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Performers of the 2017 Islands Folk Festival
ASANI
An Aboriginal women's trio from Edmonton who draw from their cultural heritage to create music that is accessible to a wide audience, but delivers a powerful message from their hearts. They are Debbie Houle, Sherryl Sewepagaham and Sarah Pocklington. Asani have performed across Canada and internationally at such venues as Carnegie Hall in New York, The Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C. and the Saddledome in Calgary.
With often understated instrumentation, these three remarkable artists let their voices do the bulk of the heavy lifting. Asani's music is a reflection of where they come from and who they are. It is a celebration of their musical and cultural roots within a contemporary context. Carrying with them the traditional influences of First Nations and Metis music accompanied by drums and rattles, their songs resonate with their own blend of traditional vocals infused with the sounds of jazz, folk and blues. Their unique blend of rhythms based on traditional Cree/Metis musical styles combined with a variety of those found in other music traditions puts Asani in a category all their own.
In 2009 they were inducted into the Canadian A Cappella Hall of Fame, and they have performed for the Dalai Lama, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and at the 2010 Olympics in Whistler, BC.
Their debut CD 'Rattle and Drum' was nominated for 11 music awards including a 2006 Juno nomination for Aboriginal Recording of the Year and received the Canadian Aboriginal Music Award (CAMA) for Best Female Traditional/ Cultural /Roots Album, 2005. Asani also received a 2010 Canadian Folk Music Award for Aboriginal Songwriter of the Year and a 2010 Indian Summer Music Award for Best Spiritual Song. We're absolutely thrilled to welcome Asani to the festival this year. https://myspace.com/asanimusic https://www.sonicbids.com/band/asani/
THE MARC ATKINSON TRIO
Marc Atkinson is one of Canada's finest JUNO-nominated, Western Canadian award-winning musicians. He is the leader and composer of the internationally renowned Marc Atkinson Trio (and co-founder, composer and performer in the acclaimed, The Bills). The music of this virtuosic group is melodically captivating, sensually charged and ferociously, technically awe-inspiring. Embracing a lifetime of musical influences, Marc and the Trio recently released their fourth CD, The Marc Atkinson Trio IV.
The Trio, formed in 2000, has toured North America, England and Europe and has received standing ovations everywhere they perform from the Montreal Jazz Festival to the Vancouver International Folk Festival to DjangoFest Northwest. If you are a lover of the guitar, instrumental music or just music, you will love this band. Marc Atkinson is backed by Joey Smith on bass and Reuben Wier or Chris Frye on rhythm guitar.
http://www.marcatkinson.com
JAY AYMAR
Canadian singer-songwriter Jay Aymar is known for his poetic lyrics and conversational singing style. He's recently finished his latest project entitled: The Chicken Came First (and other half-truths from my life as a touring songwriter). It's a collection of short stories accompanied by a live CD of his most requested songs. After a successful 2016 tour he returned to Toronto to organize an official Pledge Music campaign to raise funds for his forthcoming album 'Your Perfect Matador'. The campaign far exceed expectations and he's currently in the studio working with producer Michael Wojewoda (Great Big Sea, Buffy Sainte-Marie, The Jerry Cans). Your perfect Matador is slated for a fall 2017 release.
With songs covered by the likes of the legendary Ian Tyson and a Canadian Folk Music Award nomination under his belt, his work has consistently garnered high praise. Born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie ON, currently residing in Toronto he performs primarily throughout Canada and the United States to over 120 shows per year at clubs, theatres and festivals.
He released his first studio album in 1996 and has since released four more studio albums and one live album. In 2008, Canadian musician Ian Tyson recorded Aymar's composition "My Cherry Coloured Rose"—a song about legendary Canadian hockey broadcaster Don Cherry and his late wife Rose, for his album 'From Yellowhead to Yellowstone and other Love Stories'. https://www.jayaymar.com
"This alone should elevate Jay Aymar to front and center stage where the likes of John Prine, Randy Newman and all the others I tiresomely mentioned stand. He's that good." John Apice, No Depression Magazine
"Aymar is a classic, and Overtime is a knockdown priced master-work." David Farrell, New Canadian Music
QUINN BACHAND'S BRISHEN
Brishen, Romany for 'bringer of the storm', is what Quinn Bachand, one of Canada's most outstanding young musicians, and his band serve up with their original western and euro-gypsy swing homage. They introduce a space where virtuosity meets vibe, leaving you with a sense of jubilance and nostalgia. With understated mastery and intuition, the group dedicates itself to musicality and the root of trad jazz and swing with the goal of bridging the gap between early Western and Euro Swing. Quinn Bachand's fascination, respect and commitment to tradition is clearly audible, setting him apart from the rest with an effect that is awe-inspiring. Join Quinn and his world class bandmates as they wow the crowds at the Festival. http://www.brishenmusic.com
BIG LITTLE LIONS
Little Lions is the ferocious songwriting duo of Helen Austin and Paul Otten. Both successful singer/songwriters in their own right, they met while on a conference songwriting panel, and then a couple of years later started the band from afar, with Helen based on Vancouver Island, and Paul in Cincinnati, Ohio. It's been five years since they formed the band and only three since they began performing together and in that time Paul and Helen have won many awards, including 1st place in the International Songwriting Competition, the top prize of Song of the Year in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition and they won a Canadian Folk Music Award for Ensemble of the Year. Both of them are prolific songwriters whose work has been heard on commercial and CBC Radio, and on hundreds of TV and ad placements as well. Their folk-pop sound and strong song craft combine to delight audiences wherever they play and we're very excited to have them at the festival this year.
