Happy Holidays from Harmony Bazaar

So it is that time again... friends, family, holiday music, and my favourite.... presents ;).

(wow when you put a period after a winky face it looks like I have a pimple). lol

So many things coming up with Harmony Bazaar and the NSLC sponsored A Place for Dory Mates concert series. Lets start by backing up a little bit.

November 18th saw GoGirls Nova Scotia's first GoGirls Fest at The Company House in Halifax supporting The Red Thread Movement. The women put on a great show to support this great cause. Thanks to all who played and came out!

Coming Up:

December 31st @ The Lockeport Fire Hall

NEW YEARS EVE DANCE (yup I am screaming it because it will be AWESOME!)

10pm start

tickets available at The Town Market

DJ Cory Nickerson

Friday, January 6th @ The Lockeport Legion

NSLC A Place for Dory Mates Concert

Irish Mythen & Catahoula Brown

8pm

Tickets 10.00 (advanced) 15.00 (door)

available at The Town Market

So Happy Holidays to all, and if you are not of the religious type, enjoy a couple of days off work!!

Peace,

Errin

November 18, 2011

8pm

The Company House, 2202 Gottigen Street Halifax, NS

15.00 (all money from ticket sales go to The Red Thread Movement)

Advanced tickets @ The Company House (404-3050)

Press Release

(Halifax, NS) – A benefit concert featuring many of Nova Scotia’s emerging women musicians is taking place as part of the International GoGirls Music Fest on November 18th at The Company House. The concert, presented by Harmony Bazaar Festival of Women and Song will feature the talents of Tiffani Latham, Connie Sauliner, Mel Farrimond, Breagh Potter, Amy Lee Blanchard, Christine Campbell, Kate Surette, Rosie Folks, and Perpetual Detour. Those fortunate enough to get tickets for the show – only $15.00 and available at The Company House – will also receive a FREE GoGirls Music Fest CD.

GoGirls Music Fest is a series of benefit showcase events held across the world stemming from the international organization supporting women in music called GoGirls Music. Each year this network of chapters chose a different international charity to support, and for 2011 the Nova Scotia GoGirls chapter is proud to stand with cities like Houston, Los Angeles, and Tokyo to host the Halifax concert benefiting the Red Thread Movement.

The Red Thread Movement is a student initiative that unites voices against the human rights violation of sex trafficking to combat sexual slavery in Nepal. GoGirls is a unique organization that focuses on advancing the careers of independent female artists. The GoGirls Music Fest promotes independent women in music. “This partnership with GoGirls Music Fest, The Company House, and Harmony Bazaar is so important in making this benefit concert possible. We’re very proud to host the Nova Scotia event as part of a worldwide series benefitting the incredible work of the Red Thread Movement against sex trafficking. It will be an amazing night of music,” says GoGirls Nova Scotia organizer and Harmony Bazaar Artistic Director Errin Williams Spidle. For advance tickets call the Company House at 404-3050.

Who is going to Contact East? Me...YAY!!!

The Atlantic Presenters Association, this coming week in Summerside, invites a big ole chunk of the people in Atlantic Canada (and some from the Eastern Seaboard of the US) who book musicians, singer-songwriters, bands, dancers, and theatrical performers.

This year I have a kick arse room booked with a Jacuzzi tub and a king size bed. Beats the heck out of the hotel room I had last year where I experienced a first for me .... a spider plant in my hotel room.... very strange!

I am looking forward to watching Kat Danser http://www.katdanser.com/ and Kim Stockwood
http://kimstockwood.com/, and checking out other talented people to see who might be great to have on stage at Harmony Bazaar 2012.

Wish me luck,

Errin

Another Successful Year!

First, I want to thank all the Harmony Bazaar committee and staff, volunteers, town of Lockeport staff, tech crew, venders, Lockeport Medical First Responders, billet home / yard owners, sponsors, and performers. It is a lot of hard work to put together a festival but seeing a year of hard work come together and come together well is so worth it. Thank you as well to those who enjoy great music and came out to the festival. Your support helps our festival grow.

Such a great weekend that it is hard to pinpoint favourite moments. Well that isn’t totally true…. Two for me were from the green room; first when Melanie Doane took my “just about to have a snit” daughter out to stage side to watch the show and gave her some snuggles, and feeding Coco Love Alcorn’s baby some pears back stage so she could scat it up during the Sunday afternoon Irish’s Invitational.

The massive downpour of Saturday morning was a bit of a challenge but we got through it as a team. The Harmony Bazaar committee /staff, Seacaps Park’s site crew, and Anthony Gosbee’s sound technicians made sure we kept equipment and patrons as dry as possible. We didn’t want anyone to miss the talent we had on stage.

