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august 2009 | issue 16

Windsor Arts & Music Monthly (WAMM) is afree independent publication designed tokeep you abreast of arts and culture in theWindsor area. Featuring music, visual arts,film, theatre, literature and beyond, WAMMis your guide for entertainment in Windsor.WAMM will grow & evolve with every issueand continue to answer the question; “Whatdo you want to do tonight?”

editor: Stephen Hargreavescopy editor: Kate Hargreavescontributors: Jamie Greer, John Doherty,Kate Hargreaves, Stephen Hargreaves &Adam Foxdesign & cover: Stephen Hargreaves

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3 eat your city4 windsor scene6 vote for the best of windsor

6 ten indians7 pride fest7 made in windsor

8 Windsor Stars you never knew about

9 Yarn Bombing

10l ist ings11 album charts

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plete list of this

month’s cover stars,

or the most complete

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Inside information from inside the Windsor

All images © & courtesy of artist’s web pages.

lthough Windsor has

lost the residence of

Ron Leary, the side-

burned marvel still con-

tinues to make the trek along the 401

back to visit us, which is always a

good thing. He returns to the area Sat-

urday, August 1st with The Big

Three (also featuring Kelly “Mr.

Chill” Hoppe and Scotty Hughes)

for an early evening showcase at

Bob-Lo Beach House & Grille, the

restaurant on Bob-Lo Island in

Amherstburg. There’s no cover and

the show begins around 6:30pm. It is

a great setting to see three fantastic

musicians outside on the monstrous

patio.

myspace.com/ronleary

On a farewell note, local rockers The

Tree Streets have called it quits.

These guys have come a long way

over the past year or so, going from

one of the cover bands on the circuit

to becoming one of the most im-

proved original bands. They really

turned a lot of heads with some greats

shows and sounds, landing a coveted

opening slot for Matt Mays & El Tor-

pedo a few

months back.

The break-up has

more to do with

future careers it

seems (one

member is

moving to

Saskatchewan

to teach, the

other is off to

Western for

schooling) than

the normal dysfunctional band drama,

which is refreshing to see. They’re

having their final show in Sarnia at

Norm’s Pub on Saturday, August 8th,

bringing fellow Windsor bands Hello

Bella and Time, as well as Kid Skele-

ton.

myspace.com/thetreestreets

It seems that right around the time we

lost one dusty highway troubadour

(Ron Leary) we regained another one.

The always lovely Lonesome Lefty is

once again a Windsorite and it’s great

to have our resident King of Country

back on our stages. This man is an en-

cyclopedia of old school country and

roots sounds and his originals effort-

lessly slide in to his sets and never feel

out of place with the treasure trove of

old school throwbacks he uncovers.

He’s back out playing around Wind-

sor at any stage that will take him and

his band of minstrels, The Crying

Shames. This month, he’s got a show

on Saturday, August 1st at Mick’s

Irish Pub (28 Chatham St. East) , fol-

lowed by a set at Leopard’s Lounge

(1190 Wyandotte St. East) on

Wednesday, August 12th.

myspace.com/lonesomelefty

It seems like big swirling bands of

gypsy folk music with North Ameri-

can roots are becoming all the rage,

with bands like The Unsettlers and

The United Steel Workers of Montreal

gaining momentum across the coun-

try. Nova Scotia’s joining the fray,

sending us The Tom Fun Orchestra

to play at Phog Lounge (157 Univer-

sity Ave. West) on Saturday, August

1st. Considering that Nova Scotia is

home to some of the most intense

kitchen party jams this country has

ever seen, these guys are probably

going to be bringing an intensity and

passion that can only be nurtured and

harboured by the sea air of Cape Bre-

ton. Also on the bill are Windsor’s

own The Locusts Have No King and

another Cape Bretonner in vocal pow-

erhouse Carmen Townsend. Should

be a barn burner.

myspace.com/tomfunorchestra myspace.com/thelo-

custshavenoking

myspace.com/carmecita

Ottawa’s Fuck The Facts are tearing

the North American hardcore circuit

apart, appearing on television, major

media and playing some huge shows.

Luckily, these guys (and gals) never

forget who made them and helped

them, and whenever they come near

Windsor they always play a show at

The Coach & Horses (156 Chatham

St. West, below Pogo’s). They’re on

the road again and making their

Coach pit-stop on Wednesday, August

5th. Should be a nice sweaty mid-

week excuse to bleed the ears out.

myspace.com/fuckthefacts

Local metallers Tyburn Tree have

been scorching a trail all over

town the past year and it finally

culminates in their

long overdue CD

release party on

Friday, August

7th. Tyburn Tree

will be un-

v e i l i n g

their debut

r e l e a s e ,

Parliament

of Trees, at

T h e

C h u b b y

P i c k l e

(762 Ouel-

lette Ave.),

and they’re

b e i n g

joined by a

couple of

h e a v y -

weights to

celebrate

the new

disc. Local thrashers Assassinate The

Following (who just recently released

their own new album, Massacre of the

North) and Guelph’s Farewell to

Freeway (whose new single “Por-

trait” just debuted on Headbanger’s

Ball on MTV2) will be joining Ty-

burn Tree in celebrating their long

awaited debut disc.

myspace.com/tyburntreemyspace.com/assassinatethefollowing myspace.com/farewelltofreeway

Has it been twelve years already?

Long gone are the Princess Blacktart

days, but Blasternaut is still alive!

These veteran rockers have routinely

played the Michigan circuit more

often than Windsor (primarily due to

the dual citizenship of the band and,

unfortunately, because there are sim-

ply more stages to play), but they do

manage to play at home once or twice

a year, usu-

ally to

p a c k e d

h o u s e s .

Combining

the sounds

of bands

like Cheap

Trick, T-

Rex and

Stone Tem-

ple Pilots

into a mish

mash rock

and roll

p l e a s u r e

ride, these

guys are

road tested

and battle

hardened and

continue to

A

Troubadour Lonesome Lefty returns to Windsor 12 years strong: Blasternaut

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play each gig with the enthusiasm of

the first. They’re playing a special in-

timate anniversary show at Phog

Lounge (157 University Ave. West),

which should be a shoulder-to-

shoulder sweaty affair indeed.

myspace.com/blasternautmusic

While The Guess Who may have

been permanently grounded a few

years ago, principal members Randy

Bachman and Burton Cummings are

still playing together and they bring

their greatest hits package to the

WFCU Centre on Friday, August 7th.

I have a lot of friends who are proba-

bly going to go to this, but I must

admit, Burton Cummings makes my

skin crawl. Maybe it’s his moustache

or his beady eyes, but he just plain

gives me the willies.

