February Live Music Guide

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Welcome to the Groundzero Acoustic Lounge! We are a unique listening venue located in the heart of Parksville. Within our walls you will hear a wide variety of live music styles; from blues to jazz to folk to rock and pop. We feature mostly original music from artists right across the country. Some of the names will be new to you, while some will be familiar favourites. You can rest assured that it will all be high quality. We are determined to help put Parksville on the musical map, and there is already a buzz being spread among musicians from across the country about this funky little venue in the middle of Vancouver Island...

We pride ourselves on creating a wonderful environ-ment where you will revel in the intimacy created by such a small venue. This intimacy sets the stage for magical performances to happen, and the disconnect between artist and audience that can exist in larger venues is stripped away. Our visiting artists love this intimate connection, and you will too.

So sit back and enjoy the music! We thank you for coming and your support of live music.

Doug and Meg

GroundZero Acoustic Lounge

CONTENTS

FEBRUARY ‘19

4 BENTALL TAYLOR ULRICH

5 LOGAN MCKILLOP

6 DAVE STEWART SEPTET

7 BRANDON ISAAC

8 GOGOL AND BLACK

9 DAVID ESSIG

10 ROBBIE HANCOCK

11 MARC ATKINSON TRIO

12 WIL

13 THE GREAT PLAINS

14 DOUBLE THE TROUBLE

15 FEVER JAZZ TRIO

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Barney Bentall, Tom Taylor and Shari Ulrich first played together in November 2007 at a songwriter concert on Bowen Island. Their continued collaboration grew from the undeniable enjoyment for both the artists and their audiences. One year later, they returned to Cates Hill Chapel and recorded “Live at Cates Hill”: an eclectic mix of the character, voices and songwriting talents of these three unique artists…or, as someone said, two Canadian legends and the number one draft pick!

With juggling all their respective projects it took until the summer of 2015 to embark on recording a second album. With Shari’s daughter Julia Graff and partner James Parrella engineering, they set up camp in Barney’s house with his two golden retrievers, Haddie and Tilly providing inspiration and wags at the appropriate moments. The teamwork was effortless and created an album of which all involved are exceedingly proud.

The trio was thrilled to have the highly regarded Canadian label Borealis Records, enthusiastic about the releasing the album, which is slated for a February 12th launch.

Logan McKillop is a folk/roots singer-songwriter and storyteller from Onanole, MB. Equally skilled as a wordsmith and an astonishing guitarist, every song is an invitation into the best of both worlds. He is unafraid to delve into what is real, exploring the highs and lows of the human condition with absolute honesty. Supported by his unmistakable guitar prowess, he leaves no audience without laughter, heartache, and a gentle reminder of life’s duality.

Logan’s sophomore album “Anchorless” (to be released in March, 2019) is a collection of songs that display his maturity as an artist. Carefully arranged with an all-star Manitoban roster of musicians, the 10 track album comes to life with the addition of a string section, piano, drums, bass, pedal steel, vibraphone, clarinet, banjo, mandolin, and a whole lot of harmony. Recorded with co-producer Scott Nolan (The Song Shop, Winnipeg, MB), engineers Jamie Sitar (Outta Town Sound) and Madeleine Roger (Roseberry Records) and meticulously mixed & mastered by David Travers-Smith (found.sound.toronto), “Anchorless” takes the listener through a heartfelt reminder of what it means to live.

Logan released his debut album “Prairie Sky” in March 2013. The album has received praise and radio play from a number of Canadian radio stations and has received positive reviews from notable folk music magazines.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1BENTALL TAYLOR ULRICH (BC)

SOLD OUT

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2LOGAN MCKILLOP (WITH SOPHIE STEVENS) (MANITOBA)

DOORS 6:30pm | $15 ADVANCE

SOLD OUT

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The Dave Stewart Septet is an ensemble of outstanding in-demand local musicians from Central Vancouver Island.

The Dave Stewart Septet is composed of a stellar list of musicians: Dave Stewart (trumpet), Claudio Fantinato (alto saxophone), Dan Craven (tenor Saxophone), Jeff Agopsowicz (trombone) Chad Geekie (piano), Wayne Finucan (drums), and Rob Uffen (bass). Although each is an individually passionate and talented musician, they collectively make up a dynamic combination that only serves to inspire an even higher level of musical excellence. Given the musical concentration offered by jazz society members to excellent levels of performance, this show will result in new highs. Plan on being there to experience this exceptional show.

