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SAT 1 Stubborn Buffalo @ West Beach, WR (8-12)FRI 7 Blind Pigeon @ The Bennett, PoCo (8-12)FRI 7 The Apartment @ Woodys, Coq (8-12)FRI 7 Scary Lizards @ West Beach, WR (8-12)SAT 8 The Apartment @ Woodys, Coq (8-12)SAT 8 Blind Pigeon @ West Beach, WR (8-12)TUE 11 Live Band Karaoke @ Fringe Festival, Granville Island (8-12)FRI 14 Benito & Friends @ West Beach, WR (8-12)FRI 14 The Apartment @ The Bennett, PoCo (8-12)SAT 15 Woody James Band @ West Beach, WR (8-12)SAT 15 The Apartment @ Crescent Beach Yacht Club (8-12)WED 19 Youth Jam @ The Bennett, PoCo (8-12)FRI 21 Buddy & The Scarecrows @ West Beach, WR (8-12)FRI 21 Cruise Control @ The Bennett, Poco (8-12)SAT 22 Token Rhyme @ West Beach, WR (8-12)FRI 28 Chandra Russell Band@ West Beach, WR (8-12)FRI 28 Freakin’ Groovies @ The Bennett, PoCo (8-12)SAT 29 Mike Machado Trio @ West Beach, WR (8-12)SAT 29 The Apartment @ Jolly Coachman Pub (9-12)

SEPTEMBER SPECIAL SHOWS

Welcome to the FP Newsletter Vol. 32, our monthly publication giving you all our music news and so much more! So many amazing things are going on, so let’s jump right in!!!

To kick things off, FUSIONpresents and the Surrey Board of Trade have opened up the Surrey Music City Centre office at the SBOT located at 14439 - 104 Avenue, #101, in Surrey, BC! This collaboration formalizes our initiative to help build Surrey into a bustling and thriving Music City. The Surrey Music City Centre will be open once a week and by appointment and is dedicated to building relationships with artists, musicians, businesses and the Surrey community. Contact us at surrey@fusionpresents.com to set up a meeting and learn more! Also, if you operate or aspire to operate in Surrey’s growing music economy, please join our online Talent Community here and tell us more about what you do. Secondly, FUSIONpresents and Long & McQuade have partnered to develop a permanent, full-backline stage at The Bennett in Port Coquitlam, with all amps, mics, drum kit, monitors and PA sponsored by Long & McQuade Port Coquitlam located at 1360 Dominion Avenue in Poco! The Bennett Poco will feature local bands every Friday and weekly youth jams every Wednesday starting October 3rd! Musicians of all ages are invited!! Our next Youth Jam is on Sep 19. If you’re interested in performing on our Bennett stage, or on our stage at West Beach in White Rock, please click and join our online Talent Community now!

FUSIONpresents is also involved in the upcoming Arts4All Festival, celebrating Surrey’s 25th year anniversary on Sep 28, 29 & 30! Arts4All is presented by ArtsCan Resource Network, in partnership with the City of Surrey & the Arts Council of Surrey. FUSIONpresents will hold a introductory music theory workshop on Sunday Sep 30 at 1pm at the Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre in addition to performing at the Festival kickoff at the Arts Centre on Sep 28th. Learn more.

In this newsletter please check out Bruce’s Corner, our BC Artist Highlight, an editorial by D.M. White, our upcoming shows and jams, Rock n Roll Facts, FP Food for Thought and don’t forget, FUSIONpresents wants YOU to ROCK, so please come out to our jams and join us on stage!!!

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WEEKLY JAMS & SHOWS

(Left to r ight) Bukola Balogun, Chris Dalmonte, Sami Ghawi, Ashley Pater, Colin Sankey and

Sean Steeves rock out on the FUSIONpresents Long & McQuade stage for the Youth Jam @ The

Bennett in Port Coquit lam Aug 25th! Weekly youth jams wil l start at The Bennett Oct 3rd.

