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The First “Finding Dory” Trailer Is Here: “An unforgettable adventure… she probably won’t remember.”

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Nov 11, 2015

The First “Finding Dory” Trailer Is Here: “An unforgettable adventure… she probably won’t remember.”

Disney•Pixar’s “Finding Dory” reunites everyone’s favourite forgetful blue tang, Dory, with her friends Nemo and Marlin on a search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?

Directed by Andrew Stanton (“Finding Nemo,” “WALL•E”) and produced by Lindsey Collins (co-producer “WALL•E”), the film features the voices of Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O’Neill, Kaitlin Olson, Ty Burrell, Eugene Levy and Diane Keaton. Finding Dory swims into cinemas Summer 2016.

Canadian Folk Music Awards recipients announced

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Nov 9, 2015

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Canadian Folk Music Awards recipients announced

The recipients of the Canadian Folk Music Awards (#CFMA2015) were announced this evening at the 11th anniversary gala event at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta. Hosted by renowned musiciansConnie Kaldor and Benoit Bourque (La Bottine Souriante), Canada’s folk music community came together after an exciting weekend of public events, which included two evenings of nominee showcases, a live CKUA broadcast and various workshops.

Nineteen award categories were presented at the gala. The Eastern Canadian provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island won 17 out of 19 category awards this year with artists from Newfoundland and Ontario receiving the most honours, each taking home five awards. Quebec artists followed, with three awards. Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia were recipients of two awards each. Western Canada rallied with Alberta and British Columbia artists collecting one award each.

Women were a force at the awards this year. Newfoundland’s Amelia Curran took home Contemporary Singer and English Songwriter of the Year for her album They Promised You Mercy. PEI’s Catherine MacLellan won Contemporary Album and Solo Artist of the Year for her album The Raven’s Sun. Edmonton local and five time CFMA nominee Rebecca Lappa brought home the Young Performer of the Year award for her album Tattered Rose. Ontario’s Kiran Ahluwalia was awarded World Solo Artist of the Year for the mesmerizing Sanata: Stillness. Ontario fiddler Adrianna Ciccone won Instrumental Solo Artist of the Year for her album The Back of Winter.

Four powerhouse duos stormed the awards this year. Comox Valley, BC’s Big Little Lions (Paul Otten and past CFMA recipient Helen Austin) won Ensemble of the Year for A Little Frayed, A Little Torn. St. John’s Newfoundland’s Catherine Allan and Andrew James, whose group is called Fortunate Ones, known for their exquisite harmonies, won Vocal Group of the Year for The Bliss. Husband and wife duo Raven Kanatakta and ShoShona Kish from Long Point First Nation in Winneway, Quebec who perform as Digging Roots won Aboriginal Songwriter for their album For The Light. Nova Scotia’s husband and wife fiddle duo Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy received the award for Instrumental Group of the Year for their album ONE.

In the traditional folk categories, Newfoundland’s Matthew Byrne was awarded Traditional Album of the Year for his album Hearts & Heroes and Quebec’s Michael Jerome Browne won Traditional Singer of the Year for his 1920’s blues-inspired albumSliding Delta.

Three standout groups emerged as recipients. The New/Emerging Artist of the Year went to Ontario’s The Young Novelists (featuring Graydon James, Laura Spink, John Law, Michael Paddags, Alex Dodd and Shawn Jurek) for their album made us strangers. The raucous Lemon Bucket Orkestra took home the award for World Group of the Year for their new worldy-klezmer rampage Moorka. Children’s Album of the Year was bestowed on St John’s, Newfoundland’s Erin Power, Laura Winter and Duane Andrews who are The Swinging Belles, for their sympathetically titled children’s album More Sheep, Less Sleep

No stranger to receiving awards, these three artists each won in their categories.The French Songwriter of the Year award went to Louis-Jean Cormier’s heart-wrenching second solo album Les grandes artères. Ontario’s renowned guitarist Kevin Breit won the Pushing the Boundaries award for his album Ernesto & Delilah. The Producer of the Year was awarded to Nova Scotia’s Daniel Ledwell for his work onCompostela by Jenn Grant.

Ottawa’s Arthur McGregor was honoured as this year’s Unsung Hero, a special category award that highlights the exceptional contributions of an individual, group, or organization to the Canadian folk music scene.

Established by Canada’s burgeoning and internationally recognized folk music community, the Canadian Folk Music Awards is currently its 11th year. The 2016 edition will take place in Toronto, Ontario from Thursday, December 1 to Saturday, December 3, 2016. The awards gala takes place at the Isabel Bader Theatre on the Saturday night. For more information, visit folkawards.ca.

John Lewis Might Have The Best Christmas Ad, Thanks To Oasis

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Nov 8, 2015

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John Lewis Might Have The Best Christmas Ad, Thanks To Oasis

This is the story of a young girl called Lily. Looking at the moon through her family telescope one night, she is amazed at what she finds, a man on the moon.

Lily watches on as our man goes about his chores, all alone up there. She becomes determined to get something to the moon, to send him a message and show him that someone down here is thinking of him.

This is also an ad for John Lewis, featuring ‘Half the World Away’ performed by Aurora. Yes, that Oasis song.

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Martin Short, Steve Martin & Jimmy Fallon Star In Short-Lived 1990s Soap Opera ‘Tensions’

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Nov 8, 2015

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Martin Short, Steve Martin & Jimmy Fallon Star In Short-Lived 1990s Soap Opera ‘Tensions’

Jimmy Fallon and Martin Short show clips from their short-lived ’90s soap opera, Tensions, and things get really tense. Like, Steve Martin-tense.

