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| April | |
| April 3 | Wendell is joining his pals Shawn Brush and Bill Dillon for a guitar night at Hamilton Place. These boys have all performed with each other over the years but never all 3 at once. Shawn's threatening to bring along a fourth guitarist. Yikes! |
| April 4 | Wendell is appearing and playing in the band for a Canadian Opry Show at the Stirling Festival Theatre. Show is at 8:00pm and features Don Harron (as Charlie Farquarson), The Haggerty's (Scott, Jim and Diane), The Young Family, Donnie and Vicki Wallace, John DeVries and even some cloggers. Wendell will be doing several of his pickin' and gaggin' songs. Ticket info: Toll-Free: 1-877-312-1162 Local:613-395-2100 www.stirlingfestivaltheatre.com |
| April 11 | Wendell and Wheat are in concert for the Edmonton Uptown Folk Club Held at the Norwood Legion 11150 82St. Show at 8:00pm (doors at 7:30) $12 members and in advance. $15 at the door. Tickets available at Myhre's Music (477-1586) South Side Sound (423-7503) More info call 436-1554 or visit www.uptownfolkclub.ca |
| April 12 | Workshop on Comedy Song Writing and Fingerstyle Guitar. Wendell will lead the uninitiated through the process of writing funny songs. And then a lesson on fingerstyle guitar playing. There will be plenty of examples of both as well as lots of laughs. This is taking place fairly early as Wendell and Wheat have to scoot to High River. Presented by the Uptown Folk Club. Held at Rossdale Community Hall 10135 96 Avenue Edmonton Time 10:00am. $5 for members, $10 for non members. All are welcome. Same info as above. |
| Wendell and Wheat in concert in High River Alberta. Details soon. | |
| April 13 | Wendell and Wheat are doing a special song-writing workshop for Fish Creek Concerts. Go to their web site for up to the minute details |
| Wendell and Wheat are in concert in Calgary presented by Fish Creek Concerts. The show starts at 7:30 at St. Andrews United Church. Tickets and info are available at www.fishcreekconcerts.com | |
| April 17 | Wendell and Wheat are in concert at the Carberry Plains Arts Council This will be held at the Carberry Plains Community Memorial Hall 224 2nd Ave. Showtime is 7:30pm. ticket info at crbyarts@westmen.wave.ca |
| April 18 | Forget Saskatchewan No! Don't Forget Saskatchewan. It's pronounced 'For Jey'. Wendell and Wheat are in town, one night only. Ticket, venue and times contact: hank@sasktelnet |
| April 19 | Wendell and Wheat in concert in Souris Manitoba. Presented by the Souris District Arts Council Showtime 8:00pm. Held at the Souris Community Hall 30 3rd Avenue West For ticket prices and info contact Souris Arts Council |
| April 20 | Wendell and Wheat are in Saskatoon at a concert in a house (We refer to them as "House Concerts') It's an afternoon show starting at 3:00pm. Wendell doesn't have venue details at this posting but you can contact Sandy at fritzie@sasktel.net and she should be able to tell you something. |
| April 23 | Wendell and Wheat are in Concert in the town so nice they named it twice. Yes that's right Wawa! Details will follow shortly. |
| April 24 | Wheat is performing in Sault Ste Marie Michigan Details will follow. |
| April 25 | Wendell and Wheat in concert for the Black Fly Jam Folk club. Details will follow soon or check out Black Fly Jam on the web. |
| April 26 | Wendell and Wheat in concert at The Cafe in the Woods. This is an excellent series presented by Kerrene Tilson. Info and ticket prices at : cafeinthewoods@gmail.com |
| April 27 | Wendell and Wheat join the rest of Betty and the Bobs for a concert in Sudbury. 7:00pm at St. Andrews Church 111 Larch St. Tickets $20.00 available at Black Cat One, Jett Landrey Music and Skyler-Peppler Southridge Mall. Presented by Affinity Concerts. |
| May | |
| May 2 | Wendell is heading back to London to do a Writers-In-The-Round night at St. Andrews Memorial Church. Wendell is joined by Tim Fischer and a few other great writers for an evening of fun, stories and songs in a gorgeous church atmosphere. Check back for ticket info. |
| May 3 | 8:00 PM, Newmarket, ON, Old Towne Hall - BETTY AND THE BOBS This is a Betty and the Bobs show presented by the Newmarket Folk Society. Old Town Hall, 460 Botsford St. Please contact David or Carol at 905-836-9073 or write David at dkjoyce@bellnet.ca or visit the Website |
| May 5 | Wendell and his pal Ronnie Robertson are playing as part of a Writers Night at Mitzi's Sister on Queen Street in Toronto. There will be other performers there too. Details and ticket info to follow. |
