TRI-COUNTY MUSIC

September 10th, 2010 at 8pm

Ken Galipeau is a collector of stories, songs and poems that touch our hearts and funny bone. The stories and songs in Ken's eclectic repertoire celebrate the wonder, absurdity, pain and joy of life, imagination, and the soul. He presents them with energy, enthusiasm, and a sincerity that makes you tingle through and through--the feeling you have after a belly laugh or a chill in the bones from a unsettling ghost story. Ken's stories and songs are drawn from contemporary and traditional sources and sung as if they were his own. "The pieces I perform show how we are all connected. They allow us to feel good about who we are, where we come from, and where we are going".

Ken has been the featured teller at the Heritage Trail Storytelling Festival, New Jersey Storytelling Festival, and nationwide Tellabration events. He has told and sung in schools, libraries, public and private gatherings, parties, churches, coffeehouses, festivals and on cable television.

 http://www.storynsong.com/about.html

$5 cover at door

doors open at 7:30pm

Sept. 11, 2010 at 8pm

Up and coming acoustic artist Jared Costa will be opening for local rockers:  A Crowd of One for this explosive all ages show!!!

http://www.jaredcosta.com/

http://www.myspace.com/acrowdofone

 Tix are $10/$8 for VIP members

Tri-County Music and Arts is a local non-profit group that will be hosting several classes, groups and events in this new facility located next to Valley Music Center in the Long Valley Village mall at 62 East Mill Road in Long Valley, NJ.

   

Gil LeDuc of the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) will be booking and hosting events on the Studio stage starting in July. Canadian born Gil LeDuc began his songwriting journey in New Jersey when he wrote his first song in 1977 when he wrote a song for his high school sweetheart. He soon found out that his true love was music, and has pursued his goal of writing the perfect song since. He played guitar in high school, touring with the jazz band to Montreal, St. Johns, N.B. , Washington, D.C, and was awarded a music scholarship in his senior year. He continued music studies in college. In 1989, Gil moved to Minnesota pursuing a KOA business venture but couldn’t keep away from music. He landed his first publishing contract with Woody Richardson in 1990 with a country gospel song “Pray My Soul To Keep” (ala Ricky Skaggs.)

Gil became the showcase director for the Minnesota Association of Songwriters (MAS) in 1995, and penned “Holding On,” “The Wolf,” and “Once In A Dream” which were selected for release on Oarfin records, and received airplay on Minneapolis radio stations. Gil had written an article (Tax Tips) for MAS which was picked up by American Songwriter magazine (Jan-2000 and Dec 2002, special edition.) Gil was honored to have met and assisted Vasser Clements in a fiddlers workshop in Minneapolis. Vasser showed his kindness in return by going into the studio to play fiddle on a song Gil penned (“La Petite Jeune Fille,” a Cajun waltz ala Balfour Bros) which was featured on Gil’s CD, “Greetings From Nashville” (2001.)

With his goal to get closer to Nashville, Gil moved to Ohio in 1998 and met Terry Keith, the Columbus Chapter coordinator who would ask Gil to become the co-coordinator for the group. Gil moved to Nashville in 2001, but moved back to NJ in 2002 to take care of his parents. Gil is also a member of ASCAP (Willis Gillis Music, www.willisgillis.com,) and recently founded the Morris County, NJ chapter of NSAI. Gil believes that NSAI and the committed people who make up the NSAI community are paramount to achieving success as a songwriter.

The offerings at The Studio of Long Valley include:
Beginning Band (grades 3-8): Mondays and Wednesdays: 5:10-6pm
Tri-County Orchestra (all ages): Mondays: 7-8:30pm
Beginning Guitar (grades 1-4): Tuesdays: 4-5:15pm
Beginning Guitar (grades 5 and up): Tuesdays: 5:30-6:45pm
Fiddle Club (all ages) : Tuesdays: 7-8:30pm
Jazz/Big Band (all ages): Wednesdays: 7-8:30pm
Piano Class (grades 1-4): Thursdays: 4-5:15pm
Piano Class (grades 5 and up): Thursdays: 5:30-6:45pm
Tri-County Concert Band (all ages): Thursdays: 7-8:30pm
Show Choir (school age grade 3 and up): Fridays: 4-5:15pm

As well as Concerts and Masterclasses in all genres.

September 24th at 8pm

"North Sea Gas", based in Edinburgh, Scotland,  tours in the U.S./Canada in the spring and fall and have been coming over for about 8 years. 

NSG has travelled the world, are high energy but not Celtic rock and are true entertainers with wonderful 3 part harmonies, as well as great musicians.  On our spring tour this year, the band recorded a segment for "Song of the Mountains", a show shown on PBS stations in various parts of the country that will be released in February 2011. Also, you can listen to sound bites on our website (www.northseagas.co.uk) and to a complete radio show recorded at Cornell University's "Bound For Glory Radio Show".  There is video on UTube as well,  (http://www.google.com/search?q=north+sea+gas&oi=navquery_searchbox&sa=X&as_sitesearch=youtube.com&num=20&hl=enand).

$12/$10 for VMC Members w/VIP CARD