REMINDER: RICHARD SWIFT @ Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto 6/27

Please welcome Richard Swift to Toronto!

Tues, June 27 @ Phoenix Concert Theatre, 410 Sherbourne Street, Toronto, ON.
With special guest The Walkmen!
Advance: $15 Day of Show: $18 http://www.libertygroup.com/phoenix/phoenix.html

Contact Craig Laskey for show/ticket info: craig@atgconcerts.com | 416.598.0720
Contact David Halstead for press publicity: dave@secretlycanadian.com | 812.335.1572

JPGs and other press related materials can be found here:

http://www.secretlycanadian.com/press/swift/swiftpress.php


UPCOMING TOUR DATES

05/25/06 Seville, Spain - South Pop Festival
05/26/06 Seville, Spain - South Pop Festival
05/27/06 Seville, Spain - South Pop Festival
06/03/06 Seattle, WA - Triple Door w/ Josh Ritter
06/04/06 Seattle, WA - Triple Door w/ Josh Ritter
06/05/06 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge w/ Josh Ritter
06/07/06 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall w/ Josh Ritter
06/09/06 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre w/ Josh Ritter
06/10/06 San Diego, CA - Casbah w/ Josh Ritter
06/17/06 Tempe, AZ - The Clubhouse Music Venue w/ The Walkmen
06/19/06 Austin, TX - La Zona Rosa w/ The Walkmen
06/20/06 Houston, TX - Numbers w/ The Walkmen
06/21/06 Dallas, TX - Granada Theater w/ The Walkmen
06/23/06 Nashville, TN - Exit/In w/ The Walkmen
06/24/06 Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall w/ The Walkmen
06/27/06 Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theatre w/ The Walkmen
06/28/06 Montreal, QC - La Tulipe w/ The Walkmen
06/29/06 Boston, MA - Avalon Ballroom w/ The Walkmen

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We realize that you've never heard of Richard Swift. We here at Secretly Canadian will change that. In fact, Richard Swift will consume your life. "The Collection Vol. 1" is a great place to start. "The Novelist" - Swift's highly acclaimed, succinct, eight song, nineteen minute and thirty-eight second-long, audiophile archivist experiment - immediately ushers the listener deep into the recesses of Swift's creative core for a kaleidoscopic trip aboard an intergalactic vaudevillian steamship with a speakeasy code-word. Yet, "The Novelist" is only one small manifestation of Swift's entire musical manifesto and only one-half of this double-disc set. "Walking Without Effort" - the second disc in the two-disc set - is the first, and perhaps most deceptively complex, yet decisively understated, Swift release to date. A slight step eastward from the eclectic musings of "The Novelist", "Walking Without Effort" intentionally paints another image, and baptizes believers born-again into Swift's unique brand of sonic schizophrenia. Gramophones are replaced by 8-tracks and Persian rugs are covered with shag, as Swift nods to the early 70's solo efforts of McCartney and Harrison, while waving to Burt Bacharach and Van Dyke Parks. They're just passersby as he drives down main street in a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow. Don't be scared, be excited that Swift intends on writing and releasing music until the day he dies and intends to never make the same record twice... not even on a double-disc.


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FW: qr5 CD Release Invitation

qr5 CD Release
qr5 is a singular combination of reggae groove, pop contagion, and folk
sensibilities. Join them at the release party for their new recording
'Pharmakon.'

Wednesday June 14
The Drake Hotel Underground
1150 Queen St W, Toronto
SHOW SCHEDULE
08:30 - qr5 (early show)
09:00 - DJ Salty Jackson (funk/soul/breaks)
09:45 - Lal (down tempo electronica)
10:30 - Louanda (Brazilian folk)
11:00 - qr5 (folk/reggae)
12:00 - DJ Murr (broken beat)

Pharmakon
A medicine or drug; also, a poison.
Or, a new album performed, recorded, and mixed by qr5. Ten eclectic and
engaging songs, brought to life with string and horn arrangements, textured
instrumentation, and sonically adventurous production.

Visit www.qr5.com

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Just Press Record: BR-Series Digital Recording Clinic with Peter Lafferty - Mississauga, ON

Long & McQuade and Roland Canada are thrilled to present this BR-Series
recording clinic with Roland's recording specialist, Peter Lafferty.