| May 8 | 8:00 PM, Library and Archives Canada 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, ON A Double Bill with Scarlett, Washington and Whiteley and Wendell and Wheat. Tickets are available at the Ottawa Folklore Centre, all 3 CD Warehouse stores and both Compact Music locations. Tickets can also be reserved by phone at 613-727-0123. For more information, please contact Peter at: peter@nutshellmusic.com or visit the Website |
| May 9 | 8:00 PM, Renfrew, ON Private house concert with Wendell and Wheat. This is a private house concert, but if you're an old pal in the area and you want to come, please let US know katherine.wheatley@sympatico.ca or wendell@wendellferguson.com |
| May 10 | 8:00 PM Town Hall Theatre Harriston, ON Basement Cafe Reunion Featuring: Juanita Wilkins, Wendell Ferguson, Katherine Wheatley, James Gordon, Richard Knechtel and Bob MacLean. For concert and ticket information please email juanita@juanitawilkins.com or visit the Website. |
| May 11 | 2:00 PM ArtsCan House Concert with Wendell and Wheat in Tottenham, ON 8:00 PM Moonshine Cafe Concert with Wendell and Wheat. 137 Kerr Street, Oakville, ON |
| May 11 | Well they must be getting sick of Wendell in Oakville. He's back there again. This time at The Moonshine Cafe. On Kerr St., one block north of Lakeshore. This will be Wendell and Wheat. They'll be squeaky tight from being on the road for a month and probably on speaking terms again. Show at 8:00pm. Tickets and info: www.themoonshinecafe.com |
| May 12 | 7:30pm Wendell is the featured guest at the Southern Ontario Fingerstyle Guitar Assoc.'s Bi-monthly meeting. It's held at the Pheasant Plucker Pub, upstairs on 20 Augusta Street in Hamilton. For directions go to the SOFGA Website |
| May 22 | Wendell is one of the Nashville Songwriters Association's guest hosts for a writers in the round evening. Wendell and his round get underway at 7:30 at Trane (964 Bathurst Street just north of Bloor) This is a ninety minute set with 3 other NSAI songwriters. For all the venues and all the songwriters visit: Website |
| May 24 | The Prince Albert Public House in Mount Albert at 69 Main Street. Starting at 8:30. Visit the Website |
| May 26 | Wendell is the featured guest at the East End Open Stage sponsored by the Toronto Fingerstyle Guitar Association. Dunstan Morey, a fabulous guitar player, has put together (and hosts) a great line-up of featured guests, along with an opportunity for other guitarists to get up and perform. The open stage starts at 8:00pm and the featured act goes on at 9:00pm. Check out their website for upcoming appearances by the great Mark Sepic and Ewan Dobson. There is NO Cover charge and it's held at Ten Feet Tall Bistro/Cafe/Bar located at 1381 Danforth Avenue (between Coxwell and Greenwood) |
| May 27, 28, 29 | Wendell is traveling up to the Yukon with the legendary Sylvia Tyson to play for the opening of a new posh resort. He really doesn't expect anyone to fly up to catch one 'half-hour' performance but he just wanted you to know, he was doing it...the braggart. There aren't any details on this one and probably won't be. But if you live in Whitehorse, lock up your grandmothers. |
| June | |
| June 7 | It's deja vu all over again. The 'Old Streetsville Boys' (who generally only do one gig a year) are booked to play the 50th year reunion at Streetsville Secondary School (Good old S.S.S.). Same old guys...same old tunes...same old crowd... Comedy ensues. Details closer to the date. |
| June 11 | Wendell, David Matheson, Suzie Vinnick and David Woodhead (3 Bobs and 1 Betty) are taking part in Soul Drum's annual Concert and Recital for their students. It gives the young (and not so young) drummers a chance to interact with 'real musicians'. (It also gives a chance for the aforementioned people to pretend they're 'real musicians'). So everybody's happy. And the audience is full of beaming parents, relatives and friends filming, applauding and enjoying the music. All the great Soul Drums instructors are also there coaching their students. For details visit the Soul Drums Website. |
| June 12 | Wendell is taking part in Erica Knight's Writer's Night held at the Groove Kitchen and Music Room 656 King St. E Cambridge ON. Ticket info at Ericaknight.com |
| June 24 | Wendell is joining his pals Katherine Wheatley and Suzie Vinnick (2 Bettys and 1 Bob) for a SASS recital/concert at the Class Act Dinner Theatre in Oshawa. SASS is an organization that puts students in touch with professional songwriters throughout the Durham Region. Check out their website for details of the show. |