Last month we lost a vastly under-

rated and often under-appreciated

singer/songwriter in Charles Benn,

who has taken a job out in Alberta. His

farewell show/CD release show last

month was a great send off and

an even better testament to

the talent he truly is.

Speaking of losing more

talent, Kimberly Ann

Kukoraitis is the lat-

est who has had

to leave the

fair city

i n

pursuit of higher education. Kimberly

Ann has been a fixture on the

singer/songwriter circuit for the past

few years under the moniker This Is

Me As A Woman. Late last year she

jumped into the band circuit as a mem-

ber of the raucous, high energy rock

and roll of Vultures! With Vultures!

now on hiatus and Kimberly Ann get-

ting ready to head to Toronto for

school, she’s throwing Windsor’s sec-

ond farewell/CD release party in two

months on Saturday, August 8th at

Phog Lounge (157 University Ave.

West). She’s finally releasing a docu-

ment of her songs, recorded at Rock-

erie Records by fellow Vultures! Scott

Warren and Andy Langmuir, entitled

Extravanganza! and she’s being joined

at the show by special guests Salt of

the Chief Cornerstone and Jamie

Reaume (The Golden Eagles, ex-For-

eign Film Star).

myspace.com/thisismeasawoman my-space.com/saltinfomyspace.com/jamiereaume

Our reigning Kings of

Power Pop, Inoke Errati

are back with another

Rock Show at The

Chubby Pickle (762

Ouellette Ave.) on Sat-

urday, August 8th. These

guys are pure rock stars in

every sense of the word

but without a lot of

the rock star trap-

pings that often

distance or alien-

ate. Super nice

guys who write some damn catchy pop

songs. They’re bringing along The

Tragedy of Mariam and The Eclectic

Chair to add to the party.

myspace.com/inokeerratimyspace.com/thetragedyofmariammyspace.com/theeclecticchair

The Metal Gods have opened the gates

and the thunder will rumble at…Phog?

Not exactly known for its metal

shows, but Phog Lounge (157 Univer-

sity Ave. West) is opening its doors on

a big one on Friday, August 14th when

international metal sensation (home-

grown here in Windsor!) Woods of

Ypres take “The Little Stage That

Could.” Frontman David Gold has

proclaimed that this will unfortunately

be the last time that Woods of Ypres

plays Windsor so make sure you get

yourself to this show for one last time

to hear Woods of Ypres in the town

where it all started! Joining the bill is

Arkayic Revolt, an impressive throw-

back to 80’s thrash metal, featuring ex-

members of Lunacy.

myspace.com/woodsofypres myspace.com/arkayicrevolt

The Vaudevillianaires, a new heavy

rock riff collective featuring past and

present members of The Golden

Hands Before God, Big Daddy A &

The Merves, Hogfat and The Tyres,

debut on Saturday, August 22nd at The

Coach & Horses (156 Chatham St.

West, below Pogo’s). The Vaudevil-

lianaires are planning an ambitious

stage production in the coming

months, but this will be a musical

showcase to debut the new sounds that

these five have created over the past

few months. Drawing on sounds like

Monster Magnet, Eagles of Death

Metal and Moistboyz, The Vaudevil-

lianaires are definitely looking to put

some sweat and blood onto the dirty

Coach stage. They’re being joined on

their debut show by special guests The

Unsettlers, who will be promoting

their new live EP, recorded during a

showcase for CBC Radio 2. The Un-

settlers are garnering quite the buzz

nationally and, with several members

of this Montreal outfit from the Wind-

sor area, always kill with their shows

in town. Opening up the show will be

the darkly romantic tones of Two For

The Cascade (hot off their CD release

for As God Intended) – if lead vocalist

Stefanie Buckridan is unable to per-

form (she is about ready to

give birth to her and Kevin

Buckridan’s child), the re-

maining members will be

performing under the

banner The Other

Woman.

myspace.com/thevaudevil-lianaires myspace.com/theunsettlersmyspace.com/twoforthecas-cade

The CD release parties

continue in August

when local grunge rock-

ers Crash Kondition

release their debut

album, Pretty Little

Chemical, on Friday,

August 28th at The

Coach & Horses

(156 Chatham St.

West). Crash Kondi-

tion are one of the

few bands who have

taken their fair all over Windsor and

haven’t limited their shows to just the

downtown core. The result is a grow-

ing legion of fans in all pockets of the

Rose City. They’re being joined at the

show by The Tyres and Desposed.

myspace.com/crashkondition myspace.com/thetyres myspace.com/desposed

The Coach & Horses (156 Chatham

St. West) is closing out August with a

loud bang, when our resident metal riff

sludge masters Fiftywatthead hit the

stage with Montreal doomriders Barn

Burner in tow. What a great way to

end the summer.

m y s p a c e . c o m / f i f t y -watthead myspace.com/theinfa-mousbarn-burner

WAMM| issue 16 | august 2009MUSIC SCENE EVERY MONTH IN WAMM MAGAZINE WITH JAMIE GREER !

This is Me As a Woman is leaving us, but leaving a new CD to remember her Fiftywatthead, rises from the ashes of the fire thatcharred their gear in 2008

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With Windsor establishments gaining national accolades recently and the city the focus of some international attention, WAMM is giving you the reader the chance to recognize yourfavourite Windsor spots as the best our city has to offer. Give props to your amazing hairdresser, and shout out the curry that makes your eyes water. Tell us where you buy your bread andwhere you spend it. Give kudos to comic shops, and big ups to blogs. In short, share your picks for the best everything of Windsor with WAMM in our annual reader’s survey. Vote onlineat wammonline.com to make sure your favourites take home the titles of the best in Windsor.