Peter will show you how you can record faster, easier and with improved
efficiency using the latest BOSS BR-Series digital recording studios. This
clinic is a must for guitarists, novice recording artists and all musicians
needing professional quality results and a no-fuss experience.

To register for this clinic email <mailto:mississauga@long-mcquade.com> our
Mississauga location with your contact information. Please note that this is
not a seat reservation. It gives us a means of contacting you should the
date, time or location of this clinic change. Seating is on a first come
first served basis.

Date: Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 7pm
Location: Long & McQuade (900 Rathburn Rd.W., Mississauga, 905-273-3939)
Fee: FREE

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Harmony Trowbridge @ NXNE - invitation

She can floor you with her loveliness. NNNN" NOW Magazine



"So, there's this Harmony Trowbridge dynamo. She spits mad lyrical dynamite. Her voice makes boys go crazy and she is the first sexy thing to come out of Toronto since Buddy Cole." Pop Montreal



Harmony Trowbridge

@ NXNE

Saturday, June 10th

@ The Free Times Cafe

320 College Street

11PM



Harmony Trowbridge is a fugitive mango in January. Two lone snowflakes in July. A girl who writes singular indie-pop songs and performs them in a duo with her husband, Adam. She has an EP called Amoraphobe where she is singing
sad love songs by herself. She has a new CD coming up -- it will have a bunch of new songs and she won't be by herself this time. Harmony's music is a witch doctor's poultice applied directly to the heart in need of repair.
You should go see her show. It's good, and you might cry. You need a good cry. Good music for: people who are/were bullied and/or who are/were bullies AND those who didn't go traveling after highschool AND the sad. Also enjoyed by: the popular AND the athletic.

Official Website
http://www.harmonytrowbridge.net

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TORONTO! UK's Buck Brothers and ON's TNBT June 9-11th...

We have two clients playing four shows in three days the weekend of June
9th. (CD'S mailed to you a week ago)We'll also be in town with two of our
publicists, happy to meet with you. We're here to help with interviews, etc.
and one-touch downloads of pic's are available at www.FlyOnTheWallMedia.com
<http://www.FlyOnTheWallMedia.com> .

Artist Date Time
Location Venue

TNBT (Punky Reggae) June 9 Fri 10:30P
Mississauga CLUB 107
BUCK BROTHERS (Punky UK) June 10 Sat 10:00P Toronto
RANCHO RELAXO
BUCK BROTHERS June 10 Sat 2:00A
Toronto HIGH 4 RECORDS STAGE
BUCK BROTHERS June 11 Sun 10:00P Toronto
BOVINE SEX CLUB

A Clash of UK Punk and Jamaican Roots:
Canada’s ‘The Next Best Thing’ on Tour in Your Backyard

Working Machine is the third album for TNBT. Besides ska and reggae, Working
Machine reeks of funk, soul, experimental and even a little heavy rock.
Similar to NY icons The Slackers, they concentrate on the live performance
with lengthy sets involving the crowd. Like Ween, they take all requests,
even improvising songs on the spot as diverse as “Gin and Juice”, “Simmer
Down”, “Red Red Wine”, old Zeppelin songs or even a Jay-Z track. Colin
notes, “We play three-set gigs and throw in several unlikely covers. We like
to be able to play about any reggae song shouted out at a show. Actually,
we’ll try to cover any song requested at our shows.”
TNBT concert and event (huge party) launching Club 107’s summer season, June
9, 10:30P.

The Next Best Thing blends the best of reggae and punk into their own sound.
So, save yourself the airfare and check out some
damn good music right here in your own backyard.

Release excerpt... Buck Brothers...
The UK’s Buck Brothers Banned in the USA!...
No Such Trouble Anticipated at Toronto’s NXNE Music Festival

On their first visit to Toronto, the band was nominated for “Best
International Artist” at the Toronto Independent Music Awards. Buck
Brothers' Andy Duke also presented the “Best Alternative Artist” award at
the ceremony. This time around, they return to town for three shows in two
days.

The Buck Brothers will be performing their official NXNE shows Saturday,
June 10th; the first at Rancho Relaxo around 10pm, with an expected late
night show at High 4 Records’ Showcase Night (2am) TBA. You can also “get
Bucked” at The Bovine Sex Club, 10pm the following night, Sunday, June 11th.