http://www.biglittlelions.com https://www.facebook.com/biglittlelions
In 2017 The Bills are celebrating 20 years of bringing great music to fans all around the world. Their newest album, Trail of Tales features tracks composed by all five members of the group. The band has won multiple Western Canadian Music Awards, as well as two JUNO award nominations, and they are among the most reliably fantastic acts the country has to offer. The Bills are renowned for their instrumental virtuosity, lush vocal arrangements, evocative songwriting, and a refreshing sound that transcends musical boundaries and defies simple categorization. With individual band members sporting world-class credentials in folk/roots, jazz, classical and world music, The Bills truly are a Canadian acoustic music super-group, and their combined creative studio talent and explosive live shows have made them legendary folk/roots entertainers. We're thrilled to be celebrating 20 years of The Bills at the Islands Folk Festival this summer. http://thebills.ca https://www.facebook.com/thebillsmusic/
CRAIG CARDIFF
For the past two and a half years, Craig Cardiff has been passing around a Book of Truths during his shows and asking his fans to share something truthful in it — a story, a confession, a hope, a secret. The stories can be heartbreaking, and they can leave Cardiff wanting to do something, to find the person who wrote in his book and tell them to hold on for tomorrow, that things will be OK. Cardiff's most recent album, Love Is Louder (Than All This Noise) Part 1 & 2, has turned into a response to those stories. "I didn't realize it at first, but this collection of songs is just really to help people be OK and to let them know to just wait until tomorrow, stay here and push on through," says Cardiff. "Every song has that kernel of hope and joy, even if it's not apparent at first." Craig is one of the great songwriters this country has to offer and creates a beautiful intimacy with his audience whether it's in an auditorium or a house concert. He is a Juno and WCMA nominee and we're thrilled to have him at the festival this year. http://craigcardiff.com https://www.facebook.com/TheCraigCardiff/
Victoria's The Choir is a non-auditioned, community choir that sings all-original arrangements of pop, folk and indie music. What started as a small project based out of Larsen Music in early 2013 turned big in no time: 100 great people who love to sing their hearts out! The Choir has had a string of very fun and successful concerts, and performances at Rifflandia 2014 through 2106, and the 2015 Campbell Bay Music Festival. They've taken the stage with Hank Pine, Adam Cohen, Kathryn Calder, Pharis and Jason Romero, Choir!Choir!Choir!, Aidan Knight and more. The Choir is directed by Marc Jenkins and accompanied by Erin Gray. If you've never seen a concert by The Choir you're in for a treat. There's nothing like hearing some of your favourite tunes sung in four part harmony by almost 100 voices.
There will also be an opportunity for festival goers to experience being a part of The Choir during the festival. Check the schedule for that. http://www.thechoiryyj.com https://www.facebook.com/thechoirvictoria
https://www.coastlinefiddle.com Coastline is a string ensemble comprised of BC's top young musicians ranging from ages 14-21, coached and mentored by
internationally acclaimed fiddler, Ivonne Hernandez. This award-winning band has already been making a name for themselves since their inception in January, 2013.
With fiddles, cellos, guitars and piano, the group of talented teens play a diverse and exciting repertoire. With intricate arrangements of traditional, original, and contemporary fiddle tunes from around the world, Coastline is pushing boundaries and always having a great time whenever they play.
After being together for only a few months, they won the Large Fiddle Ensemble award at the Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival. They have since gone on to perform at many different festivals and venues, including the Aberdeen International Youth Festival, Victoria International Highland Games & Celtic Festival, Victoria's Tartan Day, and Car Free Day.
With a keen desire to perform, share their music and travel, Coastline has had a busy couple of years. In 2014 they released heir debut self titled album to rave reviews. They're recording a second album this year along with more touring and performing around the West Coast.
We're thrilled they're joining us at the Festival for the first time.
ECCLESTONS
The Ecclestons are BACK!
'Full Contact Folk' best describes what The Ecclestons bring to the stage. After fourteen years together as a band touring all over Western Canada and the US, siblings Colleen (guitar and vox) Kelt (bass, penny whistle, and vox) and adopted brother Greg Madill (bouzouki, mandolin, bodhran and vox) have been busy doing their solo projects for the last few years.
Known for their infectious humour, joyful energy and harmony, this Victoria based band has a massive Celtic repertoire alongside solid songwriting tackling everything from 'bombs falling from the sky' to the fires raging in Alberta and Montana, to siren's song and dancing outside on a summer night. Growing up in the nomadic tradition of University and Airforce brats they have lived all across Canada and beyond bringing a deep worldliness to what they do. Past winners of 'The Best Live Act on Vancouver Island' MPower Award, they are excited to be reunited are packing some brand new songs to this summer's festival.
They burst onto the scene about five years ago whereupon the trio of Claire Butterfield, Chelsea Kanstrup, and Renn Madeleine Bibeau quickly established themselves as a staple of the music community here on Vancouver Island. Their folk pop sounds are accentuated by their beautiful harmonies… and made all the more rich by their truly diverse voices and range in sound. Whether as a trio or with a full band, they've been delighting audiences since they arrived on the scene. You've likely heard them featured on CBC Radio, receiving extensive airplay and also serving at the house-band during the 2014 Food Bank fundraising day.
Fox Glove puts a focus on evolution. Constantly looking to grow, strengthen, and expand, the style of this trio has matured with time and finds itself settling further into the sphere of darker folk pop. And their music is as likely to lift you up as it is to break your heart.
