weight room. Benched 225 pounds 33 times once … Has attended private workouts with the Chicago Bears … His older brother, Ryan Grigson, was a standout offensive lineman at Purdue and played in the NFL for Detroit and Cincinnati who now scouts for the St. Louis Rams … Ryan Grigson played briefly for the Toronto Argonauts in 1997.

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For more information, please contact:

Barre Campbell

Director, Media Relations & Communications

Ottawa Renegades Football Club

(613) 231-5608 ext. 236 (office)

(613) 913-7719 (cell)

Posted Wednesday, March 3, 2004 by admin
NAC/CBC, Mar. 15: Debut Series features Honens International Piano Competition prize-winner
Pianist Winston Choi, winner of France's 2002 Concours
International de Piano 20e siècle d'Orléans, and Second Laureate of the 2003
Honens International Piano Competition, will perform in recital on the
National Arts Centre and CBC Radio Two Debut Series on Monday, March 15 at
12:00 noon in the NAC Studio. Choi will perform Poulenc's Nocturnes,
Chopin's Polonaise-fantaisie, and Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit. This champion
of Canadian music will also perform Touch by National Arts Centre Award
Composer Alexina Louie.

These hour-long recitals, co-presented by the NAC and CBC Radio Two, give
young Canadian musicians the opportunity to perform at the National Arts
Centre and to have their recitals recorded and broadcast nationally on CBC
Radio Two. Admission is $2.00 with all proceeds going to the NAC Orchestra
Bursary Trust Fund. Additional donations to the Fund are greatly
appreciated.

Toronto pianist Winston Choi has already made his CD debut, having recorded
the complete works of Elliott Carter (Empreinte Digitale, France). He also
has a soon-to-be-released recording entitled 1980 as part of Italian label
QuadroFrame's Yearbooks of the 20th Century piano series.

Choi has performed in recital and with orchestras in many North American
cities - Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, New York (Merkin
and Weill Recital Halls), Miami, Montreal, Portland, Seattle and Toronto
among them - and has toured Argentina, Brunei, China, France, Hungary,
Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and Taiwan. A serious
chamber musician and collaborative pianist, he also performs in a duo with
violinist Minghuan Xu.

He is a core member of Brave New Works, a contemporary music group committed
to premiering and commissioning the works of young composers, and has
collaborated closely with some of today's most innovative established
composers. He gave the North American premiere of Boulez's 2001 version of
Incises and the South American premiere of Berio's 2001 Sonata for Piano.

Choi earned his Performer's Certificate, and Master and Bachelor Degrees at
Indiana University, studying with Menahem Pressler. At present, he is a
doctoral student at Northwestern University, where he studies with Ursula
Oppens

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Jane Morris
Marketing and Communications Officer
Agente de marketing et communications
National Arts Centre Orchestra/Orchestre du Centre national des Arts
Telephone/Téléphone: (613) 947-7000 x 335
Fax: (613) 996-2828

Posted Wednesday, March 3, 2004 by admin
NACO, March 14: Soprano Donna Brown joins ensembles of musicians of the NAC Orchestra for Music for a Sunday Afternoon
Ottawa soprano Donna Brown presents an eclectic vocal
programme for the next Music for a Sunday Afternoon concert on Sunday, March
14 at 14:00 in chamber music by Michael Head, John Corigliano, Albert
Roussel, André Caplet and Paul Hindemith along with musicians of the
National Arts Centre Orchestra in the Auditorium of the National Gallery of
Canada. Donna Brown is joined in four of these five works by NAC Orchestra
principal flute Joanna G'froerer. G'froerer also performs Debussy's solo
Syrinx. The concert opens with Frank Bridge's Phantasy for Piano Quartet in
F-sharp minor featuring Ottawa pianist Jean Desmarais.

Renowned for the floating, angelic quality of her voice, celebrated Canadian
soprano Donna Brown has performed on many of the world's great opera and
concert stages, including Paris, London, Tokyo, Geneva, Berlin, Vienna,
Toronto, San Francisco and Los Angeles and with many renowned conductors,
among them Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Helmuth Rilling, Carlo Maria Giulini,
Wolfgang Sawallisch, Marek Janowski, Kurt Masur, Daniel Barenboim, Charles
Dutoit, Pinchas Zukerman and Trevor Pinnock. In addition, recitals have
always been of major importance to Donna Brown. She has been filmed for
television (in operas and concerts) in France, England, Switzerland,
Germany, Spain, Canada and Japan.

With over two dozen recordings to her name, Ms. Brown is proud to have taken
part in numerous "world premiere" recordings such as Rodrigue et Chimène by
Debussy/Denisov with Kent Nagano conducting; Scylla et Glaucus by Leclair
with Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducting; Messe Solonelle by Berlioz with Sir
John Eliot Gardiner; Requiem Der Versohnung with Helmuth Rilling; Fanny
Mendelssohn Lieder with pianist Françoise Tillard; and Gitanjali
commissioned by the NAC for Donna Brown and the National Arts Centre
Orchestra from Canadian composer R.Murray Schafer with Mario Bernardi
conducting.

Joanna G'froerer has been the principal flute of the NAC Orchestra since
1992. She is featured on a recently released NAXOS recording with the
Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturia.

MUSIC FOR A SUNDAY AFTERNOON PROGRAMME:
FRANK BRIDGE: Phantasy for piano quartet in F-sharp minor
Donnie Deacon, violin
Sally Benson, viola
David Hutchenreuther, cello
Jean Desmarais, piano

MICHAEL HEAD: Bird Song; A Piper
Donna Brown, soprano
Joanna G'froerer, flute
Jean Desmarais, piano

CORIGLIANO: Three Irish Folk Song Settings
Donna Brown, soprano
Joanna G'froerer, flute

DEBUSSY: Syrinx
Joanna G'froerer, flute
ROUSSEL: Deux Poèmes de Ronsard
Donna Brown, soprano
Joanna G'froerer, flute

CAPLET: "Écoute mon coeur"; "Viens ! Une flûte invisible"
Donna Brown, soprano
Joanna G'froerer, flute
Jean Desmarais, piano

HINDEMITH: Melancholie, Op. 13
Donna Brown, soprano
Donnie Deacon, violin
Winston Webber, violin
Sally Benson, viola
David Hutchenreuther, cello

This Music for a Sunday Afternoon series concert, presented in collaboration
with the National Gallery of Canada, takes place on Sunday, March 14 at
14:00. Tickets at $27.00 (GST and facility fee included) are on sale now at
the NAC Box Office (Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 21:00), and through
Ticketmaster (with surcharges) at 613-755-1111. Ticketmaster may also be
accessed through the NAC's web-site at www.nac-cna.ca. Student tickets at
$14.25 are on sale in person at the NAC Box Office upon presentation of a
valid student ID card. Music for a Sunday Afternoon tickets may also be
purchased one hour before the concert outside the Auditorium of the National
Gallery.
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Jane Morris
Marketing and Communications Officer
Agente de marketing et communications
National Arts Centre Orchestra/Orchestre du Centre national des Arts
Telephone/Téléphone: (613) 947-7000 x 335
Fax: (613) 996-2828

Posted Wednesday, March 3, 2004 by admin
BLUES UNDERDOG rise up at Zaphod Beeblebrox
The Rebirth Of Cool Tour

Hip-Hop, Blues, R&B, Funk, Alternative, Reggae, Groove-Beat.

From Toronto
BLUES UNDERDOG

Thursday, March 25 (Doors 8pm)

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada.
Age 19+/ General Admission
Tickets: $8 only at the door.

"When you blend everything from reggae, hip-hop, R&B and a bit of blues it can either be something special
or something seriously wrong. These guys are something special and definitely need to be taken seriously."
- CHARTATTACK.com

Crossing musical barriers with their unique blend of hip-hop, alternative rock & funk is the Blues Underdog own "rooufffh" style. This 7-piece urban rock band features a similar live sound to the Roots, Sublime & Arrested Development, featuring Najja Calibur (vox), Viste (vox), Candi Girl (vox), Bracken (bass/guitar/vox), Jeff Ledger (guitar/bass), Jeff Roberts (drums) & Dj Deez (turntables).