The Buck Brothers is pop music at its purest evolution- pop music as it
should be, incredibly catchy and at times addictively hummable. Their debut
album, Me (Back2Forward), is testament to this and should be listened to
loudly and while driving in a convertible at high speeds, if at all
possible.

The Buck Brothers will be available for interviews while in Toronto.
(June 3rd to June 13th)
To arrange an in person/phone interview please contact Fly on the Wall
Media.

Thanks for your time,
Anthony Scott Piatt
www.FlyOnTheWallMedia.com <http://www.FlyOnTheWallMedia.com>
fly@flyonthewallmedia.com
812.336.7938 Office
812.345.0342 Mobile
10002 Kent Rd
Bloomington, IN 47401

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For Immediate Release - MQMusicfest, Trudeau Park, ON JULY 7 8 & 9 2006

MQMusicfest- THE FIRST OF ITS KIND!
40+ Bands - 3 Beer Soaked Days of Madness and HARD ROCK/METAL CHAOS!
JULY 7, 8  9 2006
Trudeau Park, ON
$25 ADVANCE TICKETS (includes camping)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MQMusicfest
July 7, 8 and 9 2006
Trudeau Park, ON

Wacken Open Air. Milwaukee Metalfest. Ozfest. And now, MQMusicfest. Yes soon Canada will have one of its own outdoor musicfest, courtesy of Metal Queen Management (MQM).  40+ bands and 2 stages for three beer soaked days of madness.

MQMusicfest is shaping up to be the first of its kind in this country, three days straight of Hard Rock/Metal chaos at Trudeau Park, two hours east of Toronto, two hours west of Montreal, one hour from Ottawa - July 7, 8 and 9. Maps to the park can be found at Trudeau Park’s website www.trudeaupark.com

The play list includes most of the MQM roster… Shatterpoint, Warmachine, Endorphins, Valkyries Cry, I Hate Sally, Little Sunday, Rehab For Quitters, along with surprise guests. Full band details are found on the festival’s website www.myspace.com/MQMusicfest. MQMs president, Betty Dworatschek, says “the majority of the acts will be homegrown Canadians largely from Ontario and Quebec. That’s what this is all about: the Canadian scene, our Canadian talent. We have so much of it.”

Along with sponsor Long  McQuade Musical Instruments, the festival will offer its musicians workshops and seminars over the weekend. There will be plenty available at MQMusicfest!! – three days worth, complete with licensed bar and merch-tents. Advance tickets available for $25  (and that includes camping)!

Advance tickets are on sale now via the MQM Store, visit www.metalqueenmgmt.ca

Interviews  Media Contact: info@metalqueenmgmt.ca
General Festival Inquires: festinfo@rogers.com

Submitted by:
Betty Dworatschek
Metal Queen Management
P.O. Box 47038, RPO 425
220 Yonge Street
Toronto, ON  M5B 3R8
www.metalqueenmgmt.ca
www.myspace.com/mqm
www.myspace.com/MQMusicfest


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RICHARD SWIFT @ Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto 6/27

Please welcome Richard Swift to Toronto!

Tues, June 27 @ Phoenix Concert Theatre, 410 Sherbourne Street, Toronto, ON.
With special guest The Walkmen!
Advance: $15 Day of Show: $18
http://www.libertygroup.com/phoenix/phoenix.html

UPCOMING TOUR DATES

05/25/06 Seville, Spain - South Pop Festival
05/26/06 Seville, Spain - South Pop Festival
05/27/06 Seville, Spain - South Pop Festival
06/03/06 Seattle, WA - Triple Door w/ Josh Ritter
06/04/06 Seattle, WA - Triple Door w/ Josh Ritter
06/05/06 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge w/ Josh Ritter
06/07/06 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall w/ Josh Ritter
06/09/06 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre w/ Josh Ritter
06/10/06 San Diego, CA - Casbah w/ Josh Ritter
06/17/06 Tempe, AZ - The Clubhouse Music Venue w/ The Walkmen
06/19/06 Austin, TX - La Zona Rosa w/ The Walkmen
06/20/06 Houston, TX - Numbers w/ The Walkmen
06/21/06 Dallas, TX - Granada Theater w/ The Walkmen
06/23/06 Nashville, TN - Exit/In w/ The Walkmen
06/24/06 Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall w/ The Walkmen
06/27/06 Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theatre w/ The Walkmen
06/28/06 Montreal, QC - La Tulipe w/ The Walkmen
06/29/06 Boston, MA - Avalon Ballroom w/ The Walkmen

