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July 2012 | THE STEW Magazine | PAGE 1
ISSUE 3.7 | JULY 2012 | FREE
thetheLocal MusicLocal Music
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Get into thelocal scenePages 4, 5, 8, 16, 18Pages 4, 5, 8, 16, 18
20 years of bikingthe Tour de CaribooPage 13Page 13
Poetry fromDrum & Bell TowerPage 19Page 19
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PHOTO BY ROBYN LOUISE PHOTOGRAPHY
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On the Cover:
It took us awhile to fi nd the right image for our cover this month, but we’re pretty sure you’ll agree with our fi nal deci-sion, to feature Cariboo musician (and our own poetry editor) Laura Kelsey.
Aft er spending some time concerned that showcasing any one of our featured musicians on the front might look like we were playing favourites, we spent most of the month planning to use a picture from our stock photography service. But in the 11th hour, as we poured through Laura’s pictures looking for something to use alongside her story, we found this shot, which seemed to just belong on our front page.
We hope you enjoy the picture, and the rest of the issue now in your hands.
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Turn on the radio to any given station, and the odds are pretty good that you’ll hear some tunes from someone that you’ve heard of before. Whether it’s classic rock from the likes of Led Zeppelin, new tracks from familiar stars like Bruce Spring-steen, or some new, fresh-faced, up-and-coming act, they’re all pretty familiar to us.
But it wasn’t always so. Most of these artists had to pay their dues, spending some time in obscurity, playing local dive bars in exchange for cheap beer and tips, slowly working their way towards fame and fortune. Most of these artists were little more than exciting, local acts at one point in time.
We say most of these art-ists because, as with every rule, there is the exception. And for every ten musicians that work their butt off before fi nally real-izing their fame and fortune, there’s a musical act that’s cre-ated at the corporate level, that’s hand picked by music producers to be blandly appealing, safe to consume, and of course, ra-dio friendly. Some acts simply started at the top. Unfortunately, in many cases, their fame was fl eeting.
Th e Monkees: Perhaps one of the fi rst examples of this sort of thing also remains one of the best examples. Th e Monkees were designed in 1966, not even as a band but as a television series about a band, to capitalize on the undeniable success of Th e Beatles (complete with slightly misspelled animal-based name). Eventually, thanks in part to the popularity of their television series, the four members would
eventually became a for-reals band, with control over their own musical output. Th eir brief success was capped with their questionably successful fi lm Head in 1968 before experienc-ing a retroactive return to fame in the 80s, which would lead to a series of reunion tours into the 21st century.
New Kids on the Block: A must-listen band for any teenage girl of the 1980s, the New Kids on the Block were, according to their Wikipedia page, “as-sembled” — not the word you usually think of when imagining a band’s formation. While band member Donnie Wahlberg has spent more time on camera as an actor in recent years, he was the fi rst member offi cially on board with this boy band dur-ing its formation in 1984, and helped to fi ll the remainder of the band’s roles. Much like the
Monkees before them, the New Kids on the Block were fi lling arenas recently with nostalgia-fueled reunions, and even toured alongside Th e Backstreet Boys.
Milli Vanilli: So, long story short — music producer Frank Farian found a few performers who had really great voices, but not a particularly great image, so instead of trying to improve the image, he just hired a couple of more attractive guys to pretend to be the ones doing the sing-ing. Th us Milli Vanilli was born, taking the pop music world by storm, and winning a Grammy Award in 1990. Unfortunately, word soon got out the voices didn’t actually come from the faces, the Grammy was re-voked, and the group crashed and burned. Unfortunately, the reunion circuit wouldn’t work out so well here — member Rob
Pilatus was found dead while a comeback tour was being planned.
Justin Bieber: Here in the 21st century, it seems like the surest way to get yourself dis-covered without having to really pay your dues is to throw some videos on Youtube and hope for the best (this might explain why there are 72 hours of video uploaded to Youtube every min-ute). At least, that would seem to be the case if you looked at Jus-tin Bieber’s history. As the story goes, talent manager “Scooter” Braun accidentally clicked on one of Bieber’s videos, was immediately impressed by the kid’s talent, and fl ew him out to Atlanta, Georgia to record some demos. Th ere he performed for singer / songwriter Usher and was promptly signed to the Ray-mond Braun Media Group. And the rest, as they say, is history.
The battle of the corporate bands
ALAN LIGHT PHOTO
GRAMMY GAFF Members of Milli Vanilli with National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences president C. Michael Greene during happier times, at a Grammy Award rehearsal in 1990.
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Ingredients (or things that helped us get through the last month): Baby Tylenol for baby’s incoming molars; Learning to like early mornings; Fires in the fi re pit; Food cooked in fi re pit, even if it ends up a little overdone; Enjoying Crofts Orange Wheat Ale by the fi re pit; Knowing a new batch of Orange Wheat Ale is just about ready to bottle; Watching the baby watch horses at the Stampede Parade; Frozen grapes; Reg-istering to go back to school; Flavoured coffee creamer; Visits from creative friends; Sitting in the rain; The return of weekly bags of veggies from Road’s End Farms; Finally fi ling divorce papers almost six years late; Playing the drums with the whole family; Way too many pieces of leftover cake; Realizing I need to do some seri-ous weight control in part due to way too many pieces of leftover cake; Coffee; Coffee; Coffee; Finally thinking about vacation plans for later in the year; Finding really fantastic books at second hand stores; Finding some less than fantastic books at second hand stores, but picking them up anyway because everyone enjoys a trashy read every now and then; Mornings that start with french toast; Evenings that end with a glass of wine; Collecting the apparently infi nite variet-ies of Trivial Pursuit (woo, 80s edition!)
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Local musical acts At least fi ve different ones, playing a variety of musical styles.A little something different We kind of played around with the way we approached our feature story this month. Did you like it? Stampede It’s not really our beat, but we crashed the WL Stampede and nabbed some pictures. We even printed a few!
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GET INTO THE LOCAL SCENEBY JULI HARLANDTHE STEW MAGAZINE
Music is such an integral part of all of our lives. It is the background for our life story. It is the unifying tool across nations. It encourages emotion, triggers deep memories, and feeds our soul.
We are blessed in the Cariboo-Chilcotin to be surrounded by bound-lessly talented musical artists, and I was even more blessed to have had the chance to spend some time talking with only just a handful of the myriad of musicians in our area.
On the following pages are some high-lighted musicians, bands, and solo acts. It is by no means an extensive list, and we ask forgiveness to those who we couldn’t speak to this month. We ap-preciate and adore all of you. And if you ever want to chat (or jam for that matter)- we’re only a click or call away.
For those who I did have the honor to talk with, thank you for tak-ing some time out and sharing your stories. You are an inspiration to speak to and a joy to hear. Rock on, my friends!
Oren Barter is a staple of the Cariboo community music scene. His alternative singer / songwriter style, smooth vocals, and boyish charm has made him a favourite at community events, festivals, and on the radio.
Oren’s musical education started, he says, in the womb. Coming from a very musical family, it was natural to pick up instruments at a very young age.
“I started playing piano when I was about fi ve or six,” although, he explains, he only used two fi ngers for the fi rst four years. “I stole my little sis-ters piano and I would just play it all the time.”