Blues Underdog has exploded on to the Canadian music scene playing at key industry festivals of 2003 such as Canadian Music Week (Toronto), N.X.N.E. (Toronto) & the C.O.C.A. (Montreal) festival with such bands as Kazzer, Jully Black & the Salads. Blues Underdog rawked the HOT 89.9FM Urban Music Festival featuring Naughty By Nature & Snow in Ottawa at Confederation Park. Last fall they played at various locations in Ontario with Rascalz, Not By Choice, Pocket Dwellers & Jersey.

Blues Underdog performed on Toronto 1 Television for two episodes of The Toronto Show with Buck 65 and Eternia.

Blues Underdog will be performing as the live band for Maestro Fresh Wes at CMW this year.

**********

BLUES UNDERDOG's web site - http://www.bluesunderdog.com

Information:
BLUES UNDERDOG - Chris McKee/ Manager (416) 598-0067 ext. 321 mckee@slfa.com
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX - Eugene Haslam (613) 237-5301 zaphods_ottawa@hotmail.com http://www.zaphodbeeblebrox.com

Posted Wednesday, March 3, 2004 by admin
"Brava" featuring 2004 JUNO Nominee Susan Crowe with Cindy Church & Laura Smith at NAC - 4th Stage Sat/Sun
Brava, the singer songwriter trio comprised of 2004 JUNO nominee Susan Crowe, along with renowned vocalist, Cindy Church and multi award winning recording artist, Laura Smith, are launching a 12 stop Canadian tour, beginning this weekend with two shows at Ottawa's National Arts Centre (Fourth Stage), Saturday, March 6 at 8pm and Sunday, March 7 at 2pm.

Susan Crowe, nominated for a JUNO in the Best Roots/Traditional Solo Recording category for her recent cd release, Book Of Days (Corvus/Festival), has emerged as one of Canada's most respected singer songwriters in the folk genre, a label that barely scratches the surface of her compelling, intensely personal approach to music. Born in Halifax, NS, Susan lived and worked for many years in Toronto and Vancouver, respectively, and once again now lives in Halifax.

With repeat performances at all of Canada's major folk festivals, Susan's intelligent and moving songs have captivated audiences and reviewers from coast to coast in Canada, throughout the USA and as far away as the Czech Republic, where she toured with Katherine Wheatley in summer of 2002 and again in 2003.

Susan Crowe has recorded four CDs, the most recent of which, titled Book Of Days, produced by Danny Greenspoon, garnered her a 2004 East Coast Music Award nomination and a 2004 JUNO nomination. Susan was also invited to host The Songwriters Circle at the ECMA's, held recently in St. John's NF. Recognized early on as a gifted songwriter, Susan Crowe's first cd, This Far >From Home, was chosen by Vancouver's Georgia Straight as one of the top albums of the year ('94) and earned her a JUNO nomination. Her next release, The Door to the River, received more high praise from critics and Susan's third CD, A Pilgrim's Mirror, was nominated in 1999 for a West Coast Music Award.

A more than accomplished songwriter, Susan Crowe has written material for Quartette, John Reischman and The Jaybirds, Cindy Church, and the Aeolian Singers, among others. As reported in the Vancouver Sun, "with one of the most distinctive voices in Canada today, Susan Crowe is destined to become one of our lasting folk heroines." www.susancrowe.com

Cindy Church has made a powerful impact as a vocalist, songwriter and recording artist in both country and folk music scenes in Canada. Originally from Bible Hill, NS, and now living in Toronto, ON, Cindy is a member of well- known country/folk recording group, Quartette (with Sylvia Tyson, Caitlin Hanford and Gwen Swick), Lunch at Allens (with Murray McLaughlin, Ian Thomas & Marc Jordan) and has three solo CD's to her credit (Love On The Range, Just A Little Rain and Cindy Church).

Cindy Church has been recognized as Female Artist of The Year by the Alberta Country Music awards and has received nominations for Best Female Country artist and Best Female Country Vocalist, from both CCMA (Canadian Country Music Association) and the JUNOS. Cindy Church has also appeared in theatres and concert venues across the country with Halifax native, jazz pianist/composer, Joe Sealy, in The Nearness of You, a musical tribute to Hoagy Carmichael. Ian Tyson referred to Cindy as "just about the best song stylist around." www.livetourartists.com/cindy-church

Laura Smith was born in London, ON but has called Chester, NS home for many years. No stranger to Canadian audiences, Laura has released four cds (Laura Smith, Between The Earth & And My Soul, Vanity Pressed and It's A Personal Thing) and has been recipient of two East Coast Music Awards (Female Artist, Album of The Year) along with two Juno nominations.

Laura Smith's song Shade Of Your Love was the most played adult contemporary song on radio in Canada in 1995. In May 2003 Laura was the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Mt. St. Vincent University in Halifax. Laura Smith and her music have consistently met with unbounded critical acclaim, enormous radio play, national television appearances and a hungry demand for live performances. www.laurasmith.ca

Originally joining forces in November 2002, Susan Crowe, Cindy Church and Laura Smith delivered a series of concerts to packed houses at prestigious theatres in Nova Scotia and Ontario including two sold out shows at the National Arts Centre, Fourth Stage in Ottawa in February 2003 and in May 2003, at the Du Maurier Theatre in Halifax. NS. They followed this up, in July 2003, with a highly successful main stage appearance at the internationally renowned Stan Rogers Folk Festival.

Fast-forward to March 2004. This dynamic singer-songwriter trio, Susan Crowe, Cindy Church and Laura Smith, together known as brava, are launching a twelve stop Canadian tour from Ottawa's National Arts Centre through to Cowichan Theatre in Duncan, BC and all major cities in between.

With their combination of finely honed songwriting skills, well seasoned musicianship, outstanding individual and harmonized vocal talents, and wealth of performance experience...brava: Susan Crowe, Cindy Church and Laura Smith, deliver nothing short of a world class entertainment event.

Please see the detailed list of brava concert tour locations below. For interviews or photos please contact:

Media Contact:

Lynn Horne

Lynn Horne Marketing & Media Relations

902-465-3763

lynnhorne@ns.sympatico.ca

Posted Wednesday, March 3, 2004 by admin
500 People to Pack the House for Biggest Arts Award in Ottawa History!
Galerie SAW Gallery is proud to announce the 150 nominations put forward by
the public for Les Prix Golden Cherry Awards, to be held on Saturday, March
6 starting at 8PM at Galerie SAW Gallery. This biggest arts award night in
Ottawa history will pay homage to your favourite artists working in visual
and media art, dance, theatre, music and literature. With 4 DJs, 5 bands and
7 emcees, the celebrations will continue until 2AM. The awards will be
announced starting at 10PM. From 8PM to 10PM, the public will be able to
vote for the top nominees in each category, with red stickers provided with
admission.

Originally planned as a gala to celebrate local excellence in the arts, Les
Prix Golden Cherry Awards are now doubling up as a protest against the 100%
cuts to the arts proposed by the City of Ottawa. The message will be loud
and clear: if there are any cuts to the already low per capita funding for
the arts, Ottawa's most celebrated artists will have no choice but to leave
the city for good - some already have. Let's give an award show for city
councillors that will knock their socks off (and force them to stop the
cuts).

Admission: $10 - advance tickets available at the Arts Court information
desk at 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa
Location: Galerie SAW Gallery, 67 Nicholas Street, Ottawa
For more information: (613) 236-6181

Dress code: Trashy or Glam

Sponsors The Ottawa Citizen, The New RO, Stella Artois, Arts Court, CKCU,
SAW Video, Artguise and Artspeak. Special thanks to artist Juan Carlos Noria
for exhibition design.

