Isn't it always the way? As soon as I send in my copy to Mosaic Magazine, someone sends me news of upcoming jazz events. Oh, well, Tom told me there'd be days like this. He has to update the web site regularly to include all that's going on. Check out his updates at www.jazzbythebay.ca

Here's some dates close to home that may attract some of you lovers of good jazz These didn't make it to Mosaic:

Appearing at Chaisse Lounge in Owen Sound:

Saturday March 03 : Rob Gasidlo and Don Buchanan (Sax and Clarinet)
Saturday March 10 : Rob Gasidlo and Jack Mcfadden (Bass)
Saturday March 17 : Rob Gasidlo and Guest
Saturday March 24 : Rob Gasidlo and Jack Mcfadden (Bass)
Saturday March 31 : Rob Gasidlo and Shelaugh Hart (Vocals)

And at The Walker House in Southampton:

Friday March 30 : The Jason Hunter Trio; Don Buchanan, piano; Jason Hunter, tenor sax; Jack McFadden, bass. New takes on old favourites.

If you're feeling like going further afield, The Crooners Lounge in Waterloo:

Fridays in March: Charlie Bell's Trio; Charlie on Sax, Ted Gibbons, guitar and Jack McFadden, bass. (Where on earth did that rumour come from that Jack was retired!!!)

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For anyone who does not catch my column in March edition of Mosaic, here's the full text.

All That Jazz March07
by Doreen Fawcett

The lineup for Jazzmania, opening the Georgian Sound Festival weekend is out and it will be difficult for jazz lovers to take in all ten venues for Friday, April 27 in Thornbury and Clarksburg. Tickets allow as many visits as you can fit in during the evening and we always run out of time before we've seen all we'd like to during a fun pub crawl.
Here's the list of performers, in no particular order: Shelaugh Hart Trio, Charlie Bell Trio, Sploink, Louis LeFaivre and his Kings of Swing, Christopher Plock Trio, Figleaf Jazz Band, Dr.Jazz North, Ken Whiteley Duo, Karen Holgate & Jan Menkal, Hart & Soul Duo.

Big Band Saturday on April 28 features The Toronto All Stars, The Megacity Swing Band and host The Georgian Sound Big Band. All three bands play matinee and evening performances at the Beaver Valley Community Centre, Thornbury.

Winding up the weekend is Gospelfest on Sunday, April 29, also at the Beaver Valley Community Centre, Thornbury, and includes Ken Whiteley and several other musicians.

Tickets for the full weekend are $45 each if purchased before March 31st. Tickets for each of the separate days are also available. See website for details. www.festival.georgiansound.ca

Shelaugh Hart is one of many performers who seems to believe in the old saying, the show must go on. She braved a winter storm to travel from Barrie to Owen Sound in February to join Rob Gasidlo at the Chaisse Lounge. The vibrant singer was on top form with her redux classics and scat singing after the style of Ella Fitzgerald entertaining dinner patrons. Gasidlo, as usual, also turned in a stellar performance much to the delight of the diners who had braved one of several winter storms that closed roads into and out of Owen Sound last month.

We opted to attend a New Year's celebration at the Uptowne Jazz and Piano Bar in Owen Sound, to listen to a group that sounded as though they had rehearsed together for years although we knew better. Three accomplished musicians sang, two of them not heard vocalizing before; all sounded tuneful. Sax player Jason Hunter warbled several tunes, and bass player Tyler Wegler also contributed. We've heard Party Time Jazz Band leader Don Buchanan sing as well as play keyboard so that was no surprise. He can also make his keyboard sound like a scat vocalist. Dave Malito rounded out the quartet who did not sing but was by no means quiet! The best New Year's I've spent in a long time.

On March 30, Don Buchanan and Jason Hunter are featured at the Walker House in Southampton, for Friday Dinner Jazz. Third arm of the trio is Jack McFadden who I have heard on bass but you never know, he might sing also!
For other events offered by the Performing Arts of Saugeen Shores, check out the website www.jazzbythebay.ca

When weather permits (call ahead to 519-592-5810), a visit to Tamarac Island Inn, Stokes Bay on the Bruce Peninsula may prove entertaining. Not been there myself yet but I have it on good authority that Bobby Dean Blackburn, keyboard and vocals, Hart Richardson on trumpet help while away a Sunday afternoon with some good jazz.

Guitarist, singer Jeff Healey is back on the air hosting his radio show Monday nights at 91.1 Jazz FM in Toronto following a January lung operation. No plans to return to Owen Sound any time soon but you never know with this indomitable musicologist. His bouts with cancer extend back to his childhood having gone under the knife four times for cancer in eyes.

"I'm stretching further the definition of the word indestructible," quipped Jeff from his hospital bed three days after his recent operation.

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Another day snowed in and time for a change from mundane chores such as making beds, doing dishes etc.
Seville oranges are available this week and there was a time there when I thought I would not be able to pick them up at the store. Had called and asked the produce manager to save me some as I knew they would not last long.

I crept out yesterday, slipping and a sliding to the end of our street where most roads between there and the store were plowed. A temporary respite in the snowfall that has come down almost continuously for the past five days allowed me to return safely. About a metre has fallen they tell me - and it is to last all over the weekend. Check Bob's blog for pix.

So now I have the oranges but cannot find the recipé I used last year as, after basement reno, boxes of cookbooks et al were stored where???? Searched high and low until stopping to answer Skype calls from UK as well as Ottawa, got thrown off my resolve.

My fellow in marmalade, George, came over for a cuppa just before he set off to find his own oranges, and galvanised me to search anew but still could not locate my food folders.

And then began to search on line.
Well, I can't believe the number of different preparations offered for this old favourite, difficult to obtain here in Canada. Many were outdated, I thought, as so many had the long, slow process we used to do.

Turned to a couple of listed UK pages for help and found most also had long, complicated processes that didn't involve a food processor nor a pressure cooker, both of which I called into service last year.

Trouble with searching, I am inclined to get sidetracked as there are so many interesting pages to read. Now I must stop knitting a cover for my typewriter, as Lynda would say, and get to that marmalade.

Yes, it came to me in a flash, I had stashed the food folders closer to the kitchen but under some other dreck. Now if anyone wants my recipé, please wait until I finish this year's batch.

No, Roy, I will save for you only ONE jar this year. Try making your own!

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