Fox Glove has two EPs under their belt, produced respectively by Jason Cook and Sam Weber. 2016 was busy, with several sold out performances including shows at Alix Goolden Hall and Sugar Nightclub, festival appearances at Rock the Shores and Rifflandia, and a Western Canadian tour with Sam Weber. At the beginning of 2017, Fox Glove organized and headlined the first annual "Love In" at Alix Goolden Hall. They have a very busy rest of 2017 in front of them with more touring and finishing up their debut full length album which is due out in 2018.
They're so busy these days we only get them for one day at the festival but we're very excited to have them with us. https://www.foxglovemusic.ca
GENEVIEVE AND THE WILD SUNDAYS
Soaring harmonies, catchy original songs, foot-stomping fiddling: Genevieve and the Wild Sundays is an all-female quintet that feature the award-winning songs of Cowichan Valley homesteading, guitar playing mama Genevieve Charbonneau. With songs that run from insightful love ballads to rollicking political hootenannies, the music of the Wild Sundays is rooted in old-time country, incorporating Eastern European folk, Americana, and indi-pop.
Genevieve began crafting tales of love, loss and rural living while homesteading in the Cowichan Valley, in between raising her three sons, harvesting veggies from the garden and hauling firewood to fuel her earthen home. Since they formed in 2013, Genevieve and the band have rapidly become one of Vancouver Island's favourites, garnering airplay on CBC Radio and snagging award nominations along the way. Joining her are long-time bluegrasser and fellow Balkan Babe Kelly Sherwin, vocalist/percussionist Laura Carleton, and Yiddish Columbia State Orchestra's mandolin player Chandra Crowe. With five time North American fiddle champion Ivonne Hernandez joining in July 2016. We're thrilled to welcome Genevieve and the band back to Folk Festival. http://wildsundays.ca/ https://www.facebook.com/genevieveandthewildsundays
LYDIA HOL
Since the release of her debut EP, Boats, in 2012, Lydia Hol has toured the country from coast to coast, filling rooms with her songs and stories. Lydia's time spent living in Ireland flavors her performances with a storyteller's honesty and charm, and her studies in English Literature has helped to shape her songwriting into an insightful, and mature art. Sharing the stage with folk legends such as Sylvia Tyson, Dar Williams, and Shari Ulrich as she did this past year, has further encouraged Hol's place as one of Canada's most dynamic young artists. In 2013 Lydia was a Top 20 Finalist in the Peak Performance Project, and a Regional Finalist in CBC's Searchlight Contest. We're thrilled Lydia is joining at the festival this year. http://www.lydiahol.com/ https://www.facebook.com/listentolydiahol
IVONNE HERNANDEZ AND TAD RUSZEL
www.ivonnehernandez.com Some people are born to play music. By the age of three, Ivonne Hernandez started playing violin by ear, everything from her mother's favourite Maritime reels to her father's Chilean folk music roots. A child prodigy, she soon was playing guitar, piano, cello, flute, and percussion before joining the BC Fiddle Orchestra at age 11. Similarly, just north of Victoria, Tad Ruszel was singing songs and harmonies with his singer-songwriter father, and playing the ukulele. This quickly lead to Tad writing songs himself as well as becoming a hot young guitar and mandolin player and being scouted for touring bluegrass and folk bands.
Still in their pre-teens, Ivonne was playing gigs before 60,000 at a Commonwealth Games performance with the Crash Test Dummies, while Tad was performing MainStage at Vancouver Island Musicfest. Both Ivonne and Tad have since toured and taught all over North America, the Caribbean, the UK and Ireland and Europe. They have both recorded albums of their own to critical acclaim, and have also recorded albums with different band projects over the years, to which Ivonne's last album with The Fretless has won her a 2017 Juno Award. Tad and Ivonne are both sought after studio musicians and if that wasn't enough, Tad is an award winning coffee roaster at Bows and Arrows Coffee, while Ivonne, a highly sought after teacher and arranger, of which her student fiddlers in the award winning group Coastline, have recorded 2 albums of Ivonne's arrangements under her direction. This has taken the teens in Coastline across Canada and to Europe and they also received 2 Canadian Folk Music Award Nominations!
As the story goes, one day Ivonne stopped in for a coffee and Tad happened to be working. Tad needed a fiddler for a bluegrass show and asked Ivonne. They bonded and started playing music together and they've been inseparable ever since. Their partnership combines the essence of the folk, bluegrass, pop and celtic worlds. Tad and Ivonne are a folk powerhouse duo combining the hot fiddling of one of the top fiddlers in Canada, and the veteran singer-songwriter-guitarist from the West Coast. Together, their tight harmonies, prolific playing, great arrangements, beautifully sculpted songs put together with their wit and personality make their show mesmerizing.
