Waterloo
Par Michel Tassé – La Voix de l’Est (Arts & Spectacles) – Publié le 23 septembre 2010 à 09h13
Pascal Gauthier vit de beaux moments depuis le début de l’aventure de Trois.photo Alain Dion
(GRANBY) Pascal Gauthier l’avoue: il est nerveux, fébrile. Samedi soir, Jean Sébastien Lavoie, Martin Moerman et lui entameront une tournée qui les mènera un peu partout au Québec. Et ça commence ici, à Granby.
«Commencer une tournée devant ses parents, ses amis et ceux qui te supportent depuis des années, c’est une bonne raison d’être sur les nerfs!», lance le ténor waterlois en riant de bon coeur.
Pascal Gauthier et ses deux acolytes ont lancé Trois, un album éponyme, à la fin de l’hiver dernier. Et le temps est venu de présenter leurs chansons de pop-lyrique au public.
«Je suis très, très fier de commencer la tournée au Palace. Jocelyn Lemoine m’a fait un merveilleux cadeau en nous offrant de présenter notre tout premier spectacle chez moi, dans ma région. Ça, c’est quelque chose que je n’oublierai jamais.»
Pascal a chanté une fois et puis une autre au Palace. Mais la plupart du temps, c’était dans le cadre de concerts-bénéfices. En fin de semaine, les gens qui seront sur place auront payé pour le voir et l’entendre lui, pas juste pour appuyer une bonne cause.
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Date : 2010/09/09 – Source : TVCW
La Télévision communautaire de Waterloo vient d’apprendre avec étonnement que le diffuseur du canal communautaire VOX vient de décider de couper toute diffusion régionale et locale à partir de Granby entre le 13 septembre et le 28 novembre 2010, ce qui affecte grandement la possibilité de la TVCW de rejoindre son auditoire. Cette annonce est soudaine et elle met à mal la bonne collaboration du diffuseur avec la télé waterloise.
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a re-print from “The Record”
“Stop!” is a TV show on Videotron’s community cable network Vox (channel 9) out of Granby, and features young local musicians from the area playing different genres of music.
For the past three years “Stop!”, produced by Radio Communautaire Missisquoi (RCM / CIDI 99.1 FM) in conjunction with Télévision Communautaire de Waterloo, has presented 18 bands to date in a televised battle of the bands. The criteria for becoming a contestant are: the artist has to be an independent artist, perform original compositions and be able to play live in studio in front of TV cameras.
This year, from the beginning of September right up until the third week of December, the producers of “Stop!” will be presenting for the first time the “Stop!” piano competition. The show will feature six classically trained piano students from the area vying for $1, 000 of scholarship prize money for the benefit of furthering their musical education; 1st place $500, 2nd place $350 and 3rd place $150. There will also be a public choice award decided by people who go to Radio Communautaire Missisquoi’s website (www.rcmmedia.org) and place their votes in an online voting booth.
a re-print from “The Record”
Written by Maurice Singfield, Tanya Tkach & Tanya Singfield
I can remember the streets of Waterloo in the winter when I was a kid. The frozen sidewalk of Clark Hill provided a slippery surface for my sled, and more often than not a snow bank to pound into as I missed turning the corner. That corner is right in front of the old Foster Mansion, better known in those days as the Maplewood Convent, a private school for girls, operated by the nuns of the order of the Holy Name of Jesus and Mary (the same order that founded the famous school of music, Vincent d’Indy in Montreal).
The nuns offered piano and art lessons to the community and were an immense help in developing the arts in the Townships. Many of the students who attended Waterloo High School, which was just down the road four driveways away, went to the convent for private lessons. And, to this very day, are still involved in preserving our Townships culture through their artistic expressions.
“I was formerly tutored in the classical technique of painting,” says Mary Martin, an alumna of WHS, “by sister Louis, a wonderful person and loving teacher at Maplewood.”
Interview done November 17, 2009 with Jacques Lecours:
This is a French language interview.
Denis Chagnon speaks of his family’s dairy located in Waterloo, its history, the dairy industry of Quebec, our region and of many of the high quality dairy products they produce.
