Bands on the Beach Harrison Hot Springs
We hope you can join us on the beach for our last summer festival of 2022. We’re looking forward to playing and catching some beach time.
Music starts at 1:00. You should come for the whole day.
Let’s hang out afterwards. It will be fun!
From Cherelle – Vancouver Island MusicFest
Stone Poets had the honour of performing July 8-10 Vancouver Island MusicFest After 2 long years of absence due to the pandemic, the festival was sold out and the attendees were ready for a weekend of world class music.
From the moment we got there, we were given the royal treatment. The volunteers handling the intake of cds was our 1st indicator of the level of organization this festival has. Friday night we had off and got to enjoy several of the acts that graced the main stage including our friends in Dirt Road Opera. On Saturday, we were involved in 2 workshops. The first one was Opening Songs and Encores. We got to share the stage with Colleen Brown and her band, Heartwood, Shaye Zadravec, HuDost. 13 performers, all with various instruments sharing a moment in time with a much appreciative audience. Each group sang 2 songs and gave a brief description of how we chose the song. At the end we did a rendition of The Weight … when they pointed at me to do a verse – yikes, I didn’t know the words to most of it so just made it up! One gentleman came up to me later and said that it made his whole festival – people were so nice. Later that day, the workshop was Songs from a Hat. As you can imagine, it was soooo much fun! If we are asked to come back next year, I would love to do this one again. It’s just as it sounds, the audience puts names of songs into a hat. We had the most amazing MC – Treasa Levasseur who I absolutely fell in love with, so talented and lovely. She was perfect! She would pick out a song or have one of the kids pick out a song and anyone in the group of the following artists including Treasa, Jeff Plankenhorn, Big Little Lions, Leeroy Stagger, Shakura S’Aida. Cloretta would stand up and sing it if they knew it. With all the artists including percussion and bass, there was around 15 musicians on stage. It got a little cozy. The sound crew on both stages were amazing. Not an easy task with all of us on stage needing something. It was awesome having everyone sing with each other, someone would take the lead if they knew the song, harmonies were sooo good – the audience was amazing. Songs from Wham, Elton John, Linda Ronstadt, Tears for Fears just to name a few off the top of my head
A little girl was asked if she wanted to sing a song and she did – it was the alphabet song and everyone on stage and the audience all sang along. That was a magical moment.
Sunday morning was our concert and we played an hour set to a crowd of smiling faces. Just having the ability to play live again for people is such a gift. I don’t ever want to take that for granted. The pandemic really made me appreciate how much live music means to people.
Hearing some artist’s original songs was so inspiring, every artist has a different way to express themselves. Beautiful!
After a 2 year hiatus, everyone is grateful live is back!
We had one more workshop, one that we facilitated ourselves called Harmony Singing which is right up our alley. It was so much fun, we sang some of our songs and chatted about harmony – this of course is Marc Gladstone‘s baby as he writes 90 percent of our harmonies for us.
Ferron – a Canadian Icon!
I had the honour of being asked to sing with a talented group of female artists, to form a choir and sing on one of Ferron’s songs at the end of her set. Thank you Treasa for including me. I don’t have everyone’s name except for Linda McRae and Kim Beggs …but everyone one was world class. We had a few minutes to learn the part, such a beautiful song and extremely moving “It won’t take long”. I’m getting goosebumps just writing this down! Thank you Ferron for this honour.
So many musical highlights for me, Matt Anderson, William Prince, John Boutte, Taj Mahal, Old Time Radio show with Jim Byrnes. There was other artists we wished we could have watched but our schedules didn’t work out. The Vancouver Island MusicFest is a world class festival, from start to finish. The organizers, volunteers all took care of whatever we needed. They fed an army of people, they transported our gear, they supported and cheered us on. The sound crew and stage hands – you all deserve so much recognition for all your hard work. Thank you! Shout out to Dave Devendisch (monitors) and Mike Sutcliffe (Sound) at Songs from a Hat. Doug Cox, we truly thank you for having us perform at your festival. It is an experience that I shall never forget. You brought people together to celebrate live music and to have an experience, to make memories. That is such a gift.
Duncan and Courtney
Hello friends.
Shows this week on the island
39 Days of July Thurs July 7th 6 pm Duncan BC
Vancouver Island Musicfest July 8-10
CONCERT Sunday July 10 Grassy Knoll stage 11:15 -12:15
WORKSHOPS
Saturday, Sunday July 9,10 Courtney BC
Saturday in the Barn…Opening Songs & Encores 11:45-1:00
Sat Grierson Stage…Songs From A Hat 3:15 – 4:30
Sunday at the Crossroads…Harmony Singing 2:30 – 3:20
https://www.islandmusicfest.com/stone-poets
See you there!
Summer shows ….
Hello friends.
We’re so happy to be coming to visit you this summer.
Check out our tour page.
Next up, Duncan 39 days of July Fest and then the Vancouver Island MusicFest.
Saturday June 11th – Mission
Please join us for the Mission Coffee House season closer. Doors at 6:30, MarKaren opens for us and we’re on at 8:00
https://www.facebook.com/events/3185331961708582
Dream Cafe Penticton
Thank you to the amazing staff at the Dream Cafe for making our show spectacular.
Kevin the manager is amazing as well as all the staff there.
We are truly grateful. Looking forward to coming back next spring!
If you’re in the area, check out their schedule. https://thedreamcafe.ca/events
Hello Penticton Saturday April 23rd 2022
We’re coming back to the Dream Cafe in Penticton. It was the last show we did before the pandemic hit in 2020, so this is going to be wonderful to be back in one of our favourite venues.
If you’re in the area, we hope you can make it out.
Let’s spend the night together and forget about life for awhile.
Tickets on sale here www.eventbrite.com/e/294974325147
Much love Cherelle, Marc and Scott.
Friday April 22nd – Earth Day – LIVE PEACE
STONE POETS are truly excited to be performing at LiVE PEACE, a concert on Earth Day – April 22nd. We will be performing 4 songs at 10 am that have a message of hope, love and togetherness. We can all come together to make the world a better place. More than ever, we need all of us to be the change we want to see.
You can follow this link to come to the show. https://bit.ly/3wAfx0D
We hope to see you there. The artist schedule is below.
Peace and love Cherelle, Scott and Marc
Canadian Unearthed Series
Blue Frog Studios highly successful “Canadian Music Unearthed” series continues with another of the gems that Canada has to offer.
Tickets are on sale now – https://www.bluefrogstudios.ca/store/p15/Stonepoets.html
Music is therapy.
Hey friends.
It’s really hard to stay positive in these stressful times. Music helps stress so we encourage everyone to keep music playing in your home and your car. It’s the best kind of therapy.
All our songs are written for the new album and we’re in pre-production right now. We’re super excited to get back in the studio late spring to bring you a full length album and we’ll be cutting vinyl as well for this release. Sheldon Zaharko from Zed Productions will be at the helm with Marc. Scott and Cherelle will be hands on as well!
Stay well everyone and see you one of these fine days.
Love Cherelle, Marc and Scott.