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FRI 1 ELEVEN09 @ Barons Manor Pub, Surrey (6pm)SAT 2 Black Rose@ West Beach, WR (8PM)SAT 2 ELEVEN09 @ The Raven, NorthVan (8pm)THU 7 Choices Market Jazz Trio @ Morgan Creek (6pm)FRI 8 Benito & Friends @ West Beach, WR (8PM)SAT 9 Blind Pigeon @ West Beach, WR (8PM)FRI 15 Sami Ghawi @ Mayor’s Arts Awards, Surrey (8AM)SAT 16 Orphan Alley @ West Beach, WR (8PM)FRI 22 ELEVEN09 @ Woody’s, COQ (930pm)FRI 22 Chandra Russell Band @ West Beach, WR (8PM)SAT 23 ELEVEN09 @ Woody’s, COQ (930pm)SAT 23 Mike Machado Trio @ West Beach, WR (8PM)SAT 30 Johnny Fatiaki Trio @ West Beach, WR (8PM)

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Welcome to the FP Newsletter Vol. 29, our monthly publication giving you all our music news and so much more! We’ve updated our website’s homepage with a contact form to facilitate inquiries about our quality music services. Please visit us at www.fusionpresents.com and let us know what you need, from live music entertainment at events to music lessons, artist development and creative music services.

We’ve added a few new things to our entertainment line up this summer: Firstly, this JUNE @ West Beach, ELEVEN09 will be hosting an Industry Night every Tuesday in White Rock. Led by Nathan Tapsas, Tuesdays will be a rocking weekly event dedicated to all entertainment venue staff in the Surrey / White Rock neighbourhood, from restaurants, bars, cafes and clubs. Secondly, we kick off live entertainment in Port Kells, Surrey at The Barons Manor Pub! Visit them online and follow them on Facebook!

FUSIONpresents is also a member of the Surrey Board of Trade’s Music City Initiative to help build Surrey into a bustling and thriving Music City. We also sit on the SBOT Tourism, Arts & Culture Committee. If you’d like to get involved or be part of our talent community, click here and tell us more about what you do!

This month, please check out Bruce’s Corner, this month’s BC Artist Highlight, FP Interesting Read, our upcoming shows and weekly jams, Rock n Roll Facts, FP Food for Thought, and please continue to stay in the loop of all things FP by visiting us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. And don’t forget, FUSIONpresents wants YOU to ROCK, so please come out to our jams and join us on stage!!!

WEEKLY JAMS & SHOWS

Sami Ghawi’s Sunday Night Jam

@ West Beach,White Rock

ELEVEN09’sIndustry Tuesdays

@ West Beach,White Rock

Glen Pearson’sBlues by the Beach

Thursdays @ West Beach,

White Rock

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INDUSTRY TUESDAYS 8-12

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There is an old saying which says, "The older I get the less I know."  In my case, the older I get, I realize that there is so much I just do not understand.  For instance, at one time I think I had a theory on the meaning of life.  Now I'm not so sure.  Last week my sister passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer.  She was just 66 years old.  She was too young.  She was a good person.  Life might not have been particularly easy for her and when she reached a point in her life when it was finally going to become easier, she was hit with breast cancer.  She was a religious person, and over the years we had many conversations regarding her faith and these talks did have an influence on me.  And when she was going through the chemo and all the other crap that this disease brings, she prayed even harder.  Eight years later, her prayer was answered, although by this time it was a much different prayer than what she started with.  Never smoked, never drank and was all about family.  I understand that it is in the genes but it doesn't make much difference.

Someone said once that when you look at an obit and see the year of birth to the year of death, our life is measured in the dash.  Sounded brilliant to me at the time, but now as I get older, I don't know.  Everybody who lives, dies.  I'm guessing there is easily a trillion (maybe more) deaths in the history of our world.  And each one of those people have a dash.  When viewed that way, it all seems so pointless.  So how should we look at this? 

I think we should look at this more from a micro vs macro view.  It's your dash.  What are you going to do with it?  I know I preach this a lot, but it's in the way you view it.  I wrote a letter to my sister a few days before she passed.  Basically a goodbye letter.  I knew from past conversations that she believed in an afterlife.  So rather than focusing on the end, I told her there were things I needed to share with her before she left on her journey.  And that's the way I want to think about it.  She was a piano teacher who was my first instructor when I was 6.  She bought me a turtle for Christmas one year and took me to Mary Poppins.  She also locked me out of the house and finked on me more than anyone else in my life.  I'm really going to miss her.

BRUCE’S CORNERBC ARTIST HIGHLIGHT :

Terry Singh is a singer, song writer, guitarist born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada where music thrived because of Tommy Banks and Big Miller, PJ Perry, & John Parker-Toulson.  He comes from a family of musicians including his brother, Dean Singh and his uncle, legendary guitarist Lenny Breau.

His music is influenced by The Eagles, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin & BB King to name a few.

With over 50 years of playing experience, he has played with Champagne, The B Side, Henry Brown’s HB Concept, and legendary blues man Jim Byrnes, and had to honour to open a show for BB King.

Catch Terry Singh & Orphan Alley at West Beach on Saturday June 16th.

TERRY SINGH’s ORPHAN ALLEY BLUES BAND

ROCK N ROLL FACTS 1. Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden is a professional pilot, who used to take unpaid

leave to front Iron Maiden.

2. Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones was proficient at over 60 musical instruments.

3. Lynyrd Skynyrd got their name from a high school teacher who suspended students for having long hair.

4.The Ramones aren't actually brothers.

5. The Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" inspired The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band”.

* Source: The Top Tens

FP INTERESTING READ: 8 Ways to Integrate Music into Your Life By Lena Schmidt

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