They're back! After thrilling the audience at Folk Fest a few years back, we're happy to welcome once again the guitar wizardry of Incendio, from Southern California. With eight albums under their belt the has been delighting audiences around the world for the better part of two decades now. Incendio, simply put, is instrumental world music. The primary "voice" of the band is the guitar, but to say the music of Incendio is solely guitar music would be an oversimplification. The guitar is certainly present, but other instruments such as the mandolin, bouzouki, violin, Celtic harp, piano, bass, synthesizer and various ethnic percussion instruments play a huge role in the ensemble's sound. Whether it is the rapid acoustic guitar melodies found in Mitra's Dance or the expansive use of undulating synthesizers on Someday, the music of Incendio tells stories. Formed in the summer of 1999 by Jim Stubblefield, Jean-Pierre Durand and Liza Carbé, Incendio (which means "fire" in Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish) became a vehicle for the influences and compositional talents of the three musicians. Echoes of music ranging from classical, to jazz, to rock, to flamenco, to Celtic, to even bluegrass can be heard in Incendio's music. It is no surprise that this eclectic blend of influences has led to a sound that is a truly unique one. http://incendioband.com https://www.facebook.com/incendioband
HANNE KAH
Hanne Kah is an award winning singer-songwriter from Mainz, Germany whose music touches on folk, pop, rock and country. Reflected in their sound you might find shades of everything from Mumford and Sons through to the Indigo Girls or Melissa Etheridge. After a couple of EP releases in recent years, 2016 saw the release of her debut full length album "Hand Full of Secrets" to critical acclaim in her native Germany. Singing mostly in English, Hanne and her band have become known for their energetic live performances and we're thrilled to get to experience that for ourselves here on their debut Canadian tour.
http://www.hannekah.com/ https://www.facebook.com/hannekahband/
THE KERPLUNKS
They are an award-winning children's music group based on Gabriola Island,
bringing high-energy, colourful performances to the stage - and outfits that match! As a group they are committed to entertaining and educating children through musical creativity and top-notch musicality. They're also celebrated for their ability to entertain parents and adults as equally as the kids. Since forming in 2007, the band has released four full-length albums and a ten-video DVD. In that time they've garnered three consecutive JUNO Award nominations, won twice at the Vox Populi Independent Music Awards for Best Children's Album and for best Children's song. In 2008 they won the Canadian Folk Music Award for Children's Album of the Year, Parent's Choice Approved Award and the Western Canadian Music Award for Outstanding Children's Recording. Their four albums and DVD are a mainstay in North American libraries and, due to this and their growing popularity, The Kerplunks are enjoying high CD sales all around the world.
The Kerplunks have played some of Canada's largest drawing and highest profile events, garnering rave reviews, and we're a little giddy that they're bringing their high-energy show to the festival this year. http://thekerplunks.com
KENT FIDDY and DAVID SINCLAIR
Kent Fiddy and David Sinclair are Juno, B.C. Country Music and Vancouver Island Music Award nominees. They are artists who weave the past and contemporary into a unique musical tapestry. The material is pure Canadiana in the way the songs celebrate stories, events and people from sea to sea… from Ripple Rock (B.C), Ice Road (NWT), The Heart of the Country, (Prairies and Ontario), Farley on a Harley, (Maritimes), and Bob Bartlett, (Nd.). Together, with impeccable harmonies, they combine as an original mix of pop, Celtic, country and jazz-inuenced roots. This is Canadiana Roots Music at its very best. David Sinclair's brilliant solo songs and guitar compositions display his stellar musicianship, vocal ability and forty years of professional touring and recording experience. Kent Fiddy is a songwriter whose words and music touch the heart and soul of his listeners. "Nation building in the song style of Gordon Lightfoot and Stan Rogers" (Yukon Star).
http://britishcolumbiamusic.com
KNACKER'S YARD
A six-piece Celtic traditional folk band with members from Victoria, Saanich, Metchosin and Sooke. Formed in the spring of 2012, the original intent was, and still is, to perform traditional Celtic and English folk songs, intrumentals and ballads dating from the 1600's up to the 1960's. Their repertoire includes songs made popular by voices such as Ewan MacColl, Shirley Collins, Luke Kelly, Ronnie Drew, Enoch Kent, Andy Irvine, Paul Brady and well-known musical groups such as the Dubliners, The Pogues, Corries, The Wolfe Tones, Planxty, De Danaan, and the Bothy Band to name a few.
Knacker's Yard currently has three self-released albums: 'The High St. Demo'(2013), 'Live at Dunsterville'(2015) and 'Songs of the Sea'(2016). While arranged by the group, their songs are closest in presentation to the musical style of The Dubliners, a style the group has chosen for its clear, direct and energetic presentation. In addition to this, they bring in elements from the youthful urban revival of traditional music in the 60's and 70's and also from the humble, stripped down presentation such as can be found on many of the more traditional singer/songwriter albums of the 1960's. Traditional music enthusiasts will appreciate the song-tales of lost love and betrayal, the misdeeds of ramblers and rakes, emigration, hard drinking and hard living, sea shanties and worker's songs. In addition to these ballads and chorus songs, KNACKER'S YARD also adds the explosive musical energy of traditional instrumental, reels, jigs and slides. We're very excited the boys will be bringing their infectious love of traditional music to the festival. https://knackersyard.net
LION, BEAR, FOX
West Coast band Lion Bear Fox is three huge voices joined as one, telling the truth through compelling story, honest narrative and unbridled passion. Three men going to war onstage every night to share a message of hope, vulnerability and redemption. Lion Bear Fox is "a musical force of nature", an "emotional awakening" that's sure to "be around for a lifetime". (Nanaimo Daily News/Songs in the Valley/Terry David Mulligan).
Originally known for their respective solo careers, Christopher Arruda, Ryan McMahon and Cory Woodward joined forces as Lion Bear Fox in 2012 and was immediately selected as one of the top 20 unsigned bands British Columbia (Peak Performance Project). The fall of 2013 saw the band release their self-produced breakthrough EP "We'd Be Good Men" and take Western Canada by storm, touring 15 times over the next two years including stops at Canadian Music Week (Toronto), Contact East (PEI), OSAC (Regina) Mission Folk Festival and The Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, BC. They have had the pleasure of sharing the stage with artists like Tom Wilson, Good For Grapes, Elliot Brood and Kim Mitchell.
