Tickets $20  email womeninblues@hotmail.com

Details coming soon!

Women in Blues Manitoba Concert #4

October 16, 2010 marks the 4th Women in Blues Manitoba Concert and fundraiser at Winnipeg's Home of the Blues, The Windsor Hotel. This year's stellar line up includes Tracy K Mastaler, Kathy Kennedy, Angel Calnek & Claire Still. These are 4 of Manitoba's very own talented Blues women. Not only will these Blues ladies have the chance to perform for Winnipeg's true blues supporters, they will also be recorded live while making the second Women in Blues Manitoba CD. This unique event will also be hosted by CBC's Manitoba Music Corner host, Kinsey Posen. One of Manitoba's finest music scene supporters. If that wasn't enough good news, the event is also supported by Blues Brother and House of Blues Radio host Dan Akroyd with a mention on his radio show, and a case of his Crystal Head vodka for good measure! All for the love of the Blues and Manitoba's Blues torch women!

Women in Blues Manitoba is a concert event founded in 2005 by one of these Winnipeg Blues Women. Kathy Kennedy has shaped WIB Mb through sheer labor of love. As a blues artist, she knows the challenge of finding opportunity and support, and has taken the initiative to "make her own luck". "This type of event has never happened in Manitoba and it's about time". "It's not only necessary to create these types of blues events in Manitoba, but a concert of this calibre and potential demands responsibility and respect", she says.  She hopes to start the first WIB Mb festival event with headliners such as Canada's Sue Foley, Rita Chiarelli, or Roxanne Potvin in the near future. This would offer even more potential opportunity for up and coming blues women as opening acts. She also wants to draw attention to Winnipeg's Blues venue, The Windor Hotel. It is not random choice that the concert is booked there for the second time. Back in February, Kennedy arranged a rally upon the rumored demolition of the Windsor. She collected 3500 signatures, letters from city council and famous musicians in support of the venue, as well as writing the historical buildings committee in an attempt to achieve historical status. She believes this event only helps prove the worth of Winnipeg's iconic Blues room.

The first Women in Blues Mb CD was released in February 2009, and now has a place in John Einerson's Manitoba Music Experience Museum as a permanent fixture. It has received substantial international and national radio play.

Doors open at 8 pm, Oct 16 at The Windsor Hotel, 187 Garry St.. Concert begins at 9pm sharp. For more information: www.katblues.ca

Tickets are $25. Reserve yours at womeninblues@hotmail.com

                             Concert #4 Recorded Live!                           

Oct. 16, 2010

www.katblues.ca

www.myspace.com/womeninbluesmanitoba

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Tracy K Mastaler

www.tracyk.com

Angel Calnek

www.angelcalnek.com

Kathy Kennedy

www.katblues.ca

Claire Still

http://www.manitobamusic.com/artists/clairestill

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Tickets $25

On sale Sept 17

Reserve your tickets at womeninblues@hotmail.com

or call 283-7935

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Women in Blues Manitoba is a concert event created, promoted, and organized by Katblues Productions that was founded in 2005. It was created to bring opportunity to Manitoba's Women of the Blues within a concert setting, highlighting the blues genre and the women that love it. There have been 3 concerts, and one CD release. The CD was recorded live at Winnipeg’s Home of the Blues, the Windsor Hotel on Oct. '08. The first WIB CD of it’s kind in Manitoba and maybe Canada was released Feb. '09. It has received national and international radio play including CBC; Holger Peterson's Saturday Night Blues. Our CD has reached the hands of Dan Akroyd! It is soon to be a permanent fixture in John Einerson's Manitoba Music Exhibit as the first CD of its kind! Manitoba artists involved so far include Debra Lyn Neufeld, Angel Calnek, Shelley Lynne Hardinge and Kathy Kennedy.

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On air with CBC's Bev Watson for the first CD release!

Eleanor Reimer of CKUW and Janet Stewart of CBC news

Evening of first recording of WIB!

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The first Women in Blues Manitoba CD!

It is now a permanent fixture in the Manitoba Music Experience Museum as the first of its kind!