| June 26-27 | Those crazy nuts at Dauphin Countryfest have already booked Wendell back to play there again. That makes 5 years in a row. He's thinking of buying a house out there and settling down. It's too much fun and 50,000 people. Largest festival in Manitoba. Dwarfs the Winnipeg Folk Festival. Wendell will probably be hosting the 'Writers-in-the-Round' on the Main Stage again as well as his own concert. Details here... |
| July | |
| July 11 | Wendell and Wheat are performing at the Canterbury Music Festival in Ingersoll. Info at their Website |
| July 12 | The rest of Betty and the Bobs join them as Betty and the Bobs play all day in various guises and combinations at the workshops and then come together for a main stage show. Best part...it's free! Presented by all the generous merchants and the town of Ingersoll. A lovely place I must say. |
| July 18 | Wendell has been asked to return to the Canadian Guitar Festival held outside of Kingston. This is their 5th year and Wendell's honoured to be taking part. Sadly it looks like he'll only be there on the Friday night...unless they kick it off a day early....hmmm? Details at: Canadian Guitar Festival |
| July 19 & 20 | Wendell is finally scheduled to play the Stewart Park Festival in Perth ON. 7 years of 'almost' have finally been confirmed in a booking. Yay! Details soon. |
| July 23 | Wendell is conducting a writing and performing seminar/interview kind of deal at Humber College's West Toronto Campus. 10:00am. It's part of Blair Packham amd Rik Emmet's Songwriting Program. Details and ticket info to follow. |
| July 24 | Wendell is heading up to Hanover for a Variety Entertainment Show hosted by the great Larry Mercey (of The Mercey Brothers fame). This show features Juanita Wilkins and her Trio along with Larry Mercey and his Trio. Where the hell's Wendell Trio? (Although technically, he weighs as much as the other two trios) Details and ticket info coming soon. |
| August | |
| Aug. 7 | Wendell is once again performing with the great Sylvia Tyson in Muskoka. No details at this time, but check back closer to the date. |
| Aug. 10-14 | Wendell and Sylvia Tyson are off to the Rock by. That's Newfoundland to you mainlanders. They play in St. Johns on Sunday August 10th and then in Woody's Point on August 13th. Sounds like some good time Wha? Details when they become available. |
| Aug. 21 | Wendell and Wheat are performing in Kilbear. Wendell doesn't know a darn thing about this show (like that's 'news'?) |
| September | |
| Sept. 4-8 | It's Canadian Country Music Week. this year it's in Winnipeg. Should be a blast. |
| Sept. 20 | Wendell and Wheat are finally doing a gig in Toronto. At Acoustic Harvest. This beautiful series has presented them both years ago so I guess they're 'back by popular demand'. The show starts at 8:00pm. For all directions and ticket info go to www.acousticharvest.cjb.net or call (416) 2235. |
| October | |
| Oct. 5 | Wendell and Wheat, Vinnick and Fines, Tannis Slimmon (with Lewis Melville and the Alison Lupton Band will be performing for Terry Eagan's Healing Garden in Kitchener. They're all being backed by a killer band consisting of, Don Reed, David Woodhead, Dave Mattacks. Tentatively booked at The Maureen Forrester Hall at Wilfrid Laurier University. |
| Oct. 18 | Wendell and the Smoking Section are taking over the beautiful Sterling Festival Theatre. This will be a night of great guitar picking, songs, both silly and heart-warming and of course, stories from the vast, yet questionable mind and mouth of Wendell. Info at Ticket info: Toll-Free: 1-877-312-1162 Local:613-395-2100 www.stirlingfestivaltheatre.com |
| Oct. 23-26 | It's the OCFF Conference. This is a great conference for all involved in both the folk community and music in general. This year it's being held in Ottawa. So it would be a Capitol idea to attend. |
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| July | |
| July 4 | Wendell is hosting the mainstage at the Sally Creek Music Festival (about a mile north of Woodstock Ontario). It's a mostly 'Bluegrass' festival with a few diverse acts thrown in for...well diversity. |
| July 5 | Wendell and Wheat are performing at the Sally Creek Music Festival. Probably an afternoon concert. Details will be posted once they become available. |
| E-mail:wendell@wendellferguson.com |
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