With the help of friend and producer Nygel Asselin (Half Moon Run), the trio spent ten days in the Vancouver Island wilderness crafting "the record of their lives" - a collection of songs steeped in character and full of warmth. One part folk, one part rock - a pinch of gospel and a dash of growl, the self-titled LP is a testament to the trio's strength as songwriters. Lush acoustic guitars are bookended by buzzing electrics and screaming organs; all tied together by rich percussion and three voices in mighty harmony. It's a sound that harkens back to an era when the song was paramount. thelionthebearthefox.com
Locarno is the Latin project of JUNO Award winning musician, Tom Landa. Like him, the music is equal parts Mexican and Canadian. In the mid nineties he formed the Folk Roots band, The Paperboys, who have been touring world-wide for over 20 years. Tom has always dabbled in Latin music, and in 2005 decided to immerse himself more into the genre. In 2009 Tom joined forces with producer Joby Baker (Alex Cuba, Adonis Puentes, Cowboy Junkies) and trumpeter Miguelito Valdes (Omara Portoundo, Afro Cuban All Stars). And in 2010 Locarno released 'Una Mas Y Ya Nos Vamos' The music was a mix of Son Jarocho inspired folk tunes with Afro-Cuban rhythms. The album went on to be nominated for a WCMA and garnered rave reviews. Since then the band has incorporated influences such as music from Columbia, African Sukous, Mexican Marimba Music, Venezuelan Joropo and Brazilian Forro Music. Perhaps where the band shines the most is in the live shows which features Tom Landa on jaranas and guitars, Kalissa Landa on violin, Robin Layne on marimba, congas and timbales, Pedro Mota on guitar an vocals, Aaron McKinney on bass, Liam MacDonald on drums, congas and pandero, Mark D'Angelo on trumpet and Nick La Rivere on trombone. Get ready to party with Locarno on Friday night at the Islands Folk Fest this year. http://www.locarnomusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/locarnomusic
LONELY HEARTSTRING BAND
Nourished by deep roots in the expansive canon of traditional American music, The Lonely Heartstring Band embodies the modern American condition—an understanding and reverence for the past that informs a push into the future. This multi-talented group of musicians is a classic Bluegrass quintet—always far greater than the sum of its parts. Combining soulful instrumental virtuosity with soaring three-part harmonies, their growing repertoire of original songs and compositions showcases not only their considerable talents, but a dedication to meaningful roots-conscious music.
Since their beginnings in 2012, The Lonely Heartstring Band has been on the rise and shows no sign of slowing down. With their 2015 IBMA Momentum Award and their 2016 release of their debut full-length album on the legendary Rounder Records label, there is every reason to hope that they are at the front edge of a significant career.
Already they have generated a devoted following of music-lovers across North America, performing and headlining at major music festivals and historic venues from Western Canada to California, from Kentucky to New Hampshire. Whether it's a festival stage, theatre, or intimate listening room, The Lonely Heartstring Band always delivers a dynamic, diverse, and heartfelt performance. Over the last three years of touring, the band has crafted shows that generate a genuine connection and bring crowds to their feet. We're certain they will do the same for you at the Islands Folk Festival this year. http://www.lonelyheartstringband.com
"These guys are as close to the Real Deal as it is possible to get. They made my hair stand on end." ~Darol Anger, fiddler for Republic of Strings –Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music
"Topnotch instrumentation and a beautiful vocal blend are the cursory reasons to begin forming an allegiance to this band. Their music is addicting, and just like viewing the Grand Canyon, you can't begin to find the words to describe the wonder witnessed." -Bluegrass Unlimited
"The Lonely Heartstring Band, may well be a precursor of what bluegrass music will sound like in the future."- John Lawless, Bluegrass Today
MAD FOR JOY
From barns to churches, from moving trains to windy Winnipeg rooftops, Mad For Joy has delighted audiences coast to coast with their uplifting and soulful music. Blending elements of jazz, blues and folk, Mad for Joy creates a dreamy-gutsy-bluesy sound that will warm your heart and make you joyful. The band's founding members are Vancouver-born Jocelyn Hallett and Adam Kerby, from Terrace, BC. The pair met at Vancouver Community College's Jazz Music program and have been writing and performing across Canada together since. In 2015, Mad for Joy embarked upon two coast to coast tours promoting their acoustic EP, Vintage Rainbow. The tours included performances for passengers in VIA Rail train cars and stations from Vancouver to Halifax. In 2016, Mad for Joy was awarded a grant through CreativeBC to help produce their first full length album, Garden of the Muse, which is set for release in the Fall of 2017. The foundational vision of Mad for Joy is to produce uplifting music and bring joy to a wide variety of audiences. We're so thrilled they're joining us this year at the festival. http://madforjoy.ca
Performing on banjo, guitar and accordion her warm and world-weary voice, unforgettable melodies and thought-provoking lyrics, make McRae a captivating and sought-after artist. Promoter Fernando Pinto says "One song breaks your heart, the next one puts it back together".