Before long Oren graduated from the two-fi nger piano-plunk to full-digit songwriting. “I started composing classical-ish stuff , more like video game music, that was kind of my thing. I wanted to be a video game music composer. Th en, when I was about 15, I picked up a guitar and my life’s been fucked up ever since,” Oren says with a laugh.
It was a guitar class in high school that turned Oren’s at-tention more seriously to the guitar. He jumped at the chance to play music for school credit and discovered that it was more than just an easy grade, but a passion to be explored.
“Aft er my fi rst class, I got home from school, locked
myself in my room, and played for 10 hours until I fell asleep. Th at’s how into it I was. I did that for years. All my spare time was guitar. It wasn’t all about be-ing rich and famous and getting all the chicks. It was that I was making noise and having fun,” says Oren.
And now? Aft er releasing a CD, playing all across the province and Western Canada, becoming a community icon at a young age, is it still all about making noise and having fun?
According to Oren it has its ups and downs.
“Because part of me really loves it, and that’s all there is, but the other part of me is say-ing, look buddy, you’re broke because of this.”
And being broke means you need to turn to traditional forms of employment. “And I work,” says Oren. “I worked in the bush, I worked at McDon-alds, in construction in Sas-katchewan. I always had to have a job to alleviate that pressure from the music. It’s just tough. But I do it to myself too. I give cd’s away like they’re going out of style.
“Th e world is not a friendly place for playing musicians.”
But that doesn’t mean that Oren is going to turn his back on his music. Because, he says, he doesn’t play to satisfy everyone. “I don’t have these ideas that I’m going to be rich and famous - I’d like to be rich and famous, but I don’t wake up
each day and think, I’m going to be rich and famous.
“I don’t have big dreams — what I’d like to do is to be able to make a living making music. Th e way I look at that is that it is about forging relationships and being good at what you do. When I get on stage now, it is about having fun. I’m not wor-ried about being perfect. I am not worried about everyone lov-ing everything I do, every note, like I was for a while.”
And that, he says, is key. To try and keep a level head about the business aspect of making music for a living, to be aware of how much it will seep into all aspects of your life, and then to remember your own passion — why you are doing it in the fi rst place and not to pay attention to the negativity that can be a part of making money with your songs.
“I have fun,”says Oren. “I love doing it, and I love performing for people, and I love it when people come up and say that I’ve made an impact, and I know that sounds corny, but I do. My music comes from a real place. A place rooted in my family and how they get together and jam. It’s about the music and the fun. It’s not about what people are going to like and what they are going to put on the radio.You can’t write a song that everyone is going to connect with, then it’s bullshit.”
Fighting the spotlight, fi nding your groove
July 2012 | THE STEW Magazine | PAGE 5
Quesnel musician Doug Koyama is an emerging vocal improv artist who has burst onto the festival scene all across Canada. His unique vocal loop style is all about peace, harmony, truth, and absolute love, for what he does and for the people around him.
He is new, he is fresh, he has packed up his bags and is following his dreams … at the tender age of 51.
“It’s a gift . It really is. It’s a gift to be able to do this. I am so grateful every mo-ment of every day for this,” says Doug of his new-found life’s work. “I’ve taken to say-ing I’m a late bloomer.”
Doug sang with his junior high choir as a boy, took to stage in high school musicals, then tried his hand at one play with Th e Little Th eatre Group aft er graduation. Aft er that it would be nearly thirty years before he graced the stage with a song again.
In 2005, however, Doug’s youngest daughter con-
vinced him to join her at auditions for Kersley Musi-cal Th eatre’s production of Oliver. Th ey were cast, and the experience spawned a four-year connection to the theatre group until one day in 2009, when life would change for Mr. Koyama, thanks to a workshop he took through the theatre
group with Vancouver artist David Hatfi eld.
“He taught us: Take a breath, make a sound, keep going. Th at’s all you need to do improv acapella,” Doug explains. “Th at started it. I decided to pitch it all, prob-ably, 2010.
“I sat in a basement suite in the West side of Quesnel
for the winter and I would get up in the morning and I would network with people. I would go on the web and search out things like Monc-ton, New Brunswick. What’s in Moncton, New Bruns-wick? Who do I know that’s played there? I would go to people’s websites and see their itinerary, where they’d been, and I’d contact those places and say, “Hey, I’m a singer. I wanna come up there and sing. You want to put me up for a show?” And I didn’t get anything back.
“I booked a tour to the east, left April 1. I think there were probably people who thought I was kidding until I got in the car and drove away.
“I booked it [the fi rst tour] too lightly, didn’t consider things that I should have, and did consider things I shouldn’t have. But it was a lesson. Each one, each moment, was a bless-ing. I look back at it and I have no bad about it. no bad at all. I wake up every day
laughing.”As you follow the path
towards your dreams, not everyone will be on your side, says Doug. But you can’t let other people’s opin-ions become your own.
“I think that we’re divine beings,” Doug says with his ever-present smile. “I think that every person has a true calling. I think the pursuit of that true calling should be of paramount importance to everyone. Because it makes us happy when we pursue the things we love.
“I sleep on the side of the road. In my mom and dad’s construct, I am a failure because I sleep in my car and I don’t have a job. I’ve dealt with that, and it’s okay. I release that past and know that the universe supports me, and they’ll understand or they won’t. It doesn’t matter.
“I think a big part of it [fi nding your passion] is being open to it. Not pre-judging it. Th e steps I took were this: I decided what I
wanted; and then I opened myself to whatever it was going to take to make that happen. And it all comes back to Kersley Musical Th eatre. Th e fi rst lesson I learned was: just say, ‘Yes.’ Because when you say, ‘Yes,’ things happen. When you say, ‘No,’ things don’t hap-pen.”
And Doug has certainly said, “Yes,” to embracing the love of music and sharing it with everyone he meets.
“I love music! I feel music is the natural expres-sion of our happiness and joy as well as our sorrow and despair. It connects us, it teaches us, it inspires and chronicles change and it reminds us of the beauty that is within us all. Music is life and life is good.”
Doug and Todd briefl y worked together a number of years ago, but both have since shrugged off traditional employment to
follow their dreams, and we think they’re both better off for it.
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Music is life, and life is good for Doug Koyama
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BY TODD SULLIVANTHE STEW MAGAZINE
According to certain theories in physics, there are potentially limitless alternate dimensions in which any number of things in our universe’s history might have played out differently. This could include something as significant as a universe where the earth never formed or where dino-saurs continue to be the dominant life form. This could also include uni-verses with minor chang-es, such as one where I ate something other than pancakes for breakfast this morning.
I bring this up because I suspect that in one of those alternate universes, I am a musician.
I’ve always been a fairly musical person. As a child, my parents owned an electric organ and I liked to play it by ear. I remember sounding out the theme from Star Wars on its keys at a very young age.
That apparent aptitude for music led my parents to put me into organ les-sons (yes, there was an organ teacher in Williams Lake at that time — I’m not sure if this is as ran-dom as it seems, or if it simply shows that the or-gan was a more respected instrument in the 1980s). I would later adapt what I learned on the organ to a fumbling relationship with the piano.
In high school, I spent four years learning to play the drums. In my 20s, I
got an acoustic guitar, but I have yet to learn how to play (though I keep telling myself, maybe this year).
But as much as I have always loved music, I’ve never let it take a terribly dominant place in my life. At a certain point, I think, I realized that there simply weren’t enough hours in the day for me to do everything I wanted to, and I chose writing as the thing I wanted to focus my energies on.