Michelle Wright and Melanie Doane gave performances exceeding our expectations. Both sang crowd favourites and were to say the least enchanting. Both Juno winners interacted in the community as well with Melanie Doane attending the Legion Breakfast (having pictures taken with the Legion’s kitchen crew), and Michelle Wright talking with festival patrons for almost an hour after the show signing autographs and having her picture taken.

Other musical highlights were the Open Mic with the greatest span in age we have ever seen with a three year old and then an 80 year old taking the stage, the Legends Stage featuring the music of Patsy Cline, and Irish’s Invitational a stage where performers from the weekend jam together as the finale to the festival.

As a festival we enjoyed record attendance each day with many new faces in the crowd. We have heard a lot of positive feedback to continue to grow the festival and with presenting sponsors like The NSLC, Transcontinental, and Sobeys Shelburne along with a slew of stage sponsors we can do just that.

One last HUGE “thank you” to the Harmony Bazaar summer student Sara Balish. She was my right hand at the festival and worked so hard.

Errin Williams Spidle
Harmony Bazaar

Rain Rain Go Away!!

The weather forecasters said "rain" and its raining BUT it isn't raining as heavy as it was an hour ago so I am hoping the deal I made will stick and it all the wet stuff will be done by 12 noon for our first on stage event.

We have made plans so that if it does rain we are good to go. So don't even look out the window or listen to the weather ... let me do that for you. You just head down to the Legion for breakfast and then to The United Church for the vocal workshop with Teresa Doyle.

Later
Errin

Place to stay when you come visit us :)

What a beautiful sunny day YAY!!!

Next week is Harmony Bazaar and for those coming down to Lockeport or thinking about coming to the festival I want to share with you local places to stay. We also have the ability to hook you up with some camping in town (or for those from Lockeport "on town" as it is an island). Just call us at the office 656-3272 for those details.

For more traditional motel / hotel / cottage / B&B / camping options see below:
Barracks Cove Kitchenettes
Location - 41 Islands Park Rd.
Website - www.barrackscove.com
Phone # - 875-1532 Toll Free 1-866-875-1532

Boulder Cove Cottages
Location - 321 Boulder Cove Rd, Churchover, Shelburne NS
Website - www.bouldercove.com
Phone # - 875-1542 Toll Free 1-866-732-7867

Cape Cod Colony
Location - 234 Water Street, Shelburne NS
Website - www.capecodmotel.ns.ca
Phone # - (902)875-3411 Toll Free 1-877-322-8122

Cooper’s Inn
Location - 36 Dock Street at Mason Lane, Shelburne NS
Website - www.coopersinn.com
Phone # - (902)875-4656 Toll Free 1-800-688-2011

Lockeport Cottages & Campground
Location - 3318 Lydgate, Shelburne County
Website - www.lockeportcottages.ns.ca
Phone # - (902)656-2876 Toll Free 1-866-656-2876

Louis Beach Campground
Location - 1668 West Middle Sable Rd, Lockeport NS
Website - www.selectinns.ca/camping_39311.php
Phone # - (902)656-3129

MacKenzie’s Motel and Cottages
Location - 260 Water Street, Shelburne NS
Website - www.mackenzies.ca
Phone # - (902)875-2842 Toll Free 1-866-875-0740

The Millstones Bed & Breakfast
Location - 2 Falls Lane, Shelburne NS
Website - www.millstonesbedandbreakfast.com
Phone # - (902)875-4525 Toll Free 1-866-240-9110

Ocean Mist
Location - 1 Gull Rock Road, Lockeport
Website - www.oceanmistcottages.com
Phone # - (902)656-3200

Roseway Rive Cottages
Location - Ohio Road, Shelburne NS, Look for the signs
Website - www.rosewayrivercottages.com
Phone # - (902)875-3812

Sable River Cottages
Location - East Sable River Road, Sable River NS
Website - www.cottagerentals.info
Phone # - (902)656-3071

Sandy Lane Vacation Rentals (cottage / vacation home rentals) – Throughout
Shelburne County
Location - Main Office 135 Water Street, Shelburne NS
Website - www.sandylanevacations.com
Phone # - (902)875-2729 Toll Free 1-800-646-1577

Seaside Cottages - Lockeport
Location - Ginger Hill Road, Lockeport NS
Website - www.seasidecottages.ns.ca
Phone # - (902)656-2089 Toll Free 1-866-656-2089

The Islands Provincial Park
Location - 183 Barracks Road, Islands Park Road, Shelburne NS
Website - www.novascotiaparks.ca/parks/theislands.asp
Phone # - (902)875-4304

Thomas Raddall Provincial Park
Location - 529 Raddall Road Park, East Port L'Herbert
Website - www.novascotiaparks.ca/parks/thraddall.asp
Phone # - (902)683-2664