Though perhaps best-known for her eight-year tenure as a member of the platinum-selling band Spirit of the West, Linda McRae had already raised a daughter and performed for more than ten years with west coast punk and roots outfits before joining Spirit. Recent highlights include teaching songwriting workshops at Folsom Prison, and with youth at risk, which inspired her album Shadow Trails. Linda was inducted into the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2016 and won the 2017 FFC Songwriting Competition with her song "Be Your Own Light".
https://www.lindamcrae.com https://www.facebook.com/lindamcrae42rpm
EILEEN McGANN
http://eileenmcgann.com Cowichan Valley-based Eileen McGann has long been acclaimed as one of Canada's finest Celtic singers and songwriters. For more than 30 years she has toured across Canada, the US, Great Britain and Ireland, bringing her rich, poetic lyrics and soaring melodies to festivals, clubs and concert halls. Her seven solo CDs have received international 5-star reviews, and many "top ten of the year" listings. Eileen's CD "Beyond The Storm" was nominated for a 2002 Juno Award as "Best Album: Roots & Traditional" and her "Pocketful of Rhymes" CD garnered her a CFMA nomination as "Traditional Singer of the Year".
Thematically, Eileen's songs show a wonderful breadth, from incisive political and environmental ballads, ditties and anthems, to story songs from modern and ancient sources; from celebrations of the Canadian wilderness to powerful songs of the spiritual journey. She has played almost all the major folk festivals across Canada and Great Britain, often multiple times, and continues recording and touring, as well as following her second profession as a painter of vibrant Canadian landscapes. She teaches workshops on songwriting, voice, traditional music, painting, Celtic knotwork art and creativity.
Instrumentally, Eileen has a strong rhythmic guitar style, augmented by the brilliance of multi-instrumentalist David K. on bouzouki, bass, slide guitars and harmony vocals.
NICKY MacKENZIE
She is a 16 year-old singer-songwriter based on Salt Spring Island. "Beyond her years" is a terrible cliché but oh boy does it fit with this remarkable young artist. Nicky is a strong songwriter and her poise on stage suggests someone with many more years experience performing live. But it's her voice that is stealing the hearts of darn near everyone who hears it. Strong and clear and just plain beautiful, with great timing and a gift for giving depth and shape to her vocals, we're so excited to see her perform at the festival. She has a brilliant future ahead of her, having already landed herself into the top 10 regionally in the nation-wide CBC Searchlight competition. Her video for that contest, Cobblestone Midnight (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRLqkoER4aI ) is a beautiful live performance well worth checking out. We're thrilled to have her with us and really look forward to following her budding career. https://www.facebook.com/nickymackenziemusic/
LAUREN MANN
http://laurenmannmusic.com/ "Honest & affectionate, with a little bit of whimsy," is the sentiment behind songstress Lauren Mann's latest album Dearestly (Wildwood, 2016). The songs are a poignant narrative of dark and light set against the backdrop of different landscapes, and chronicle years of touring and personal joys and struggles. Musically, the album travels from moments of sparse simplicity to bombastic choruses, anchored by Lauren's strong vocals and beautiful melodies.
The Calgary native, who has recently put down roots in British Columbia's Southern Gulf Islands, started touring full time in 2011 with her first album Stories From Home, a collection of self-produced home recordings. She followed this with the 2012 release Over Land and Sea. In 2014, Lauren and her band, affectionately known as the Fairly Odd Folk, were the winners of the CBC Searchlight contest, rising to the top of over 4500 bands across Canada and named Canada's best new emerging artist.
Since her start in 2011, Lauren has captivated audiences with an impressive live performance at over 650 shows across Canada and the United States. She has shared the stage with bands such as July Talk, Reuben and the Dark, The Strumbellas, Rusted Root, The Matinee, Balkan Beat Box, Phox, among others. The Washington Post named Lauren "one of the best indie-folk rockers that you've never heard of. "
Her new album Dearestly, is an expertly crafted journey through moments of joyous elation to haunting darkness, providing a depth and maturity to the foundation that was laid in the 2012 release Over Land and Sea. The songs are an honest insight into Lauren's personal journey and experiences in the past four years, and establish her as an adept songwriter and performer.
We're excited that Lauren is hopping the pond from Pender Island to be with us for the festival this year.
JAKE MORELY
Jake Morley is one of England's most innovative singer songwriters. Seriously captivating live, his groundbreaking lap-tapping and strumming guitar techniques are an accompaniment to his true passion for words, ideas and their power to connect. Morley has played over 400 gigs across the UK, Europe and Canada in the past few years and supported many leading lights of modern English songwriting, including Ed Sheeran, Ben Howard and Lucy Rose. His 2012 debut album 'Many Fish To Fry' received airplay across 6Music and Radio 2 in the UK and saw him perform at countless festivals including Isle of Wight and Secret Garden Party. http://www.jakemorley.com.
His 2016 follow-up album 'The Manual' received glowing reviews was well:
"Incredibly original musicianship, inventive lyrics and real sense of care whilst retaining the freshness. Bravo Monsieur Morley, bravo indeed." Listen With Monger
"I am just completely mesmerized by this album." IndieBandGuru
"Jake Morley is not just your average bloke with guitar, he stuns crowds with his unique style and is always a show stealer." BBC Introducing
"We like this a lot" Dermot O'Leary, Radio 2
"It's phenomenal to watch him but it's still more daunting to consider that he also sings up a storm and writes
cracking songs. Morley is a true original". Acoustic Magazine
ART NAPOLEON
He walks in "two worlds", equally comfortable on a big city stage or boardroom, as he is skinning a moose in a hailstorm with a pocketknife. Tapping into rich and profound ancestral knowledge to create sustainable and ethical alternatives for the modern world are the foundations that guide him in his many projects.
