..but what a great one it was!

photo of Handsome Dan from the Friday night show at the Forest City Gallery - Thomas Pilgrim

Thanks SO much everyone, for coming out and helping us have another wonderful festival weekend! It couldn’t have gone any better, and we owe it all to you – the guests, musicians, volunteers, venues.

Now, as I sit around having a nice lazy Sunday, I can’t help but think about all the fun times that were had and all the amazing musicians that performed. Although my ears are still ringing and my feet are still aching, I have so many incredible memories and songs still circling ’round in my head. Also, thanks to the amazing Thomas Pilgrim, there are already photos for us to see documenting every oh!fest event! 

Check them out on his flickr site here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pilgrimthomas/sets/72157623930592332/

and stay tuned for Andrew Colvin‘s great photos too!

If any of you have photos from the weekend on your own flickr account, be sure to join the Open House flickr group and add them!

Have a great week!

PS. There is still some leftover merch and paraphernalia from the weekend floating around – pins, tshirts, schedule booklets. If you didn’t get a chance to visit the merch table or you just want a souvenir, get in touch with us and we’ll get it to you!

Banners are sewn. Tickets are flying off the shelves.  The bands are making their way through the desolate Canadian landscape to get to London, Ontario. This is where it’s at.

You better know what’s up ’cause Oh! Fest 2010 is comin’ AT YA.  Here’s the final schedule: 

DAY 1, April 22:

4pm: @ Grooves Records (FREE!)
The CFL Sessions (London)
Jon Mckiel (Halifax)

8:30pm: @ Museum London, $12
The Acorn (Ottawa)
Olenka and the Autumn Lovers (London)
Cousins (Halifax)

DAY 2, April 23:

4pm: @ Grooves (FREE!)
The Whipping Wind (London)
Kite Hill (Toronto)

8:30pm: @ The Forest City Gallery $10
$100 (Toronto)
Handsome Dan and his Gallimaufry (London)
Evening Hymns (Toronto)

DAY 3, April 24:

2pm: @ The McManus Theatre (Below the Grand) $7
The Wooden Sky (Toronto)
The Wilderness of Manitoba (Toronto)
Sam Allen (London)

8:30pm: @ Call the Office $7
The D’Urbervilles (Guelph/Toronto)
A Horse and His Boy (London)
Say Domino (London)
P.S. I Love You (Kingston)

Hello!

We are super excited to announce that Oh!Fest 2010 weekend PASSES are on sale now! Hooray! We’ve been working away like crazy on our little letterpress, clanking away and getting our fingers all inky, and they’re finally done!

The pass will get you into every event taking place during the weekend for only $27!

The package includes the following:

1 – A hand letterpressed pass card

2 – A hand letterpressed program/schedule booklet to guide you through the weekend

3 – A limited edition Oh!Fest pin (1 of 2 designs)

4 – An Open House “Oh!” speech bubble sticker

Cool stuff! These pass packages are limited so be sure to pick yours up soon, available only at Grooves Records. (353 Clarence St.) Individual tickets for each show are also available there.

If you can’t make it down to Grooves, you can also get tickets for all 4 shows at the weekend pass price ($27) at INFO Source on the UWO campus.

ALSO!

This Saturday is international independent Record Store Day at Grooves Records!

This awesome day will be filled with live music, contests, trivia, prizes and special limited edition items!

Come support your local independent record store retailers and get some sweet deals.

When: This Saturday, April 17th from 9am to 8pm!

Where: Grooves Records – 353 Clarence St.

Live in-store music will be happening from noon – 7pm. The fantastic line-up is as follows:

Noon-1pm: Noise Level
www.myspace.com/noiselevel1

1pm-2pm: Aaron Lozynsky
www.myspace.com/aaronlozynsky
www.aaronlozynsky.com

2pm-3pm: The Strugglers
www.myspace.com/thenorthernstrugglers

3pm-4pm: Panic On Pluto
www.myspace.com/paniconpluto

4-5pm: Old River Raft

5pm-6pm: Sam Allen
www.myspace.com/samuelmusical

6pm-7pm: Davita G
www.myspace.com/davitag

See you there!

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=378241618165

London’s talent gets some well earned recognition!

This years Jack Richardson Music Awards hosted some fantastic performances and dolled out a number of awards to our small but diverse community of local musicians. Namely, Lido Pimienta, A Horse and His Boy, and Allison Brown each gave stellar performances. If you didn’t catch Lido and AHAHB you missed some incredible dance moves from both acts.

The highlight of the night came when Oh!’s own Olenka & the Autumn Lovers took home the award for “Traditional Folk/Roots” category. Congratulations!

I’d also like to extend my congratulations to both Noise Level (Electronic artist category) and Allison Brown (Contemporary Singer/Songwriter category) for their Award winning work.

Noise Level’s latest release “Conceptual Continuity” is waiting in Grooves for you to pick up and Allison Brown’s album Viper at the Virgins Feet will be out May 15th.

Kittie closed the awards ceremony and were inducted into the JRMA’s hall of fame! Metal.

A website is reborn.
Oh! Fest.com

For those who are new to the class, 2010 will bring us the second annual Oh! Fest. Last year was really fun and we’re stoked to be able to do it again, with more bands, bigger venues AND all the venues are all ages this year. Tickets and the festival pass will be on sale soon!

We’re just as excited as you. Check out the full schedule here.

hey hey all,
had a lovely time with CHRW at the Bruce Peninsula / The Gertrudes / Alanna Gurr show
on Friday night… Oh! enjoys time with CHRW, and so do I…
that’s why it’s pretty exciting to be playing at CHRW’s ‘Local Album of the Year’ show
this Wednesday night!
(the line up is crazy)(and will be much much fun)

see you Wednesday for the fun!
love,
-Sam.

Hey everyone! You can’t beat a free show. We hope to see your shining faces at The Wave (2nd floor of the UCC at Western) on March 26th for this splendid showcase of lovely music makers.

Come check out this neat show on Wednesday night.

And here’s the facebook event!

hey hey hey Friends!

Just a quick “hello” to let you know,
that,
Andrew James (of The Whipping Wind) has
REMIXED
the A Horse And His Boy song “HOME” into a
dance party!

The song is available for your listening
PLEASURE
on the A Horse And His Boy myspace page.

I just can’t stop listening!

I’ll also take this oppourtunity to thank everyone for coming out
to our show last weekend! It was FANTASTIC,
we had a great time and got to debut some new material!
new material
(AMAZING camera & editing by Sean Stanley and AMAZING sound by Tim Glasgow)

love,
-Sam.