Friday October 17
Local Music Night and Food Bank Drive. Doors open at 6:30...music starts at 7:30 or so. 2 songs per performer. Everyone is welcome, all ages. Please bring donations of either non-perishable food or cash for the Food Bank.

Sunday October 19 4-8pm
Dunnville Through the Ages presented by the Dunnville Culture and Heritage Foundation
Tickets are $20 (includes dinner and entertainment) and are available at Flyers Cafe and Queen Street Paint and Decor. Dinner will be served at 5pm.
All proceeds will go to the Braund House Project. Period Costume, 1860 to present, is encouraged.

Wednesay. October 22 JOHN MANN
$18

Mister Mann is the solo project of Spirit of the West’s front man and songwriter John Mann. After 11 albums and countless tours of the UK, Europe and North America with Spirit, December Looms is a return to Mann’s stripped down Alt Folk roots.

Mann pens beautiful melodies with emotionally honest lyrics that capture the intimate moments of his hometown of Vancouver, its occupants, the fragile details of their dysfunctional love and the loss of a city’s innocence. If Damien Rice was Jeff Tweedy and Jeff Tweedy was Josh Ritter, you’d come away with something kindred to December Looms.

John Mann is also an actor of stage, film and television and currently can be seen on the CBC TV drama Intelligence, as CSIS Director, James Mallaby

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November 1 thru 15
River Arts Festival www.riverartsfestival.ca
A two week celebration of music, visual arts, spoken and written word in our rural community. Performances by local and national artists including ROSE COUSINS on November 3. Details TBA.

Please visit the River Arts festival website for updates, submission instructions and volunteer opportunities.

Sunday November 9 @ 4pm
IAN TAMBLYN $15 www.tamblyn.com

Ian Tamblyn began writing songs, short stories and plays at the age of seventeen. Since that time he has recorded twenty- nine albums, cassettes, and CDs and written over 1500 songs. Many of these songs have been recorded by other artists and he has received and been nominated for several awards, most recently a nomination for Best Artist by the Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2007 as well as being honoured with the Distinguished Alumni Award from Trent University. Since 2004 Ian has conducted numerous songwriting workshops and was instrumental in beginning Writer’s Bloc , an ongoing writer’s workshop that has bee meeting since the late 1980’s in Ottawa.

Currently Ian is working on a new CD of songs and has just returned from a teaching and guiding position in Antarctica with a group called Students on Ice. He has just finished producing a double CD celebrating the songwriting of William Hawkins. This September, Ian will be guiding on the ice breaker Polar Star from Iceland to Newfoundland. In August of 2008 Ian released the second of his Four Coast project CD - Raincoast set on the Northwest coast of B.C. and Alaska.