It’s not a choice I regret, really. So far my writing has done more to pay the bills than my fumbling attempts to play the piano probably could have. And music is still around — that guitar is still sitting in the corner, taunting me, suggest-
ing that maybe this will finally be that year (Juli’s far cooler electric guitar is sitting next to it, telling me that maybe it’s never too late to become a rock star).
I say all this because I have enormous respect for the musicians who haven’t given up on that part of their lives, who have refused to replace whatever it was that drew them to rhythm and mel-ody with something safer. I love that there are so many talented musicians in the Cariboo that work hard, play harder, and keep everything sounding so fantastic.
That’s why we’re fea-turing a few of them this month — and, sadly, it is only a few of them. We’ve only got so much space
within these pages, but believe me when I say that we would have loved to have talked to many, many more them.
As for me, maybe it really isn’t too late. My baby girl has a passion for rythmn and melody, she dances anytime she hears a tune and loves to bang on the drums (she already does a better drumroll than mommy). Maybe with her around to encourage me I can pick back up the musical side of myself that I next to abandoned all those years ago. And even if being a rock star is never going to be in my cards, maybe it’s enough to just get down and groove out every once and awhile.
In another universe, I’m a musician
BY JULI HARLANDTHE STEW MAGAZINE
When I was younger I wanted to spend my life on stage. I wanted to be in the most poignant of films. I wanted to make audiences weep with my ability to tell a story. And I wanted to sing to the entire world. But not like some pop princess who was here today and gone tomorrow; no, I wanted to be Billie Holliday or Nina Simone — minus all the booze and drugs, of course.
I wanted to make mu-
sic that moved people. Oh sure, I sang torch
songs with Elvis (a trib-ute artist, not the real thing, but damn close), I wrote and recorded songs, I took to the stage intermittently (still do, for that matter), but somewhere along the path I made the decision to delegate that part of me to the back burner. “Oh the fantasies of youth,” is what I would say.
I managed to let life get in the way of follow-ing that path. Or rather the excuses of life: Oh,
but what about the kids; I don’t have the money; I don’t have a band; I don’t know the right people; I am too nervous; I am too fat; I am too old...
Of course I also wanted to be a famous writer, and though The Stew Magazine may not be a world-wide sensa-tion, it sure is the culmi-nation of some serious dreams. And for that I am blissfully thankful and pleased. And though I may not be hitting the Cannes Film Festival anytime soon, I have found a home with the
Williams Lake Studio Theatre. As for singing these days … I still need to open up to the pos-sibilities, but the day is coming.
I have such a huge respect for those who follow their passions, heck, to those who even figure out what their passion truly is. So many of us allow life to feed us our own excuses; to let society tell us to get a haircut and get a real job; or to have us believe that dreams are for children, not for grown ups.
It’s a lie.
As long as you have breath, you have dreams. As long as you are a part of this planet, you are able to follow your path. It doesn’t matter if you’ve fallen away from it. It doesn’t matter if you’ve had a hard time finding it. It doesn’t even mat-ter if you know exactly where the path will take you.
What matters is only that you know that you have the power to put one foot in front of the other and walk your own journey.
You’re never too old to follow your path
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Oreo’s gay pride cookieOriginated at: Facebook
On June 25 what would become a controversial image appeared at the Kraft Nabsico Facebook page — the picture of an Oreo cookie with six layers of colour, matching the colours of the rainbow. Accompanying this image was the text: “June 25 | Pride” and “Proudly support love.”
In news that should come as a surprise to no one, this image was met with strong opinions and a crazed amount of discussion, with 23,000 comments appearing within the fi rst 24 hours. Th is, of course, included a number of people eager to boycot the cookie-maker because of their willingness to support the gay community.
So far Kraft Nabisco has declined to apologize for posting the cookie image, so good on them for that.
Oh, and yes, this is really more of a current event than a true meme, but the event has already inspired its inclusion in a number of existing, and popular, memes.
MEMEOF THEMONTHMEME [meem] nounAn element of a culture or
system of behaviour passed
from one individual to an-
other by imitation or other
non-genetic means
an image, video, etc. that is
passed electronically from one
Internet user to another
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Question ofthe Month
Todd Sullivan [email protected]
publisher / editor-in-chief
Stop listening to Top 40 radio for a few minutes and check out
what’s happening culturally in your own back yard. Go see
some local bands live at venues near you. Buy their merch —
CDs, T-shirts, whatever — and maybe even chat them up over
a beer. They’re people too.”
Juli Harland
sales manager / executive editor
“Go and see them play. Buy tickets. Buy their CDs. Invite your
friends. Book them to play if you have the means and a space.
Request them if you don’t. Request them on your radio station.
Maybe even buy them a burger or beer.”
Angela Shephard
fine frugality (crafters beat)
Jamie Horsley
tone soup (music beat)
“Go see local acts live. That's the true test of their worth. Pay
for their music, buy their merchandise, and most importantly,
SHARE the music with others.”
Carol Davidson
stir (health beat)
Torrey Owen
In My Shoes (city beat)
Natasha Peeman
beautydooz (health & beauty beat)
Michelle Daymond
Eating Local (food beat)
“Go to festivals, by CDs and songs and send to your friends who
live all over the place! I have my family in Edmonton hooked on
Drum & Bell Tower!”
How do you think peoplecan best support their
local music scene?Send your answers to
Michael Jones
One Seoul Searching (overseas beat)
Laura Kelsey
Poetry Editor
“Keep their ears open.”
While some people have been pushing for an actual release of the rainbow-fi lled Oreo, we’re of the opinion that cookie might have just a little bit too much ‘stuff ’.
Another year of free English lan-
guage classes for adults in Williams
Lake has come to an end.
We had a very eventful year, with
over 20 people registered. Sixteen
people had their language skills
assessed, either for the fi rst time,
or as a part of an ongoing review of
student progress. Th e good news is
that those who attended class regu-
larly showed a steady improvement
in their English and overall knowl-
edge of Canada. Unfortunately,
many people were unable to attend
class regularly, because of work and
other obligations. Without regular
practice, language skills atrophy. Of
course people immigrate to Canada
to work, so if class time confl icts
with work, and they have to choose,
they always choose work.
Th at is why we have been trying,
and will continue to try, diff er-
ent ways to meet the needs of our
students. We tried to change our
morning beginner level class to
aft ernoons, but that didn’t work, so
we went back to mornings, Monday
through Th ursday. We also tried two
evenings per week of intermediate
level classes, Mondays and Wednes-
days, and this proved to be very
popular.
Our assessments show that we
have many advanced level immi-
grants, so we are considering ways
that we can meet their needs next
year. Possibly more evening or even
weekend classes! Th is would be for
people in positions where a misun-
derstood colloquialism or misplaced
preposition can cause them to worry
that they look foolish. Th e camara-
derie of the classroom setting can
help them to relax and feel like they
are not alone. We are also looking
at ways to enable parents of young
children to come to school and not
worry about child care.
We don’t just learn about verbs
and nouns in our classes. We have a
lot of fun learning about Williams
Lake, the Cariboo Chilcotin, B.C.,
and Canada. Sometimes we go to
the grocery stores and read labels,
or we take fi eld trips to visit local
businesses or cultural venues. We
have a ladies night out, a computer
shopping day, and, of course, parties.