GENERAL / GÉNÉRAL

Best Critic / Meilleur(e) critique
Denis Armstrong (Ottawa Sun)
Anita Euteneier (Ottawa XPress)
Suzanne Richard (Voir Outaouais)
Mélanie Riendeau (Radio-Canada)
Allan Wigney (Ottawa Sun)

Best Philanthropist / Meilleur(e) mécène
Firestone Family / La famille Firestone
Normand Fortier
Joe Friday
Barbara + Glenn McInnes
Catherine Caron

Most Dedicated Volunteer /
Bénévole le/la plus dévoué(e)
Sandra Abi-Aad
James Missen
Tyler Naitok
Shawn Scallen
Lucille St-Pierre

Best Cultural Worker /
Meilleur(e) travailleur-e culturel-le
Carol Breton (Arts Court / La cour des arts)
Cathy Busby (Ottawa Art Gallery / La Galerie d'art d'Ottawa)
Peter Honeywell (Ottawa Council for the Arts / Conseil des arts d'Ottawa)
laura jeanne lefave (Daïmõn)

Best Festival / Meilleur festival
Art Star Video Art Biennial (Galerie SAW Gallery)
Bluesfest
Ladyfest
Ottawa International Animation Festival
Pleasure Through Sound (Gallery 101 / Galerie 101)

Biggest Ego /
L¹artiste le/la plus égocentrique
Nichola Feldman-Kiss
Eugene Haslam (Zaphod)
Denis Marleau (National Arts Centre / Centre National des Arts)
Pierre Théberge (National Gallery of Canada / Musée des Beaux-Arts du
Canada)
Eric Walker

Best Arts Organization /
Meilleur organisme artistique
Available Light Screening Collective
Enriched Bread Artists
Artengine
SAW Centre
Sensibilités: Amalgame de femmes multiethniques

Biggest Architectural Eyesore /
Pire désastre architectural
American Embassy / Ambassade des États-Unis
Corel Centre / Le Centre Corel
New CBC Building / Nouveau bâtiment de la CBC
Rideau Centre / Le Centre Rideau
Rideau Street / La rue Rideau

VISUAL AND MEDIA ARTS /
ARTS VISUELS ET ARTS MÉDIATIQUES

Best Gallery / Meilleure galerie
Artguise
AXENÉO7
Gallery 101 / Galerie 101
Galerie SAW Gallery
Wurm Gallery

Best Curator / Meilleur(e) commissaire
Jen Budney (Gallery 101 / Galerie 101)
Josée Drouin-Brisebois (National Gallery of Canada / Musée des Beaux-Arts du
Canada)
Emily Falvey (Ottawa Art Gallery / La Galerie d'art d'Ottawa)
Johanna Mizgala (Portrait Gallery of Canada / Musée du Portrait du Canada)
Kitty Scott (National Gallery of Canada / Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada)

Best Photographer /
Meilleur(e) photographe
Lynne Cohen
James Erdeg
Evergon
Chantal Gervais
Colwyn Griffiths

Best Artist in Installation or Sculpture /
Meilleur(e) artiste en installation ou en sculpture
Kenneth Emig
Deborah Margo
Ron Noganosh
Frank Shebageget
Annie Thibault

Best Artist in Painting, Drawing or Printing
Meilleur(e) artiste en peinture, dessin, estampe ou impression digitale
Alexandre Castonguay
Dave Cooper
Eliza Griffiths
Garry Neill Kennedy
Howie Tsui

Best Filmmaker / Meilleur(e) cinéaste
Tony Asimakopoulos
Pixie Cram
Lee Demarbre
Dino Koutras
Dan Sokolowski

Best Video Artist / Meilleur(e) vidéaste
Véronique Couillard
Penny McCann
Maral Mohammadian
Phil Rose
Ryan Stec

Best Emerging Artist /
Meilleur(e) artiste de la relève
Luc Desjardins
Aaron McKenzie Fraser
Uta Riccius
Brad Snow
Howie Tsui

Best Graphic Designer /
Meilleur(e) designer graphique
Code régional
Doublenaut
Kolégram
Mario Godbout Design
Sérigraphie populaire

DANCE / DANSE

Best Company / Meilleure compagnie
Anjali Dance Theatre
Grasshoppa Dance Exchange
Le Groupe Dance Lab
The Jezebels

Best Production / Meilleure production
Le Mépris (Le Goupe Dance Lab)
Perfect Nowhere (Le Groupe Dance Lab)
Solos/Duets (Le Groupe Dance Lab)
Écho (Harold Rhéaume)
Un Dia Flamenco (Juliana Pulford)

Best Choreographer /
Meilleur(e) chorégraphe
Rob Abubo
Yvonne Coutts
Cecily Greenfeld
Juliana Pulford
Harold Rhéaume

Best Dancer /
Meilleur danseur - meilleure danseuse
Rob Abubo
Cecily Greenfeld
Karen Guttman
Juliana Pulford
Harold Rhéaume

THEATRE / THÉÂTRE

Best Company / Meilleure compagnie
A Company of Fools
Great Canadian Theatre Company
Théâtre la Catapulte
Troupe Désinvolte
Compagnie Vox Théâtre

Best Actor / Meilleur(e) comédien(ne)
Robert Bellefeuille
Patricia Collins
Dino Gonçalves
Marion Lemieux

Best Director /
Meilleur(e) metteur-e en scène
Brigitte Haentjens
Denis Marleau
Charles McFarland
Pier Rodier
Anne-Marie White

Best Playwright /
Meilleur(e) dramaturge
Esther Beauchemin
Bryden MacDonald
Brendan McNally
Luc Desjardins
Stefan Psenak

MUSIC / MUSIQUE

Best Band / Meilleure groupe musical
Afro Connexion
Clark
Hi Lo Trons
Kepler
Andrew Vincent & The Pirates

Best Singer-Songwriter /
Meilleur(e) chanteur-se-interpréte
Jim Bryson
Kathleen Edwards
Tanya Janca
Le Shah Loskar
Mélissa Laveaux

Best Live Performance /
Meilleure prestation publique
Afro Connexion
Daiquiri
Jeremy Gara
Lovin Body Parts
The Sick Fits

Best DJ / Meilleur(e) dj
Jean-François Blanchette
Linus
Ruby Jane
Pho
Trevor Walker

Best Local Label /
Meilleure étiquette locale
Kelp
Little Bullhorn
Music For Cats
Spectrasonic

Best Indie Record Store /
Meilleur magasin indépendant pour la musique
Birdman Sound
Organised Sound
Record Runner
Spinables (now Vertigo)

Best Radio Show /
Meilleur programme à la radio
All In A Day (CBC)
Click Here (CHUO)
Friday Morning Cartunes (CKCU)
It¹s the Bryan Show! (CKCU)
Tous les matins du monde (Radio-Canada)

Best Experimental, Electro-Acoustic or Electronica /
Meilleure musique expérimentale, électro-acoustique ou électronique
Daydream Square
Generator
Tim Hecker
Iceberg
If Then Do

LITERATURE / LITTÉRATURE

Best Zine / Meilleure zine
Burnt Toast
Ghost Pine Fanzine
Matilda
This is a Lie

Best Poet / Meilleur(e) poète
Geoff Brown
Susan McMaster
rob mclennan
David O¹Meara
Oni the Haitian Sensation

Best Fiction /
Meilleure Oeuvre de fiction
Geoff Brown
Elizabeth Hay
Suki Lee
Ian Roy

Best Erotica /
Meilleure Oeuvre érotique
Megan Butcher
Suki Lee
Nichole McGill
Oni the Haitian Sensation

Best Indie Bookstore /
Meilleure librairie indépendante
After Stonewall
Collected Works
Mother Tongue Books
Octopus Books
Librairie du soleil

Please note that individual nominations of Galerie SAW Gallery employees
were taken out of the roster because of conflict of interest.

Veuillez noter que les nominations individuelles d¹employé(e)s de la Galerie
SAW Gallery ont été retirées par conflit d¹intérêt.

ATTENTION NOMINATED ARTISTS AND ORGANIZATIONS
AVIS AUX ARTISTES ET ORGANISMES NOMINÉ(E)S

If you are a nominated artist or organization and have not received an
invitation from the
Gallery, please get in touch with us at (613) 236-6181 or
sawprogramming@artengine.ca

Posted Tuesday, March 2, 2004 by admin
SENATORS STANLEY CUP PLAYOFF TICKETS TO GO ON SALE
The Ottawa Senators announced today that the 2004 Stanley Cup playoff tickets for all individual first round home games will go on sale Monday, March 22 at 10:00 a.m., and members of the free "Sens Insiders" program will have the opportunity to win a pair of seats to a playoff game each week until April 4.

Playoff tickets for the Senators home games in the first round will be available starting at just $35 (taxes included, convenience charges may apply). There is a limit of six (6) tickets per person, per game for the Coca-Cola Family Fan Zone and GM Power seats section, and a limit of eight (8) tickets per person, per game for all other sections.