wenty years ago, the world waschanging. The Berlin Wall camedown after thirty eight years of di-

viding a nation, Communism in Russia wasmaking way for Glasnost, and Jay Leno wasbeing groomed to take over The TonightShow from host Johnny Carson. Hair metalwas on its road to commercial success onthe radio, and Tim Burton’s Batman and thethird installment of Indiana Jones topped thebox office charts. And in a small auditionroom in Windsor, Ontario, two young mu-sicians met and the blueprint for a rock androll machine was born. Matt Weingardenand Dennis Cantagallo formed the founda-tion that is now known as Ten Indians.Joined a few years later by drummer GeorgeManury, Ten Indians became one of Wind-sor’s true rock and roll inspirations.Longevity in any scene is a thing of won-der, especially in today’s age of so muchmedia attention and radio and video stations’insatiable hunger for new talent and mun-dane singles with which to brainwash themasses. The competition and pressure toperform – day in, day out – is often toomuch for even the best of them. The Beat-les only lasted eight years. The Sex Pistolsnearly two. The Clash never hit a decadeand Led Zeppelin only barely did it, butWindsor’s Ten Indians – guitarist/vocalistDennis Cantagallo, drummer/vocalistGeorge Manury and bassist Matt Weingar-den – have battled the odds, fought throughthe trends, and remained rock and roll war-riors in a sometimes disenchanted localmusic scene for two decades. Now, twentyyears later, Glasnost Russia is seeminglymakes strides back to Communism, ConanO’Brien has been groomed to take over forJay Leno, and The Dark Knight ruled thebox office, and a little rock and roll bandcalled Ten Indians has defied the odds andcontinues to play rock and roll the way itwas intended – with a lot of sweat, a lot ofenergy and a whole lot of heart. To celebratethis beautiful career, on Friday, August 7th,Ten Indians will be holding a very special

20th anniversary show at The FM Lounge(156 Chatham St. West, beside Pogo’s). It’sbeing recorded live by the SharkTank’sMark Plancke for a future release, with artdirection by George Rizok. WAMM re-cently talked to bassist Matt Weingardenand drummer George Manury about twentyyears of Ten Indians.

WAMM: First off, does it even feel liketwenty years??

Matt Weingarden: Some daysyes, some days no…Recently wewere hanging around downtownand some kid came up to us andsaid ‘Wow! You guys are Ten In-dians…my dad has allyour music. I grew uplistening to thoseCDs.” That cer-tainly putssome per-spective onthe timeline(and I felt everyone of my 46years).

George Manury:

There is a rock andRollrequation to calcu-late the answers to suchquestions. Here’s ours:a heaping amount ofego, (which seemedto have dissapatedover time accordingto some), approxi-mately $21, 379 inshots, $17, 914 in beerand $14, 623 inmixed drinks, proba-bly 500 to 550shows from theSpotted Dog toCuba, a healthyportion of

manic depression, buckets of sweat, tempo-rary breakups, drugs, great and fiercewomen, respect, anger, love...hmmm?Jamie, I could go on for pages so I’ll let thereaders do the math…

WAMM: So how did Ten Indians come tobe?

George: Out of sheer necessity.

Matt: As I recall, Dennis and I were audi-tioning for the same lame cover band thenight we met. Immediately we began trad-ing riffs, comparing heroes and indulging inthe grape. I felt bad for the guy holding theauditions. We completely ignored thechap…as I recall, he asked us to lock upwhen we were finished and left us alone. Asit happened, Dennis lived right around thecorner from me. I believe we came up with‘Ingrid,’ off our first album, during our firsttime collaborating together. Amazingly, thesong seemed to write itself. Little did weknow at that time there would be a couple

hundred more songs to follow. Theband was lifted to a whole newlevel when George came on boardin 1991.

WAMM: In two decades,you guys have seen manymusical trends come andgo – from the late 80s hairmetal to early 90s grunge.How have you managed

to keep Ten Indiansgrounded and consistent

in its musical path?

Matt: We love rock and roll.It’s that simple. We three havedistinctive musical tastes andinfluences and have somehowmanaged to bring the wholemaelstrom together into quitethe collective of music. We’vewritten and forgotten moremusic than we care to thinkabout. Lately, we’ve been dig-ging through some of thesongs of the past and askingourselves “wow, what werewe thinking when we wrotethat one?”

WAMM: Apart from ashort stint a year or so ago,you’ve managed to hold up

with the same line-up for the entire duration.What do you think is the key to keeping aline-up together, both musically and so-cially?

Matt:True friendship…unconditional loveand support, even through the most difficultof times, and there have been difficult times.

WAMM: You’ve played so many stages inWindsor, most of which are now sadly gone.What were some of your favourite places toplay in Windsor that may or may not still bewith us?

Matt: The Spotted Dog was a personalfavourite, The Press Club, Buzz’s, Smileys(we were the house band Sunday afternoonsfor a couple years), The Terradactyl, Slim’s,The Carhole. Remember the ‘Green ArtsFestival?” That was a great event. TheBrunswick Hotel in London was a regularstop over, the legendary Lili’s in Hamtra-mack, St. Andrews Hall, the State theatre,The Whitney garden parties.

WAMM: You guys have paid your rockand roll dues and come out of some goodand bad times with your band still intact.What advice can you give younger bandsabout maintaining longevity and remainingrelevant?

Matt: Stick to your guns, regardless ofwhat anyone tells you. I’d probably notchoose Windsor as a home base. There a lotof temptations out there…behave yourselfand don’t allow these things to cloud yourjudgement. There is a lot of hard work in-volved in the music business…you can’t belazy (like we were).

George: Maintaining longevity is one of themost important good ideas we have for anyrelationship, which is exactly what a bandis. A relationship. Communication, leader-ship, knowing that music and the song iswaaaaay bigger than you dude (that may

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TWENTY YEARS OF TEN INDIANSJamie Greer

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omedy shows, drag

queens, bowling,

dance parties, and of

course a parade are

set to hit Windsor

this August as part of Windsor

Pride 2009. The annual celebra-

tion of Windsor’s LGBTT commu-

nity runs August 5th through the

9th, and promises to be the best

Windsor Pride yet.

Since its inception back in 1992,

Pride has expanded into five days

of events for adults as well as fam-

ilies. This year’s festival kicks off

with the traditional raising of the

Pride flag at City Hall on August

5th, followed by the annual Pride

family bowling night on August

6th at Rose Bowl Lanes on

Dougall.

The Pride committee has this year

teamed up with Caesars Windsor

to bring celebrated comedienne

Sandra Bernhard to the city for Fri-

day Night OUT!, a comedy show

hosted by MuchMusic’s Trevor

Boris and held at the Caesars Au-

gustus Ballroom on August 7th.

Saturday features a wine tour

across Essex County, with a bus

departing and returning to River-

front Festival Plaza right in time

for Saturday evening festivities by

the river. Audiences can catch the

Next Top Drag Superstar competi-

tion, featuring drag queens and

kings from across North America

strutting their stuff for the chance

to win the title and $1500. Hosted

by the fabulous Miss Conception,

and featuring judges Sunny Fong

(winner of Project Runway

Canada), and HGTV’s Ambrose

Price, the contest will see three fi-

nalists compete on Sunday for the

Superstar title. Stick around after

the drag show for a reprise of last

year’s successful Saturday night

dance party, featuring DJ Shawn

Riker, DJ Jamal, Windsor’s own

DJ Josh Karmin, and international

drag star Sofonda with her male

dance crew. New this year is the

Rave’n on the River Pride boat

cruise, which features DJ Josh

Karmin spinning for a luxurious

dance party on the river, also tak-

ing place Saturday evening.

