Murray McLauchlan at The Gig Music Hall

April 9, 2009 at 8:00 PM EDT (7:00 PM DOORS) - Kitchener, ON CAD25.00

Kitchener - Murray McLauchlan is one of Canada's best songwriting performers. To experience him perform is to enjoy creative storytelling, social commentary and wit with a man who clearly enjoys sharing his music and experiences with an audience.

Murray has twenty albums to his credit on both True North Records and Capitol Records. Murray has won eleven JUNO awards, as well as RPM "Big Country" awards and Toronto music awards. His songs have been covered by many other artists as well as being featured in high school text books.

Murray has been both a radio and television host as well as the author of a book and in 1993 was appointed to the order of Canada. His side project with Ian Thomas, Cindy Church and Marc Jordan, Lunch at Allen's has taken on a life of its own with a live DVD and CD released in 2004 on Capitol/EMI and Catch The Moon (2007). As well, Murray composed a stage musical, Eddie. In the fall of 2006, EMI Music released the album, The Songbook... New Arivals, featuring songs from the musical.

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Apr 23, 2009 at 8:00 PM EDT (7:00 PM DOORS) Hey Rosetta! at The Gig Music Hall - Kitchener, ON CAD10.00

Riding on the waves of their acclaimed live show and 2007?s Plan Your Escape EP, Hey Rosetta! surges forward with Into Your Lungs (and around in your heart and on through your blood).

Hey Rosetta! is six people and a slew of instruments making all sorts of beautiful sounds around downtown St. John's. After moving home from Montreal in the spring of 2004, Tim decided he was tired of playing his songs alone. He enticed five other starry-eyed half-wits to join him in creating a massive and unique sound, putting meat and paint onto his strong yet skeletal poetry and music. The band's debut release, simply titled "EP", was a seven-song blend of studio and live recordings, produced, mixed, designed and manufactured by Hey Rosetta! It sold almost too quickly for them to glue together, holding the number one spot at Fred's Record's best sellers list for almost two months. It is still selling swiftly despite the June release of the new full-length album "Plan Your Escape". This lengthy and beautiful 13-song CD, produced by Tim and the incomparable Don Ellis, is flying off shelves at most music stores in St. John's (Fred's, CDplus, Musicworld, HMV). HR! has been consistent

Seeded by Tim after returning home to St. John?s in 2005, Hey Rosetta! quickly bloomed and grew from bars on George Street to showcases at Junofest, ECMAs, CMW and NXNE, along the way winning four MusicNL Awards and a couple ECMA nominations.

Apr 25, 2009 at 8:00 PM EDT (7:00 PM DOORS) Valdy at The Gig Music Hall - Kitchener, ON CAD15.00 - CAD20.00

Remembered for "Play Me a Rock and Roll Song," his bitter-sweet memory of finding himself, a relaxed and amiable story-teller, facing a rambunctious audience at the Aldergrove Rock Festival circa 1968, Valdy has sold almost half a million copies of his 13 albums, has two Juno Awards, a total of seven Juno nominations, and four Gold albums to his credit.

May 1, 2009 at 8:00 PM EDT (7:00 PM DOORS) to May 2, 2009 1:00 AM EDT Elliott Brood at The Gig Music Hall - Kitchener, ON CAD15.00

Elliott BROOD call their music Death Country - dark, gritty folk music built around whiskey-drenched vocals and lyrics evoking images of love, loss and murder. In their soul-thumping bluegrass songs, banjo keeps time to a strange and chunky angular stomp, with vicious Kentucky-hardcore acoustic guitar and somber, achingly confessional vocal harmonies.

Alongside the 2009 Juno nomination, Ambassador earned The BROOD a Galaxy Rising Star award for Best New Artist 2006, landing them on Best of Lists from The Globe & Mail to CBC Radio 3, a four-star review from British music mag heavy, UNCUT, and kept them on the college radio charts for over 17 weeks.

May 22, 2009 at 8:00 PM EDT (7:00 PM DOORS) to May 22, 2009 11:00 PM EDT An Evening with Steve Forbert at The Gig Music Hall - Kitchener, ON CAD20.00

Nearly 28 years since breaking into pop consciousness with his second album Jackrabbit Slim and its infectious Top Ten single "Romeo?s Tune," Steve Forbert remains a master of songs offering clear-eyed insight and plain-spoken, heartfelt eloquence. On his 429 Records/SLG debut, the well-traveled Nashville-based troubadour explores his ongoing fascination for Strange Names & New Sensations with characteristic wit, a sense of social consciousness and the ever-present romantic optimism that has endeared him to two generations of folk/rock fans.

May 30, 2009 at 8:00 PM EDT (7:00 PM DOORS) THE SPIRIT OF ROMANIA AN EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCE BY TUDOR GHEORGHE at The Gig Music Hall - Kitchener, ON CAD40.00

Spirit of Romania is the largest concert series in Canada that brings the best Romanian music artists on exquisite stages in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Kitchener. The festival, which is held three to four times a year, is an event that truly appreciates high quality Romanian music, and the celebration of a thriving culture that emerged well beyond its origins.The third edition of Spirit of Romania will introduce to the canadian public Tudor Gheorghe, musician, poet and actor. Since 1969, Tudor Gheorghe has been one of the most important and influential Romanian songwriters, an author whose entire work achieve great depths of understanding and meaning of the Romanian spirit. His songs have set an unmatched standard in their seriousness and range. Spirituality, religion, tradition, love ? Tudor Gheorghe probes tirelessly the largest issues in human lives, always with an open heart and mind. As an actor and poet, he?s always been determined and succeeded to move beyond his grassroots, the Romanian folklore. As such, he became one of the most representative musicians of the Balkan region, the newest discovered cultural jewel of Europe