Stanley Cup playoff tickets can be purchased at www.capitaltickets.ca, by calling 599-FANS and 1-877-788-FANS, in person at all Ottawa-Gatineau area Sports Experts locations and at the Corel Centre box office. Fans can get guaranteed tickets for all playoff games and receive great savings by purchasing a ticket package for the 2004-05 season by calling 599-0200 or 1-800-444-SENS (7367).

SENS INSIDERS CONTEST

Starting Wednesday, March 3, the Sens Insiders contest begins exclusively for its members. Each week, until Sunday, April 4, a Sens Insiders member will win a pair of club-seat tickets for a Stanley Cup playoff game at the Corel Centre.

To be a Sens Insiders, you can register free of charge at the Ottawa Senators website. You can receive a weekly electronic-newsletter and post-game reports, and participate in contests and more. In addition, members "go to the front of the line" to buy Stanley Cup playoff tickets before the general public on-sale Monday, March 22.

For further information, please contact:
Phil Legault, (613) 599-0327
Steve Keogh, (613) 599-0326
Tim Pattyson, (613) 599-0239

Posted Tuesday, March 2, 2004 by admin
NACO, March 10-11: German conductor Helmuth Rilling leads Haydn's Creation
German conductor and vocal specialist Helmuth Rilling
returns to the National Arts Centre Orchestra to present Haydn's magnificent
oratorio The Creation with a choir combining the Cantata Singers of Ottawa,
the Opera Lyra Ottawa Chorus, and the Ottawa Choral Society prepared by
Laurence Ewashko and Duain Wolfe. Soprano Donna Brown, tenor James Taylor
and baritone Nathan Berg are the star soloists. The Creation will be sung in
German with the full libretto provided in English and French. These
Bostonian Bravo Series concerts take place in Southam Hall on Wednesday,
March 10 and Thursday, March 11 at 20:00.

There will be free Pre-Concert Talks given in French both nights by music
critic Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer entitled "La creativité de Haydn".

"I spend as much time over it because I intend it to last a long time," said
Haydn as he lavished care and attention on the composition of this
masterpiece. "I could see it was going to come out well. I have never felt
so devout as when I was working on The Creation. Every day I fell on my
knees and prayed to God to give me strength to finish the work
successfully." The work was a huge success from the moment of its premiere
in 1798.

The 34 musical numbers assembled into three large parts present an
enormously rich and wonderfully varied account of the creation story. Parts
I and II relate the events of the first six days, with the establishment of
the plant and animal kingdoms as portrayed in Genesis. Part III is more
reflective, focusing on the story of Adam and Eve but stopping short of
their Fall. The nobler aspects of mankind and God's good deeds are here
much in evidence. Haydn incorporated numerous examples of picturesque
imagery. These include the famous opening depiction of chaos, the blast of
sound announcing the arrival of light, a storm, clouds, lightning, thunder,
hail, rain, snow, a sunrise, the moon, lion, tiger, stag, cattle, sheep,
even the lowly worm.

The words of the Bible are divided among three archangels: the soprano
Gabriel (Ottawa's own internationally acclaimed Donna Brown, who has
performed The Creation with Rilling all over the world), the tenor Uriel
(American James Taylor, a baroque specialist who has also performed and
recorded with Rilling), and the baritone Raphael (Saskatchewan's Nathan Berg
another Rilling collaborator who has a number of baroque recordings to his
credit). Donna Brown and Nathan Berg also portray Adam and Eve in the third
part. The chorus takes on the role of the heavenly hosts. Duain Wolfe, the
director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, returns to the NAC for
the final vocal preparation of the three combined choirs, rehearsed by
Laurence Ewashko.

Helmuth Rilling is internationally recognized as one of the preeminent
authorities on the music of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries. Born in
Stuttgart in 1933, he founded the Gächinger Kantorei in 1954, and in 1965
established its instrumental counterpart, the Bach Collegium Stuttgart. In
1957 he became Cantor of the Stuttgart Memorial Church, a position he still
holds today. Helmuth Rilling is the director of the International Bach
Academy in Stuttgart, which he founded in 1981. Together with the teachers
and ensembles of this institution, he has held Bach Academy sessions all
over the world. Rilling is the only conductor to have recorded all of Bach's
sacred cantatas.

Tickets for these Bostonian Bravo Series concerts on March 10 and 11 are on
sale now at $27.00, $45.00, $56.00 and $58.00, with box seats at $73.00 (GST
and Facility Fee included) at the NAC Box Office (Monday to Saturday from
10:00 to 21:00), and through Ticketmaster (with surcharges) at 613-755-1111.
Ticketmaster may also be accessed through the NAC's web-site at
www.nac-cna.ca. Half-price tickets for students in all sections of the hall
are on sale in person at the NAC Box Office upon presentation of a valid
student ID card.

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Jane Morris
Marketing and Communications Officer
Agente de marketing et communications
National Arts Centre Orchestra/Orchestre du Centre national des Arts
Telephone/Téléphone: (613) 947-7000 x 335
Fax: (613) 996-2828

Posted Tuesday, March 2, 2004 by admin
Mar 8 3-8pm: City of Ottawa Cycling Plan Open House
City of Ottawa Cycling Plan Open House
Monday, 8 March, 2004 3 to 8 p.m.
Jean Pigott Hall,
City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West

We'd like you to give us comments and suggestions.

The City of Ottawa has hired a consulting team led by Marshall Macklin
Monaghan Limited, in association with Stantec, Noxon Associates
Limited, Nancy Smith, Planner and Mediator, and David Hunt, to work
with City staff and volunteers to prepare the Cycling Plan.

Why a cycling plan?

The City of Ottawa wants to make cycling easier, and to encourage
people to cycle more. The Cycling Plan will help improve cycling
facilities throughout Ottawa to meet the needs of both recreational and
commuting cyclists. It will include:

A vision for cycling in Ottawa
A future network of cycling facilities, with completion targets for the
next 20 years
Cyclingfacility design guidelines
Cyclingeducation, promotion and enforcement strategies to help get the
most from our investment in infrastructure

You'll hear about Ottawa's experience and the best international
practices with cycling facilities and programs. You'll see how local
cycling policies, facilities and programs fit together, and what gaps
and barriers remain. And you can give us your feedback on a cycling
vision for Ottawa, and on the goals and objectives that can make that
vision a reality.

We need your help!

Your ideas are essential to a great plan! Share your thoughts by
answering the questions, then fax it to us, mail it, or send an e-mail.

Pick up regular study updates at ottawa.ca. If you'd like to receive
study updates directly, just send an e-mail to get on our list or
contact Wilf Koppert, City Project Manager by phone at 613-580-2424
ext. 13879 or by e-mail, cycling@ottawa.ca

Help make Ottawa a greener and healthier City!
And remember, cycling is for everyone!

Cycling questionnaire:
http://ottawa.ca/public_consult/cycling/bulletin_form_en.php

Transportation Master Plan - Cycling
http://ottawa.ca/2020/transpo/6_en.php

Cycling Plan Bulletin
http://ottawa.ca/public_consult/cycling/bulletin_2_en.php

Proposed network
http://ottawa.ca/public_consult/cycling/map_en.php
(PDF map referenced is 4.42MB)

Posted Tuesday, March 2, 2004 by admin
Harmony House Rocks in Harmony Benefit Concert
A charity event that will literally rock this world! On April, 3rd, 2004 at Cafe Dekcuf (www.cafedekcuf.com) a charity event will be held for Harmony House (www.harmonyhousews.com) in order to raise money for this non - profit, non - funded organization. The event will include many talented acts with such names as Miles Away (www.milesaway.ca), Soul Harvest (www.soulharvest.ca) and headlining will be the rockin’ twelve34 (www.twelve34.ca). These bands carry out an amazing harmonious sound that will surely rock the stage into the wee hours of the morning. Hosting the event will be Eric The Intern from Chez 106,
bringing with him some giveaways and his usual antics. What more could one want from a fundraiser? Not only will they be supporting an amazing organization but they will be supplied with some great rock and free giveaways in order to be thanked for their gratitude. All of these amazing acts can be seen for the small donation of $5.00 for an advance ticket and $6.00 at the door which open at 9pm. For information on how to purchase advance tickets please visit the Harmony House website.

