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The Bennett Centre

Nov 23, 2024 @ 7:30pm

Earth to Sky - Domenic DeCicco, Candida Valentino, Michael Ormiston in concert
a special concert inspired by our connection to the Earth.
Domenic DeCicco, Candida Valentino & Michael Ormiston will ... more

Earth to Sky - Domenic DeCicco, Candida Valentino, Michael Ormiston in concert
a special concert inspired by our connection to the Earth.
Domenic DeCicco, Candida Valentino & Michael Ormiston will be performing music from a selection of their albums and join each other for various pieces. The evening will feature Native American Flutes Mongolian Khöömii Overtone Singing Morin Khuur Mantra Himalayan Singing Bowls gongs heartfelt songs acoustic guitar Indian Chakra Shlokas and much more. Book early as limited tickets available.

Domenic DeCicco is an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist vocalist and composer/producer who has travelled the world sharing his music as a solo artist and as co-founder/lead vocalist of the innovative acoustic roots band Praying for the Rain. He is a deeply soulful and compelling musician and storyteller who brings a rich uncluttered quality to his music that fills his songs with evocative imagery and lyrical narrative. He will be performing songs from his new album Earth to Sky as well as from his 2021 release Never Letting Go.

Michael Ormiston is the UK's most experienced Mongolian Khöömii (Overtone) Singer a multi-instrumentalist composer workshop leader and therapeutic sound practitioner. Michael's Khöömii and overtone/undertone singing can be heard on his many CDs Hollywood films television documentaries theatre and dance productions. Michael is a very skilful creative and experienced Tibetan/Himalayan Singing Bowl and Gong player using them in performance and meditation.

Candida Valentino is singer and instrumentalist specialising in Overtone & Undertone Singing Mantras Bowls gongs and is a Kirtan leader and sings Shlokas and Vedic Chants in Sanskrit. Originally trained in visual arts and theatre design. In her early 30’s she discovered the world of Sound Healing Mindfulness meditation movement through Qigong and Yoga.

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Cluny 2

Dec 20, 2024 @ 8:00pm

After Midnight’s Christmas Party
After Midnight will be holding their Christmas Party on Friday 20 December 2024. The venue will again be Cluny2 at 34 Lime Street, Ouseburn. Doors open at 7.30pm. B... more

After Midnight’s Christmas Party
After Midnight will be holding their Christmas Party on Friday 20 December 2024. The venue will again be Cluny2 at 34 Lime Street, Ouseburn. Doors open at 7.30pm. Band on stage at 8.30pm. Tickets are £15 (subject to booking fee), available in advance from The Cluny - Tel: 0191 230 4474 Visit the venue’s website:- www.thecluny.com After Midnight have chosen Cluny 2 because it is one of the best and most intimate theatre spaces in the north east. The Cluny has deservedly acquired great reputation for championing live music.

NB: This will NOT be an Eric Clapton tribute gig although one or two of Slowhand's songs will be covered, along with music by Free, Dire Straits, The Beatles, Steely Dan and many other rock classics. less

Cluny 2

Dec 21, 2024 @ 8:00pm

After Midnight’s Christmas Party (Second Night)
After Midnight will be holding their Christmas Party on Friday 20 & Saturday 21 December 2024. The venue will be Cluny2 at 34 Lime Street, Ouseburn. ... more

After Midnight’s Christmas Party (Second Night)
After Midnight will be holding their Christmas Party on Friday 20 & Saturday 21 December 2024. The venue will be Cluny2 at 34 Lime Street, Ouseburn. Doors open at 7.30pm. Band on stage at 8.30pm. Tickets are £15 (subject to booking fee), available in advance from The Cluny - Tel: 0191 230 4474 Visit the venue’s website:- www.thecluny.com After Midnight have chosen Cluny 2 because it is one of the best and most intimate theatre spaces in the north east. The Cluny has deservedly acquired great reputation for championing live music.

There are still a few tickets left for the Friday gig but a second night has now been added on Saturday 21 December. Tickets have just gone on sale.

NB: These will NOT be Eric Clapton tribute gigs although one or two of Slowhand's songs will be covered, along with music by Free, Dire Straits, The Beatles, Steely Dan and many other rock classics.
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Rachel Walker

Rachel Walker was born in the interior of British Columbia, and raised on a lakeside First Nations reserve by American missionary parents. In the small town of Fort St. James, on Stuart Lake she would listen to the local radio station where all the classic hits were played. Starting out in an uninsulated, one room shack, where the water had to be hauled from the lake and an outhouse was available for all the 40’ below Fahrenheit winter months. The rustic environment and lack of modern conveniences developed Rachel’s artistic talents and love for music. Her father a linguist had a natural ear for all instruments and played several and her mother a lovely soprano voice. Rachel moved to California with her family later in the teens years, tried out for Gong show at the local high school, but was much into sports at the time and moved on to attend college in Chicago. As the passion for music continued to evolve, Rachel returned to Canada and was asked by a friend in radio to host a radio program in Prince George, British Columbia. She later moved onto start a pre-recorded half hour music show titled in Edmonton, Alberta, titled “A Show of Hands” It received rave reviews in the area. Working on her catalogue of originals song, she performed at telethons, talent shows, coffee houses and music festivals. Offered a chance to record in a home studio, in 2000 Rachel released her first album tilted “Sent”. It was so well received, Rachel moved onto release “ Zorobabel” in 2005, working with studio musicians from the Cariboo area of British Columbia. Soon after that through various connections and friendships the Rachel Walker Trio was formed, which released two addition albums “ The Best of Zest” volumes 1 & 2. Comprised of seasoned musicians who found writing and performing to be a driving passion for a joyful and satisfying life. Many a good time was had with the band, eating, drinking and making music! After performing at concerts, music festivals, international television appearances and smaller more intimate venues, the band began to focus the majority of its resources to online fans and clients, and has since worked on collaborations with the likes of ELLIOTT RANDALL, TONY FRANKLIN, ALVIN TAYLOR, Sherry Finzer and more. Rachel enjoys combining the visual arts with her music, being an accomplished painter and potter, she also continues to release singles in video form. Rachel truly finds artistic fulfillment collaborating with international music professionals, focusing and building her catalogue of music for placement in the tv, film and music industries.

