In this issue...
• April 18th Benefit
• Trip Report - Wabaseemoong Workshops
• We get email from the North!
• Be part of helping Youth!
• Aeroplan Air Miles - May Campaign
• Upcoming Events!
• Queen's Bush Bluegrass Club Supports ArtsCan Circle
• Silverbirch Concert for ArtsCan Circle
• More Thanks!
• ArtsCan Circle on Facebook
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 April 18th Benefit
Newmarket Folk Benefit NightThe Newmarket Folk Society presents: A Benefit Evening for ArtsCan Circle Saturday, April 18, '09 7:00 pm - Midnight
Timothy's Steakhouse Lounge 17035 Yonge St. Newmarket, ON
$10 cover.
Come celebrate spring with your favourite local musicians! Line up includes: Special Guests: The Good Brothers Russell deCarle (Prairie Oyster) Also featuring: Hurricane Mike Thompson, Patty McLaughlin, Noreen Sullivan, Carol Teal & David Joyce, Steve Porter, Roseanne Speckert, John Lemme, George Scott and more!
Fine dining available upstairs in Timothy's Dining Room (call for reservations (905) 898-6620. Food and beverages also available for purchase in the Lounge. Don't miss this night! Sure to be a fun-filled event with lots of surprises! Hope to see you there. Bring all your friends! All proceeds to benefit ArtsCan Circle. For info call Carol or Dave (905) 836-9073 or email carol.teal@sympatico.ca
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Trip Report - Wabaseemoong Workshops
Ron Kanutski, Mary Hamer, Randy Cameron and Carol Teal travelled to Wabaseemoog (White Dog), Ontario for a week in March '09 to run workshops with the youth there. The students were great and we had a wonderful week writing songs, drumming, singing and creating their own musical instruments. 
Wabseemoong students with Marimbas they made. The students enjoyed using the drums, guitars & keyboards we brought for their community. The drums have found a home as part of the Indigenous Culture classes in the school and will add to that program. 
Ron and students with new donated drums. Thanks to the Principal, Ron McDonald, the teachers and support staff for making us welcome and helping schedule all the workshops during the school day. Each day after school we were able to teach keyboard and guitar workshops in the Community Resource Centre after school. Thanks to Sean, Hugh and the staff at the Resource Centre for providing space for after school programs and making us welcome! We had a wonderful time with your creative enthusiastic kids and we can't wait to come back! 
Ron & Randy teach guitar at the Family Resource Centre after school. From Marty & Randy... "So many great memories from the Wabaseemong trip! The kids were wonderful to work with. They were always respectful to us and to one another. They invested their projects with love and attention. I will always remember working in the overly warm classroom with the window open for some fresh air and hearing the sounds of the marimbas ‘tonk, tonking’ as kids headed out on the last day with the instruments they had made and the sound of small voices coming to the window calling, ‘More gimp, Marty. More gimp!" (material for braiding into jewelry, etc.) Marty says, "One of the teachers told me how great it was to see the kids so enthused – said she hadn’t seem them that enthused in a while." 
Wabseemoong Kindergarten class sings with Carol
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We get email from the North!
"Thank you so much! I just wanted to thank the ArtsCan team for coming to our school as the kids were very touched by the experience they had with them. They continue to talk about their experiences and are even more eager to grow as musicians! The level four student who received the guitar was extremely grateful and has even started composing his own music. He recently received his college application papers and says he would love to continue his education in the music field. Thank you so much for everything, it was an absolute pleasure to have such a group of people visit our school!
Devon Conway, Music Teacher"
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Be part of helping Youth!
More trips are currently being planned to return to Mishkeegogamang and Pikangikum, Ontario. Please help us send teams to these remote communities. 
Click on the blue "Donate Now" button above to make a donation online with your credit card. You can make a one time donation or sign up for a monthly donation to help us keep music and art happening in the North for Indigenous Youth in remote communities. You'll receive a tax receipt by email. Thanks from all the kids!
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 Aeroplan Air Miles - May Campaign
We're happy to announce we're having another Aeroplan Miles donation campaign in May '09. During the month of May we're collecting donated Aeroplan Miles for ArtsCan Circle. These miles cut our trip costs in half by allowing us to fly on Aeroplan Miles for the first leg of our journeys to the North.
