Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Neon News 090630

Hey Fanz!

I'll be making lots of music during this busy Canada Week!

Tonight! Tuesday, June 30, 8-10 pm, $5
The Mississauga Big Band Jazz Ensemble
Arnold's Sports Bar
485 Morden Road Oakville 905-844-2613
www.arnoldssportsbar.ca
Last Tuesday of every month!

Wednesday, Canada Day, July 1, 4:30 pm, Free!
The Shuffle Demons and 1000 saxophones
Nathan Phillips Square
(That's in Toronto.)

Friday, July 3, 5:30ish to 9:30ish, Free! (who'd pay?)
The Wee Stinky Band
4th Annual Promenade Dayz After Work Patio Party
Tiff's Restaurant Bar, 130 Dunlop Street East, Barrie ON


Also coming up:

July 11 & 12, Afrofest!, Queen's Park, Toronto
North America's largest festival of African music, food and culture
and the biggest party in Toronto that nobody knows about.
I'll be coordinating volunteers for Amnesty International.

Sunday, July 19, 8-11 pm, no cover no minimum
Gordon's Acoustic Living Room
Free Times Café, 130 College Street, Trawna
Halfway through year six of regular monthly gigs!

July 25 & 26, 7-11 pm, No charge!
The Mississauga Big Band Jazz Ensemble
The Beaches Jazz Festival

Tuesday, July 28, 8-10 pm, $5
The Mississauga Big Band Jazz Ensemble
Arnold's Sports Bar
485 Morden Road Oakville 905-844-2613
www.arnoldssportsbar.ca
Last Tuesday of every month!

Thursday, July 30
The Big Trouble Band
Mitzi's Sister, 1554 Queen Street West

Friday, July 31, 4-9 pm, Free! (Who'd pay?)
The Wee Stinky Band
Kempenfest After Work Patio Party
Tiff's Restaurant Bar, 130 Dunlop Street East, Barrie ON


and don't forget—

You can still see ART by Pattie Walker and me
at the Ontario Craft Council Gallery
990 Queen Street West
http://www.craft.on.ca/
until July 11.

See ya!

Wayne

Mala's eggplant recipe

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Puncture eggplant twice on one side.
3. Fill the holes with slices of garlic.
4. Wrap the eggplant in foil.
5. Put in oven until soft. Check after 45 minutes.
6. Cut out the stem from a tomato and insert a few drops of olive oil into the hole.
7. Put the tomato in a separate baking dish and put in oven when the eggplant has been in for 30 minutes.
8. When the eggplant is soft, remove eggplant and tomato from oven and cool.
9. Remove the foil and skin the eggplant.
10. Skin the tomato and put in the same bowl with the eggplant.
11. Sauté one or two chopped onions in a pan with olive oil.
12. Add chili powder if desired, and green herbs such as thyme or basel.
13. Add onions to eggplant and tomato.
14. Salt and pepper to taste.
15. Crush everything with a fork and mix into a soft paste.
16. Add more olive oil if needed.
17. Serve cold or reheat.

Quick version: Cook eggplant in microwave, (without foil!) ten minutes on one side, eight minutes on the other. Cook tomato in microwave for three minutes.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

For Immediate release: Calling All Sax Players July 1, Nathan Phillips Square at 4:30pm

For Immediate release: Calling All Sax Players July 1, Nathan Phillips Square at 4:30pm

It’s been a long time since the last Richard Underhill email, so hi to everyone old and new, hope you’ve been keeping well! Here’s some ‘exciting’ Shuffle Demons news!

To celebrate 25 years of audaciousness, the Shuffle Demons and are embarking on a 2 month cross Canada tour (dates below or at http://www.shuffledemons.com).

To celebrate this momentous event we’re releasing ‘Get on the Bus,’ the long awaited Shuffle Demons DVD featuring all 6 videos, live performances from China, India, Stonehenge and Europe plus amazing photo galleries and interviews with the band.

The DVD will also include footage from our 2004 Guinness World Record breaking event with 900 saxophones. To celebrate this launch and to also regain the record (which was unofficially broken by a Taiwanese group last year) we are Calling all Sax Players to Nathan Phillips Square on Canada Day, July 1 at 4:30pm to help us retake the record! We’ll be playing a slightly demonized version of O Canada and with your help, will break the record with at least 919 saxophones! What the hey, let’s go for a cool 1000!

You can register online for this event at http://www.torontojazz.com/Pages/Toronto_Downtown_Jazz_Festival_pgM241.asp

On site registration starts at 2pm at Nathan Phillips Square, we’ll rehearse a bit at 3:30 and then attempt to break the record at 4:30 pm. Then as an added bonus, the Shuffle Demons will play a set of all your faves at 5pm!

The Shuffle Demon line up this year is Rich Underhill, Perry White and Kelly Jefferson on saxes, George Koller on bass and Stich Wynston on drums.

Be sure to come out and bring your horn and help us break the record again. And if you were there last time, pick up a copy of ‘Get on the Bus’ to see our last date with destiny!

Get on the Bus – the Legend of the Shuffle Demons

The long awaited DVD from the Shuffle Demons features 25 years of great demons memories including all 6 videos, their Guinness World Record breaking event with 900 saxophones, live performances from around the world, the Shuffle Demons in China, India, Stonehenge and Europe plus amazing photo galleries and interviews with the band.

The Legend of the Shuffle Demons awaits you on this fast paced, funny, digitally re-mastered 2 hour DVD.

Shuffle Demons 25th Anniversary Tour:

June 25 – Calgary Jazz Festival
June 26 -Medicine Hat Jazz Festival (noon)
June 26 – Edmonton Jazz Fest (Yardbird Suite)
June 27 – Victoria Jazz Festival
June 28 – Vancouver Jazz Festival
June 29 Saskatoon Jazz Festival
June 30 – Winnipeg Jazz Festival
July 1 – Toronto Jazz Festival 4pm-6:30pm Nathan Phillips Square – World Record
July 10 – Montreal Jazz Festival 6pm
July 11 - Hildebrand Jazz Festival
July 17 – Halifax Jazz Festival
July 18 St. John’s Jazz Festival
July 19 - Waterloo Jazz Festival
July 31 – Cumberland, BC the Waverly
Aug 1 – Hornby Island festival
Aug 2 – Vernon, BC
Aug 7 Edge of the World Festival – Haida Gwaii
Aug 8 Maple Ridge, Jazz Festival
Aug 13 Collingwood Jazz Festival
Aug 14 Collingwood Jazz Festival
Sept 11 Sudbury Jazz Festival
Sept 12 Guelph Jazz Festival 5pm - 7pm

As usual, if you would like to be removed from this very occasional list of music events, Please email back with ‘remove’ in the subject line.

Thanks very much.

Rich

http://www.richardunderhill.com
http://www.shuffledemons.com

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