Acoustic Alaska Guitar Camp

2005 International Songwriting Competition (ISC)

Domenic Troiano
Guitar Scholarship

Fair Weather Concert Series Ambiance Guy Langlois & Lorelei Andrew Adrianne Stacey - Flute, Guitar, Vocals Bruce Norris Piano, Synthesizers and Bass Chemainus downtown park bandshell August 2, 2005 - 7pm till dusk For information conatact: Shelagh Armour-Godbolt (250-246-9102) Email: shelaghag@shaw.ca

Tom Lang

I met Tom Lang at the South Island Jazz Festival. It was a day an incredible day of listening great jazz music. Cherry Point Vineyards and Minstrels Music hosted the festival. Phil Newns did an excellent job of the sound and showcasing some of Vancouver Island's finest musicians. Tom Lang performed with Paul Wainwright's group. I have to say this is one of the funkiest bands I have had the pleasure of listening to for a long time. Jamie Fletcher - Keyboards, Paul Wainwright - Sax, Steve Duben - Bass, Eric Emde - drums and Tom Lang on guitar.

Tom Lang did a wild scat solo over his guitar on the song, "On Broadway".

Steve Duben provided the low-end bass grove on songs like Low Rider, a classic War song, and Paul Simon's "Call Me Al". Paul Wainwright and his band are a group you don't want to miss. Check out his website here: www.paulwainwright.com

Tom Lang has toured with Australian legend Jimmy Barnes playing guitar keyboards and singing. They opened on 65 dates for ZZ Top throughout the USA.

He also played on the Divinyls' Monkey Grip album.

Tom Lang
Waiting for the Big One

"Waiting for the Big One" is an acoustic guitar driven CD. Tom Lang recorded it in his home studio, did the drum programming and played all of the other instruments. April Gislason sang backing vocals.

He recently won the "Male Songwriter of the Year" award at the Island Music Awards on May 14th/2005. www.islandmusicawards.com.
Tom and his band kicked off the evening with a live performance of "There's More To You" nominated for Best Song It is one of my favorite tracks of his CD.

The CD is filled with driving acoustic guitar riffs and catchy lyrics starting with the first track, "Had To Have You".

We discussed his songwriting approach for the title track Waiting For The Big One. It was inspired by a serious 6.4 earthquake in Hollywood! He found it difficult writing the lyrics for this song because he didn't want to portray the negative imagery of an earthquake. A friend suggested that he think of the song as a breakup in relationships.

I asked Tom if he could give any advice to aspiring songwriters. He said at times he would have an idea for a song but he just didn't feel it was any good. When he returned to the song later he found that there was something there that was worthwhile. His advice is to "get past it", work out your ideas and find that spark that inspired you.

Tom details the recording processes he used for each song on his website. www.tomlangmusic.com/Making.htm

You may want to check out some of the TC-Helicon equipment he used in processing harmonies: www.tc-helicon.com. Check out the VoicePro.

Tom and I also discussed the difficulty independent artists have promoting their music to radio. With limited resources and without the major capital backing by a major record label it is very difficult to get radio airplay on commercial radio. It can cost up to $3,000 to promote one song to radio nationally and that is not a guaranty that it will get played. You can request any of Tom Lang's songs on the Q100.3 FM Victoria. Tell them Cosmic Debris sent you!

Website: www.tomlangmusic.com
Email: info@tomlangmusic.com

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Vancouver Island Musician Network Party

July 3rd and 4th at the Pleasant Valley Social Center, Nanaimo
July 5th and 6th - 8:00pm - Victoria Event Center

Hybrid Productions and Promotions is a new production company in Victoria trying to change the Vancouver Island music scene one step at a time.

Hybrid Productions will be showcasing an all ages production every Monday for the months of July and August at the Victoria Event Center. As well, they will be hosting eight Nanaimo bands on the 5th and 6th of July in hopes of networking the island’s music scene that much more.

This two-day event will be following back-to-back shows in Nanaimo, hosted by Trevor Dickinson, owner of Windynight Productions on the 3rd and 4th at the Pleasant Valley Social Center. Both Windynight & Hybrid Productions are looking to network themselves to start solidifying a more cohesive music circuit, allowing for musicians to showcase their talent to a broader spectrum of fans.

The networking party will serve to assist all persons involved by bringing together musicians, artists, recording studios, promotional teams, management companies, and media representatives into one area. Bands and artists are being advised to bring promotion packages and demos to distribute at the production.

This will be an invite only licensed event. The eight bands that will be performing are: Dastardlies, Fasten Your Seatbelts, Last To Leave, Unlabeled, One Eleven Archer, The Photographed Voice, The Concept and 1- 2- 3 Red Light.

Website: www.hybridproductions.net
Email: matteus_clement@yahoo.ca

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Music BC SchMusic Party

Music BC SchMusic smokin’ summer BBQ Party
FREE ADMISSION, FREE BBQ, FREE DRINKS, PRIZES! With your host, Dunner from CFOX!
Wednesday, July 13, 2005 at the Media Club. 6pm-9pm.

Website: musicbc.org
Email: nathan@musicbc.org
(604) 873-1914

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Kids feel the summer beat at Kathy's Music Box

Kathy's Music Box is pleased to announce a new drumming program for children which will be running in July and August.

The program is an introduction to West African style hand drumming and will be taught by Jenn Stuart. Children will learn the language of the drum and basic beginner hand-drumming techniques as well as some fun traditional African rhythms.

These one-week workshops promise to be fun-filled and are available in two different age groups, 5 - 7 years and 8 - 12 years. In addition to the hand drumming workshops there are also one-week workshops for Junior Musical Theatre (5 - 9 years), Music and Art (3 -5 years & 6 - 8 years) and Tots 'n' 2's (12 - 36 months).

Kathy's Music Box is located at
4733 Vista View Crescent, Nanaimo, BC

Futher information can be found at wwww.island.net/~musicbox
or by calling 758-6874. Email: musicbox@island.net

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Festival Fever

July is festival month on Vancouver Island.
Here is a list of recommended festivals:

June 24 - July 3
Victoria JazzFest International 2005
www.jazzvictoria.ca/jazzfest/index.htm

July 1 - 10 (Victoria's Inner Harbour)
Victoria¹s Inter-Cultural Arts Festival
www.icafolkfest.com

July 8 - 10 (Courtenay)
Comox Valley Exhibition Grounds
Vancouver Island Music Fest
www.islandmusicfest.com

July 8, 9 & 10, 2005
Edge of the World Music Festival
www.edgefestival.com

July 22 -24 (Providence Farm, Duncan)
Islands Folk Festival
www.folkfest.bc.ca

July 29 - 31 (Coombs Rodeo Grounds, BC)
Coombs Bluegrass Festival
www.chrco.org/bluegrass.htm

July 29, 30, 31, Aug. 1, 2005 (Comox, BC)
Filberg Festival (Art & Music)
www.filbergfestival.com

July 29 – August 8, 2005
The Hornby Festival
www.hornbyfestival.bc.ca

For more festivals please visit the Festival Finder page on Cosmic Debris:
www.cvnet.net/cosmic/festivals.html

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