Sunday starts off early with a wor-

ship service at the Festival Plaza

stage, followed by Pride Brunch at

Mick’s Irish pub downtown. Once

brunch is done, head outside for

the annual Pride parade, featuring

a diverse mix of over two dozen

groups, floats, and countless

marchers. Finally, to wind down

the week, Sunday features a day of

family activities, food, and enter-

tainment, featuring Kelly & The

Kellygirls, The Joys, and the Drag

Superstar finale judging.

For more information on events,times, and tickets, please check outwindsorpride.com or pick up the2009 Windsor Pride Guide atmany Windsor businesses. Ticketsfor Sandra Bernhard are avalibleat ticketscene.ca, WFCU loca-tions, Scotiabank and the PrideOffice.

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e in Windsor are all too aware ofthe pains of recession. Jobs areleaving town, and money is

tight, but there is a silver lining in the darkclouds of our current local economic condi-tion. A spat of recent initiatives with the phi-losophy of buying local has helped curb thedoom and gloom of Windsor’s economy. Onesuch initiative, Made In Windsor, is set to takea big step with a new retail store. Christine Rideout-Arkell is the brains behindMade In Windsor and I caught up with her ather new store on Ottawa street to discuss hermotivation, the resurgence of support for localartisans, and the challenges of entrepreneur-ship.

WAMM: Where did the idea for MIW comefrom?

Christine Rideout-Arkell: I lived in Torontofor a couple of years, and Toronto has a lot oflittle and huge craft shows. I was there for twoyears, and then I came back to Windsor andthere was just a period where I just happenedto meet a bunch of people around the sametime that were all making things. They weremaking their items as gifts for people or they’dhave a few friends over and try to sell stuff intheir living room, but nobody really had a big-ger venue to try to sell them. There’s craftshows in the city but either they’re fairly ex-pensive like Art in the Park or they’re smallscale church basement craft bazaars.

WAMM: So you decided to start your ownevent – how were the initial events?

Christine: The first couple I did in the base-ment of the downtown library, which weregreat but we just weren’t getting a tonne oftraffic. So then we brainstormed and came upwith the idea of using an art gallery. We rentedNancy John’s Gallery and Vincent FranzoiGallery. We’ve done five now and they keepgetting bigger and bigger..

WAMM: What was the feedback like fromthe public?

Christine: People would come through thedoors and say ‘this is awesome I wish therewas something like this year-round.’

WAMM: So you’re making a leap of faithand turning this into a full-time retail thing.What kind of support have you received since

you made this decision?

Christine: Im opening this a sole proprietor-ship but by ‘we’ I’m talking about me and the(over 40 people) I hope to have selling stuffin here as well as the countless people thathave been in here helping me out. Every dayI have people just knocking on the door ask-ing ‘hey can we come in and help out.’.I’mhoping it has that kind of feel – I want it to bea place where people just pop in and hang out;I want it to be more than just a store.

WAMM: You’re a children’s librarian (at thedowntown Windsor Public Library) by pro-fession; are you going to be pulling doubleduty?

Christine: I adore my job, I’m so lucky I goto work everyday with a job I love. [Made inWindsor] is also something I love.

WAMM:What kind of variety of goods willMade in Windsor carry?

Christine: Im opening it up to anything hand-crafted in Windsor, with the exception offramed art – I don’t have a lot of wall spaceonce I put up my shelves. I have about 15-20categories, anything from jewellery, clothing,accessories, handbags, pottery, wood work-ing… I even had a lady contact me the otherday who makes all natural dog-treats, I havesoaps, shampoos, and personal care…I’mpretty much open to anything.

WAMM: Is the store going to be strictly a re-tail space?

Christine:No. Mornings and evenings I planon doing all kinds of programs and work-shops…. Clothing swaps, sewing classes,book launches… I also hope to see music andbook readings in the space.

Goods are sold on consignment and local ar-tisans who are interested in selling their warescan call Christine at 519-973-0776 to set upan appointment. The response from theart/crafts community has been exceedinglypositive and Christine admits for some cate-gories, notably jewellery, she’s already at ca-pacity, and there is a waiting list for newartisans who want to get their goods in thestore. Made in Windsor is located at 1465 Ot-tawa Street and will open its doors to the pub-lic for the first time on Saturday, August 8th.

take some time, but it'’s worth it), having afucking blast on stage whether it’s for the bar-maid or a thousand people, tune your instru-ments if you are engaging in traditionalWestern Hemisphere Rock and Roll (hitsharder that way), be friends if you can, be aband, don’t be fooled/ lost or taken by all thebullshit that modern popular radio stations andthat TV would have you believe. You figure itout for yourself. Oh yeah, don’t concern your-self with being relevant.

WAMM: You’ve got some pretty big plansfor this upcoming show. How important is thisshow to you guys?

Matt: Well, for me personally, it’s very im-portant. The last couple of years I’ve had todeal with some personal demons. I wasn’t surethat I wanted to play music again. Today, I’vefound a solution that works for me. It has givenme a second chance at living.

George: We have the likes of George Rizok,Mark Planke, Dave White, Ryan Fields andother greats helping us to make that night hap-pen. It’s important to us to have others in-volved. Ten Indians can be quite insular attimes and this show will be a collective effort.I like that. That’s important

WAMM: So what’s your favourite Ten Indi-ans story from days gone by?

Matt: There are simply not enough pages inthis magazine if we were to start a Ten Indiansdrunk-a-log…the clubs we’ve played, thecharacters we’ve met along the way, theright/wrong place at that particular time, theinfighting and personal struggles. There are toomany to mention, although, we have a greatstory about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inCleveland.

George: Our show in Cuba is a good story.Flying around the countryside on scooters,fresh squezed o.j. and cheap vodka for break-fast, the ocean, bringing stuff to the locals,playing on some very primative equipment,trying and failing to understand Cubanpolyrhythms. You know, it was good to spendtime as a band.

WAMM: So what does the future hold nowfor Dennis Cantagallo, George Manury andMatt Weingarden?

Matt: Whatever the future brings for me, itwill definitely include writing and playingmusic.

George:Staying friends is what I’d like to see.

Ten Indians – 20th Anniversary Show, Friday,August 7th at The FM Lounge (156 ChathamSt., formerly the Old Fish Market), no covercharge.