Lots of parties. Over the year, we
become so close; it is more like a
family than a class. It is a safe place
to talk about our problems. We try
to practice small talk, but we always
wind up talking about big, impor-
tant issues.
It is hard to say good-bye to each
other in June, but we are looking
forward to September. In the mean-
while, for those who want to get
some practice over the summer, Im-
migrant and Multicultural Services
Society is off ering weekly, two hour
classes, at a time and location to be
determined. Th ese classes will not be
free, however. Th ere will be a $10.00
fee per class, and we will need a
minimum of six participants, just to
cover the costs.
If you are interested in the sum-
mer classes, or you want more infor-
mation about the ELSA program, or
you have some ideas for us, please
email: [email protected].
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In fact, between May to June this year, Laura has recorded and released ten original songs, along with videos which can be found on YouTube.
Sound manic? According to Laura there really isn’t a choice in the mat-ter: “I think music decides on you,” she says, rather than the other way around. “Music has always been there — even when you try to ignore it, try to resign yourself to something more ‘stable,’ it always comes back — and then it drives you mad.”
Earlier this month Laura was in the Chilliwack Comfort Inn fi lming dancers for a new music video project for her song ‘A Part of Me’, a collabora-tion with beat artist Tyler W. Th e song and video are to be released soon, as a prelude to her new full-length album, currently in production.
“Creating in general fulfi lls me,” she says. “It’s what it is all about. Creating keeps me going.”
No stranger to national recognition, Laura’s songs have played on Canadian, American, and British radio stations; ‘Earth,’ a folk / rock song co-written
with guitarist Murray Howes, was a fi nalist in a nation-wide contest; and, back in 2007, Laura organized and pro-duced an album of death / black metal aft er fronting bands in Vancouver, BC.
In 2011, Laura wrote ‘Run Outta Road’ with South Cariboo guitarist Pe-ter Th orne, which was featured in Th e Province newspaper. Th e single was recorded at Armoury Studios in West Vancouver and a music video by Hun-City Productions was released at 100 Mile House’s South Cariboo Th eatre in November.
And, oh yeah, she is the poetry edi-tor here at Th e Stew Magazine.
Needless to say, this girl is busy. So how does such a busy woman get
so much done and stay so inspired? With a little help from her friends, of course. In fact it was a fl oat plane ride with Lac la Hache pilot and pal Rick Duncan which inspired her tune ‘Un-derfoot or Stones of Flame.’
And Laura seems to have some pretty good pals, for last winter thirty people showed up to shoot her music video for ‘Wild Mountain Woman’ in -15C weather. Which, even for the Cariboo, is still freaking cold.
Laura is is working to record three album-length projects before 2012 is over: Th e sultry Sexy Power Blues; the biorhymic beat album Th e Water Table; and a home-recording project of original acoustic blues entitled funeral songz. With such diversity there really is a song for everyone — keep an ear out for this woman.
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STAMPEDE SEASON It was an exciting time for just about everyone who attended the 86th annual Williams Lake Stampede over the Canada Day long weekend. Whether you were into rodeo, street vendors, entertainment, or just kicking back and relaxing, there was something for just about everyone.
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Th rough to July 14, Parkside Art Gallery, 100 Mile House: from the cor-ner of my eye I saw, a stun-ning collection of works by artist, Neil Pinkett, now on display at Parkside Art Gallery, to continue till July 14th
Every Friday, through to mid-September, 9:00am to 2:00pm, Boitanio Park, Williams Lake: It’s the original Farmer’s Market. Bedding plants, veggies, baking craft s and a lot more - hot lunch served.
Every Saturday through to mid-September, 8:30am to 1:00pm, Helen Dixon Grounds, Quesnel: Farm-ers Market and Artists in the Market. Fresh produce, craft s, meats, hot lunch, and more, await you at the HD Grounds Farmer’s Market! For more informa-tion please check out www.quesnelmarket.com
Every Saturday through to mid September, 9:00am to 2:00pm, Herb Gardener Park, Williams Lake: Th e Oliver Street Farmer’s Market. Come pick up your farm fresh meats and vegetables, baked goods, hand-made craft s, local music, and even hot lunch-es. Come for the goodies,
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July 1 to 31, Quesnel Arts and Rec Center: “UN-DERGROWTH” Wells artist Corey Hardeman’s canvasses are documents, intended to examine and to better understand her surroundings. For more information check the web at www.quesnelartgallery.com
July 5, 6:00 to 10:00pm, Overlander Pub: Benefi t Dance and Silent Auctionfor local burn victim Dallas Wilson. Music by members of One Foot Under and Th ird Degree. Dallas is a single mom who was badly burned on June 16th and will have to undergo a long period of recovery. Th e Dand and Silent Auction has been organized to help her and her two-year old son through this period and we are hoping the com-munity will join us in our support for them both. A box for monetary donations has been set up at the OV pub. To have donations for the silent auction picked up please call 250-305-7910.
July 5, 5:00, Boitanio Park, Williams Lake: It’s Concrete Fitness’ Per-formances in the Park!5pm Robyn Ferguson; 7pm Doug Koyama.For more information check PerformancesinthePark out on Facebook, go to www.centralcaribooarts.com., or call Beth Holden at 250-
305-5014.
July 6, 5:00pm, Elks Hall, Quesnel: River City Music Association Open Jam. Come play or sing or dance or just to listen and support local talent Open to all ages from 5-9. Everyone welcome. Cash bar and adults only aft er 9:00pm. Members are free, non-members are $3. For infor-mation please email Kathy Canuel at [email protected]
July 6 to July 31, Station House Gallery, Williams Lake: Th e Station House Gallery is hosting “Com-munity Roots Inspiration from the Potato House Project” local artists.
July 6 to July 8, Puntzi Lake: Th e Annual Puntzi Lake Fishing Derby held at Puntzi Lake. Head out for the weekend and check out this family friendly event!
July 7, 9:30am to 4:30pm, Williams Lake: Second Annual Quilts and Flowers Garden Tour put on by the Williams Lake Garden Club and the Cari-boo Piecemakers Quilting Club. Tickets $10.00 on sale at Th e Open Book, Just Because Ladies Wear and Ibea’s Quilt Shop. For more information call Gerry Gebert 250-297-0192.
July 8, 11:00am to 4:00pm, Alamo RV Park, Quesnel: Th e Alamo RV
Park will be hosting a carnival fundraiser for Jamie Loeppky. Th ere will be ice cream treats, a bake sale, raffl e prizes, hourly magic shows and games for kids! Please come out and support this event!! For information please email Terry at [email protected]
July 9 to 13, 9:00am to 4:00pm, South Cariboo Recreation Center, 100 Mile House: Eureka Science Camp! Open to ages 7 to 14 for a cost of $144/camper (bursaries avaialble) Please check the web at http://www.tru.ca/eureka or call (250) 371-5534 to learn more!
July 10, Scout Island Nature Center, Williams Lake: Scout Island Nature Centre is hosting a Nature Explorers Camp. Ages 7-13. Hiking a new trail in the region every week. Contact 250-398-8532 or email [email protected] for more information or to register.
July 11, 6:30 to 8:30pm, Th e Youth Zone 372 Taylor Ave, beside Kal Tire, 100 Mile House: Fana Soro and Family presents Live music brought to you by the South Cariboo Drum circle. Please check www2.bcinternet.net/~newman/drumming/ or call 250-791-6442 or 250-791-9206 for details.
