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Posts Tagged ‘amanda rheaume’
Babes4Breasts @ St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts
Here are the photos from the Babes4Breast Benefit Concert for Breast Cancer.
The concert featured:
The show took place at St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts.
More photos can be found here.
Babes4Breasts (B4B) to release inaugural compilation album at benefit concert in Ottawa
Babes4Breasts organizers today announced they will be releasing the first-ever Babes4Breasts Compilation CD at the 5th annual Babes4Breasts benefit concert in Ottawa.
Thursday October 27, 2011
Saint Brigid’s Centre for the Arts
310 St. Patrick Street, Ottawa
Tickets: $15 in adv; $20 at door
The compilation CD features 17 original songs by Canadian singer/songwriters ranging from a Juno award winner to the best of up-and-coming Canadian talent. Largely made up of female artists, the compilation also features a track from Craig Cardiff to represent the men who have contracted breast cancer but also the men who stand behind their mothers, sisters, wives, girlfriends and friends during their journey.
“We are thrilled to be releasing our first B4B compilation album, to continue to support the women and men who are on their breast cancer journey through funds, awareness and the positive power of music,” says Ana Miura, Babes4Breasts founder and local singer/songwriter.
The concert will be held at the Saint Brigid’s Centre for the Arts in downtown Ottawa featuring five women in song-circle format who also appear on the compilation: Leela Gilday, Annabelle Chvostek, Amanda Rheaume, Tara Holloway and Ana Miura. Compilation CDs will be sold at the concert for $5 but will also be available starting today online digitally through iTunes and CD BABY as a special pre-release opportunity. Physical sales available at numerous Ottawa retailers including all Bridgehead Coffeehouses, Ottawa Folklore Centre, CD Warehouse, CD Baby, Compact Music, Chez Lucien Restaurant, Mint Hair Studio, Physical Therapy Institute, Morning Owl Coffee Shop and mymusic.ca.
Proceeds from the concert will be used to build upon the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation’s Survivorship Centre’s music therapy program, while proceeds from the sale of the album will go to a variety of breast cancer related charities including the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation and the Canadian Cancer Society.
Founded in 2003, Babes4Breasts has raised tens of thousands of dollars for breast cancer related charities on their many successful tours across Canada.
For a list of featured artists on the CD, please visit http://www.babes4breasts.com
Online sales of CD or Tickets for Concert:
For Tickets, head to www.ticketbreak.com and search for Babes4Breasts ($15 in advance)
For Compilation CD, head to cdbaby.com or iTunes ($9.99 each)
Advance Physical copy of CDs and physical tickets:Advance Tickets as well as CDs on sale as of Friday, September 23, 2011 at: Ottawa Folklore Centre, all CD Warehouse and Compact Music Locations, Chez Lucien Restaurant, Mint Hair Studio and The Physical Therapy Institute.
Advance copies of CDs will also be sold at all Bridgehead Coffeehouses, Ottawa Folklore Centre, CD Warehouse, CD Baby, Compact Music, Chez Lucien Restaurant, Mint Hair Studio, The Physical Therapy Institute, Morning Owl Coffee Shop and mymusic.ca.
Amanda Rheaume & friends rock the Rainbow for Christmas
With her “Acoustic Christmas” CD a runaway success last year, Amanda Rheaume not only gave thousands of people new versions of their favorite seasonal tunes to enjoy, but raised more than $25,000 for the Ottawa Boys and Girls Club.
Ottawa Tonite sent correspondent Bob LeDrew to find out what Amanda and her guitarist and partner-in-music Jeff “The Legendary” Logan are up to this year:
Pick up the CD at:
Get your tickets online for the December 8 Christmas show via Ticketbreak.
The February Bluebird North Series – Artists sharing stories and songs
It’s commonly said that the sad songs are the best and I doubt you would have found any argument at the NAC’s fourth stage during Ottawa’s February Bluebird North show. This being my first Bluebird concert I didn’t know really what to expect.
