[FM] Gig Calgary : Bill Usher House Concert

[Bignote Entertainment (City)]

Mark your calendars now!

The Bignote Basement House Concert Series 2003 Presents

Bill Usher with Steve Briggs in concert
performing songs from his new album
"Slowdancing in the Ballroom of Life"

With very special guests John Leeder & The Buccaneers

Date: January 26, 2002
Time: 7:30pm (pot luck dinner with the artists at 6:30pm)
Place: Home of Stanis & Jim Samuelson, Calgary, N.W.
Admission: early-bird $12, last-minute $15

Please RSVP to jimsamuelson@shaw.ca and we will follow up
with a confirmation, address and details.



Bill Usher last played Calgary at the Jubilee with Bruce Cockburn on the
"Circles In The Stream" tour - way back in the late 70s. We welcome him
back. As a percussionist he's played on many Canadian landmark albums with
folks like Willie P. Bennett, Valdy, Stan Rogers, Stringband, David Essig
and dozens more. He's also produced over 60 albums for a who's who of
Canadian and US artists. If you've heard Sharon, Lois & Bram's Five Little
Monkeys - that's Bill - he arranged and produced the first four SL&B albums.

This past year Bill went into the studio with a lot of his musical friends
and made his debut singer/songwriter album. Dugg Simpson, artistic director
of the Vancouver Folk Music festival wrote this in his liner notes to the
album:
    "So I think maybe you've written some of the songs that Joni promised us
    would come to aging children so long ago...These songs have already sung
    their way into my life. They're about things that I have lived and about
    things that I am living in a musical language that I understand and so
    to my ears this is folk music. Who ever said it couldn't have a groove?"
                                http://www.billusher.com/dugg_simpson.html

Bill will play keyboard and djembe and will be accompanied by Steve Briggs
on guitars. Based in Toronto, Steve is becoming familiar to Calgary
audiences through his own western swing band the Bebop Cowboys and his work
with the Brothers Cosmoline.

Go to http://www.billusher.com/ to listen to some great sounding audio clips
of the songs.


"We are also so pleased to have our special guest John Leeder coming out to
sing a few songs with The Buccaneers. John has a great fund of Canadian trad
songs and his own compositions in that vein. He likes "big choruses", and is
looking forward to having four Buccaneer voices at his command! Go to
http://www.bucc.ca for more info on The Buccaneers, and
http://www.johnleeder.com for more info on John's new CD, Fresh Forest
Breeze."

Please RSVP to jimsamuelson@shaw.ca or call 403-286-5773