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July 12, 10:00am to 12:30pm, Quesnel Museum, Quesnel: Th is summer the Quesnel Museum will be organizing themed craft and activi-ties for kids! July 12th will be Pioneer Ways. 10:00 am - 11:00 am will be for children aged 6-8. 11:15 am - 12:30 pm will be for children aged 9-12. Cost is $5 per child. Please contact Jessica at the Quesnel Museum for more info at 250-992-9580.
July 12, 10:00am to 4:00pm, Start-ing at the CRD building beside the library, Williams Lake: Th e Williams Lake & District Chamber of Com-merce in conjunction with Gibraltar Mines is pleased to announce the return of our Summer Tours. Tours will be available free to the public. Unfortunately, Children under 13 can not participate in the mine tours. Children between 13 & 15 years old must be accompanied by an adult. Th ere will be 4 tours available this summer. July 12th, 25th & August 9th & 22nd. Please visit the Williams Lake & District Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Centre or Phone to Reserve your seat. 250-392-5025. Space is limited.
July 13 / 14, Horsefl y: It is the An-nual Arts on the Fly Festival! Music, food, vendors, craft s, workshops, mu-sic, music, music... Camping is avail-able. Come and join the fun! Families are always welcome and encouraged.
July 13 to 15, 100 Mile House:100 Mile Hot Nights Car Show. Friday Night Meet and Greet and early registration at A&W in 100 Mile House starting at 5pm; Saturday Centennial Park 100 Mile House gates open at 10am (no early birds please) show starts at 1pm and runs until 6pm; Saturday Night Dance at 100 Mile Community Hall hosted by the 100 Mile Lions Club (cash bar); Sunday Pancake Breakfast at Central GM followed by a Car Cruise through the 108 Mile Ranch and fi nish up at 12 noon. Live Band, food and drink vendors with Awards at 5:30pm. For more information, please contact Mellisa at the South Cariboo Cham-ber of Commerce at 250-395-6124 or email: [email protected]. You can also check them online at www.hotjulynights.ca
July 14, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm, Parkside Art Gallery,100 Mile House: Come, Play, Explore - Create an Art
Car, Parkside Art Gallery will provide the car, to be available at the gallery parking lot, 401 Cedar Avenue, 100 Mile House. Th is cooperative artistic event is open to the public. Paints, glue and elements for decoration have been collected. We encourage you to bring your ideas and supplies as well. Come express yourself by adding materials, images, symbols or collage elements.
July 15, 9:00am to 3:00pm, Horse-fl y: Come and check out what’s up for grabs at the Horsefl y Townside Yardsale.
July 19, 5:00pm to 9:00pm, Boi-tanio Park, Williams Lake: Concrete Fitness Performance in the Park.5pm Uke Tuba, 7pm Pharis & Jason Romero. For more information check out www.facebook.com/Performanc-esinthePark, www.centralcaribooarts.com or call Bev Holden at 250-305-5014
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WILD STALLIONS Chaos was the name of the game dur-ing the Wild Horse Race event at the 86th Annual Williams Lake Stampede.
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July 20 to 22, Bella Coola: Th e Discovery Coast Music Festival held at the Fair Grounds in Bella Coola. All kinds of music, rock, world, blues, folk and more! As well as food, craft vendors and stuff for the kids to do - something for everyone. Th is is a family aff air.
July 20 to September 8, Parkside Art Gallery, 100 Mile House: Cariboo Art-ists Guild annual summer show, is on and will include the best works of member artists. Th is years’ theme is Fakes and Forgeries. Th e gallery opening will take place from 5 - 9, on Friday, July 20th.
July 21, Goldsmith: It’s the 9th Annual Pie Eating Contest! Check your skills against the champions. For more information please call 250-994-3241
July 25, 10:00am to 4:00pm, Starting at the CRD building beside the library, Williams Lake: Th e Williams Lake & District Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with Gibral-tar Mines is pleased to announce the return of our Summer Tours. Tours will be available free to the public. Unfortunately, Children under 13 can not participate in the mine tours. Children between 13 & 15 years old must be
accompanied by an adult. Th ere will be 4 tours avail-able this summer. July 12th, 25th & August 9th & 22nd. Please visit the Williams Lake & District Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Centre or Phone to Reserve your seat. 250-392-5025. Space is limited.
July 26, 10:00am to 12:30pm, Quesnel Muse-um, Quesnel: Th is summer the Quesnel Museum will be organizing themed craft and activity sessions for kids! July 26 will be themed the Summer Olympics. 10:00 am - 11:00 am will be for children aged 6-8 11:15 am - 12:30 pm will be for children aged 9-12 Please call Jessica at the Museum for more info and to regis-ter at 250-992-9580.
July 27 to 29, Canim Lake Arbor, Canim Lake: Canim Lake Pow Wow!MC Buck Sheena, Whip-man Brent Johnson, and Arena Director Henry Wells Jr. Friday Evening-Grand Entry 7pm; Saturday Evening- Grand Entry 1pm & 7pm; Supper Break 5pm-7pm; Sunday Eve-ning - Grand Entry 1pm; Everyone is welcome to come out and enjoy a fun-fi lled weekend of singing and dancing. Camping and Billeting will be available. For more information please call Virginia Archie at 250-397-2227.
July 28 / 29, Chimney Lake: Th e 2012 Provincial Water Ski Championships will be at Chimney Lake - the event will be hosted
through the Water Ski and Wakeboard BC.
July 29, 11:00am to 1:30pm, Cottonwood House: Prospector’s Car Club Cariboo Cruise! Th e Prospector’s Car Club will assemble at Cottonwood House with their classic cars to share stories and experiences with visitors. Enjoy barbecued ham-burgers and hotdogs with the Prospector’s Car Club. Music provided by Eddie Stolz.
August 3 to 6, Wells: You’re invited to join our community for the 9th Annual ArtsWells Festival of all Th ings Art www.artswells.com - Expect the unexpected! Artists have traveled from across the country to this little moun-tain town to be part of this inspiring collaboration! Th is is a 4 day outdoor & indoor event designed with community in mind. Over 30 diff erent Workshops to attend where you can learn everything from beatbox-ing to Ukrainian dance to lyric writing to laughter yoga and so much more. Activities for kids including a craft ing station, a chil-dren’s stage and workshops geared towards children.Over 100 musical perfor-mances on 9 stages includ-ing folk, jazz, country, funk, hip-hop, electronic, world, pop, roots & more. Camp-ing is available and encour-aged. Please check out the website or call 1-800-442-2787 for more information or to reserve your tickets.
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BY JULI HARLANDTHE STEW MAGAZINE
It is about time to get outside, feel fi t, have a party, be surrounded by friends and supporters, all while raising money for local youth. So it must be time for the Annual Big Brothers Big Sisters Tour de Cariboo. And ev-eryone is invited to take part, no matter your age, size, fi tness level, or level of biking ability.
If you have been living under a rock and haven’t heard of the Tour de Cariboo yet, it is an 80 kilometer bike ride, done solo or by relay, from Williams Lake to Gavin Lake, followed by one hell of a dinner, party, and, if you choose, an overnighter at the lake. It’s Williams Lake BBBS’ largest fundraiser, by far, and this year marks the 20th annual ride.