You’re probably wondering how anything canbe written or discussed about the Ten Indianswithout the words of Dennis Cantagallo. Afterall, anyone who has encountered or drank withDennis knows that being quiet is something hecan never quite do well. Let’s just say Dennishad far too much to say about Ten Indians,things that he said so well that I’ll let Dennis tellthem.

To read Dennis Cantagello’s reflections on TenIndians, check out his exclusive contribution atwammonline.com.

WAdam Fox

Kate Hargreaves

hen one thinks of

notable Wind-

sorites, names of

NHL stars like Ed

Jovanovski, Bob Probert and Tie

Domi come to mind, or perhaps

the mind turns from the ice to the

political arena and the likes of

former education minister Dave

Cooke and former Prime Minis-

ter Paul Martin. Suits will surely

be quick to point out Chrysler

CEO Tom LaSorda was born and

bred in the City of Roses, and

while LaSorda’s new boss, Fiat

CEO Sergio Marchionne, was

born in Italy, he graduated along

sid LaSorda from University of

Windsor in 1980.

However, this is not a sports, po-

litical or business publication,

thank god. So presumably when

you are asked “anyone famous

from Windsor?” you would

likely mention the successes of

The Tea Party or Richie Hawtin,

perhaps more recently Daniel

Victor of Neverending White

Lights or 2009 Polaris Prize

nominees Elliott Brood, hope-

fully avoiding any mention of

Shania Twain, who moved to

Timmins, Ontario before she

could walk. However, most of us

forget to mention “the greatest

Canadian rock and roll singer of

all time,” “America’s singing

sweetheart,” the “North Ameri-

can Syd Barrett” and many oth-

ers who have made their mark

and sadly seem to have been all

but forgotten.

Over the next few months, we

will dust off some old records,

both the cardboard folder and the

round vinyl varieties and let you

in on a few pieces of Windsor’s

creative past.

W

n January 24, 1936, the

man dubbed “undeniably

the greatest Canadian rock

and roll singer of all time,” by

Rolling Stone was born in Windsor.

Giovanni Dominico Scafone, Jr., or

Jack Scott as he became known,

was one of the first white rock and

roll singers to receive notoriety.

Despite being virtually ignored by

the Canadian recording industry,

Scott released records with the

help of New York’s ABC and Carl-

ton Records, with Carlton waxing

a double-sided international hit in

1958 “Leroy” / “My True Love.”

Later that same year, Scott released

another US top 40 hit “With Your

Love.” In all, six of 12 songs on his

first album became hit singles. On

most of Scott’s tracks, he was

backed up by a Windsor based

French-Canadian vocal group

called the Chantones, a group with

whom he later recorded an album

of Hank Williams songs.

While spending most of 1959 serv-

ing in the army, Scott’s singles

“Goodbye Baby” and “The Way I

Walk.” rocked the top ten, the latter

becoming a punk rock anthem,

covered in the '70s by Robert Gor-

don, in the '80s by The Cramps; it

later found itself featured in Oliver

Stone’s 1994 film cult classic Nat-

ural Born Killers.

By the beginning of the 1960s

Scott was on fire, recording four

Billboard Hot 100 hits – “Oh, Lit-

tle One,” “It Only Happened Yes-

terday,” “What In the World’s

Come Over You” and “Burning

Bridges,” the latter two cracking

the top five. In fact, Scott had more

U.S. singles (19), in a shorter pe-

riod of time (41 months), than any

other recording artist [with the ex-

ception of The Beatles.] His sin-

JACK SCOTT

gles were so widely received

they made their way from the

pop charts onto the “black” and

“country” charts as well.

Unlike many of his contempo-

raries, Elvis included, Scott

wrote all of his own hits, other

than one cover, “Burning

Bridges.” In total, Scott penned

four US gold records including

“Goodbye Baby,” a song Elvis

Presley adored and legendary

music journalist Dave March

claims to be one of the “greatest

rock and roll singles of all

time!” Jack Scott: “undeniably

the greatest Canadian rock and

roll singer of all time,” an inspi-

ration to Elvis, a hero to Robert

Plant, and a Windsorite.

Jack Scott is alive and well and

living in Michigan; believe it or

not at 73 he’s still occasionally

playing, including a concert at

the Vintage House (31816 Utica

Rd.) in Fraser, Michigan on

September 25th and the follow-

ing day at the Ford Community

Center in Dearborn. For more

information about Jack Scott,

including music, visit

jackscottmusic.com

Recommended listening:

Jack Scott's ‘Greatest Hits’ (Curb Special Markets | 1991)

the greatest Canadian rock and rollsinger of all time......

”“arjorie Chandler

was born No-

vember 18th

1926 in Windsor, though

before she had finished

school,with her sights set

on stardom, she adopted the

Hollywood-sounding stage

name of Dorothy Collins.

Stage name in hand,

Collins began singing on

radio stations in Windsor

and Detroit at every oppor-

tunity, and at the tender age

of 14 she was heard by

bandleader and composer

Raymond Scott. Much to

the chagrin of many in

Windsor, the famous Amer-

ican musician, 18 years her

senior, whisked Collins

away. She became the fea-

tured vocalist with Scott’s

DOROTHY COLLINS

orchestra, performing on

radio and on tour. Scott

groomed her for stardom,

which included coaching her

vocals (pitch, phrasing, and

delivery) and mentoring her

performance skills. In the late

1940s, she contributed vocals

to the revived Raymond Scott

Quintet, a group that released

records on the bandleader’s

own Master label and served

as house band on the radio

program ‘Herb Shriner Time.’

In 1949, after Scott was hired

to conduct the orchestra on

the popular CBS radio pro-

gram, Lucky Strike’s ‘Your

Hit Parade,’ he trained Collins

to lead his sextet in his ab-

sence.

When ‘Your Hit Parade’

moved from the wireless to

television, Collins’ fame ex-

ploded as America gathered

around their sets to watch the

beautiful woman with the

golden voice. She began regu-

lar guest appearances on The

Steve Allen Show and a slew

of popular television pro-

grams of the day, occasionally

joined by singers including

Bing Crosby and Danny

Kaye. In 1952 she wed Ray-

mond Scott who was spend-

ing his days composingnow

classic music for Warner

Brothers cartoons and his

nights inventing the “Electro-

nium” a music synthesizer, 15

years before the first Moog.

Scott’s busy schedule left

Collins enough free time to

release the hot-rod inspired

single “My Boy Flat Top,”

that reached #16 on the Bill-

board charts and lent her

O

M

Dorothy Collins with her husband Raymond Scott

“ ”America's singing

sweetheart America's singing

sweetheart

Stephen Hargreaves

WAMM| issue 16 | august 2009 9

voice to some of the incredibly futuristic elec-

tronic compositions produced by her hus-

band’s Manhattan Research Inc. This work

has been given new life by contemporary

artists such as J Dilla and Aphex Twin.