Radio host Jacques Lecours and Denis Chagnon of Laiterie Chagnon in Waterloo.
To learn more: http://www.laiteriechagnon.qc.ca/
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open the full post » Tour de Ville avec Jacques Lecours 09-11-28
a re-print from “The Record”
As a child, living in Montreal all winter and coming to the cottage in the Townships each summer, I well remember the Chagnon truck coming by every week. In those days, many mothers would come to the country house in the summer with their children while the fathers remained in the city to work and only arrived on weekends, so all we had in the meantime was the bakery truck and the Chagnon truck during the week. We certainly looked forward to that!
Chagnon Dairy in Waterloo is most definitely a neighbourhood company and community-minded enterprise. Founded by Jacques Chagnon in 1954, and with only four employees at the time, the fledgling business collected milk from local farms and delivered it by horse and buggy house to house.
open the full post » WHO ARE THE PEOPLE IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD?
a re-print from “The Record”
There is something to be said for longevity, especially when we speak of organizations / corporations. Saint-Hyacinthe pipe organ builders Casavant Frères are such a company. One has to understand that high hopes and good intentions alone are not enough: it takes vision, hard work and an organizational infrastructure to achieve success.
Optimism and postulation alone will never create a winner. “Casavant is the oldest continuing name in North American organ building”, claims website www.casavant.ca. “On November 14, 1991 the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada dedicated a plaque in honour of Joseph Casavant who built pipe organs in Saint- Hyacinthe where his two sons, Claver and Samuel, established Casavant Frères in 1879.”
In Waterloo at St. Luke’s Anglican Church we are fortunate to have a Casavant organ. Built in 1918 in commemoration of first world war veterans, the instrument still makes beautiful music under the capable hands of church organist Catherine Lawrence. On occasion, Radio Communautaire Missisquoi volunteer Bob Farnam pulls out all the stops and contributes to its glorious sound.
Show 18, Interview done on November 9 2009
Virgin Hill Coffee
Matthew Greer speaks with host Dewey Durrell about Knowlton based Virgin Hill Coffee, its roasting facility located in Waterloo and the many different aspects of coffee production. Greer tells how they, a township’s family business came to be, their goals, in this, a very competitive industry.
pour en apprendre plus: http://www.virginhillcoffee.com
open the full post » Around Town with Dewey Durrell 09-11-15
BIÈRE Ô LOO: SIXTY BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL
(and forty kinds of whisky too!)
a re-print from “The Record”
Waterloo and Knowlton are but 15 minutes apart, yet they are so disparate in mind and attitude. Why? Maybe it’s because of the Eastern Townships’ autoroute, snaking its merry way along the Shefford and Brome county line to Montreal.
Who knows why the residents of these two communities view each other as alien territory. Most residents of Knowlton wouldn’t dream of coming to Waterloo for entertainment just as most Waterloo people don’t frequent The Pub or Theater Lac Brome. Usually people from Waterloo fulfill their entertainment needs at the Maison de la Culture de Waterloo, Le Palace in Granby and most recently at the Bière Ô Loo in Waterloo, never thinking they could possibly venture down the road to Knowlton for a night out. What’s that you say? The Bière Ô Loo in Waterloo?
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show 3
With Pascal Gauthier
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a re-print from “The Record”
Hi folks, I had to write this one by myself this week because Maurice is exhausted and fast asleep on the couch at the moment. How much can one guy do? Let’s give him a break, shall we?
We’re doing something a little different this week. We decided it was high time to get together, meet each other and give everyone a well-deserved pat on the back for a job well done So we threw a party and we’d like to share it with you all.
Welcome to all, my name is Bertrand and I cohost a TV show airing on canalVOX: STOP! Have a look at the STOP! grid for specific airing times. STOP! offers to independent bands the opportunity to showcase their talent, this show is done in collaboration with canalVOX (vidéotron), Télévision communautaire de Waterloo and le Studio SEM 1492.
small bio…..
To see the latest shows please select them on the right column under the STOP! section.
To contact me or post a comment use the form here under.