Th e length of the ride need not scare you, though, says BBBS Ex-ecutive Director Lorraine Levitt, who is really want-ing to see the relay teams step up this year. “I think that’s where people really build up their confi dence. You don’t have to do it on your own. It’s completely for fun. No one has to commit to any certain distance,” she explains. “I think that’s the nice thing about it. You may start riding and think ‘I am go-ing to make it to that next rest stop and then I’m done.’ But if you’re feeling
okay, continiue on as far as you want. As long as your driver is supporting you.
“I’ve talked to riders where that was really satisfying for them. Th at they got a lot further than they thought. Th en the next year that’s their motivation. To beat last year’s distance.”
Th ere are riders who come out each tour, like clockwork: “Th ere are lots of people in various degrees of fi tness and biking ability and age that go. Look at Torrey Keir — who would have thought that a 78 year old could do it there and back? But he does it every year,” says Levitt.
And there are those who are, perhaps, not in the greatest shape who come out and give it what they’ve got as part of a team. In fact last year Th e Stew Crew gathered a couple of of our most fi t and fabulous females, alongside both Todd Sullivan and myself, and relayed the route. Well, okay, Carol Davidson, our awesome health and fi tness columnist and IronMan athlete, and Michelle Daymond, our tremendously healthy lo-cal foods columnist, rode the whole 80 kilometers while Todd and I rode from Williams Lake to just about 150 Mile House. But the point is that we rode our cushy posteriors out there, and if we can do it...
Th ere are also great prizes given out to best rider, worst rider, best team, most money raised, and a bunch handed out for whatever they can come up with. Th e prizes are pretty amazing, and are all donated by local (and not-so-local) busi-nesses, hotels, and travel companies.
Th e best part is that the money raised stays local. It doesn’t get spread out, it stays right here to care for your kids and your neighbor’s kids and helps to give them the strength and building blocks they need to build a better future. And what could be better than that?
Says Levitt, “Your only limitation is yourself and your own mindset.”
So dust off your ex-cuses and get involved. Check out the BBBS web-site at bbswlake.com for
more information or to register you or your team, call the offi ce at 250-398-8391.
Does anyone really want to see us get our fat asses on a couple of bikes again this year? Send us an email to [email protected] if you do (or if you don’t).
Looking to get your copy on the latest edition of THE STEW Magazine? We’re available for pickup in a variety of places
around the Cariboo Chilcotin. Please remember that this list is always evolving, and we’re always looking for new places that our magazine can call home, so if you know of someplace that you think should be a drop-off point for THE
STEW, or if you own a business and you’d like to have a few copies of our magazine on your shelves, plus let us know. You can reach us by email at either todd@thestew.
ca or [email protected].
Locations listed in alphabetical order
100 MILE HOUSE99 Mile Supermarket
A&WAlpine Deli & Sub Shop
Chartreuse MooseChevron
CRD LibraryDairy Queen
DonexHigher Ground Natural Foods
KFCLone Butte General StoreMarcel’s Boulevard CafeNuthatch Book Store
PaninosParkside Art Gallery
PharmasaveSafeway
Save-On FoodsSmitty’sSubway
Tim HortonsVelda’s Pasteries & Desserts
Visitor CentreYummers
150 MILE HOUSE150 Mile Mall
Marshall’s Store
IN LAC LA HACHEFast Trac Gas and Convenience Store
IN WILLIAMS LAKE7-ElevenA&W
Alley KatzAnnie’s Attic
Bean CounterCanadian Tire
Canwest PropaneCariboo Growers
Cariboo Memorial ComplexCariboo Spring
CRD Library (Magazine & News Section)Central Cariboo Arts & Culture Center
Concrete FitnessCool Clear Water
Dairy QueenDandelion Living
Denny’s RestaurantDollar Dollar
Elaine’s Natural FoodsThe Gecko Tree
GreyhoundHalls OrganicsHobbit House
HuskyKaramia’sLD’s Cafe
M&M Meat ShopMcDonald’s
MohawkMountview StoreMovies on the GoNew World CafeOne More SliceThe Open Book
The Overlander HotelQuiznos
Red Shred’sSafeway
Sandman InnSave On Foods
ShellShopper’s Drug Mart
Sight and SoundStarbucks
Station House GallerySubway (Downtown)
Subway (on the Highway)Tim Horton’s
Tourism Info CentreTRU
WLCBIAWomen’s Contact Society
Zellers Restaurant
IN HORSEFLYClarke’s General Store
Cornerhouse CafeThe Post Offi ceRaceTrac Gas
IN MCLEESE LAKECariboo Wood Shop
McLeese Lake General Store
IN QUESNEL7-Eleven (on the Highway)7-Eleven (in West Quesnel)
A&WAroma Foods
Billy Barker Hotel & CasinoBliss
Burger PalaceCarry All BooksGranville’s Coffee
Green Tree Health & WellnessKarin’s Deli
Mac’sMuseum & Tourist Centre
Pier 14Quiznos
Riverside Bistro (West Park Mall)Safeway
Save On FoodsShopper’s Drug Mart
SteepedSubway
Super Suds LaundromatTim Horton’s (on the Highway)
Tim Horton’s (Downtown)
IN HANCEVILLELee’s Corner
IN TATLA LAKEGraham’s Inn
IN BELLA COOLAValley Inn
Coast Mountain LodgeValley Restaurant
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As a child, Todd avoided getting dirty at all costs.He’s still trying to learn the joy of getting his hands a bit muddy
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Get outside and get dirty!
Take your kids, take your dogs, take your friends, or simply enjoy some alone time, and begin experiencing the joy that can come from digging in the dirt of your own backyard!
I am writing this article on behalf of the Williams Lake Food Policy Council, however I am also work-ing full-time as a preschool teacher. It astounds me how many children these days are experiencing a new phenomenon termed ‘Nature Defi cit Disorder’ — Richard Louv, author of Last Child In the Woods, states that this disorder is not an actual medical diag-nosis, but instead a descrip-tion of the human costs of alienation from nature.
Minimizing this defi cit by healing the bond be-tween children and nature is important, Louv has claimed, as the mental, physical, and spiritual health of our communi-ties depends on it. Just as children need sleep and nutritious food, many in the scientifi c community now also believe they need regular contact with nature.
Th rough modelling your excitement, you are helping younger generations fi nd their own sense of beauty and magic in their outdoor environment. You do not need a science degree to be outside with your kids — just be willing to use all your senses to open up to the world around you!
You also do not need to pack up the entire family with all the newest gear and drive three hours to reach the “outdoors”. Take a step outside your own house and begin exploring what is right there. Bring some-thing to dig with, see what types of bugs are making a home in your yard. Th is activity can take fi ve min-utes or all day. Either way, you can fi nd many won-drous things close to home.
Sue Hemphill, educator with Scout Island Nature Centre in Williams Lake, has suggested taking a walk around your neighbour-hood with your child, asking, “Can you fi nd 10 things we only see in the summer?”
Or, pick a tree to be a new “friend” and visit the tree throughout the year, observing the changes with the seasons. What birds, animals, insects like to visit the tree? Do the leaves grow and fall, or stay all year?
Or, just try taking your shoes off ! Mary Forbes, educator, took my pre-school classes on a tour of
Scout Island. At one point she invited them all to take their shoes off and run in the grass. Th e sight of many pairs of eyes widening — as if asking if it was really okay to run around barefoot — was priceless!