Matthew de Zoete, Kelly Prescott, Steve Marriner
Played in by new host and local songstress Amanda Rheaume, folk and blues artists Lynne Hanson, Kelly Prescott, Matt De Zoete and Steve Marriner took to the stage and gave the crowd a wonderful acoustic set of their work.
Amanda Rheaume, all photos by Bryson Masse
The musicians performed one after another, each taking time to say a few words about the song and its inspiration. As in all good folk stories, the topics meandered from tragic to hilarious and often the two overlapped. The evening was put on by the Songwriter’s Association of Canada, so there was an emphasis on the “talky parts”. But, since I like that kind of stuff, it never took away from the show. Each of the musicians explained how they found motivation in their travels and relationships.
Of the idea behind her song More of the Same, Hanson told the story of her adopted grandfather and the loss of his wife to Alzheimer’s disease. The amazing raw imagery in the lyrics really grabbed me.
De Zoete looked to the past and his Dutch heritage, Prescott wrote about her relationships and Marriner even fit in an amusingly scathing song about a woman so bad he didn’t even have to date her. The take away message was clearly that if you want to keep a clean reputation, don’t piss off a musician.
I really dug the informal format. The full stage allowed the performers to converse and share jokes. While the theme of the music that night seemed to border more on the depressing, the laughs didn’t stop. It didn’t have the rehearsed feeling stage banter often has when you’re watching a group that you know has done this fifty times before.
If I could ask for more, all I would need would be more of the artists playing with each other’s songs. As when it happened, it was fantastic.
The night was special and unique and this is what will bring me back to future Bluebird North performances.
Kelly Prescott
Matt De Zoete
Lynne Hanson
Special thanks to Jennifer Covert & Marie-Chantale Labbe from the NAC
Acoustic Afternoon Series
Come one and all to the first edition of the Acoustic Afternoon Concert Series, this Saturday, January 9th (4pm) at the Rainbow Bistro.
Presented by Ottawa Tonite contributor and local character, Maxim Cossette. This “pay what you can” series will run every Saturday afternoon from 4pm- 7pm (except the last Saturday of the month) until the end of April. The aim is to bring you the best established and unknown, traditional and contemporary acoustic musicians from the Ottawa area.
Over the next few months, you’ll see Ottawa mainstays like Lefty McRighty and Amanda Rheaume, breakthrough artists like L. Poushinsky and Ken Voita as well as underground heros and future folk stars like John Aaron Cockburn and Kara Askwith.
So come celebrate the first concert in this bound-to-be-stellar succession of passionate performances and unforgettable moments.
For more information and artists profiles go to http://acousticafternoon.wordpress.com/
See you at the party!
-Maxim
Amanda Rheaume’s Christmas Cheer
How cool is it to release a Christmas CD and then tour it to the North Pole?
As you’ll discover in the video interview below, Ottawa singer-songwriter Amanda Rheaume got to find this out recently when she was invited to play for the troops stationed at the Canadian Forces base in Alert — within spitting distance of Santa’s workshop — hot (cold?) on the heels of releasing her seasonal collection Acoustic Christmas.
The CD features 10 standards treated to Rheaume’s resonant, committed vocals and musical partner Jeff Logan’s guitar wizardry, with all proceeds benefiting the Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa. And at the staggering low price of $5 a pop ($6 includes shipping from the Boys and Girls Club web site), there is no excuse for not grabbing these by the sleighful as stocking stuffers for everyone on your list.
This is hardly Rheaume’s first bout of community service and the benefit bug. Last March, she traveled to Afghanistan to play for the troops there and she has also been across Canada with fellow Ottawa performer Ana Miura and a cast of colleagues under the Babes for Breasts banner.
In the new year, she refocuses on touring her 2009 release proper, Kiss Me Back.
Amanda Rheaume’s Acoustic Christmas is available online at www.bgcottawa.org and at the following Ottawa locations:
