July
16. Glenwood Plaza Fundraiser at Galeries d'Aylmer.
10 am - 4 pm.
Everyone is invited to enjoy music, food, and other
entertainment to help victims of the recent fire at Glenwood
Plaza. Admission is $5 and free for children under 12. For
more information call APICA at 819-685-1823. Please be
generous!
Until July 17. Cisco Systems Bluesfest.
The festival will take place in Ottawa on and around the
Festival Plaza on the site of the Ottawa City Hall.
July
14. Chelsea singer-songwriter Lindsay Ferguson
and her band-mates
will be on The Black Sheep Stage at the Ottawa Bluesfest
to open for the Montreal group The Dears. At 6:15
pm. The Black Sheep Stage is on Lisgar Street, Ottawa.
For information visit the Bluesfest website at
http://www.ottawa-bluesfest.ca
July
14.
15th annual celebration of Buckingham en fête
at Maclaren Park, under the Brady Bridge.
8 pm.
Carl Bastien and the Stone Country Players
9:30
pm. Plume Latraverse
11 pm.
The Gaskets will be in the City of Gatineau big tent.
For ticket outlets and route directions, visit
www.buckinghamenfete.qc.ca
July
15.
The Krüger
Brothers, with Ron Moore’s Back 40 Band.
The Krüger Brothers are described as an outstanding
bluegrass/root/folk group from Switzerland by way of North
Carolina. At 9 pm.
The musicians of Back 40 come from both
Quebec and
Ontario. Ron
Moores resides in Cantley. He regularly introduces at the
Black Sheep Inn.
Advanced tickets: $10.00. $15.00 at the door.
All Black Sheep shows are smoke-free.
Advance tickets for all Black Sheep Inn shows at Compact
Music,
134 Bank Street,
Ottawa – Tel:
(613)
233-7626
or 785 ½ Bank Street,
Ottawa.
Tel:
(613)
233-8922,
or from Ottawa Folklore Centre
1111 Bank Street,
Ottawa. Tel:
(613)
730-2887.
There is now a $1.00 surcharge on tickets sold at downtown
locations.
Tickets also available from the Black Sheep Inn,
753 Riverside Drive,
Wakefield.
Tel:819-459-3228. Tickets can be reserved with a MasterCard
payment by telephone.
Your name will be added to our "guest list" Present yourself
before show-time to help prevent delays at the cash.
July 19. 150th Anniversary of the Founding of Grand
Calumet. Exhibition and sale of miniature paintings,
sponsored by the Catholic Women's League (CWL).
At the Town Hall of Grand Calumet, 8 montée Mgr Martel. 2-8
pm.
For information: call Brenda Wallace, (819) 648-2534, or
Éliane LaSalle, (819) 648-2887 (or visit her website at
lasalleeliane@hotmail.com).
Until
July 24. The Ile-du-Grand-Calumet/Calumet
Island is celebrating its 150th
Anniversary.
Upcoming events include exhibits by the Sureté
du Québec (July 18), an Arts and Crafts Sale (July 19-20), a
Mass at St. Anne’s Church with Bishop Richard Smith (July
19), an Antique Buggy Display (July 20), a Bicycle Rally
(July 22), an Old Time Costume Dance (July 23), and a St.
Anne’s Parish Picnic (July 24), as well as a BBQ and family
activities (July 21 & 22).
Until July 31. An exhibition of puppets from the Entre Nous
Community Centre is
on display at the Aylmer
Library. During the winter months a course on puppet making
was given at the Entre Nous Community Centre, on
Front Street,
under the direction of Ilse-Marie Gates, assisted by her
husband Noel, and Sylvie Corriveau of the Community Centre
staff. The course was given to two groups of girls, one
anglophone and one francophone. At the end of the course a
short puppet play was performed in French before an audience
of parents.
Two of the pictures show the puppets on exhibition: puppets made
with cooking spoons by the francophone group and finger
puppets made by the anglophone group. A third picture shows
the spoon puppets in performance.
Celebrating History in Bristol.
The commemoration of the founding of Bristol and the
celebration of the municipality's 150th birthday includes a
variety of events and exhibitions. In July a dinner/dance on the
wharf with the Dick Maloney band, and in October an
expedition to the highest point of the Bristol Mines
property. Documents are on display at the town hall,
including the Council minutes of 1855 and receipts from
stores which now belong to the past.
For more information, visit the website
www.bristolmunicipality.com
or call the town hall at (819)
647-5555.
