REGISTRATION
Saturday January 13 - 12pm to 9pm
Sunday January 14 - 10am to 6pm
Monday January 15 - 10am to 6pm
Registration for the conference will take place at the Delta Chelsea Hotel
3rd
floor (Whistler Room).
Conference Schedule:
SATURDAY JAN 13
3-5pm:
Monarchs (Delta Chelsea
Hotel – main floor)
Colorblind's Brian
Blain’s Campfire:
a song-circle hosted by Brian Blain.
5-7pm:
Monarchs (Delta Chelsea Hotel - main floor)
The Toronto Blues Society cordially invite you to the Blues Summit III
Welcome Reception. Come meet your fellow Blues Summit III delegates.
(Sponsored by
The SouthSide Shuffle
Blues and Jazz Festival
with support, and an appearance by Ron Beer and the Boogie Boy
Blues Band (20 min.))
[Showcases
begin at 9 pm. Click here for the schedule.]
SUNDAY JAN 14
11-2:00 Keynote Brunch
with ELIJAH WALD:
Noted music journalist Elijah Wald gives the Summit’s keynote talk over a seated
buffet brunch. Wald has been writing about blues and roots music for
over ten years as "world music" writer for the Boston Globe. He has won numerous
awards, including a 2002 Grammy for the liner notes to the Arhoolie Records 40th
Anniversary Box and the 2001 Best Performing Arts Book award from the
Independent Publishers association for Josh White: Society Blues. Wald currently
teaches blues history at UCLA and is working on an alternative history of
American popular music.
Mr. Wald will be introduced at the keynote
brunch by York University professor and Grammy Award winning liner note
authority Rob Bowman.
2:15-3:30:
Canadian Festivals Roundtable
Discussion:
Canadian Festivals Roundtable
Discussion: Blues festivals live in the shadow of the jazz and folk festivals in
some cities, but regional and national common ground is the premise of this
session including networking, lobbying and comparing notes. Hosted by Brent
Staeben (Fredricton), Brian Slack (Mount Tremblant), Ted Boomer (Windsor) and
open to all festival representatives.
2:15-3:30: Career Development Strategy:
Career Development Strategy: Touring, Grants,
and Showcases. Richard Davis (Canada Council), Dan Kershaw (SOCAN), Elaine
Bomberry (Rez Bluez) and Suzie Vinnick talk through the challenges and insights
of making a living in your home market and touring into new ones.
3:45-5:00: Digital #1:
Websites, Sonicbids, Myspace, and YouTube as
marketing tools. NorthernBlues honcho Fred Litwin talks about the 14,000 friends
he has cultivated at MySpace with viral marketing activists Krista Lamb (Anya
Wilson Publicity), Jennifer Claveau (Speak Music) and webmistress
extraordinaire, Lily Sazz.
3:45-5:00: Blues in the
Schools: Blues
in the Schools: Mark Stafford (Toronto), Ron Beer (Oshawa), Chris Murphy
(London) carry the blues to young audiences through teaching programmes and hook
ups with teachers who care about the blues message getting to young people.
5:30-7:30 SOCAN Songs and Stories: Harry
Manx, Treasa Levasseur, Kyle Riabko, and Chris Kirby. SOCAN Member Relations
Manager Dan Kershaw plays Phil Donahue with veteran blues fusionist Harry Manx,
soulful Toronto singer Treasa Levasseur and new kids on the proverbial block
Chris Kirby (St. John's) and Kyle Riabko (Saskatoon).
[Showcases begin at 9 pm.
Click here for the schedule.]
MONDAY JAN 15
10:00-11:15: Acoustic Blues, African and
Caribbean Guitar: Elijah Wald in performance. Get up close with the man who
has written up Dave Van Ronk and Robert Johnson but is connecting the dots
between the delta, the Caribbean guitar of Joseph Spence and West Africa.
10:00-11:15: Blues Society Roundtable: A
gathering of associations and interest groups from across Canada hosted by Liz
Sykes (Ottawa), Brian Slack (Montreal), Derek Andrews (Toronto) but inclusive of
everyone currently running or planning to run a community based organization.
11:30-12:45 Jim Crow Blues: Racism & the
Evolution of Popular Music. For over a century, the Blues has profoundly
influenced every form of popular music, from Jazz to Rock to Soul to Hip-Hop. In
this multi-media presentation, Ian Angus discusses how African-Americans created
the Blues in response to oppression and terrorism in the southern United States,
how it migrated from the rural south to northern ghettos, and how the music has
changed and evolved as the Black community has changed.
11:30-12:45: Dream Venue: What if there was
a place for musicians to come together for jam sessions, rehearsals and
collaboration?
2:00-3:15: Digital #2: Downloading,
Distribution, and the Death of the CD. Did you put ISRC code on your
plastic? If so, you're probably moving units by song on CDBaby like Mark "Bird"
Stafford who is joined by Holger Petersen (Stony Plain) and Joan Berger (Jericho
Beach Music / Festival Distribution) and Laura Brehaut (Iceberg Radio).
2:00-3:15: The Blues Brand: How to make it
appeal to young audiences. Rick Zolkower has been taken to strange musical
places by his offspring, and they like what he does, but they don't care if it
is called blues. A brainstorming session on developing new markets and audiences
for blues, (especially those under 25). Rick will be joined by Earl Krushelnicki
from the Prince George, Blues Underground, one of the country's most successful
blues presenters.
3:30-4:45: Blues Song: A close-up and
interactive look at blues songwriting with some of the best, featuring Colin
Linden, Suzie Vinnick, Paul Reddick.
3:30-4:45: Blues Collectibles: Memorabilia,
eBay trading and the treasure trove of blues photos, posters and archiving with
veteran collectors "Dave Daddy Cool" Booth, Mark Bird Stafford, Danny Marks and
Eddy B.
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