20 Jan 2009

Of the Ottawa Blues, Jazz & Swing Guide DIY calendar use recently
http://ottawa-blues-jazz.ncf.ca/MonthsCalendar.html
there have been about 20 local jazz events unlisted and similarly
about one dozen unlisted on the blues side.
 
This DIY service is an entirely free listing service. It is there for use
by musicians as well as venues or people acting on their behalf who wish to let
people know about what there is
for the live-music public to enjoy.
 
I'm keeping the service active for the moment although those who it is
intended to serve are not sufficiently taking advantage of it and may be
instrumental in its removal from one of the services to promote their
music projects.
 
There really is no reason for me to maintain and pay for a service that is
not serving
its intended purpose that others are willing to provide. There
are many more needy projects for my own support that I expect can be
more fulfilling of what I can offer.
 
So, in the circumstances, I'm deferring to:

Liz Sykes' Ottawa Blues This Week, and to

Brett Delmage's
Ottawa Jazz Happenings

as the primary services to let live
music fans know what's available for them
to enjoy in blues and jazz assuming
their audience cares.

You might also consult Ottawa Blues, Jazz & Swing Guide on Facebook for more.

This Facebook group is available for all Facebook members and you're invited to
both join and to add input to this fairly new group I've established. You may
include music, photos, videos as well as information on your own projects to
be appreciated by music fans.

If not on the Ottawa Blues, Jazz and Swing Guide calendar, your gigs can still
be promoted if you send details to:

My calendar has links to both on-line newsletters at the links on this page:
http://ottawa-blues-jazz.ncf.ca:80/thisweek.html for your use and for fans
via the
ottawabluesandjazz@lists.ncf.ca I will still for the foreseeable future
maintain the service I have done for more than 16 years.
 
I will, however, be reviewing from time to time the use of this service to see
if I should
continue to maintain it.
 
As part of this change, I'll be opening both the ottawamusicians@lists.ncf.ca
and the ottawabluesandjazz@lists.ncf.ca as unmoderated lists to members only.
 
Both of these lists are member only allowed to post. This eliminates spam that I
have ensured is automatically discarded.

The
ottawamusicians@lists.ncf.ca is intended for general messages from musician
to musician; venue to musicians
and for musicians to venues involving their general gig
availability and offerings.
 
The ottawabluesandjazz@lists.ncf.ca is primarily intended for special musical
events and any highlighting I may do of events I find of note.

The Ottawa Blues, Jazz & Swing Guide calendar is intended to provide at a
glance what the Ottawa Musician Community is offering for fan enjoyment
either for the month or the week. It is intended to be inclusive. It only
excludes those events that musicians, venues and others who can make a
difference do by excluding themselves.

The Obama Hope

With the great hope Barack Obama has offered not only the U.S. but
Canada and the world, I've penned a bit of poetry to celebrate what
we all have been gifted with to both challenge us and to surmount what we
and the rest of the world must face and overcome in the next many
years.

In the hope that Obama and all who support his principles can next
move on to and beat the next 'Overcome', "Yes we can" here is a
link to my poetic offering:

http://ottawa-blues-jazz.ncf.ca/BarakObama.html

Enjoy!

Jim Roy
Ottawa Blues, Jazz & Swing Guide
Phone: (613) 829-3725
www.ottawabluesjazz.ca
bluesandjazzguy@ncf.ca

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