She mothered two children with Scott before

the two divorced in 1965 and she left the big

fame of the small screen for the stage. In 1971,

Collins made her Broadway debut in Stephen

Sondheim’s Follies. Her dramatic rendition of

the song “Losing My Mind” routinely stopped

the show and was one of the production’s

highlights, earning her a Tony Award nomina-

tion for Best Actress.

Dorothy Collins died in 1994 from respiratory

distress, as a result of a long-standing pul-

monary disease, at her home in upstate Water-

vliet, New York. Despite spending much of

her working life away from Windsor, she

spoke of her life here often and the girl the

New York Times called “America’s singing

sweetheart” seemingly held on to her Cana-

dian citizenship, “because that’s me, and you

can’t be what you aren’t.”


‘My Boy Flat Top’ 1955‘Unchained Melody’ -from ‘Your Hit Parade’ 1955‘Lightworks’ - from Manhattan Research Inc. 1959(all on youtube.com)

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‘SKIP’ SPENCEthe North American

Syd Barrett......

”“

he 1985 hit single “We Built

This City” was not written

about Windsor, thankfully;

in fact Starship has nothing to do

with Windsor, nor does their previ-

ous incarnation Jefferson Starship.

Honestly, even their prop-powered

initial branding of Jefferson Air-

plane had little in connection with

Canada’s deep south, save a gifted

songwriter and singer who sat be-

hind a set of drums and penned a

number of songs for the psyche-

delic band, Alexander “Skip”

Spence.

Skip Spence was born in Windsor

in 1946 and after a visit to San

Francisco, California in his early

adulthood, he joined a number of

acts and by 1966 had made enough

connections to found Moby Grape,

the band journalist Jeff Tamarkin

later called the “greatest rock and

roll ever to emerge from San Fran-

cisco.”

Spence wrote a couple of tunes that

appeared on Moby Grape’s debut

including the much loved

“Omaha,” a song identified in 2008

by Rolling Stone Magazine as one

of the 100 greatest guitar songs of

all time. While promoting Moby

Grape’s debut LP, Spence intro-

duced John Hartman to Tom John-

ston who, with Spence’s

encouragement, went on to form

The Doobie Brothers.

It was 1968 when Moby Grape en-

tered the studio to record their sec-

ond album, Wow. At producer

David Rubinson’s request, the band

was to record the new LP in New

York City, and take hotel rooms as

homes, a move that didn’t sit well

T

with Spence. “Skippy changed radically

when we were in New York,” said

bandmate Jerry Miller. Spence had

traded his dashiki and marijuana for

black leather and LSD. “And the next

thing I know, he axed my door down in

the Albert Hotel,” Miller continued.

“They said at the reception area that this

crazy guy had held an axe to the door-

man’s head. He thought he was the anti-

Christ.” Bandmate Peter Lewis recalls

that Spence wanted to kill bandmate

Don Stevenson with a fire axe “to save

him from himself,” and later “went up

to the 52nd floor of the CBS building

where they had to wrestle him to the

ground.”

Spence was arrested and sent to The

Tombs [a jail in lower Manhattan], and

then to Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric

facilities, where he was diagnosed with

schizophrenia. He spent six months in

Bellevue, and wrote what was to be-

come his masterwork. Upon his release

he commandeered a motorcycle and,

dressed in only his hospital pajamas,

drove to Nashville to record his only

solo album Oar.Recorded almost exclusively on a three-

track recorder, ‘The Best Windsor

Record Ever’ (WAMM Issue 5 | August

2008) “combines the ramblings of a

man on the brink of mental collapse

with some real moments of flippancy

and laughter,” says Ross Bennett.

Themes of saints and demons weave

through the minimalist folk as you, the

listener, sympathize, fascinate, and

wonder away with Oar’s 12 tracks.

“Just take a look at the tousled-haired,

half-smiling figure gazing out from the

record sleeve and tell me you don’t

want to peer inside.”

Sadly, mental illness, drug addiction

and alcoholism thus prevented Spence

from sustaining a career in the music in-

dustry, ultimately leaving him home-

less. At one point he overdosed to such

an extent that he ended up in a San Jose

morgue with a tag on his toe, until he

sat up and asked for a glass of water. He

reappeared for a few Moby Grape re-

union shows, and recorded a song for

the X-Files soundtrack, the stunning

“Land of the Sun” but when Spence

saw the program he found it “too real”

and “scary” and refused use of the song.

“There’s no other record in history that

sounds like this,” George Sarostin said

of Oar, which, following its initial weak

reception has become a cult classic in-

spiring 1999’s More Oar: A Tribute toAlexander “Skip” Spence featuring

Robert Plant, Beck, Tom Waits, Mud-

honey and other Spence fanatics.

Alexander “Skip” Spence died of lung

cancer May 19, 1999, a month before

the tribute album was released; still, the

music and the legend of Windsor’s

golden son continues to inspire hun-

dreds of thousands every year.


Alexander "Skip" Spence – Oar (Columbia | 1969) or (Sundazed | 1999| re-release with 10 bonus tracks)

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nc

e

arn bombing has nothing to do

with explosives. There is no

mass destruction or property

damage involved. On the con-

trary, this knit graffiti, which

many have noticed popping up

around Windsor lately, is all about beautifica-

tion and making the city a little bit more colour-

ful.

Yarn bombing, or guerrilla knitting, is the

process of using knitted, crocheted or other-

wise crafted projects as a form of street art or

graffiti to spruce up boring city streets.

Thought to originate with knitters in Texas who

were looking for a use for scrapped projects,

yarn bombing has taken hold across North

America and Europe.

In Windsor, where many complained about

the “messy” state of downtown, yarn graffiti

enlivens otherwise drab public areas, and

brightens the city’s core. Several parking me-

ters now have a cozy new look and bike racks

have gained wooly coats.

Nicole Drouillard started yarn bombing around

the end of April with a bike rack cozy, which

went up in front of Phog Lounge. Since then,

she has covered different surfaces across the

downtown area, and most of her pieces remain

on display. While most people have taken

kindly to the yarn art, some pieces have not

fared so well.

“A few have been taken down, burned with

lighters, ripped,” Drouillard explains, noting

that she witnessed a dog marking her art as its

territory when it slipped to the bottom of a

parking meter.