What separates this juno award nominated artist from the rest of the pack besides his world-class musicianship and song writing, is his ability to connect and involve the audience in his live shows.

Brandon was nominated by The 2013 Maple Blues Awards for Acoustic Act Of The Year and Song Writer Of The Year. He was nominated for Song Writer Of The Year by the 2010 M.B.A.’s. This honour recognized him as being one of Canada’s top songwriters. He was also one of Canada’s 13 artists picked to write a road song about their province / territory for the CBC’s, great Canadian Song Quest 2011.

Mr. Isaak represented BC in the 2012 International Blues Challenge which takes place every year on Beale St in Memphis, TN. This is the biggest gathering of blues acts in the world.

Brandon is also known as the front man and main songwriter / guitar player for the Popular Canadian Jump band (The Twisters) based out of Vancouver, Canada. He now has a new hot group called: Brandon Isaak & his Saints of Swing.

Brandon’s affinity for the rawness and spontaneity of the blues is second to none, as anyone who has had the privilege of being a part of his audience will tell you. He brings a firebrand style of guitar as well as incredibly stirring vocals that truly has to be witnessed to be appreciated!

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 6DAVE STEWART SEPTET (QUALICUM BEACH)

GROUNDZERO JAZZ SERIES #2

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8BRANDON ISSAC - ALBUM RELEASE PARTY (BC)

DOORS 6:30PM | $20 ADVANCE


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Paul Black and Wynn Gogol are singer-songwriters who like to groove. This accomplished duo’s original songs and soaring solos invite you on a journey through soul and rock, to southern blues and back again.

Rolling like a freight train with no throttle control comes the blues sensation from Victoria, British Columbia, Paul Black. With captivating rhythms, dazzling lead guitars, and soulful vocal styles, Black is establishing himself as a true, straightforward, fearless blues rock and roller. If his energetic, throaty brand of music doesn’t have your head bobbing and singing along, almost nothing will.

Ever since laying his hands on a guitar at age 18, Black became captivated with the instrument, working tirelessly while learning how to effectively wield his new best friend. Growing up in a household filled with gospel and country tunes, and iconic groups like Led Zeppelin forbidden, the young guitarist was magnetically driven to rock and roll. After being given a ticket to Stevie Ray Vaughn by his cousin on a hot summer evening, Black’s life was changed, and he was entranced by the epic blues creations of artists such as Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, and Jimi Hendrix.

David Essig is a country blues master who tours around the world and is celebrated world-wide for his original songs and blues and slide guitar playing. Essig has recorded 20 albums of original songs, bluegrass and country blues.

Essig tours the world demonstrating his breathtaking technique on guitar, mandolin and kayagum, a 12-string Korean zither. He has also headed one of Canada’s first musician-owned and operated record labels, Woodshed Records. In addition to producing his own work, Essig’s Woodshed label has also recorded work by a long list of blues and folk stars including Willie P. Bennett, Cathy Fink, Duck Donald, Dixie Flyers, Fred J. Eaglesmith and Jackie Washington.

“I was born in Frederick, Maryland in 1945 and spent the early part of my life in the Washington, DC area where I became immersed in two intense musical traditions: bluegrass and country blues. I had the good fortune to work at the Arlington Music Company where I learned to play the guitar and mandolin from John Duffey, founding member of the Country Gentlemen and the Seldom Scene.

While I was absorbing the high, lonesome sound of bluegrass, I was also blessed to meet and learn from two of the masters of the Delta Blues tradition: Mississippi John Hurt and Neamiah Skip James. Well-grounded in those roots, I came to Canada in 1971 and have been here ever since – living for the past 28 years on the Gulf Islands in British Columbia

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9GOGOL AND BLACK (BC)


SATURDAY FEBRUARY 16DAVID ESSIG (BC)



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Robbie Hancock is a singer/songwriter, a composer/producer, and an international touring artist. Some of his recent songwriting/composing credits include music placed in programs on NBC, BBC, HBO, AMC, The Discovery Channel, MTV, Bravo, BTN, The National Film Board of Canada, HGTV, and the DIY Network. He also has a song placed in a “making of” documentary for a commercial in Peru and another in a Canadian indie film called “Forget,” directed by Jesse James Burton. Most recently he received a feature film placement in the Canadian film “Sister Elisabeth: The Strength of Faith”.