Musically, Art's work travels through folk, to rock and blues and traditional Cree. He is a champion of Aboriginal language preservation and in particular of his own Cree language. Whether he's re-interpreting John Lennon or Bob Marley in Cree or teaching the language to Children through music, you won't find a more eloquent voice on the power and value of preserving our ancient languages here in Canada.
A former hand-picked (not elected) Chief of the Saulteau First Nation in north-eastern BC, Art is a conservationist, naturalist, faith-keeper and educator who interprets life through the holistic lens of Cree worldview. Art is also a budding TV personality with a growing resume in the film industry and is known as an on-stage humorist with an uncanny ability to improvise and engage audiences of all ages including children and youth. Currently based in Victoria BC, Art remains connected to his home territory and his Cree and Dane Zaa roots. He tours regularly as a performer and speaker and also serves as a juror on arts and culture organizations across Canada. His moose stew has been known to cure hangovers and his campfire tales have mended broken hearts…or so the stories go. http://www.artnapoleon.com
ED PEEKEEKOOT
He is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and story-teller, he is a skilled and seasoned performer. Ed has a timeless kind of cool that appeals to audiences of all ages. His performances go from blazing guitar work to foot stomping fiddle and haunting Native flute – all sprinkled with his Cree humour and philosophy. He takes people on a wildly varied musical journey from country folk to a touch of classical and jazz. Ed will be joined at IFF by his wife Gail (vocals) and Corbin Keep (cello) a gifted musician in his own right who collaborated with Ed on his latest CD atayohkan.
From the Ahtahkakoop Cree First Nation in Saskatchewan where he grew up in a musical and supportive family, Ed now lives on Vancouver Island. He has been a solo musician for over three decades – cutting his musical teeth in the bars and clubs of Vancouver and now appearing in concerts, festivals, school performances, corporate events, dances, and retreat gatherings across western Canada and into the US. Ed was twice nominated as the BC Country Music Association's "Instrumentalist of the Year" and his CD "in the key of cree" was nominated as "Best Country CD" in the Aboriginal People's Choice Music Awards. http://peekeekoot.ca
GRACE PETRIE
http://gracepetrie.com/ Grace Petrie is a folk singer, songwriter, and activist from Leicester, UK. She first exploded on to the national protest scene in 2010 with the emotive anthem Farewell to Welfare, which captured perfectly the spirit of the new wave of dissent in austerity Britain. Since then, she has written, recorded and toured relentlessly. Her unique takes on life, love and politics, and the warmth and wit with which they are delivered have won over audiences everywhere, and she has quietly become one of the most respected and prolific songwriters working in the UK today.
Her latest release, Whatever's Left (2015), charts the journey beyond protest singer, through political and personal change to emerge through shades of folk, Americana and country as a more mature songwriting voice. The result is a collection of songs that provide a soundtrack to the modern struggle, with politics and with love, that will resonate with listeners everywhere.
Grace's young career boasts four studio albums, a dedicated fan base and national tours supporting Emmy the Great, Billy Bragg and comedians Robin Ince and Josie Long, as well as a string of festival appearances including regular visits to Latitude and Glastonbury. She has collaborated with some of the most respected names in folk, including Leon Rosselson, Roy Bailey and Peggy Seeger. In 2015 she completed a Canadian tour, culminating in a hugely successful performance at the main stage of Vancouver Folk Festival. She is a frequent guest on BBC Radio 4's the Now Show and has appeared on Channel 4's Random Acts, and has been featured in The Guardian, Diva Magazine and the Independent on Sunday's 2013 Pink List of influential LGBT figures.
ROOTS ROUNDUP
Roots Roundup plays a high energy hybrid of globe-spanning music, mashing up the sounds of rock'n roll, reggae, ska, afro-beat, folk, funk and pure old school punk rock.The Roots Roundup lineup has evolved over the years as members pursued various musical interests including performing, writing, recording and teaching. Core Roots members Greg Hathaway, Dave Hannah (Dym-E-Tree), Barry Taylor, Keith Rose, David Hathaway, Mark Campbell, Shuggy Milligan and special guest trombonist Andy Cakes reunited in 2005, treating a full house of loyal and new fans to a truly rip-roaring two-night performance at the Fairview Pub in Vancouver. The response was so great that the band has continued performing several times a year. The band has long been a favourite band to many here on Vancouver Island and we're so happy to have them come and party with us on Saturday night at the Festival. https://rootsroundup.com https://www.facebook.com/rootsroundup
SARAH JANE SCOUTEN
At age 5, Sarah Jane Scouten was sitting on the dining room table, singing "Lace and Pretty Flowers," by Canadian country-folk musician, Willie P. Bennett. Hank Williams and Stan Rogers were her greatest inspirations, both a staple at Sunday morning pancake breakfast and afterward, singing bluegrass and gospel music with her father and sister Anna Scouten on Bowen Island, BC. Her talent for performing came naturally, and as chance would have it, so emerged a knack for songwriting. Bringing us up to date, Sarah Jane Scouten is an internationally touring songwriter, loved by audiences across the Northern Hemisphere. With flavours of Lucinda Williams, Nanci Griffiths, Old Crow Medicine Show and a wealth of old-time and bluegrass music, the two-time Canadian Folk Music Award nominee's songs are faithful to a long-standing folk music tradition, but often spill over into modern themes that are outspoken and edgy, from homelessness to midwifery to tongue-in-cheek heartache songs and unabashed Canadiana. Her live shows are dynamite and we couldn't be happier to have Sarah Jane Scouten joining us for the festival this year. https://www.sarahjanescouten.com/
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SKY PARALLEL
This is the brand new project by Sarah Noni and Sarah Fitzpatrick from the Sunshine Coast. Noni is a brilliant singer-songwriter with three solo albums out, not including her latest that is seeing her release the ten songs over ten months here in 2017, five of which are now available. Sarah Fitzpatrick is a dynamic fiddler and teacher who is perhaps best known for having toured the world as a member of Delhi 2 Dublin for three years. When the two found themselves neighbours and new moms, they struck up a friendship that also became Sky Parallel. Individually they're both fantastic performers and together, well it's clear they've created a whole new batch of musical magic. This is their first festival season as a duo and we're so happy to have them with us.