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I lost my phone for a period of time recently, and until found, I had not felt so lost, alone and frightened for years.  Possibly the scariest 6 minutes of my life.  It is amazing how that phone has become such an essential  part of my life.  My contacts, my calendar, my source for news, music, photo album and even an instrument in which I can call and talk to people.  Imagine leaving your phone at a friend’s place.  When you find someone who allows you to borrow their phone in order to call your friend to get your phone back, you can’t, because you don't know their number because it's on your phone which is at their house.  For the sake of argument, we will assume that the batteries wore down on my phone.  So I started thinking about how we got into such a place - SO dependent upon a phone.  When I was younger, the phone was attached to the kitchen wall with a rotary dial and a long curly cord that could almost reach to the sink.  Each upgrade was a major event in our lives. Eventually, push buttons replaced the rotary dial and the phones came in different colours.  I remember a few of my friends were allowed to have their own phone with their own phone number in their bedroom.  I thought this was a good idea, even though I didn't really have anyone to talk to, and asked my parents for my own phone.  The response was the same as when I asked for a rabbit and a swimming pool. 

Eventually the phone became portable so that you could wander around the house while talking away.  I remember the reception was better if the antenna was up.  Eventually, a Motorola brick, and recently, the smart phone.  But wait.  There's more.  WE started out with our fingers and toes, went to an abacus, to a slide-rule, to a Texas Instrument calculator that even calculated sines and tangents to one that was solar powered, then Nintendo, PC and Apple until our computer now fits into our pocket.  More?  Okay.  The record became the eight track which became the cassette which gave way to CDs and  now we stream our music on our phones.    We started communicating with pen, paper and the post office.  Emails.  Now we text on our phones.  When I was a kid, when I left the house there was no contact until I returned.  Seriously, can you imagine that now?  I heard recently that there is this app you can get on your phone which tracks how many times a day you look at it.  The average person picks up their phone 80 times a day.  Isn't that insane?  The world is advancing awfully quickly.  It's actually kind of scary.  At times it just seems to be out of control.  Mind you, it's kind of cool to have hi fi and hi def and to stream music, although I worry that they, whoever they are, are controlling my likes and dislikes.  What's kind of funny is I just lost my phone again.  Gotta go before the withdrawal starts.

BRUCE’S CORNERBC ARTIST HIGHLIGHT :

Ashley Pater is a 15 yr old singer/songwriter from Surrey, BC and has been performing since the age of 9. Last year CBC named Ashley one of ten young musicians in Canada you must hear. She plays a mix of originals and covers at events such as festivals, restaurants, corporate & charity events all over the mainland and Fraser Valley. She has also made multiple appearances performing in Prince George, Calgary, Toronto, and the USA. Ashley has been featured in Starbeat magazine, Business in Vancouver, Cloverdale Reporter, Hope Standard Newspaper, and The Surrey Now Newspaper.  

 In 2017, Ashley won Vancouver's Xmas Factor, Close Look Got Talent, and placed first in her category in Youth Talent Search BC. She also placed 2nd in S t a r b e a t ' s C a n a d a - w i d e competition earlier on in the year. Every year builds on the last, and Ashley continues to write and record in 2018. Stay tuned for her upcoming EP in the next few months.

Catch Ashley perform at the Arts4All Festival on Sep 30 at the Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre!

Ashley on YouTubeAshley on Instagram

Ashley Pater

ROCK N ROLL FACTS 1. ACDC has a total of 22 songs whose titles have the

word “rock” included in them.

2. In 1997, Prince became the first artist to exclusively release an album on the internet.

3. The final chord to the Beatles song, A Day In The Life, was played by 10 different hands on three different

pianos simultaneously, namely Lennon, Martin, Starr, McCartney and Evan’s hands.

* Source: rocknuts.net

Boy, to have been in Athens back in the day.. or maybe even today. Athens is about an hour’s northeast drive of Atlanta in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is said to have been named after the more larger and more well known city in Greece. The small city makes a pretty picture with it’s  Antebellum architecture and close proximity to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Home to the University of Georgia, Athens has always boasted a young population and a thriving college music scene. Amongst many others, both the B-52s and R.E.M. got their start there. Athens was not just a city of students and music but also of painters, poets, culinary BBQ joints and just about any other kind of creative spirits. Some speak of good-natured oddball eccentrics as well. 

Athens, GA - Inside Out by D.M. White

The documentary film “Athens, GA - Inside Out" is a time-piece of Athens in the mid 1980s. A quirky but fun little film covering much of the music and  some of the happenings and characters that made up the city at that time. Back before R.E.M. and the B-52s became big and spoilt. Back when artist and baptist minister Howard Finster designed album covers and produced his folk art sculpture garden called "Paradise Garden". 

You can find out more about this small richly creative place in the film “Athens, GA - Inside Out”. It should be out there somewhere.

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