Robbie has been performing live for over 20 years and has played at Disney World, Busch Gardens, Canadian Music Week, North by North East, The Ottawa Tulip Festival, The Hamilton Music Awards, and The Halifax Pop Explosion. He has done four Canadian tours and recently performed in Nashville and Los Angeles at live music venues and conferences. He also regularly participates in the Artist on Board program for VIA Rail Canada, performing on the trains for passengers each year from coast to coast.

Robbie also was a panelist and mentor at the Rifflandia Gathering Music Conference in Victoria BC, and really enjoyed giving back to up and coming artists and songwriters.

Marc Atkinson is one of Canada’s finest JUNO-nominated, Western Canadian award-winning musicians. He is the leader and composer of the internationally renowned Marc Atkinson Trio. The music of this virtuosic group is melodically captivating, sensually charged and ferociously, technically awe-inspiring. Embracing a lifetime of musical influences, Marc and the Trio have just released their fourth CD, The Marc Atkinson Trio IV, praised as the finest yet. The compositions on this CD are punchy, driving and rhythmically inventive. The Trio, formed in 2000, has toured North America, England and Europe and has received standing ovations everywhere they perform from the Montreal Jazz Festival to the Vancouver International Folk Festival to DjangoFest Northwest.

The many original Marc Atkinson compositions are jewels in Canadian guitar repertoire. The first three CDs are still garnering international attention for its stunning compositions and extraordinary guitar dexterity The Marc Atkinson Trio II was voted one of the top five albums in North America by Acoustic Guitar Magazine. The Marc Atkinson Trio III was nominated in 2006 for an Outstanding Album Award at the Western Canadian Music Awards.

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 17ROBBIE HANCOCK (BC)


WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 20MARC ATKINSON TRIO (BC)



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William Mimnaugh (stage name WiL) is a contemporary roots artist who makes his home on Vancouver Island, Canada. Known for his fiery live show, enigmatic stage presence and mad skill with an acoustic guitar, the 47 year old front man is also known for penning ‘Roam’ flagship anthem to Travel Alberta’s award winning international media campaign called ‘Remember to Breathe’.

Not one for school, his youth consisted of skateboarding and holing himself up in his room listening to everything from Chet Atkins to ACDC but It wasn’t until 1998, after hearing the flagrant use of an overdrive pedal on an acoustic guitar in Neutral Milk Hotels ‘In an Aeroplane over the Sea, an album and song that stunned his musical senses, that WiL really started refining and defining both his sound and his style.

It took nearly fifteen years, with a few failed attempts in the process for the artist to figure out how to take that sound that he managed to deliver live night after night and capture it on a record. The ‘seasoned’ songwriter is currently recording his seventh studio album, ‘Gold Mine’; a deeply personal record of self reflection, redemption and discovery at his home studio on Vancouver Island. The album is coming to fruition while working as an agricultural fencer (the kind that keeps bears out and cows and horses in) and performing the occasional show.

The Great Plains, Saskia and Darrel are a couple of touring musical veterans. They have racked up a couple of decades, a couple of thou-sand concerts and a couple of million kilometers on the highways and byways of North America and Europe.

Saskia and Darrel have worked all of their adult lives as musical en-tertainers so the stage is as familiar to them as your living room is to you. In fact, one common review people give is that these two make a crowd feel like they’re right at home sitting around the fireplace swap-ping stories and making new friends.

While there is something to be said for the bright young talent spring-ing off the stage at American Idol, there’s also a lot to be said for expe-rienced veterans and here’s a fine pair of them.