Harmony House has been has been supported entirely by donations since 1996 and is a registered charity. Harmony House is a second stage shelter for women and their children who are survivors of violence. They provide a transition period from crisis shelter to independent living in the community. Harmony House provides safe, affordable housing for up to a year, along with a program of individual and group support, accompaniment, advocacy and referral. Harmony House promotes the creation of a world where women and their children are free from all forms of violence and oppression.

Harmony House greatly benefits from any support that is given to them throughout the community, this fundraiser is just another way of helping an organization that gives back to the community remain in the community. There are countless women and children who have benefited from Harmony House and it is their smiles that let one know that supporting an organization like this is well worth it.

Posted Tuesday, March 2, 2004 by admin
Ottawa Blues This Week - 1 March 2004
This is a completely informal update of blues & blues-related events in Ottawa. The mailing list has been compiled from various sources and includes folks who are interested in blues. Please contact me at lizbluesottawa@aol.com to add or delete email addresses from the list and to pass along any comments.

A website for ‘Ottawa Blues This Week' is currently being developed and tested. Please check it out at http://hometown.aol.ca/lizbluesottawa/thisweek.html
and email any comments to me at lizbluesottawa@aol.com. Thanks!
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HANDY AWARDS 2004
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You can now vote for the 25th W.C. Handy nominees.
Here's what you do (it only takes a few minutes):
1. Visit http://www.blues.org and click "ENTER SITE".
2. You should then see a pop-up window saying "Click here to VOTE for the 25th W. C. Handy Awards".
3. You simply REGISTER with your email address, and you will be sent a Registration Code within seconds.
4. Enter the code when prompted and you''ll be taken to your very own BALLOT.
5. Enter your choices.
6. Follow the remaining prompts, finalize your choices, and YOU'RE DONE!

The Handy Awards will be presented at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis TN on April 29, 2004.

Become a member of the Blues Foundation ... support the blues all year long!
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SPECIAL EVENTS THIS WEEK
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Byther Smith
Rainbow, 76 Murray Street
Thursday, March 4

The 'toughest bluesman alive' is back and healthy with his regular band.
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Double Bill Blues
with Shakedown Blues and Wicked Grin
Bayou Blues & Jazz Club, 1077 Bank Street
Friday, March 5

March 5 marks a special night at the Bayou. To raise awareness about the Bayou, two great blues bands, Shakedown Blues and Wicked Grin will be performing a double bill; the third set will feature a jam with special guest musicians.

The Bayou is an important club in the city as they have long been promoters of local musicians and have brought in many great jazz and blues acts from out of town for local fans' enjoyment. In addition to providing great musical entertainment, the Bayou has recently opened their kitchen and is now serving pub style food on weekends.

To encourage attendance and raise awareness of this great club, the bands have agreed to keep the price of admission low. For this special double bill event the cover at the door is only $6 ($5 for Mississippi Blues Society and Ottawa Blues Society members).

The club boasts a great sound system, maintained and run by one of the club's owners, Bruce Blair. There is ample seating with great sightlines to the stage and a separate room with pool table.

Come out March 5th and enjoy a night of great music and atmosphere and the opportunity to meet other blues-minded fans and musicians.
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Les Grandes Dames du Blues
The Capital City Music Hall, 200 Rideau Street
Saturday, March 6, 7:30-10:30 pm (followed by house band and DJ)
tickets $15 advance; $20 at the door** see special note below

Hosted by The Dawn Tyler Watson Blues Project
Already an accomplished performer and a force on the Canadian Blues scene, Dawn Tyler Watson is a singer/songwriter whose style incorporates her many influences into a fresh new sound.
http://www.dawntylerwatson.com

Featuring Roxanne Potvin
Ottawa's newest blues voice, Roxanne Potvin has been described as, "powerful, sweet and sultry, all in one," and-influenced by Dinah Washington-is equally talented singing blues, gospel or jazz. At just 21 years old, Roxanne is another of Ottawa's talented young guitarists. A Blues Guitar Riff-Off finalist, her influences range from Junior Watson and T-Bone Walker to Little Charlie Baty and Rusty Zinn. Her guitar work is versatile and tasteful; she plays everything from west coast swing to Chicago blues and covers a lot of ground in between.
http://www.roxannepotvin.com/

With special guest (and we mean special) Alberta Adams
The grand dame of Detroit blues, Alberta Adams has performed with Duke Ellington, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, and T-Bone Walker as well as with many premier jazz, R&B, and blues groups in Detroit. Adams admits to no single influence on her singing styles, although Big Joe Turner holds a special place in her heart. "Big Joe Turner was it," she says, "and Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan and LaVern Baker, those were my girls. But nobody taught me nothin' about singing. I taught myself." Like the singers she admires, Adams has a strong, rich voice with a tone and expressive quality that grabs a listener by the heart and won't let go.

Les Grandes Dames du Blues is an annual event that coincides with International Women's Day (March 8) and focuses on raising funds for charitable causes that positively affect women. 'Les Grandes Dames du Blues' was initiated in Québec a few years ago and made its first Ottawa appearance last year.
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**SPECIAL DISCOUNT**
... for Ottawa Blues Society members & friends:
... Buy your Grandes Dames du Blues ticket in advance for only $10.
Tickets can be purchased from:
Brent Diab, OBS Vice President - brentdiab@hotmail.com
... Brent is behind the bar at the Bayou - Tuesday & Wednesday this week
Liz Sykes, OBS President - lizblues@aol.com
... Liz will be at the Byther Smith show on Thursday at the Rainbow

Tickets also available from OBS members at the Bayou on Friday night for the Double Bill Blues Show.
You must purchase your ticket in advance to obtain this special discount.
OBS member discounted cover at the door - $15.00
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WORKSHOP
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Microphone Workshop For Voice
Rasputin's Folk Café, 696 Bronson Avenue
Sunday, March 7, 1-3 pm, fee $25

A hands-on workshop looking at the practical aspects of using a microphone for live performances: How to communicate with the sound technician, how to talk while looking at the audience, and most importantly, how to feel comfortable around the technology.

Workshop is limited to ten participants.
Apple cider, tea and coffee will be served.

For more info - http://www.rasputins.ca/microphone_workshop.htm
To register, contact dean.verger@rasputins.ca
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WEEKLY EVENTS ON THE SMALL SCREEN
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ALWAYS check local listings to confirm.

On Bravo - Ottawa Cable Channel 40
http://www.bravo.ca/programlistings/

Monday, March 8 @ 7:30 am
Talkin' Blues: Field Hollerin' (2003)
A profile of Chicago musician Fruteland Jackson; Kelly Joe Phelps; Super ChiKan.
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LOCAL HIGHLIGHTS
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Fundraiser for Ottawa Carleton Association
for Persons with Developmental Disabilities
with The Maria Hawkins Band
Rainbow, 76 Murray Street
Friday, March 5; advance tickets $10
contact Debbie Blasutti dblasutti@ocapdd.on.ca

This Friday at 9 pm, the Maria Hawkins Band performs in support of arts programs for the Ottawa Carleton Association for Persons with Developmental Disabilities. The music will be blues, funk R&B and soul.

OCAPDD participants have been engaged in music and visual arts programs and we wish to continue to develop arts programming with your help. The money raised will go directly to support the arts.
(Thanks to Maria Hawkins for this info).
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REGULAR EVENTS THIS MONTH
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Mondays: Maria Hawkins @ the Rainbow
Tuesdays: Rainbow Open Jam with the Smacks @ 9:30 pm
Wednesdays: Open stage with Shakedown Blues @ the Bayou
Thursdays: Dinner & acoustic blues @ Tucson's
Thursdays: Blues Jam with Johnny Russell & Mike Ktenas @ Irene's
Fridays: Amaryllis @ the Rainbow ... early show 5-7 pm
Saturday afternoons: Blues jam @ the Rainbow
Sunday afternoons: Guy del Villano & guests @ Royal Oak, Bank St.
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LOCALS THIS WEEK
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Saturday, March 6
The Mud Boys @ the Rainbow

Saturday, March 6
Brian Asselin & friends @ the Bayou

Sunday, March 7
JW-Jones Blues Band @ the Rainbow, 3-7 pm

Posted Tuesday, March 2, 2004 by admin
JAMES (UK) guitarist KULAS brings another small machine to Zaphod Beeblebrox
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, STEAM WHISTLE & JAGERMEISTER
PRESENT...

guitarist from UK band JAMES
(michael)
KULAS

+ KATIE GRIFFIN

+ JEFF MOFFATT

Thursday, March 11 (Doors 8pm)

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada.
Age 19+/ General Admission
Tickets: $8 only at the door.