CON KOUTRAS

Con is a percussionist he plays well but only wants to do percussion for me in rare cases so in rare cases he is in my band I am hoping to encourage him to participate a lot more Con can also sing great I will give him parts in the future if he likes to sing and am hoping to give him song parts in the nearest future he is in my band although most times I perform solo one man band artist

Andrew Hamilton

Drums on most songs--Some guitar

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A group born of musical inspiration in the year 2004, “Windows To Eternity” is the culminating effort of driving factor, composer, and as of this writing almost unknown guitar virtuoso Kelly James McKee: "...for the virtuoso rock guitar lovers out there...a great amount of technique on display, from alternate-picked runs and smooth legato phrases to feel-infused melodic control..." - Andre Avanessian Built-in to the group's heritage is a continuation of great musical influences from a point forever in the past blended into a musical language constructed in the present for a set of modern instruments to play – the ‘rock band’. These musical influences are held as timeless and forever, and represent the deeper study of music as opposed to music constructed out of the mundane.  In modern times, since the late 1960’s, this mantle has served as the basis for heavy metal music explorations by its leading contributors. The timelessness of the music’s attributes is as solid as if written into marble: “The arts of flute and lyre playing and other such arts make use of melody and rhythm” –Aristotle. Even during times of the greatest height of monarchic dynasties; even in the Court at Versailles under King Louis XIV of France, times when manners were strict but morals were unfortunately loose; musicians plied the trade and often furthered the cause of music...  The music of Windows To Eternity via the worldwide web, and increasingly through live performance, carries the tradition forward with its increasing range of unexpected song entering the fray and at times resisting the direction, of today’s media hype and imagery. Founding member Kelly McKee was born in the outlying middle-class suburbs of Chicago during August of 1968, a year of social discontent, upheaval, and riots. But, overall he was raised in a good home of racial heritage -influenced adolescence.  However, even circumstances like these can produce many conflicts among the youth and Kelly would learn how to be fighting tough while growing up.  Musical learning and appreciation were also emphasized by Kelly’s father as well as extended family in Wisconsin, and he would spend time absorbing classical music theory by listening with a bust of Ludwig van Beethoven perched atop Bozak speakers, thus growing an interest in musical composing. Much later part of Kelly’s family would end up moving far out west to Reno, Nevada to live near the Sierra Nevada Mountains. At around age 19 he began picking up guitar, playing at night in a glass-enclosed auto service station where he worked, and where a fellow co-worker was a first guitar teacher. This experience had built upon earlier music lessons on recorder, piano, and violin. From there, self-teaching took over as he found the ultimate musical instrument for self-expression, and mastery soon started to develop thereafter. Musical inspiration was found in the great scenic mountains all around. After working in myriad labor jobs, including one in manufacturing in which he would come out covered in black soot at the end of swing shift, Kelly would return to college in 1995. Rather than letting music blend over into his college studies, he began majoring in math and science and would eventually earn an Engineering Physics diploma. He specialized in optical engineering, fulfilling a lifelong quest. After that, he was recruited to work in the defense industry in the area of high-energy lasers development. All-in-all, he would accumulate fifteen years engineering experience and remains interested in the field today. But musical inspiration remained constant throughout those years of efforts. In fact, the compositions "I'll Never Be Your Automaton" and "Statue Courtyard", in the form of basic guitar recordings and essays about the music, were turned in for creative final writing credit in a history course, to pass! One thing that demarcates Kelly and shows through in his songwriting centers around observation of his own cultural times. According to Kelly: "Rather than being divorced from the past, my generation didn't like being force-fed culture.." His music also displays good comprehension of the history of peoples from across the earth, and quite expertly has made use of culture -based tonality in composition. This is the case in the acoustic 'Centurion's Outpost', in which tonality matches an ancient Roman setting. This was accomplished through derivation of a new guitar open tuning, E-Ab-Db-G-Bb-D, that either was unknown before or more likely was extremely rarely ever used in guitar history; and required invention of new chord patterns in order to transpose progressions in the theoretical score to fit the neck of the instrument. Then there's 'Statue Courtyard', in which there are Prokofiev -influenced dissonance scenes artfully constructed to give a foreground-background sound between two guitars, for great depth and realism. The complexity of the recording is successful in representing a system in overthrow, almost in a film noir stylistic form. Stressed throughout is real instrument recorded in real time, with apparently much less dependency placed upon sequenced and sampled instruments. Although it is an emerging world unto itself, the work shows artificial instrument can never fully replace the immediacy, detailed sound, or self-disciplined impact of real instrument mastery and tone. Album one You're Lost has surpassed nearly all other entries in rock/metal music in poignancy and growing relevancy, with parallel themes and subjects that underlie the political science topics of the times. Looking ahead to 2025 and beyond; the music of Windows To Eternity will now have the support of fully developed and completed studio environs. Says Kelly: "They are being used to conclude Album No. 2: Dark Day Of The Arena in high fashion, and make the way for embarking on new musical journeys with great variety in recorded stereoscopic tone, never available before". Stay tuned-- Vive le Musique ! Copyright August 2024, KM Productions.