Please donate any amount of Air Miles from your Aeroplan account and help get music and art programs to youth who will benefit. Please click on this link { ArtsCan Circle} to go to our home page and download a form from our website. Just click on the .pdf file of the simple form, fill it out and fax or mail it to Carol in the office. OR contact Carol and she'll be happy to send you the form by email or post. Simple instructions are on the form. carol.teal@sympatico.ca or info@artscancircle.ca or phone (905) 836-9117
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 Upcoming Events!
The Rotary Club of Campbellford presents a Spring Talent Showcase Featuring 8 Performers Ranging from Jazz to Modern Dance to Olde Tyme Fiddle Music & Everything In Between Tom & Blaine Sharpe Vocal Duet Campbellford High School Vocal Combo Lynzi Couch Fiddle & Step Dance George & Alice Potter Old Tyme Fiddlers Chelsea & Elisia Friedman Comtemporary Dance George Scott Jr. Singer Songwriter & Nicole Scott (Canadian Idol Finalist) Kevin Weaver Bring Mom to Celebrate Mother's Day! When: Saturday, May 9, 2009 Pre-show 6:30 pm Campbellford High School Jazz Combo performing Talent Show starts at 7:00 pm Where: St John's United Church 50 Bridge Street West Campbellford, ON Tickets: $15 Available at Earth Angel Designs (53 Bridge St) or Campbellford/Seymour Community Foundation (39 Doxsee Ave.) of Call 705-653-3259 Proceeds to go to ArtsCan Circle and the Campbellford Pallative Care Program |  Jon Brooks Benefit House Concert
Jon Brooks Benefit House Concert for ArtsCan Circle Mark your calendars! When: Saturday, June 6, 2009 8:00 pm Hosts: Peter Chitty & Marlene Campbell 2226 Richard Streeet Innisfil, ON Advance tickets only - please contact Peter at musicupclose@roger.com | |
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 Queen's Bush Bluegrass Club Supports ArtsCan Circle
Many thanks to the folks in Owen Sound who participated in the Queen's Bush Bluegrass Club concert on March 26th. The Executive of the club dedicated the evening to ArtsCan Circle. Judy Fink and Dave Joyce were on hand to represent and share information about ArtsCan Circle. The Queen's Bush Executive Band donated their honorarium to ArtsCan, the GrassFyre Bluegrass Band made a donation as well as participation and financial support from the audience. The concert was part of the Northern Bluegrass Committee Winter Concert Series and featured Junior Sisk and Ramblers Choice from Virginia. The weather was excellent and the Legion was full of Bluegrass enthusiasts. Bernie Melosh, President of the club, presented a cheque for $300 to Judy Fink and Dave Joyce on behalf of the club. Thanks very much!
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 Silverbirch Concert for ArtsCan Circle
On Saturday evening, March 28th,Tom McCreight presented the 5th Annual Silverbirch Charity Concertat the Uxbridge Music Hall and raised $3,200 for ArtsCan Circle! Close to 200 people attending thiswonderful evening of music and humour. The Dnes Sisters opened the show with their fiddles, Wendell Ferguson inspired and delighted the audience with his quick wit and awesome guitar playing, Silverbirch entertained with their usual toe-tapping traditional bluegrass music. Thanks to Tom, Gene, Graham, Jan and Walter for donating their talents. Our thanks to the performers for a great evening, to the merchants of Uxbridge for their donations, and to the Royal Canadian Legion, the Rotary Club, and the Lions Club for financially supporting this event. ArtsCan Circle sincerely appreciates the dedication and hard work by Tom McCreight who organized the concert and publicized the work of ArtsCan Circle through the local newspapers. Thank you, Tom!
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More Thanks!
Our appreciation goes to ArtsCan Circle supporter, Shirley Wheatley. At her retirement celebration in Markham, Shirley requested donations to ArtsCan Circle to honour her years of service as a health-care advocate and nurse at the Markham-Stouffville Hospital. Her friends and colleagues celebrated Shirley’s contributions to her profession with heart-felt speeches, delicious treats and a generous donation to ArtsCan Circle.
Thanks to John McNaughton and the Six Nations Bluegrass Festival for hosting a booth for an ArtsCan Circle display at their festival on April 4. It all helps to spread the word about ArtsCan Circle and build our networks! Thanks!
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ArtsCan Circle on Facebook
ArtsCan Circle has a new page on Facebook. Check it out - we've posted some videos & photos on our Facebook page and you can join the ArtsCan Circle Facebook Group and Cause. We will also post some songs written by the Youth in the North. Give it a listen! http://www.facebook.com/pages/ArtsCan-Circle/129454145654?ref=ts
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