"'Another Small Machine' is made up of memorable tunes that take up serious real estate in your cranium. And while
they're inspired to some degree by Brit-pop and they're more intelligent than run-of-the-mill alterno-rock, it's easy to
imagine Michael Kulas' last name occupying the same charts once scaled by James' one and only moniker.
- CHART Magazine, Canada.

"It's reflective and elegiac, with some echoes of James's jangly guitar rock,
but the sound leans more toward stripped-down Coldplay."
- NOW, Toronto.

"Thankfully, 'Another Small Machine' isn't as stark an album as its setting would suggest
-- it's got some undeniably catchy, anthemic pop tunes." - EYE, Toronto.

After five years across the pond, touring and recording with multi-platinum brit band James, Michael Kulas has come home to Canada to promote his new independent solo effort, "another small machine."

Kulas grew up in smalltown Ontario, and played the local Toronto indie music scene through the early nineties, until a chance meeting with James violinist, Saul Davies. In 1994, Davies produced Kulas' first independent solo album, "mosquito," which was hailed by chart as one of top 20 independent releases of the year. Michael's chance meeting with Davies led to his eventually meeting the rest of James, and joining the band in 1997 to tour in support of their album "whiplash."

In the past five years with James, Kulas has lent his talents to numerous sold-out arena tours, and studio albums such as "millionaires", "pleased to meet you" and, the multi-platinum selling, "best of" album.

You can be certain he will arrive at Zaphod's duly armed with brilliant newly crafted songs, sporting the fusion of Canadian indie sensibility and Brit popcraft.

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Katie's artistic influences are wide and varied. Musically, Katie grew up listening to artists like Sarah McLachlan, Madonna and The Tragically Hip. Now, a confessed 'alternative music junkie', she finds herself inspired by bands like Hole, Foofighters, No Doubt, Madonna and Radiohead. Katie just finished recording her first CD Kiss Me Chaos, co-produced by Michael Kulas (formally of JAMES). "I was so fortunate to have someone as talented as Michael get on board. He transformed these little acoustic songs I had written, into a full pop/rock CD. I'm so excited about this new journey."

Her acting career has been keeping her busy when she wasn't working on finishing her CD. Katie just finished shooting her second episode of Doc, starring Billy Ray Cyrus, as the flirtatious Diane Lang, a drug rep for the hospital. She's still anxiously awaiting the release of the feature film, Swindle where she stars opposite Tom Sizemore and Dave Foley, in a story about a bank heist that goes wrong. Protection, another feature film that Katie recently starred in, as Stephen Baldwin's wife, was released at Roger's Video in April 2002. She is also currently starring in a brand new Nelvana cartoon called Traffix, where she plays 'Oona' the know-it-all alien. Katie can also be heard as Ruby, in the animated series, Max and Ruby which is currently on YTV. Another exciting project that Katie is working on is the hit animation series, Braceface, with Alicia Silverstone. Braceface has been rated the #1 cartoon of all time on the FOX Family network in the U.S. and was nominated for an Emmy in 2002. Katie also had a decent cameo on America's Prince the movie of the week about the John F. Kennedy Jr. story. On top of these recent successes, Katie has also done extensive work in television, both voice and onscreen. She has appeared in episodes of series such as Earth Final Conflict, Traders, Total Recall, and The Associates. She is also widely known for her voice work as Sailor Mars in the popular animated series, Sailor Moon.

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Currently in pre-production on a scheduled release for 2004, Jeff’s music displays an introspective, St. Germain meets Nick Drake kind of ambient mood. On his current musical project Jeff commented, “I’m not committed to any one style of music, but I do have an affinity to a good groove, and simple, open sound. I like to leave space between notes and not over-clutter a song with too much happening.”

In addition to his career as a musician, Jeff is also a published writer and is the music segment producer of Rogers Television's weekly entertainment show, Ottawa Living.

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KULAS' web site - http://www.medium.ca/interloper
KATIE GRIFFIN's web site - http://www.katiegriffin.com
JEFF MOFFATT's web site - http://www.jeffmoffatt.com

Information:
KULAS - theonlykulas@hotmail.com
KATIE GRIFFIN - Debra Goldblatt (416) 489-0055
JEFF MOFFATT - (613) 796-1008 jeff@jeffmoffatt.com
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX - Eugene Haslam (613) 237-5301 zaphods_ottawa@hotmail.com http://www.zaphodbeeblebrox.com

Posted Tuesday, March 2, 2004 by admin
AUGUST ELLIOT cd release at Zaphod Beeblebrox
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, STEAM WHISTLE & JAGERMEISTER
PRESENT...

CD RELEASE

From Montreal
AUGUST ELLIOT

+ KINGDOM SAMPLE

+ BANANA JANE

Thursday, March 18 (Doors 8pm)

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada.
Age 19+/ General Admission
Tickets: $6 only at the door.

Formed out of the frustration of band break-ups and the drive to succeed, August Elliot emerged when Rachel Tremblay decided to spearhead her own music project. Writing her own original material, Rachel enlisted Ian Bourbonnais and her husband Mitch Leduc to provide a solid bottom end. With a lifetime’s worth of playing and harmonizing together, Rachel’s sister Lien Tremblay was the obvious choice as rhythm guitarist and back-up vocalist. The two sisters deliver a seamless sound that gives August Elliot a depth that goes beyond the band’s youthful look.

The group fuses hard-hitting riffs and interesting arrangements with gripping melodies into a fresh new sound that could have you singing along with the radio as easily as moshing at a concert. With influences ranging from rock to punk, the band delivers lyrically mature songs that stand alone. August Elliot is guitar-driven music that is emotional and aggressive; catchy and melodic; original and intense.

Their live show is a high energy experience that showcases the talent of each individual band member and explodes into a fury of sound that can only be described as August Elliot. The Montreal-based outfit is at its finest when playing, and therein lies their true passion and reason.

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AUGUST ELLIOT's web site - http://www.augustelliot.com

Information:
AUGUST ELLIOT - Pierre Tremblay (819) 457-4319 pierre.verna@sympatico.ca
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX - Eugene Haslam (613) 237-5301 zaphods_ottawa@hotmail.com http://www.zaphodbeeblebrox.com

Posted Tuesday, March 2, 2004 by admin
AS THE POETS AFFIRM + THE WAKING EYES play for One World Beat at Zaphod Beeblebrox
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX
PRESENTS...

2nd Annual ONE WORLD BEAT Global Music Festival
A benefit for KEEP A CHILD ALIVE

From Ottawa/ Reached #1 on CKCU-FM
AS THE POETS AFFIRM

+ From Winnipeg/ Recently signed to Warner Music
THE WAKING EYES

Saturday, March 20 (Doors 8pm)

ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, 27 York Street, Ottawa, Canada.
Age 19+/ General Admission
Tickets: $6 only at the door.

"This stirring debut from local instrumental outfit, ...As The Poets Affirm, manages to say much
without uttering a single word. Even without lyrics, these songs sing. Whether it's with sobering
cello, a cascading shimmer of cymbals or some thick plucking of guitar, a variety of moods and
emotions are manifested. At times, it's atmospheric and flighty, then temperamental and imploring."
**** (4 Stars) - OTTAWA XPRESS

As The Poets Affirm is a five piece instrumental group that has combined the contemporary sounds of live break beats, electronic ambiance and abstract bass with the more melodic sounds of the cello and acoustic guitar. By subtracting any tangible vocals from the music, they have forced it to become more thematic and emotionally charged, creating a brooding and swift tone. This group is based out of Ottawa, Canada.
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The Waking Eyes were formed in June of 2000 after the demise of the internationally acclaimed Steinbach band, the Pets. After seeing their previous group posthumously lauded in publications like Q, The Sunday Times, The Boston Phoenix, The Guardian and Uncut, Matt Peters and Myron Schulz were eager to start a new group and record an album. The two recruited Winnipegger Rusty Matyas (Novillero, Duotang), borrowed a phrase from a Pink Floyd lyric for their name, acquired new and improved hardware and software, and started to record an album. Courtesy of Endearing Records.