They toured extensively with Gary Fjellgaard for years and were able to add Valdy to the mix from time to time. Notables like Daniel Powter, Darby Mills, Steve Dawson, Valdy, Gary Fjellgaard, Trent Freeman, Ken Hamm, Bill Hicks (Powder Blues), Nolan Murray (Tiller’s Folly) have guested on their recordings. They were awarded Folk, Roots Album in Holland, Artist, Album, and Songwriter of the year nominations, received Top 5 People’s choice awards, and have enjoyed many years airplay on the Top Indie folk, roots charts in Canada, the US and Europe

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 22WIL WITH DRUMMER KEITH GALLANT (BC)


SATURDAY FEBRUARY 23THE GREAT PLAINS (SASKIA & DARREL) (BC)



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Luc and Aidan Wrigley are 14 year old French-Metis and Cree twins who began Fiddling and Jigging at the age of 3. The following year they won gold and silver medals in the Jigging and Fiddling contests at Festival du Voyageur.

By six, the twins along with their dad on guitar were busking at the Forks in Winnipeg where they would share new songs and delight fans with their incredible ability to sing and play fiddle. At age seven they began performing at Festival du Voyageur, an annual winter festival that celebrates the rich Metis and French Canadian culture of Manitoba. Since that time the boys have been performing at schools, markets, gala events and festivals. In March the brothers were featured along side Juno nominated Indian City in the finale at the Indspre Awards wich will be nationally broadcast on CBC and APTN in June 2018.

Between live performances and an active school life, the boys have also released two albums. Their debut album “Keep Calm and Fiddle On” released in 2015 featured covers of contemporary songs that were re-worked to include the unique fiddle sound of the boys. On June 24th, 2017 the band released their second album entitled “Juniper Woods”. In addition to some wonderful covers by artists like Canadian music icons Louden Wainwright III and The Duhks , this album showcases their expanding musical repertoire through several original songs and music written by Luc and Aidan.

Fever Jazz blends soul and pop influences in English, French and Spanish. Destined for world stages this project is intimate and offers a sultry view through the looking glass combining rich language and world music flavour.

Featuring Nanaimo natives Narissa Young on vocals, Scott Arkell on piano and Gavin Reekie on bass. Be prepared for melody, moments and fun as they collaborate, bringing many years of combined musical and performance experience for your enjoyment.

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 24DOUBLE THE TROUBLE (MANITOBA)


SATURDAY FEBRUARY 27FEVER JAZZ TRIO (BC)



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Acoustic Jam Musicians in the Round - $52ND & 4TH SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH

HOSTED BY BARB GILMOUR & GEOFF PEARSON.

GZAL promotes and encourages music from all genres and disciplines. Jams are unlike Open Mic nights, in that it’s a circle of sharing. Ideally everyone should have a chance to share songs with the group. We have created song books that we hand out, and these books are constantly expanding. Bring some copies of chords and lyrics and we will add your songs to our song books.

GZAL Ukulele Club - $102ND & 4TH MONDAY OF EACH MONTH

HOSTED BY RON USHER & DOUG PICKARD

Bring your ukulele and a

music stand and join us for a fun night of strumming and singing along to some familiar and not so familiar songs. We primarily use a Ukulele specific songbook that lists the words and shows chords for the ukulele, as well as weekly handouts each week. We invite singers to lead a song if they wish. Suitable for new to intermediate ukulele players

Youth Open Mic - $5 (performers free)

LAST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH

HOSTED BY RYAN PALM AND LIL FANYECK

Once a month, locally talented youths take over GROUNDZERO and put on a fantastic show. Featuring local young musicians 21 years and under, you will be entertained by and maybe even surprised by the quality of talent that shows up on stage on this super fun night. It can get messy, loud, bizarre and offbeat - but it’s always interesting

and always worth coming our for! Every detail of the show is managed and run by local youths; it’s fantastic to see the care and joy they put into creating, promoting and producing this show - their show.

Open Mic Night - $5 (performers free)

1ST & 3RD FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH

Got three songs you want to sing/play in front of a welcoming audience? Original or cover songs - doesn’t matter. Either by yourself or with a few friends, acoustic or electric, even if you’re just getting started - you know the drill - it just doesn’t matter. We will provide the PA system and mics. We will also have a keyboard and drum set available for use (please let us know). We can even provide you with musicians if you give us advance warning. PLEASE NOTE: WE ASK PERFORMERS TO PRE-REGISTER ON OUR WEBSITE.

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