Our community spaces are oft en designed and used in ways that necessitate footwear. However, when you fi nd an area that you feel safe taking your shoes off in, enjoy it! Try not to be scared to feel the ground on your feet; walk through the grass and feel the cool morning dew between your toes, dig in the warm sand with your feet … you may end up dirty by the end of the day, but what an experi-ence! Our shoes keep us separated from the nature found under us, and is oft en ignored and trampled over while we keep our eyes looking straight ahead or above.
Now, my personal pas-sion is: plant some seeds! No matter where you live, you can garden. Whether you have a large backyard garden growing food for your entire family, or a
small container with some lettuce on your balcony, or even just an herb pot in your kitchen window, the feelings that come from growing something for yourself are indescribable. Try putting your hands in the soil, squish it between your fi ngers, make muddy handprints on the sidewalk (the great thing about mud art is that it will wash away with a garden hose or the fi rst rain!). Th en plant a few vegetable seeds. Watch as they begin to sprout, as they grow into plants you can eat.
Children picking let-tuce from a planter in our classroom have exclaimed, “I never used to like lettuce, but now that I can pick it myself, I love it!” I have to admit that this is what teaching and growing food is all about — someone fi nding out they like some-
thing they never thought they would, all because they get to try it themselves!.
So although not neces-sarily food related, I feel strongly about encouraging everyone, and especially those with young children, to play outside this sum-mer. And enjoy getting dirty!
Along the lines of plant-ing and eating your own lettuce or other greens this month, I would like to request that anyone reading this who has a favourite homemade salad dressing recipe, please send it to me! If I collect enough, I would like to create a small book-let to send out to everyone on my Local Food email list (if you would like to receive my regular emails about Local Food goings on in our Community, please let me know!)
As well, I would like to
advertise the next work-shop in the Gardening Series at TRU in Williams Lake, hosted in partnership with the Williams Lake Food Policy Council. We have contracted a local Red Seal Chef to teach us about simple cooking ideas for fresh, local produce. For example, what can you do with those spicy and deli-cious turnip greens we usu-ally throw into compost?
Th e class is in the evening, Wednesday, July 11, and you can register by calling TRU Continuing Studies at 250-392-8010 — be sure to register early!
Enjoy the sun when it’s here this month, and enjoy the rain too (because it means no forest fi res!) I’m excited to read and distrib-ute salad dressings from the Cariboo next month!
Get outside and play in the dirt — your kids will thank you
EatingLocalEatingLocalBy Michelle DaymondBy Michelle Daymond
July 2012 | THE STEW Magazine | PAGE 15
More and more we’re hearing from patrons that they’ve cancelled their cable and are looking for good things to watch. If you didn’t already know, we’ve got lots of great series and movies to watch at the library, both clas-sics and contemporary. Here’s a look at some of the new series just getting on the shelves. Between Quesnel, Wil-liams Lake and 100 Mile, we have a pretty good selection.
Remember, you can always search our catalogue to find more DVDs — go to http://www.cln.bc.ca/ and click on “Search the catalogue” at the top. If the title is not immedi-ately available, it’s just a “hold” away, and all you need is your library card and password.
Breaking Bad: Sea-sons One and Two
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Downton Abbey: Series One and Two
Call number: DOWTransport yourself
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the stubborn Dowager Countess of Grantham matriarch of Downton. Hugh Bonneville stars as her son, the stoic, un-flappable, Lord Crawley. Elizabeth McGovern is his far-sighted Ameri-can wife, Cora. From Academy Award-winner Julian Fellowes.
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Following in the
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New Tricks: Seasons One to Six
Call number: NEWThe premise of New
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in charge of a new cold-case division that she thinks is way out of the spotlight. And if that isn’t bad enough, she must build a staff from a raggedy crew of retired cops with loads of time on their hands — as well as, it turns out, some pretty great detective skills they’re dying to use again.
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Complex and con-troversial, this mes-merizing hit series offers an insider’s view of closed worlds traditionally off-limits to outsiders. Witness stunning stories about rituals and traditions so shocking that you can’t help but be at-tracted.
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A new classic rock band has hit the clubs — Th ird Degree covers many heavy classic rock songs while also performing a growing number of original numbers for crowds all over the Cariboo.
Th e band consists of lead singer Renee Lozeau, lead guitarist Randy Randle, rhythm guitarist Garry Grosso, bassist JJ Bidulka, and drummer ‘Way-ward Son’ Dean Kuyek.
Th ough the group may still be relatively new (they formed in late fall of 2011), Grosso says that some of these guys have been playing together for years in local bands such as One Foot Under and Late Breaking News.
And while they may be new as a group, their love for music is anything but. I had the plea-sure of speaking with two of the members of Th ird Degree over coff ee recently, and it is clear that music is the mainstay for these seasoned musicians.
“In Canada you always want to do one of two things,” says
Grosso. “Play in the NHL or be a rock star. And I was never good enough to be in the NHL, so I fi gured I’d try the rock star angle.
“I’m still not a rock star, but those are the aspirations you have when you’re young.
“I’m actually very happy with what’s evolved in my musical career so far. I have been fortu-nate enough to play with some pretty cool cats, played some
great festivals, made a CD, been on the radio, jammed at the Yale … all the things in my musical bucket list are checked off . I played with the Dan Giles Blues band last year — that was a huge highlight. It was totally cool. A lot of mojo hanging around with those guys. Just be-ing in the same room is electric. Th at’s what makes you play — gigs like that.”
Kuyek says that his love for
music started when he was quite young. “I just liked the sound of the pots and pans in my momma’s kitchen. I had an uncle in the city, Uncle Roy, he always had a drum set when I was a kid and I always thought it was the coolest thing. So when I was fi ve I got my fi rst drum set. It was one of those sort of fake ones for kids, you know? And I destroyed that within a week. So for my birth-day I got a real drum set. Like an old Olympic beast with real cymbals.”
And he’s been playing the drums ever since. “I was doing theatre gigs in grade seven or grade eight, and I was play-ing for the high school theatre group, with theatre music. I was always playing in bands, local bands, in pubs. I wanted to be a rock star. I was brought up in a very musical family.”
Years later the desire to make music is still there. Th ough, maybe, now it isn’t all about be-ing a rock star, but more about
sharing music with the crowds, and fi nding that bliss that comes from spending time with the instrument of your desire.
“I like the part where the whole band is cooking, and ev-eryone can hear each-other, and this is rare, and everything’s happening and the music goes to another level and you get lost within the music,” says Grosso. “Th at’s what I do it for, is that. It might not happen all night long, it may be just a few min-utes, it’s almost a nirvana, out of mind experience where you are doing what you’re doing, but it is almost automatic, and it’s happening, and you end up somewhere else.
“It’s like hockey. You don’t always get a hat trick and you don’t win every round. Music is no diff erent. You have great nights, and you have good nights, and you have off nights and you have bad nights. And hopefully the good and the great nights outweigh the other two.”
Third Degree is a new band with some familiar faces
July 2012 | THE STEW Magazine | PAGE 17
Regina SpektorWhat We Saw From The Cheap Seats
Indie songstress Regina Spektor weaves her quirky vocal stylings into her most recent album with a little more tact and restraint than in the past, but rest assured — from the “doosh doosh doosh” along with the drum blasts in ‘All The Rowboats’ to the frightening gasps of breath in ‘Open’ — the quirks are still there. Her oddball antics are easily overlooked for the vocal range she com-mands and all of the emotion she conjures with seeming ease.