Not discouraged, she has no intention of giving

up on yarn bombing. “I’m trying to cover as

many parking meters as I can,” she says. Dur-

ing the city strike, her yarnbombing turned the

disused meters into street art. “They have to

serve a purpose of some sort,” she said. “Why

not turn them into an art display?”

Drouillard is also co-founder of Oh! C.N.A.P!

(Craft Night at Phog) alongside Sam Cooper, a

group that meets every first and third Thursday

at Phog Lounge to work on a variety of art proj-

ects.

“Many of the crafters at C.N.A.P. are knitters,”

she says. “There have

been several

knitting les-

sons given

since we

started, and I

can only

i m a g i n e

more will

come.” The

night is not, how-

ever, limited to

knitters and other yarn

crafters. C.N.A.P. has

seen not only knitters

and crocheters, but

writers, painters, chain

maille artists, jewelery

makers, people who

sew, and photogra-

phers. “Basically, if

your work is portable

and you don’t make a

mess, you’re welcome

to come out,” says-

Drouillard.

Back on the sidewalk, Drouillard too has for-

ayed outside knit graffiti occasionally. “I’ve

also gone out a few time with sidewalk chalk

and written fun messages and drawn little pic-

tures,” she says. “That has gotten me in trou-

ble though, so I usually stick to knitting.”

If you are interested in yarn bombing, or join-

ing in on the Oh! C.N.A.P! fun, you can check

out Nicole Drouillard’s blog at knitni-coleknit.blogspot.com, the Oh! C.N.A.P! Blog

at ohcnap.wordpress.com or search Oh

C.N.A.P. on facebook.

[ a message from WAMM ]

YARN BOMBS HIT WINDSORKate Hargreaves

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SATURDAY 1

Lonesome Lefty & theCryin' ShamesMick's Irish Pub

Matt Herdman and RomanoBoom Boom Room

Ion Dissonance w/ Star-ring Janet Leigh, Ter-rorhorse, The SevernayaComplex, The Myriad Bur-ial & Waking Without Re-morse(3pm | all ages)The Chubby Pickle

Ion Dissonance w/Star-ring Janet Leigh, Blood-shoteye & Kill List(10pm | 19+)The Chubby Pickle

The Tom Fun Orchestra w/The Locusts Have No KingPhog Lounge

SUNDAY 2

Serge DevantBoom Boom Room

Gunsmith w/Hunter CityMadness, AssassinateThe Following..., SavingGlory & Cowboy DanThe Chubby Pickle

Open MicFM Lounge

MONDAY 3

MilkmenMilk

Open Mic w/ Tara WattsPhog Lounge

Open Mic w/ ClintonHammondKildare House

TUESDAY 4

Tuesday Nights ConcertSeries feat: Pat Robitaille& guestsFM Lounge

Open Mic w/ StephanieSarafianosThe Mill

Open Mic w/ AndrewMacLeodThe Dominion House

Open Mic w/JamieReaumeTwig N’ Berries

Clare Renauds SessionKildare House

WEDNESDAY 5

Dead & Divine (CD re-lease) w/ Straight ReadsThe Line, I Am Commit-ting A Sin & GunsmithThe Chubby Pickle

The Got to Get GotPhog Lounge

L & M Open Band JamNightFM Lounge

THURSDAY 6

HuladogFM lounge

Open Mic w/ BrianVanderPrytMick’s Irish Pub\

FRIDAY 7

BlasternautPhog Lounge

Seven Out w/ Destroy ThyWill & Nicole WoodCoach & Horses

Beneath The Sky w/ For-ever In Terror, The Jug-gernaut, Sirens, Cyreene& Desertion(4pm | all ages)The Chubby Pickle

Tyburn Tree (CD release)w/Farewell to Freeway &Waking Without Remorse(10pm |19+)The Chubby Pickle

Randy Bachman and Burton CummingsWFCU Centre

SATURDAY 8

Field AssemblyTaloola Cafe

This is Me as a Woman(CD release)Phog Lounge

22nd Annual St. AngelaMerici FestivalSal Panetta, Big Lou &the BandErie Street

Inoke Errati w/ TheTragedy Of Mariam, TheEclectic Chair & The DayAfter YesterdayThe Chubby Pickle

SUNDAY 9

22nd Annual St. AngelaMerici FestivalBig Lou & the BandErie Street

Dear Solace w/BrighterBrightest, The Mission,District, Epik & My LastSummer SkyThe Chubby Pickle

Open MicFM Lounge

MONDAY 10

MilkmenMilk



TUESDAY 11

Miwa Gemini w/ ChrisVelanPhog Lounge

Ten Second Epic w/ TheLatency, Stereo GoesStellar, Radio AdelaideThe Chubby Pickle






WEDNESDAY 12

James OL & the VillainsPhog Lounge

Lonesome Lefty & theCryin' ShamesLeopard's Lounge & Broil


THURSDAY 13

HuladogFM lounge

Open Mic w/ BrianVanderPrytMick’s Irish Pub

Loretta LynnThe Colosseum at CaesarsWindsor

FRIDAY 14

Woods of Ypres w/Arkayic RevoltPhog Lounge

Pitch Union w/A Point In7, Sixty First Second,Evelyn Falls & SilentMovie TypeThe Chubby Pickle

SATURDAY 15

Locusts Have No KingTaloola Cafe

Whoa NelliePhog Lounge

Red October w/ The Row-ley Estate & AssassinateThe FollowingThe Chubby Pickle

RockStock ‘09Collective Soul w/ Mari-anas Trench, Preistess,Crash Karma, FaberDrive, Stereos, Mobile,Futures Past, Ashes ofSoma, Square Root ofMargaret, Time & LatencyChatham Airport

SUNDAY 16

RockStock ‘09Jason Blaine w/ DericRuttan, Alex J. Robinson,Traci Kennedy, Buckets

Of, Jade Lester & RiverJunction BandChatham Airport

Open MicFM Lounge

Monday 17

MilkmenMilk



TUESDAY 18






WEDNESDAY 19


THURSDAY 20

Dutch Oven w/ Iron GiantCoach & Horses

HuladogFM lounge


FRIDAY 21

Art of Eating Festival:Pat Robitaille with JackieRobitaille & Big WiggleLake St. Clair Shores,Tecumseh

The SpeakeasiesPhog Lounge

MichouMilk Coffee Bar

SATURDAY 22

Art of Eating Festival:Mr. Chill and the Wit-nesses, Leah Harris,Dusty & Jenna, NewBrothers of Soul & Thor-netta DavisLake St. Clair Shores,Tecumseh

