Those tom-toms and that double bass. The trunk of
the tree. And clarinets weaving like quicksilver squirrels around fat branches
of brass — trumpet, trombone, saxophone — with guitars wood-pecking chunky
staccato rhythms 'til the sap flows.
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Brant Inn Memories concert, being put on by Russ Weil and the Hamilton All Star
Jazz Band, and featuring authentic arrangements of your favourite standards,
isn't so much a trip back in time as into timelessness. The players are all
young: the two female singers, Ruthie Pytka-Jones and Candace Walkes, are both
under 20. And the dancers, The Hamilton Hoppers, are young too.
Many of
the guests, though, will be old enough to recall the original Brant Inn
experience. The place was a nationally renowned dance hall/nightclub from the
1920s to the 1960s, attracting the biggest names.
Alex Reynolds will be
hosting the evening, simulating the original remote live broadcasts from the
Brant Inn, heard on the CBC and all over the continent. He has impeccable
credentials. He did it from 1959 to 1964, introducing acts and songs for
listeners across North America.
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started them up playing Artistry in Rhythm, the sound almost blasted me off the
stage. I was literally teetering."
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Edna Henderson, of Dundas, remembers
her second date with then husband-to-be Burr Henderson. They almost bailed
because there was such a violent snow storm. But they went, after all. And at
the end of a grand evening, the coat check girl gave Burr the wrong boots back.
"They were way too big, but Burr took them and next day we went
tobogganing. He stuffed the boots with newspaper. We flew down the hill, his big
feet in front, my arms around him, and the snow flying off of us, so light and
fluffy and white. I thought it would either be the end or the beginning of a
perfect romance."
They were married for 41-and-a-half years, when Burr
passed on eight years ago.
Roy Cooper, in St. Jacob's, was a teenager
during the Brant Inn heyday. And his family had a Burlington lakeshore cottage
neighbouring the one Murray Anderson (Brant Inn's legendary owner) rented, with
a diving tower.
Says Roy, now in his 90s: "Some of the gals at Murray's
would bathe topless. I would see them coming and going. I didn't know, which way
to look."
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police have launched a manhunt to trace the dacoits, who fled with gold worth
over Rs 20 lakh in an armed dacoity in the farmhouse of the brother of a sitting
BJP MLA, they still seem to be grappling in the dark to trace the culprits.
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Nashik city, at the farmhouse late on Saturday night. The dacoites had struck
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house of Sayaji Borse and after giving a beating sufficient to terrify him, they
placed a revolver on the head of his eight year old son Virdhan to demand the
gold, Borse and his wife was wearing and also that kept in the cupboard.
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matter was reported to the police after the neighbours rushed to their place
hearing their cries. On the same night the police put up nakabandis in different
parts of the distict and roads leading out of Baglan village, however, the
police did not meet any success.
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Bank holiday weekend dawns and
it’s off to a Baltic Dalston for the optimistically-named Land of Kings
festival. First stop on our stumble through the grimy kingdom of cool is the
cavernous Magnolia for some fortifying Desperados, trippy projections and
experimental electronica from the Public Information DJs. From thence we make
our way back down Kingsland Road to the Eastern Curve Garden where Clash has
decided to sock one in the eye to the British weather and hold a May day fete
and reggae party, temperature be damned. We’ve sadly missed the maypole dancing,
but we do arrive in time for the Four Aces BBQ held in honour of that legendary
Dalston Lane bastion of black music. With Mr Mafro spinning sun-shine infused
reggae and with our beer jackets on, we can almost believe we’re in Jamaica.
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off for some fortifying Turkish grub courtesy of Stone Cave, then head off to
the Servant Jazz Quarters where some folk gems are nestling amongst the
electronic-heavy line up. First up is All the Queens Ravens who are fetchingly
bedecked in matching, opulent vintage, and play Hispanic-inspired, psych-folk.
It’s an intriguing mix and we’re soon nodding and clapping our hands in a
vaguely Spanish fashion. They’re followed by Hall of Mirrors whose lead singer,
Jessica Winter, bears an uncanny resemblance to a young Kate Bush, and sounds a
lot like her too. Their quirky, classically-inspired dream folk owes not a
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Folk fix fulfilled, we swing by The Alibi for
tequila and former Golden Silvers frontman, Gwilym Gold, who’s playing deep,
ambient house and hip hop. From being almost deserted, the club soon fills up
and we start to get our groove on. Suitably motivated/inebriated, we leg it to
the Vortex Jazz Club for the inimitable Speech Debelle, probably the biggest
name on tonight’s line up. Thankfully we arrive early because the space is soon
maxed out, leaving us on intimate terms with the people on either side and
wondering why this isn’t in a bigger venue. A crafty clamber onto a window ledge
and we can actually see Ms Debelle who, frankly, kills it. She blends a dizzying
range of styles into the live set, from a funk-inspired, bass-led ‘Live for the
Message’ to the almost Rage Against the Machine guitar riffs on ‘Elephant in the
Living Room’, which she dedicates to Tupac. Telling a devoted crowd, “There
ain’t no amateurs on this stage right now, these are real fucking musicians,”
she delivers a blinding performance and cements her position as the Queen of UK
rap.
Lamenting our inability to be in two places at once and thus
missing Factory Floor, we console ourselves by heading down to the Dalston Boys
Club for some general merriment and hula hoop twirling. Like a retro, magical
cave of curios and trinkets, the Boys Club reverberates with the sounds of Boss
Terror and Comadisco while we quaff beer with random strangers on the roof
terrace and all agree that Dalston truly is the Land of Kings.