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Songwriter Showcase @ Smiling Buddha this Thursday, May 18th

Hi Everybody!
Hope this finds you well :)
Just wanted to let you know that I'll be performing a set at my dear friend
Nicky Lawrence's show this Thursday. Joining us will be Layah Jane, another
beautiful friend and fabulous singer and songwriter. It's a pleasure to
share the stage with such talent! Come check it out if you can :) (see
attached flyer or information below)


Color Blind Media presents:
An acoustic evening with
Nicky Lawrence
Featuring Special Guests
Layah Jane & Jennie Laws
@ Smiling Buddha
961 College Street
May 18th, 2006 @ 9:30pm
Cover: $7 with non-perishable food item


All food items will be donated to the Daily Bread Food Bank
www.dailybread.ca.

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Mariposa presents breakthrough group Spiral Beach and more.....

Eugene Ripper's Fast Folk Underground

ALL-AGES show at the Drake this Wednesday, May 17th

Eclectic road-show is returning, with Spiral Beach and Clare Love

Eugene Ripper's Fast Folk Underground has over the years built a reputation
for bringing superb edgy and/or emerging talent to the public. This time
out Ripper is featuring two youthful acts....

Spiral Beach ­ Having grown up in the exuberant chaos of the Canadian folk
music community, members - Daniel and Airick Woodhead, Maddy Wilde and
Dorian Thornton - spent their formative years hanging around backstage jams
at festivals across the country. As a group these young performers create
edgy and inventive pop music that draws inspiration from the Beatles,
Talking Heads and Radiohead. Their distinctive sound combines a strong
groove with clever harmonies. They have just released their self-titled CD
and are booked for the 2006 Mariposa Folk Festival in Orillia, July 7-8-9.
http://www.spiralbeach.com

Clare Love - direct from her Soma-a-go-go performance at Loco Local
Festival, this ultra talented singer songwriter performs solo ­ not to be
missed.

Eugene Ripper ­ edgy roots rocker weighs in to promote the release of his
new EP ³Crackle². http://www.eugeneripper.com

When: This Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 - Showtime 9 PM

Where: The Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen Street West in Toronto

Tickets: General admission is ten dollars or five dollars with a
student/senior card. This is an ALL-AGES show.

Festival passes are available for the 2006 Mariposa Folk Festival, Canada's
oldest folk music festival... details at www.mariposafolkfestival.com
<http://www.mariposafolkfestival.com>

A Brief history of the Fast Folk Underground:
Throughout his recording and performing career, Eugene Ripper has been
active on local club scenes in Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax and New York as a
causal provocateur of these underground events - a series of roving
postmodern hoots that have bounced around the scene for 20 years. A list of
featured appearances over the years paints and intriguing picture ­ if you
are into snapshots of moving riversŠlikes of The Sadies, Young and Sexy,
Lowest of the Low, Dave Bidini, hHead, Herald Nix, Don Ross, Mr Wrong, The
ids, Bobby Wiseman, I Braineater, Radiogram, The Royal Grand Prix,
Neusiland, Al Tuck, Lonnie James, The Delvins, Paul Bellini, Matthew Good,
Nardwuar, Harrison Ford and well, even more than that.
For more info: 416 697 8303, eugeneripper@gmail.com

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Jazz on the Danforth at Ten Feet Tall Thursday May 18th

Ten Feet Tall

presents vocalists

Jen Sagar

Pat Murray

and

Carin Redman

with

Jim Heineman and the Jazz Cats

Featuring

Jim Heineman, Saxophones and Flute

Ashley Wey, Keys

Rick Donaldson, Drums
Thursday May 18th, 2006

8pm to midnight

no cover

Ten Feet Tall Restaurant

1381 Danforth Avenue

4 blocks west of Coxwell

416 778 7333 for dinner reservations

www.jensagar.com

www.patmurray.ca

www.carinredman.com

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