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Highlights in this edition:
■ Season Passes and Tickets on Sale Now
■ Our Next Shows: November
■ COMING ON NOVEMBER 12: Vocal Harmony Workshop with The Once!
■ Donations Needed for the Calgary Veterans' Food Bank
■ A Noble Decision

Season Passes and Individual Show Tickets:


Passes for our stellar 45th season are now available! These passes are a great deal for music-lovers and bargain-lovers alike. Prorated for the number of shows remaining in the season, these passes work out to a significant discount, per show, compared to individual tickets. Only a few of these coveted passes remain for this season!

Of course, not everyone's schedule accommodates alternating Friday nights until April. For those of you who prefer to pick and choose, advance tickets for individual shows are now on sale for $27.50 apiece, and are also available for $30 at the door on show nights. 

Don't miss out on this season's incredible lineup! Order your Season Passes and individual tickets at our website, or call 1-888-655-9090.


Our Next Shows:

Coming on  November 11th:

THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT!

The Once
An indie folk trio, the Once (Geraldine Hollett, Andrew Dale and Phil Churchill) has blossomed since recording their first album in 2009 into one of Newfoundland's finestmusical exports with the release of their latest CD,Departures. Gorgeous, three-part harmonies, versatile acoustic instrumentation and mature song-writing rooted in Newfoundland's Celtic-inspired musical heritage have already earned them a JUNO nomination and three Canadian Folk Music Awards. Treat yourself to an evening of the enchanting and entrancing signature sounds of the Once.



First Up: Roger Roger
There are sibling harmonies and there are the harmonies of Winnipeg twins Lucas and Madeleine Roger, who come by their diverse talents honestly, having grown up in the recording studio of their producer/engineer/musician father, Lloyd Peterson. Their latest album,  Fairweather, awesomely juxtaposes the songs and voices of the Roger twins. Together, they bring a balance of folk, roots, and rock inspired songs in a beautifully produced album by  "two superbly talented and highly original singer-songwriters," according to Greg Leskiw of The Guess Who.




And on November 25th:

Corin Raymond
 
If you're a CFC regular, you'll remember Toronto troubadour Corin Raymond  from 2012 as the great Canadian Tire money man, and if you like songwriting tales that are tall, dark and slightly nefarious, don't miss this show. In a rapturous review of his latest album, Acoustic Guitar  said this: "romantic, immediate and narcotic, Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams  charts an emotional topography in which touchstones from the waking world drop into dreamscapes and resonate, the dead stay reassuringly close, and the fever never breaks." Enough said.
 
 


First Up: Treasa Levasseur
Blending old school R&B with her songs, Treasa Levasseur's smart, soulful grooves has made her a hot name in folk, roots, blues, and jazz circles. Her 2008 album Low Fidelity was critically acclaimed and JUNO-nominated, and her latest offering, Broad, is winning praise from all across the musical press. Expect to be won over by Levasseur's consummate musicianship and   well-honed songwriting.



Last Chance for Tickets to The Once: Vocal Harmony Workshop!
A unique opportunity for Calgary Folk Club patrons!

Whether you sing in the shower, belong to a choir, or are honing your skills as a singer-songwriter, don't miss this rare opportunity to learn the secrets of divine harmony from The Once, an award-winning trio whose success has been built on a foundation of exquisite vocals. Praise for The Once is pouring in from all quarters, including from Amelia Curran, who said that The Once have  " Perfect vocal harmonies thick enough to stand on. Think of the heavenly mix of Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris and Gillian Welch, back them up with The Chieftans, and let Daniel Lanois swim around in it, and you're still only halfway there. " Equally enchanting whether singing acapella or with instrumentation, no one knows harmony quite like The Once.  This hands-on, small-group experience will be limited to 30 participants, and these spots are likely to fill up quickly - be sure to get your tickets soon!

Where: Dalhousie Community Centre
When: 9:30AM - 2:30PM,  Saturday November 12, 2016
How Much: $100 plus ticket service fees (Lunch Provided)

CLICK HERE to order tickets to this singular event!


Donations Needed for the Calgary Veterans' Food Bank

Earlier this month, the shelves at the Calgary Veteran's Food Bank were nearly bare. In response to an article in the Calgary Herald highlighting this urgent need, donations have surged, but the Food Bank still needs our help!

The Canadian Legacy Project is conducting their 10th annual Veterans Food Drive, which runs until November 15th. Food donations are being collected at Crown Surplus in Inglewood (1005, 11th St. SE), and financial donations can be given through  the Project's website, or by mail to  The Canadian Legacy Project (Suite 210, 1235 - 17th Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta T2T 0C2).



A Noble Decision
On Bob Dylan's receipt of the Nobel Prize for Literature 
By guest contributor Phil Hoffmann

The choice of Bob Dylan as the latest literature laureate breaks new ground for the Nobel committee in several respects, although it was not entirely unexpected. Dylan's name had long been bandied about as a possible recipient, and he was even nominated once decades ago, news that leaked out at the time despite the fact that the selection process is supposed to remain strictly confidential.

Choosing a pop culture icon and reversing an anti-American trend - the last American recipient of the prize for literature was Toni Morrison in 1993 - are almost as newsworthy as the choice of Dylan himself, who has always been aware of his reputation as a polarizing figure. The news was met by tut-tutting from the high-brow literati set, who are accustomed to seeing the award mostly go to Serious Writers cloaked in obscurity beyond the borders of their native lands. But the biggest news of all is that the award went to a singer-songwriter as opposed to a conventional print-media poet, novelist, playwright or philosopher.

Corin Raymond may have over-stated the case in claiming that Dylan invented singer-songwriter as a career designation, but he exaggerated only slightly. Minstrels, bards and troubadours have sung their verses for centuries, and Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Woody Guthrie, among others, made waves performing their own songs and extending the American songbook before Dylan arrived on the scene. But Dylan's emergence from the fabled Greenwich Village milieu in the early 1960s heralded the advent of singer-songwriters as fixtures in popular culture. And while Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Ian Tyson, Nina Simone, Eric Andersen, Fred Neil and others also flourished around the same time, followed later by "new Dylans" such as John Prine, Loudon Wainwright III and Springsteen, no one from that era has endured artistically as long as Dylan himself, who showed us as recently as 2012 that he is still capable of writing ballads of the highest order with his album Tempest.

Granted, there is some validity in the sniping of the nay-sayers. For every "Desolation Row" or "Visions of Johanna," he has churned out his fair share of lazy, throwaway lyrics. It's to his credit, however, that Dylan has apparently never cared much about his literary legacy (note the dearth of lyric sheets accompanying his albums). He writes songs to sing them, not to have them anthologized. Salman Rushdie summed it up best when he wrote that with this award the frontiers of literature keep widening. And although Dylan didn't pen this line in response to Rushdie, who would deny that every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal?


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