King Misfit w/ CitizenErased & Dirty Love BandBlind Dog

George ManuryTaloola Cafe

The Vaudevillianaires w/The Unsettlers and TwoFor The CascadeThe Coach & Horses

Flaming Yawn w/NervousWrecked, The WeatherStation & The Music BoxPhog Lounge

Donna SummerThe Colosseum at CaesarsWindsor

SUNDAY 23

Art of Eating Festival:Pabalate Jazz Trio,Zumba with Joel, Latin In-spired Music, Workout,Credible Witness & Mi-chouLake St. Clair Shores,Tecumseh

Open MicFM Lounge

MONDAY 24

MilkmenMilk



TUESDAY 25






WEDNESDAY 26


THURSDAY 27

HuladogFM lounge


FRIDAY 28

Lonesome Lefty w/ MikeHazzardPhog Lounge

SATURDAY 29

FiftyWattHead w/ Barn-burnerCoach & Horses

The LessonPhog Lounge

Punk A Palooza ‘09Featuring: The Afterparty,Michou, Futures Past &30+ moreThe Blind Dog

Grand Funk RailroadThe Colosseum at CaesarsWindsor

EfanTaloola Cafe

SUNDAY 30

Open MicFM Lounge

MONDAY 31

MilkmenMilk



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ARTS______________________

SATURDAY 1

“The Arrow & the String”Call for Cast & CrewLeBel Building (Universityof Windsor)

Sunday 2

Sundays in the Studio:Artist Trading CardsArt Gallery of Windsoragw.ca

Wednesday 5

Open House: curator-ledexhibition tours (2pm)Art Gallery of Windsoragw.ca

Thursday 6

Nancy's Fabulous WineTasting EventNancy Johns Gallery &Framing

Sunday 9

Sundays in the Studio:CartooningArt Gallery of Windsoragw.ca

Wednesday 12


Sunday 16

The Future of Food(screening)Gourmet Emporium

Sundays in the Studio:WatercolourArt Gallery of Windsoragw.ca

WEDNESDAY 19


FRIDAY 21

Every Little Step (USA |2008)Sprucewood Estates Win-erywindsorfilmfestival.ca

Sunday 23

Sundays in the Studio:Still Life PaintingArt Gallery of Windsoragw.ca

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Nigel Barker's A SealedFate? (screening | 5pm)The Gourmet Emporium

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ocumentary filmmaker Matt Gallagher,

a Windsor native whose locally shot

film The Rise and Fall of the

Grumpy Burger showed in 2007 at the Windsor

International Film Festival, has another Windsor-

based project in the works.

Gallagher and five other Canadian filmmakers

were recently hired by the NFB to film Web doc-

umentaries that portray the influence of the recent

recession on Canadians. The project is called

GDP: Measuring the human side of the Cana-

dian Economic Crisis.

The website says perfectly: “Filmmakers and

photo essayists across the country will give a

voice to the men and women who through re-

silience and ingenuity have become change mak-

ers in their communities. New stories will be

posted each day in this innovative project that the

public can follow live on the internet for a whole

year.”

Gallagher won’t say who they are yet, but his

subjects are from Windsor and perhaps you even

know one of them.

To find out, visit gdp.nfb.ca.

Casting CallKingsville’s Tim Swaddling is holding auditions

Aug. 1 from 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. at the LeBel Build-

ing (University of Windsor, School of Visual Arts

building) on the corner of College Ave and Huron

Church.

The casting call is for a Windsor/Essex County-

based feature film titled The Arrow & The String.

Written and directed by Swaddling, the film is

being made in association with the University of

Windsor's Communications Department Studio 5

Production Guild and the Toronto based The Dot

Film Company.

Production is slated for Aug 20-Sept. 8.

Auditions are for males and females of all ages.

No experience required. The leading roles are

paid positions.

E-mail [email protected] to sched-

ule a time. If you have a demo reel, provide a link

online.

For more information, search on Face book “Call

for Cast & Crew: Independent Film.”

Phog Phest ImmortalFor those who didn’t go or didn’t know, the first

annual Phog Phest live music event took place in

Windsor last month on the street right smack-dab

in front of the venerable Phog Lounge.

The day-long outdoor concert was Phog’s prize

for winning as CBC Radio 3’s best live music

venue in Canada.

I only bring this up because Radio 3 also filmed

portions of the event and posted a re-cap on

YouTube. Search R3TV Episode #88: Holy Phog.

The link, for the search-lazy, is

youtube.com/watch?v=w00TBN1Ptz0.

Film-goers AlternativesAre you sure you know what you’re eating? It

may look like a tomato, but I’m telling you, I’ve

seen some pretty eye-opening documentaries that

will straighten out your intestines. One such doc

is coming to Windsor this month. If you really are

what you eat, perhaps sitting through the screen-

ing of The Future of Food will help you under-

stand what those genetically engineered tomatoes

are turning you into. Also, the Windsor Interna-

tional Film Festival’s monthly screenings wind

down with a final film in August--a documentary

of the production of A Chorus Line.

The Future of Food (Deborah Koons Garcia,U.S., 2005, English language)

The Future of Food examines the complex web

of market and political forces that are changing

what we eat as huge multinational corporations

seek to control the world’s food system. The film

also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial

agriculture, placing organic and sustainable agri-

culture as real solutions to the farm crisis today.

The free screening is Sunday, Aug. 16, at 7 p.m.

at the Gourmet Emporium (1799 Wyandotte St.

E.) as part of FedUp Windsor’s Summer Harvest

Festival (Aug 15-16).

The screening will be followed by a community

discussion with panel guests.

fedupwindsor.blogspot.com has details.

Every Little Step (James D. Stern and Adam DelDeo, U.S., 2008, English language, 96 min., PG)Broadway has produced many legendary produc-

tions, but A Chorus Line and the story behind it

remain special. Every Little Step captures the

magic of the show by following the process of

casting the 2006 stage revival. The concept is

self-referential, given that the very plot of A Cho-

rus Line is about casting a musical, but the film-

makers add another layer by examining how the

original show was born when Michael Bennett

recorded a group of dancers speaking in confes-

sional mode. Fans of the show may get goose-

bumps hearing those audio tapes, while

newcomers will discover what made Bennett (in

the words of the finale song) "one singular sen-

sation/every little step he takes."

Every Little Step screens Friday, Aug. 21, at 9

p.m. at Sprucewood Estates Winery, Tickets are

$10 and can be purchased at the Uncommon Mar-

ket Gift Shop

E-mail [email protected] with your film-

related tips, audtions, screenings and ideas.

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WAMM issue 16 | august 2009