Water Street Lighthouse B&B
Location - 263 Water Street, Shelburne NS
Website - www.shelburnelighthouse.com
Phone # - (902)875-2331 Toll Free 1-888-875-2331

White Point Beach Resort
Location - 75 White Point Beach Rd, #2 White Point, NS. Queens County
Website - www.whitepoint.com
Phone # - (902)354-2711 Toll Free 1-800-565-5068

Wildwood Motel
Location - Minto Street, Shelburne NS
Website - www.wildwoodmotel.ca
Phone # - (902)875-2964 Toll Free 1-800-565-5001

Lockeport, Nova Scotia
July 29-31, 2011

Vacations and Holidays and Sunshine (fingers crossed) are just around the corner!
Harmony Bazaar is just over a month away and myself and the committee are working very hard to make sure 2011 is our best festival yet.

The most frequent questions we are getting at the office are, “how do I get tickets?”, and “What is the schedule?” Please see below for those answers and if you have any more questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Peace and see you soon!!
Errin

Early Bird and Ticketing Information:

Early Bird Passes are on sale only until July 2nd. The price is 45.00 for the full weekend of music and you receive a special promotion of a 2011 Harmony Bazaar CD with music from each performer. You can get your pass at the link below

http://www.harmonybazaar.com/tickets/tickets.html

After July 2nd:

Festival Pass 65.00
Day Passes:
Friday 20.00
Saturday 45.00
Sunday 20.00

Youth Tickets (12-18)
Day Pass 5.00

Children (under 12)
Free with a ticket holding adult

Schedule:

Friday, July 29

5pm
Festival Gate Open

5-9pm
Sandy Lane Vacations presents Harmony in Art Exhibit @ Lockeport Recreation Centre
Featured artists: AJ LeBlanc, Julie Balish, Teresa Doyle, & Laurie Swim

5-7pm
“Music is in Our Genes” Book Launch & Reception @ Holy Cross Anglican Church & Hall

6-11pm
Molson Coors Beer Garden

7pm Festival Welcome – Wanda Joudrey Finigan
Allendale Electronics “Rising Stars” Stage @ Main Stage
Irish Mythen (host), Christine Campbell, Rosie Folks, & Tiffani Latham

8pm
Erin Costelo
Teresa Doyle
Melanie Doane


Saturday, July 30

8-11am
Legion Breakfast @ Legion Branch 80, Beech Street

10am
Vocal Workshop with Teresa Doyle @ Seacaps Pavilion

11am
Festival Gate Open

11-9pm
Sandy Lane Vacations presents Harmony in Art Exhibit @ Lockeport Recreation Centre
Featured artists: AJ LeBlanc, Julie Balish, Teresa Doyle, & Laurie Swim

12pm
Open Mic—Julie Balish (host) @ Main Stage

Saturday Afternoon Songwriter Showcases:
1pm
Lockeport PharmaChoice “What the Folk is That?” @ Main Stage
Irish Mythen (host), Cathy Cook, Connie Saulnier, & Kate Surette

2pm
Shelburne County Arts Council “Alternatively Speaking” @ Main Stage
Ria Mae (host), Alyssa LeBlanc, Amy Blanchard, & Breagh Potter

2-11pm
Molson Coors Beer Garden

3pm
Shelburne County Women in Business “I’m with the Band” @ Main Stage
King’s Eden & Stone Mary

4pm
Town’s End Strings & Things “Legends” Stage" @ Main Stage (featuring the music Patsy Cline)
Melanie Doane (host), Erin Costelo, & Lisa Buchanan

5-7pm
Clearwater presents Harmony in Art Exhibit Gala @ Lockeport Recreation Centre
Featured artists: AJ LeBlanc, Julie Balish, Teresa Doyle, & Laurie Swim
Admission Free & 20.00 for wine pairings
Limited Tickets - available at The Town Market, HB Office, & Merchandise Booth (on festival grounds)

7pm
Perpetual Detour
Lynne Hanson
Ria Mae
Coco Love Alcorn
Michelle Wright

11pm
Late Night Dance Stone Mary @ Lockeport Fire Hall
10.00 in advance 12.00 at the door
19 + event


Sunday, July 31

8-11am
Legion Breakfast @ Legion Branch 80, Beech Street

9am
Morning Sun Ceremony @ Lockeport’s Crescent Beach
Cathy Cook & Wanda Joudrey Finigan

11am
Festival Gate Open

12pm
Children’s Entertainment with Teresa Doyle @ Main Stage (To be enjoyed by the young and the young at heart)

1pm
Harlow’s Construction Irish’s Invitational @ Main Stage
Irish Mythen (host) & 2011 Harmony Bazaar performers!

Harmony Bazaar 2011
July 29-31
Featuring
Michelle Wright & Melanie Doane
www.harmonybazaar.com