One World Beat Global Music Festival is a live 3-day around-the-world music festival providing a platform for musicians of all genres to unite and convey a message of hope through their music, all to benefit the victims of AIDS

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Keep A Child Alive is dedicated to providing life-saving medicine to children and families with HIV/AIDS. Keep A Child Alive offers you the opportunity to sponsor this treatment, and save a life now.

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ONE WORLD BEAT's web site - http://www.oneworldbeat.org
KEEP A CHILD ALIVE's web site - http://www.keepachildalive.org
AS THE POETS AFFIRM's web site - http://www.asthepoetsaffirm.com
THE WAKING EYES' web site - http://www.thewakingeyes.com

Information:
ONE WORLD BEAT - Andy Treichler P.O. Box 41, 1073 Savigny/ Lausanne, Switzerland.
++41 78 829 0106 andyt@oneworldbeat.org
KEEP A CHILD ALIVE - (718) 965-1111 info@keepachildalive.org
AS THE POETS AFFIRM - ryanpatterson@rogers.com
THE WAKING EYES - thewakingeyes@hotmail.com
ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX - Eugene Haslam (613) 237-5301 zaphods_ottawa@hotmail.com
http://www.zaphodbeeblebrox.com

Posted Tuesday, March 2, 2004 by admin
Irish Week Media Release-If Your Irish Step Up to the Parlour
As a lead up to Irish Week 2004, Mayor Bob Chiarelli reads the Official Proclamation of Irish Week 2004 on Wednesday, March 3 at 3:45 p.m. in the Festival Room at City Hall. The MC for the Proclamation Ceremony is Michael O’Byrne of CJOH and guest speakers include Mr. Martin Burke, the Irish Ambassador, Mr. Pat Kelly, President of the Irish Society of the National Capital Region and Mr. Dan Dunlop, Chairperson of Irish Week.

Immediately following the Official Proclamation, the Irish Society pays its final respects to its 2003 Parade Grand Marshal, Tom Cavanagh (President of Thomas Cavanagh Construction Ltd.) at The Irish Wake. The Wake is a fun evening where family, friends and “others” gather to reflect, roast, eulogize and have some fun with the life of Tom Cavanagh. It starts at 4:15 p.m. in the Festival Room at City Hall when Mayor Bob Chiarelli offers words of condolence to the mourners. At 4:30 p.m., a not-so-solemn “Walking Procession” will follow a horse drawn hearse down Laurier Avenue West to the Warrant Officers’ & Sergeants’ Mess at Two Queen Elizabeth Drive where the entertainment and blarney begins at 5:30 p.m.. Tom Cavanagh was a fine Grand Marshal, to be sure, and we invite all interested parties to help give him a proper send-off. Tickets are $30 and are available by calling Pat Kelly at (613) 822-9500.

Our 2004 Irish Week festivities start at dawn on March 10 with the raising of the Irish flag at City Hall and continue through St. Patrick’s Day, March 17.

About the Irish Society of the National Capital Region
The Irish Society of the National Capital Region was formed to assist Irish immigrants in adapting to their new surroundings and to provide financial assistance when required through the Society’s benevolent fund. The Society is committed to promoting Irish culture throughout the region and to preserving the rich heritage of the Irish immigrants who helped build this country and our community.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Mike McNamara

Director of Communications

Irish Society of the National Capital Region

Telephone: (613) 226-2707
e-mail: mikem99@rogers.com

Posted Monday, March 1, 2004 by admin
The Who’s Tommy – March 11-13 & 18-20
The Who’s Tommy – A Sock ‘n’ Buskin Production
Music and Lyrics by Pete Townshend
Directed by Lisa Bishop
March 11 – 13 & 18 – 20, Alumni Theatre, Carleton University

OTTAWA – See it! Feel it! Don’t miss the latest offering from the director of Jesus Christ Superstar and The Rocky Horror Show coming in March to Alumni Theatre on the Carleton University Campus. The Who’s Tommy is the story of a boy rendered deaf, dumb and blind after witnessing the murder of his mother’s lover. The powerful rock musical thrills as it follows Tommy’s parents’ search for a cure and his remarkable transformation into a Pinball Wizard.

This sensational production is based on the Tony Award-winning 1993 Broadway revival and features a powerhouse ensemble cast that includes the talent of some of the Ottawa area’s most prominent blues and rock performers. Tickets are $10.00 and can be purchased or reserved in advance by calling the Sock 'n’ Buskin Theatre Company at (613) 520-3770. Student and group discounts are available.

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For more information or to arrange interviews please contact either Heather MacDonald at (613) 235-4222 or Heather Moulaison at (613) 266-3283 or via E-Mail at lesheathers@hotmail.com

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Pandemic Outbreak Coalition announced
The City of Ottawa's Associate Medical Officer of Health, Dr.
Patricia Huston, announced today the formation of a Pandemic Outbreak
Coalition. The announcement came at the conclusion of a two-day planning
workshop involving a wide range of health and emergency response partners
from across Ottawa.

The founding members of the coalition include the City's Public Health and
Long Term Care Branch, the City's Emergency Measures Unit and the Capital
Health Alliance, a consortium of hospitals and major health agencies in
Ottawa.

"This is a very positive first step because we know there is a need for a
coordinated, inter-agency response to pandemic influenza," said Dr. Huston.
"We need to take the individual agency plans that are already in place to
the next level. The coalition provides a forum for all parties involved to
help create a coordinated pandemic outbreak plan."

The coalition's planning will integrate with provincial, national and
international pandemic plans. Health Canada released the national pandemic
plan on February 12, 2004. This plan identifies jurisdictional
responsibilities during a pandemic at federal, provincial and local levels.

"There is a lot at stake and we have to plan together," said Capital Health
Alliance executive director Alasdair Smith. "There are many partners at
every level of response and the coordination during a pandemic outbreak will
be critical. Not only do we need to ensure that our healthcare teams and
partners are prepared and have the appropriate resources, but we need to
ensure timely and accurate information is to available to our community."

The coalition plans to work with all member agencies and organizations over
the next year to set up the comprehensive coordinated plan and to build
local capacity to be prepared.

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For more information:
Communications & Marketing
(613) 580-2450

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Meetings at Ottawa City Hall
The following meetings are scheduled during the week of March 1,
2004, at Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West, unless otherwise noted.
Agenda items that may be of special interest to citizens and the media have
been highlighted.

Corporate Services and Economic Development Committee - Monday, March 1,
9:30 a.m., Andrew S. Haydon Hall
* 2004 Corporate Services and Economic Development Committee Budget
Review
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* Transportation Committee - Tuesday, March 2, 9:30 a.m., Andrew S.
Haydon Hall
* 2004 Transportation Committee Budget Review
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* Transportation Committee - Wednesday, March 3, 9:30 a.m., Andrew S.
Haydon Hall
* 2004 Transportation Committee Budget Review
*
* Health, Recreation and Social Services Committee - Thursday, March
4, 9:30 a.m., Andrew S. Haydon Hall
* 2004 Health, Recreation and Social Services Committee Budget Review
*
* Health, Recreation and Social Services Committee - Friday, March 5,
8:30 a.m., Andrew S. Haydon Hall
* 2004 Health, Recreation and Social Services Committee Budget Review

The agenda for these meetings and related reports will be posted on the
City's Web site at ottawa.ca and will be available at the respective
meetings.