Stephen Colbert and Bryan Cranston lie in the grass and ponder “The Big Questions”

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Nov 8, 2015

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Stephen Colbert and Bryan Cranston lie in the grass and ponder “The Big Questions”

Whenever Stephen Colbert has a fellow deep thinker on his show, he likes to lie in the grass and gaze at the stars. This week, the man with the big brain is Bryan Cranston.

Country Music Stars Read Mean Tweets About Themselves

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Nov 8, 2015

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Country Music Stars Read Mean Tweets About Themselves

Country music has some of the most loyal, passionate and opinionated fans of any genre of music. Which means that people sometimes take to social media to express themselves. From time to time Jimmy Kimmel Live shine a light on some of the not-so-nice things people write and they’re doing it again in this special country music edition of #MeanTweets.

You can now have your tweet set into the most long-lasting medium known to man – a clay tablet

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Nov 8, 2015

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You can now have your tweet set into the most long-lasting medium known to man – a clay tablet

Dumb Cuneiform takes your most ephemeral and worthless communications, and they’ll carefully transcribe them into the most long-lasting medium known to man – a clay tablet.

Here’s how it works:
Just send us a tweet or text (use the text field in the order form)
We’ll carefully translate it into cuneiform
We’ll stamp it on an actual clay tablet and mail it to you.
Favorite jokes? Amazing pickup lines? Your 2-star review of last summer’s blockbuster?
KEEP IT FOREVER.

It costs $20 per tweet to create, and worth every single penny.

That Time Sam Roberts Accidentally Looked Like Fidel Castro…While In Cuba

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Nov 8, 2015

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That Time Sam Roberts Accidentally Looked Like Fidel Castro…While In Cuba

“It was one of the funnier things that has happened…before I sign up for diplomatic corps, I might need to consider how I go about these things in the future.

“That morning, I woke up. I reached in my bag and I was a little groggy. The first t-shirt that came out was an army green t-shirt. And I always travel with this red bandana which I wear all the time.

“Here we go.

“So, it was really hot. We knew we would be dripping with sweat in the Havana sun trying to do this press conference. I put my red bandana on. And, I got a beard. I went down and I just didn’t put it together. It just didn’t dawn on me what I looked like and what that represents to the people there.

“I answered questions about why we were there, what role we were playing in the celebration and the role Cuban music plays. That was incredibly important to them…what role does Cuban music play in Canada. And, I kept stroking my beard. I didn’t realize at the time…you don’t say the name [Castro] necessarily, you just stroke the beard. I was wondering why they were all laughing. And, I looked down and realized that I’m wearing the uniform of a Cuban revolutionary, el Comandante. I finally acknowledged it and it was like the ice was broken, the tension was diffused and everyone started laughing.

“Ultimately, it was fine. But, I did get a few looks for the rest of that day. Once you’ve already impersonated Fidel Castro, it is easy to do anything after that.”

Via iPolitics

83-Year-Old Man Sings Coldplay’s Fix You And Makes The Room Very, Very Dusty

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Nov 8, 2015

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83-Year-Old Man Sings Coldplay’s Fix You And Makes The Room Very, Very Dusty

Established at an elderly housing project in 1982, Young@Heart is a chorus of twenty-two senior citizens with an average age of eighty that sings contemporary and classic rock and pop songs, like James Brown, the Pointer Sisters, The Clash and Sonic Youth. This idea has given countless aging individuals an wonderful and exciting chance to sing, travel the world and possibly fulfill life-long dreams of singing onstage.

Young@Heart was the subject of a 2008 British documentary film directed by Stephen Walker, who captured this performance in 2007 of 83-year-old Fred Knittle stepping on stage to perform the lead vocal in their cover of Coldplay’s “Fix You.” Though he had retired from their group a few years before due to health issues, his incredible voice still managed to bring the house down and tears to everyone’s eyes.

Fred died in 2009, but this video is still getting thousands of hits a week. The reason why it’s perfectly wonderful to sing at any age.

That Time John Lennon And Yoko Ono Jammed With Frank Zappa

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That Time John Lennon And Yoko Ono Jammed With Frank Zappa

Released in 1972, Some Time in New York City is John Lennon’s third post-Beatles solo album, fifth with Yoko Ono, and third with producer Phil Spector. The original double album contained the live album Live Jam containing the Plastic Ono Supergroup’s December 15 1969 live performance of “Cold Turkey” and “Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)” at the Lyceum Ballroom in London, from a UNICEF charity show, billed as the “Peace for Christmas Concert”. In addition to Lennon and Ono, as part of the super group among others was former-Beatle George Harrison, The Who’s drummer Keith Moon, Delaney & Bonnie, Billy Preston and Legs Larry Smith. Harrison, who before the performance had been touring with Delaney & Bonnie, was excited by Lennon’s proposal over a phone call when asked if he wanted to play with him. The ballroom had its interior cover by posters declaring “WAR IS OVER, if you want it, love John and Yoko. For “Cold Turkey”, Ono had sat inside a white bag which was located near Lennon’s feet, while for “Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)”, Ono jumped out of the bag, facing the crowd, and proceeded to scream at them. As the latter song got towards the end of its performance, Ono broke down crying.

The album also featured a recording of Lennon and Ono performing with Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention at the Fillmore East on June 6, 1971, which they performed with after the persistence of Andy Warhol. The performance was documented after Ono had arranged for someone to film it.

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