One Weekend — Two Great Shows!
Peggy White & Malaika at The Ironworks
January 28 at 7:30pm
The monthly “Peggy White & Friends” concert is set to take place on Jan. 28 at 7:30pm at The Ironworks Pub in Almonte. This first “Peggy White & Friends” session of the year is also a celebration — Doug and Ruth-Ann have been the proud owners of the Ironworks for one year now!
Peggy’s special guest this month will be a group that Peggy joined just a few months ago. Canada’s #1 female a cappella group — Malaika — will perform their unique blend of world music featuring fabulous four-part harmony with a percussive flair.
Tickets are $20 per person. Phone 256-7840 for reservations.
Terry Tufts at MERA
January 28 at 8pm
On Saturday Jan. 28, MERA is happy to welcome Terry Tufts back for an evening performance at The Schoolhouse in McDonalds Corners. This “triple threat” guitarist-singer-songwriter extraordinaire has been one of the most popular repeat performers at the intimate and acoustically warm community arts centre since his first appearance there, which brought out an overflow crowd in a December snowstorm.
Terry released his sixth album, The Better Fight, in fall 2005 and has been touring steadily ever since. This collection of original songs, plus two instrumentals and an Isley Brothers cover, shines some light on complex themes of love, environmentalism, and human conflict. All are delivered with the brilliant and complex guitar work, melodic accessibility and passionate vocals that have been present throughout his recording career, even though he has moved on from the bluegrass-folk stylings of his early recordings to a sound more uniquely his own. Call it acoustic roots enviro-soul, if you must.
The current tour has taken him all over Canada, including a CBC radio “Sounds Like Canada” interview from Vancouver on January 9, between appearances in the Gulf Islands.
Nathan Sloniowski will open the show at 8PM. A member of the popular Almonte-based Ragged Flowers band, Nathan put out his first solo CD of original songs last year, a blend of personal and political stories entitled No Wicked For The Rest, on which he was accompanied by the ubiquitous Terry Tufts, among others.
Tickets for this concert are $10/advance, $12/door, available at The Hill General Store and Shadowfax in Perth, or contact Bill Cameron, 278-2556. Directions to the MERA Schoolhouse are at www.meraschoolhouse.org. More information on Terry is at www.terrytufts.com.