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For more information:
Communications & Marketing
(613) 580-2450

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Mar 13: Writers' workshop
"Character is the Heart of Fiction"
a Saturday afternoon workshop
presentation by author, Mary Borsky.
Saturday, March 13th, 2004
At Michigamme - a writer friendly abode
tucked in the woods along side the Madawaska River.
2271 Calabogie Rd.
Burnstown, Ontario
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1pm start time workshop
2:30-3 break to include hot hors d'oeuvres, tea/coffee
3-4:30 workshop
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5pm-optional dinner out at a local restaurant (not included in fee)

7-9pm- optional group manuscript critique session with Mary
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We encourage you to bring a manuscript in progress for the workshop and
if staying for the evening critique, please bring up to five pages of a
manuscript to read and at least five copies of your manuscript to share
during the reading/critiquing.
For more information:
Noreen@scbwicanada.org or
michigamme@renc.igs.net

Mary Borsky is the author of two children's chapter books, Benny Bensky
and the Perogy Palace, Benny Bensky and the Giant Pumpkin Heist both
published with Tundra Books. Her short story collection, Influence of
the Moon is published by Porcupine's Quill. She is currently at work on
another collection of stories and another Benny Bensky.

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IN A MELLOW TONE - MARCH/APRIL/MAY
March 3 Listen Before You Buy: Ron Sweetman reviews recent jazz issues and reissues. Will include Alan Broadbent, Paul Dunmall,
Marty Ehrlich, Andrew Hill, Dom Minasi and Mark Whitecage.

March 10 Women In Jazz: An International Women’s Day special on some contemporary female jazz musicians. Listen for Sophie Agnel, Carla Bley, Jane Bunnett, Ingrid Jensen, Marilyn Lerner, Marian McPartland, Myra Melford
and Roberta Piket.

March 17 Vocalists: An informal survey of contemporary vocalists including Dorothy Berryman, Richard Bona, Carol Egan, Angela Hagenbach, Abbey Lincoln, Carmen Lundy, Dick Maloney, Manhattan Transfer,
Bobbie McFerrin, Karin Plato, Lisa Sokolov and Nancy Wilson.

March 24 Pete Johnson: This great jazz/blues pianist was born March 25, 1904, so let’s celebrate his centennial and his career!

March 31 Concept Albums: Concept albums by Bob Barnard,
Jim Galloway, Michael Garrick, Geoff Muldaur and the folks at Verge.

April 7 Listen Before You Buy: The cream of the crop of recent jazz releases, including Dexter Gordon, Marty Grosz, Dave Holland, Bill King,
John McLaughlin, Phil Nimmons, Sam Rivers, Chris Tarry and Mark Whitecage.

April 14 Bessie Smith: The Empress of the Blues was born April 15,
1894. We will play some of her greatest recordings, with accompanists including
Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson, Don Redman and Clarence Williams.

April 21 Dutch Treat: An update on the vibrant Dutch jazz scene, with AROS, Ab Baars, Sean Bergin, Eric Boeren, Tobias Delius,
the Henneman String Quartet, Wilbert DeJoode, Mary Oliver and Wolter Wierbos.

April 28 Langston Hughes: The first of two programs of musical tributes to the great writer’s poems. With Leonard Feather, Kenny Neal,
Taj Mahal, Big Miller, Charles Mingus, Val Gray Ward and Hughes himself.

May 5 Listen Before You Buy: Ron Sweetman reviews recent jazz issues and reissues. Will include Bob Brough, Ken Hatfield, Brian Hurley, Joelle Leandre, Brian Lynch, William Parker, Barre Phillips, Clark Terry and Bennie Wallace.

May 12 Chris McGregor Discoveries: Recently discovered concerts by Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath in Bremen, Germany (1971 & 1973) and Bridgewater, England (1975). Musicians include Harry Beckett,
Marc Charig, Elton Dean, Nick Evans, Mongezi Feza, Malcolm Griffiths,
Harry Miller, Louis Moholo, Mike Osborne, Evan Parker, Dudu Pukwana,
Alan Skidmore and Gary Windo.

May 19 “Fats” Waller: Pianist composer singer bandleader
“Fats” Waller was born on May 21, 1904. Join us in celebrating his centennial!

May 26 Norwegian Jazz: In our second program on Norwegian jazz, we look in greater depth at the careers of Decoy, Rowland Greenberg,
Hot Club de Norvege, Hakon Kornstad and Petter Wettre.

Coming up later in 2004: Unique well-researched programs on Fontella Bass,
the Boswell Sisters, Bill Coleman, Danish Jazz, Anders Gahnold, Stuff Smith and
Rene Thomas.

“In A Mellow Tone” is on CKCU every Wednesday from 9:00 to 11:00pm

at 93.1FM in Ottawa

Posted Monday, March 1, 2004 by admin
AIDS Awareness Event Saturday March 6th, 2004
aturday March 6th Inside Le Skratch The Carleton Cultural Students Association Present the 1st Annual 'Revelation' This one day event will include: A50/50 Pool Tournament, An International Fashion and Talent Showcase, And Ottawa's Biggest Party Of 2004 featuring Canada's #1 DJ Starting From Scratch, from toronto's Flow 93.5FM, Ottawa's #1 Club DJ's Ebony and Ivory, with Carleton University' DJ Izz 'Da Best', Ottawa University's DJ Fry, and Canada's First International DJ, DJ Wiz.

Tickets Available Inside Le Skratch

Proceeds From This Event Go Towards AIDS Awareness

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A.C.T. OPEN-CALL, AUDITIONS, SUCCESS STORIES & MORE!
For a complete list of audition notices, please visit the A.C.T. website at www.ACTottawa.com

This very important A.C.T. message includes:

1. SPRING SESSION - A.C.T. is now accepting registration for its Spring Session!
2. OPEN-CALL - Meet H20 Producer & Associate Casting Director on Friday, March 5, 2004.
3. A.C.T. SUCCESS STORIES - Check out what A.C.T.'s alumni, students & instructors are up to!
4. AUDITIONS - Theatre - TT Productions "Infinite Possibilites"
5. ACADEMY AWARDS - Centretown Movies invites you to watch the 76th annual Academy Awards!
6. AUDITIONS - Music Video - Canadian Productions
7. Clear Head Shot Envelopes - Get noticed today!
8. AUDITIONS - Theatre - Outlaw
9. AUDITIONS - Theatre - CanStage "As You Like It"
10. AUDITIONS - Theatre - The Glenbow Museum
11. AUDITIONS - Theatre - Citadel Theatre
12. AUDITIONS - Theatre - CanStage "Urinetown"
13. AUDITIONS - Theatre - Sunshine Festival Theatre Company
14. AUDITIONS - Theatre - Opera Ontario
15. AUDITIONS - Theatre - Driftwood Theatre Group

Posted Monday, March 1, 2004 by admin
OTTAWA RAIDERS FINISH OFF FINAL WEEKEND 1-2
The Ottawa Raiders hosted the Avalanche du Québec for two games and the Montréal Axion for one this past weekend.

Friday, February 27 the Ottawa Raiders played host to the Avalanche du Québec at the Winchester Community Centre. The first period was a tight-checking affair and finished off tied at 1 with Jenn Slewidge scoring for the Raiders. Quebec then took the lead 2-1 before Erin Chassie tied it up in the last three minutes of the second period. The Raiders then took the lead for good in the third on a nifty backhander over the Avalanche’s netminder by Andre-Anne Dionne to finish the game on a winning note 3-2.

Saturday, February 28 saw the Raiders take on their future playoff opponent, the Montréal Axion. The first period did not go the right way for the Raiders and Montréal quickly grabbed a 3-0 lead. In the second the Raiders make a slight comeback grabbing two powerplay goals from Susie Laska and Erica Olson. Montréal put the game out of reach later in the second period by adding to their lead. After a scoreless third period the game finished with Montreal winning 5-2.

Sunday, February 29 was the final game of the regular season for both Ottawa and Québec. The Raiders looked to finish the season off on a strong note but Québec had other plans to show that while they didn’t make the playoffs they were still a strong team. The first period ended 2-1 for Québec with Erica Olson notching the lone goal for the Raiders. Québec then took the game away from Ottawa adding two more goals in the second and a final one in the third to win the game 5-1.

The NWHL playoffs begin this week for Ottawa as they head down to Montréal to play the Axion on March 6.

The Ottawa Raiders are also pleased to announce that Susie Laska was named the NWHL’s Defense Player of the Week. As well forward Erica Olson finished in the Top 20 regular season scoring with 35 points.

Jason Perrier (613) 599-9165 or perrierj@sympatico.ca

Barry Madigan (613) 591-1021 or bmadigan1021@rogers.com

Visit our web site at www.ottawaraiders.com or www.nwhlhockey.com