Sponsorship Opportunities

If you would like to sponsor WIB, there are several packages for your interest

Table Sponsor $500(4 front row tables available)
Table for 2 includes:

2 WIB Concert #4 tickets
1 table for two
1 pizza from the Windsor's Wild Wedge Restaurant
10 Drinks
2 t shirts
2 CD's

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$500
2 WIB tickets
1 pizza from The Windsor's Wild Wedge Restaurant
10 drinks
2 T shirts
2 CD's
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$250
2 WIB tickets
2 T shirts
2 CD's
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In Kind Donations for Raffle
larger items such as TV's, spa pkg's, baskets etc.
2 T shirts
2 CD's

Thank you for your support of Women in Blues Manitoba Concerts!!!
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October 16, 2010

Stay tuned for more information!

Top 10 Blues Albums
1)Various Artists* - Women in Blues Manitoba (Kat Blues)
2)Steve Rowe* - Five (Independent)
3)Booker T – Potato Hole (Anti)
4)Fontaine Brown – Tales from the Fenceline (Manatee)
5)Ramblin' Jack Elliott – A Stranger Here (Anti)
6)Marshall Lawrence* - The Morning After (Independent)
7)David Rotundo Band* - No Looking Back (Stone Pillar)
8)Alex Dixon Band – Rising from the Bushes (Dixon Landing)
9)Mary Flower – Bridges (Yellow Dog)
10)Rusty Wright Band – Playin' with Fire (Independent)

CFBX 92.5 FM, Cable 106.1 - The X
Campus/Community Radio in Kamloops, BC
Steve Marlow, Music Director. Brant Zwicker, Station Manager
Address: House 8, Thompson Rivers University
PO Box 3010, Kamloops, BC, V2C 5N3
Ph: (250) 377-3988 Fax: (250) 852-6350 Website: www.thex.ca
Tracking: Wed 10:30-12:30, Tues/Thurs 2-4 PM Pacific

It all began with Shelley- Lynne and the Majestics opening with a pottie mouth skit with Broose Tulloch from Kick FM 92.9 fm!

What a voice and what a passion for the craft! Great new original material! 

www.myspace.com/hipshakinmamashelleylynne

Up next we had Angel Calnek and Hillbilly Burlesque performing their version of depression era ladies as well as their own foot stomping originals. They also did a killer version of Kristi Johnston's "Train" on the CD!

 www.myspace.com/hillbillyburlesque

Then there were three...well my own band Blues Earth! We had a great time working in some new tunes and rockin' the crowd! What a great team of players! It felt like a dream come true and one that should be reoccuring as often as possible!

Thank you to all who supported this wonderful evening and I hope to see you next time!

Feb. 9th 6:30 PM

w Howard Mandshein

UMFM 101.5

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Sat. Feb. 14th CBC Radio One

w Bev Watson on the morning show

6am- 9am

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Feb. 14th, 2009 Valentine's Day 10 am with Broose on "Beer for Breakfast" 92.9 Kick FM

Live acoustic performances and loads of fun!

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Feb. 16th 6:45

UMFM 101.5 FM w Howard Mandshein

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Feb. 17th, 2009 Shaw Television with Tracy Koga; interview with Kat Kennedy and her band Blues Earth

talking about the WIB CD release event; where WIB started and where it's going

will be aired all week on the week of the CD release

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Feb. 17, 2009

7pm w Eleonor Reimer

95.9 FM CKUW

Blues Tuesday

w Kathy Kennedy & Angel Calnek

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Feb. 21st Winnipeg Free Press

Women In Blues Manitoba Oct. 18, 2008

Objective:

To promote the local Blues Community with a live CD recording of this event.

Sponsors collected for silent auction as well as a 50/50 draw to raise funds to cover the cost of recording.

Highlights

Hosted by Howard Mandshein

Dedicated to the late Kristi Johnston of Winnipeg

Artists involved:

Kathy Kennedy

www.katblues.ca

Angel Calnek and Hillbilly Burlesque

www.myspace.com/hillbillyburlesque

Shelley Lynne Hardinge and the Majestics

www.myspace.com/hipshakinmamashelleylynne

Debra Lyn Neufeld

www.debralynneufeld.com

www.myspace.com/debralynneufeld