In ‘Firewood’ she sings, “The piano is not firewood yet,” using it as a metaphor, encouraging someone to not give up, going on to say, “Ev-eryone knows you’re going to love, though there’s still no cure for crying.”
The first single from the album, ‘All The Rowboats,’ is still the song that strikes me the most. She talks about art being locked up in a museum saying, “They keep trying to row away,” then later going on to say, “God, I pity the violins / in glass coffins they keep coughing / they’ve forgotten, forgotten how to sing.”
What We Saw From Th e Cheap Seats is easily Spektor’s best and most accessible album yet. Check it out.
DiploExpress Yourself
A producer and DJ, Diplo may be best known for producing most of M.I.A.’s music, as well as producing for Santigold, or as half of the Jamaican dancehall duo known as Major Lazer. He has worked with many big name artists like Shakira, Robyn, Bruno Mars, Snoop Dogg, and more. This month Diplo has dropped a sweet EP for us to groove to this summer.
My only complaint: It’s too damn short. Being an EP, there’s only twenty-five minutes of music here across six tracks. But Diplo doesn’t let the small format constrain his massive talent. We’re given top shelf examples of a variety of modern EDM styles in-cluding New Orleans bounce, dubstep, and Jamaican dancehall. The grooviest track on the album, “Barely Stand-ing,” even features BC local dubstep superstar, Datsik.
If you want a few tracks worth dancing to all summer long, you need to grab this album.
Fiona AppleThe Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
Everyone is raving about this album. Myself included. The Idler Wheel... is Apple’s fourth album, first in seven years, and is truly a work of art. The core of the instrumenta-tion is a simple piano and drum kit, but other sounds creep in like the playground noise near the end of ‘Werewolf’ or the rhythmic shoe-dragging that underlies ‘Periphery.’
Throughout the album her deep, sultry voice shakes and laments and self-analyzes all the individual parts that make up herself as an emo-tional whole, as she does most specifically in ‘Every Single
Night.’ When her voice hits the gravely rock bottom in ‘Regret’ you can feel her rage.
And even though she says, “Nothing wrong when a song ends on a minor key.” in ‘Werewolf,’ she wont let the al-bum end on a minor key. The note she chooses to end on is happy, hopeful, and uplifting. ‘Hot Knife’ layers a chorus of her voices into a beautiful a cappella melody against the roll of a single drum. You’ve gotta hear this to believe it. So good.
GojiraL’Enfant Sauvage
This album is heavy as fuck! French progressive extreme metallers, Gojira, have just released their fifth and best album to date. L’Enfant Sau-vage means “The wild child” and refers to the story of a feral child found in 1970’s France.
This is a brutal album about the brutality of the human condition — the uncivilized nature of civilization. With titles like ‘Planned Obsoles-cence’, ‘Pain is a Master”, and ‘Gift of Guilt’ it might surprise you when you finally realize that this metal band is not revelling in the atrocity of it all, but actually condemning it.
In ‘Gift of Guilt’ Joe
screams, “This judgement creates the pain we hold in / destructive intentions that serve no purpose,” and later, “We must forgive and stop blaming ourselves.”
The sound is thick and at-mospheric and technical, and begs to be played at maximum volume. This is for fans of Meshuggah and Mastodon.
At this point, it would be more surprising for Fiona Apple to release an album with a short title.
Todd SuiivanRegina Spektor - ‘Firewood’Regina Spektor - ‘Ballad of a Politician’Morrigan Sullivan - ‘I’m Still Teething (and it really hurts)’
Juli Harland: Marilyn Manson - ‘Hey Cruel World’Marilyn Manson - ‘Born Villian’Sid the Science Kid - ‘I’m Lookin’ for my Friends’
Laura Kelsey:Agalloch - ‘Hallways of Enchanted Ebony’Candace Copley - ‘Who Cares About the Weather’Drum & Bell Tower - ‘Ghost in the Machine’
Jamie Horsley:Diplo - ‘Barely Standing’ (feat. Datsik & Sabi)Fiona Apple - ‘Werewolf’Gojira - ‘L’Enfant Sauvage’
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As a music lover myself, I had the privilege to see a passion for an uncategorized group of musicians. Snapshow Records carries an inspiring feel and will convince you to bob your head and tap your feet to the deep tone beat wherever you are. If you don’t understand the hip hop scene, the energy of these guys will defi ne the classifi cation and convince you that anything is possible if you love what you do. You may fi nd yourself cruisin’ with the windows rolled down on a winter’s day with this album pumping. I was able to witness “Prod Deuce” and “Killi Matic” freestyle to each other. Al-most like a fi st fi ght with no fi sts. Who says words will never hurt?
Skyler Bedell “Prod Deuce” grew up in Fort St. John as a pio-neer of the hip hop scene. “Prod Duece” has been in the hip hop industry for over twelve years and has now fi nally found something that connects to his heart and soul
with his stage crew “Killi Matic” and “Just ‘In’ Case”. He has been waiting to invest in a young pro-ducer like “Just ‘In’ Case” to carry the beat to the public and stray from the beaten trail. He truly believes our future is in the hands of the young generation.
“Killi Matic” Aaron Lawrence grew up in Vernon, BC, and has made his move up to Fort St. John. His passion for the hip hop scene dwindled until meeting his colleagues “Prod Deuce”, “Just ‘In’ Case”, and “DJ Ghost”. He always tries to write music that is real and from the heart. Aaron has had the opportunity to create music with D12 and “Mad Child” from Swol-len Members.
Nineteen-year-old producer (from Williams Lake) Justin Case Grindley “Just ‘In’ Case” has been in Fort St John for only a short while. Th e self-taught leader says his inspiration comes from his father giving him an acoustic guitar on his sixth Christmas. He graduated high school, and with no further education in music,
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Fort St. John) and have the utilities to make their music accessible to the public. Snapshow Records is not about the perceived image or stereotype that hip hop or rap brings to the realm. It is strictly passion and a gut-felt stream of lyrics. Th ese guys are truly having fun.
Snapshow Records makes music intriguing to the mind
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You’ll look pretty small standing up to the GargantuanWell you crossed the pond and you’re knocking on the doorA delegation laying line for the new HegemonIt’s a crazy train and you’re yelling “All aboard”
Comes like a cannonball; you say it’s a market forceAnd it’s rolling over all the obstaclesPrefer the mythical and ignore what the record showsYou know that open borders serve the powerful
I think it’s best to know--this ain’t fl ying, we’re in free-fallA whole economy drunk on gasoline; it seems the tank is running low…We’ll pollute it all, strip the fi eld of the last resourceAnd fi nd our fantasies and magic beans won’t keep the belly full
Maybe it’s cyclical, all the powers in the circled orbsAs they move in time will they realign our hearts?So maybe 2012, will be the end of the cult of selfIn case it ain’t get your plough and rake and start stocking shelves
‘Cause greed will push us all, off the cliff to the chasm fl oorWhere your swollen head and puff y chest won’t break the fallSo let it push us all off the bridge to the ebb & fl owWhen you come around, hope you fi nd a ground on the rocky shore
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