Charly Chiarelli & Friends:Friday, September 24. 8:00pm $15 / $10 artists/students. Charly is heading to Italy next week for a star turn which will include both his music and his story telling. Charly plays one mean harmonica and even meaner blues. But you ain’t heard nothin’ until you have heard the blues Sicilian style…. One of the friends will be Gary Santucci…..
An Avant-garde Sunday: Sunday, September 19. 8:00pm. $10 / $7 artists/students.
Toronto’s Colin Fisher and 
Brandon Valdivia, as not the wind, not the flag, “engage in high-energy, global-minded romps across the entire spectrum of genre bashing sound. In a live setting, the duo slay; it’s worth considerable effort to attend a performance.” Exclaim.ca.
Local musician, Melinda Richter and group slowly, slowly (a project based on fluidity) played The Pearl in July and impressed us with their unique musicality.
Another local group misner space will round out the evening. This group includes two well-respected Hamilton singers, Annie Shaw and Sarah Good.
This evening of experimental music is guaranteed to challenge and 
stimulate.
An Evening of Italian Guitar Masters: Friday, September 17 at 8:00 pm. $15 at the door. Gary Santucci playing 
Carcassi, Carulli, Giuliani, Gragnani, and Paganini (yes, Paganini also played the guitar). Gary will reprise last September’s well-received Festitalia concert.
Wednesday Night Showcase: Wednesday, September 15, 8:00pm, $10 at the door. A venue for talented singer songwriters in Hamilton and surrounding areas. The showcase is a once-a-month feature. Next week has a different twist with the Flamenquitas, flamenco dancers Emanuela Dussin and Mirella Agro, the songs of Ecuadorian singer-songwriter Miguel Ginez accompanied by Franz Nangle on drums and Gary Santucci on guitar. Gary will also play a set with Dimitrios Doumas, his musical partner of many years. Another great evening!
AHEAD OF THE HERD: An Investment Seminar with Anne Milne, CIM, CFP: Tuesday, September 14, 7:00
p.m. No Charge. Using aspects of sociological and economic theory, this seminar is a fascinating look at the market as a social phenomenon. It demonstrates how trends in fashion, movies, music, and the economy are all intertwined. Investors, business people, and anyone interested in their financial health will benefit from learning how to observe herding behaviours everywhere. Limited Registration. Please call 905-524-0606Or email: info@thepearlcompany.ca . For more information: milne.anne@mgisecurities.com See also under the newsletter tab for how Barbara views her sister’s historical, and
sometimes hysterical (in the sense of entertaining …) approach to financial planning!
“Vincere”. Cinema Insieme’s first film of the Italian Films season as part of Festitalia. Monday, September 13th, 7:00 pm. $10 at the door. The powerful new film from acclaimed auteur Marco Bellocchio, ‘Vincere’ is a compelling drama based on the little known story of Benito Mussolini’s first wife beginning with their liaison in 1914; An official selection of the Cannes, Toronto and Telluride Film Festivals, Vincere is a gripping film that combines drama, archive footage, and music creating a highly cinematic oratorio of enormous emotional force. Professor Franco Gallippi will be presenting the film and leading the Q & A session afterwards.
Rita Chiarelli in Concert: Friday, September 10 & 11. 8:00pm. $25 at the door. Dubbed the Canadian Goddess of the Blues
by CBC’s Shelagh Rogers, Rita is releasing her 8th CD, SWEET PARADISE… All new! Featuring some of Canada’s finest musicians! If you didn’t see the story that Graham Rockingham of the Spectator wrote about what this astonishing woman has been doing lately, here is the link: http://www.thespec.com/whatson/music/article/253754–music-from-the-big-house
“I like to take the listener with me, so they get a picture as to where I’ve been… I guess you could say that I write from the road trips of my life.” Rita Chiarelli
“These past few years, I took long and lonely journeys to Mississippi and Louisiana… the songs you will hear are the bluesy swampy rootsy experiences I had… they are real and they are from the heart” Rita again.
“What a voice! Powerful…lively, warm, and sensual. The emotion is there, it vibrates and is palpable. This Sweet Paradise is really superb!” Gilles Blampain, Blues Again, Paris, France
www.ritachiarelli.com
The ƒ Holes: Thursday, September 9. 8:30. 15$ at the door.10$ students/artists: … An impeccably authentic, 
raucously entertaining blend of gypsy jazz, zippy Dixieland, viper blues and roots from this Winnipeg creative hybrid that is rewriting the definition of roots music. Over-the-top vocals meet pedal steel, blistering horns, banjo and fiddle to create this campy, slightly twisted take on country, blues, dixieland, klezmer and anything that piques their interest, apparently. With music that would be at home on an off-Broadway stage, this musical conglomerate swirls around the hell-fired vocals of Patrick Alexandre Leclerc and a group of talented musicians who throw caution to the wind in their 
bid to make a distinctive mark. (The F refers to the holes in acoustic guitars and standup basses…) www.thefholes.ca