Sarah Noni is a Canadian Folk Music Award winner and has been heard regularly on CBC Radio over the years since her debut in 2004. Her three previous solo albums are each of them gems in the Canadian folk and roots music collection. After moving to East to Toronto, and then further to Europe for a number of years, Sarah Noni is back in BC, living on the Sunshine Coast with her family.
With a background in Classical, traditional and jazz music, Sarah Fitzpatrick's fiddle and violin work has taken her around the world with the aforementioned award-winning Canadian band Delhi 2 Dublin, as well as several other projects. When she's not teaching the next generation of fiddlers, she's also the newest member of the award winning Rakish Angles, who have delighted audiences on the Islands Folk Fest stages in previous years. She's also based once again on the Sunshine Coast where she grew up. https://www.facebook.com/skyparallelmusic/
SUPAMAN
https://www.reverbnation.com/greasyface https://www.facebook.com/Supamanhiphop/ As a member of the "Apsaalooke Nation", Supaman makes his home on the Crow reservation in Montana. "Supaman" Is Christian Takes Gun Parrish, a Native American dancer and innovative hip hop artist who has dedicated his life to empowering and spreading a message of hope through culture and music. He has been the recipient of the Nammy "Native American Music Award", "North American Indigenous Image Award", and 7 "Tunney Awards". He recently was awarded The Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Award in Canada for best video and was voted MTV's new Artist of the Week! His latest video's titled "Prayer Loop Song" and "Why" both have gone viral and have received over 2 million views, which has put him in high demand touring extensively throughout the U.S.A and internationally. He has performed for Google at the Google headquarters in San Francisco and got to dance in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City. He recently was asked to audition for America's Got Talent and the Broadway play Hamilton.
Christian's presentation combines Native American culture and urban hip hop culture and through this he has gained the respect of his culture and his generation. The communicative talent along with the compassion that exudes from his music allows him to connect with people from all walks of life. His uncanny ability to motivate, encourage and inspire through dance, and hip hop music keeps him at the forefront among his contemporaries. We're so excited to welcome Supaman for his first visit to the Islands Folk Festival.
CLEVER TREVER
This year marks Clever Trever's 20th year as a juggler and Islands Folk Festival was one of his first gigs! Clever Trever is pleased to be back at the Festival to wow the audience with his highly-skilled juggling. He's a graduate of the clown Conservatory in San Francisco, a circus clown training program. He has performed in duos and trios as well as ensemble circuses all over North America and especially Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. If you see him roaming around the festival you might want to ask him to show off!!
WEST MY FRIEND
Described as everything from indie-roots to chamber-folk, Victoria-based West My Friend has an acoustic blend of instruments and four-part harmonies that challenges the conventions of popular music. The band features pure and thrillingly elastic vocals with catchy arrangements of bass, guitar, mandolin, and accordion that draw from jazz, classical, folk, and pop influences. Inspired by artists such as Owen Pallett, Joanna Newsom, Bright Eyes, The Decemberists, and the Punch Brothers, and forged from a sonically adventurous acoustic music scene on Canada's west coast, West My Friend is proving to be a key part of a new generation of grassroots folk music. The wealth of musical experience and classical training in the group creates an interesting backdrop for their songwriting, allowing for levels of detail, intricacy, and counterpoint balanced with moments of simplicity. Their diversity in taste and influences and a keen interest in both traditional sounds and innovation leads to constant exploration of new sounds that places them as a distinctive voice in the landscape between Canadian folk and indie-pop. Quiet Hum, produced by Canadian mainstay David Travers-Smith (Wailin' Jennys, Pharis & Jason Romero) is the third outing from West My Friend since the band formed at the turn of the decade. Its 2012 debut, Place, garnered several nominations, including "Roots Album of the Year" and "Song of the Year" at the Vancouver Island Music Awards. Its follow-up, 2014's When The Ink Dries, was nominated for the Oliver Schroer "Pushing The Boundaries" Award at the Canadian Folk Music Awards and received the Readers' Choice award for "Best New Sound of 2014" at Sleeping Bag Studios. It's been a thrill to watch this band Island band grow and evolve over the years and we're so happy they can be a part of the festival this year. http://www.westmyfriend.com


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Since the award of the Tactical Communications, Command and Control System/Iris System contract to General Dynamics Mission Systems–Canada almost 30 years ago, Canada has invested almost $3 billion to evolve this capability to the current Land Communications, Command, Control and Computers Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (LC4ISR) system of systems, which is integrated into every Canadian Army platform.
The projects outlined by the Canadian Armed Forces in Strong, Secure, Engaged (SSE) include the next evolution of the LC4ISR System. Once integrated, into an evolved Land C4ISR and fielded, the capabilities delivered by these programs will allow the Canadian Army to succeed in the future operating environment.
While offering a huge potential advancement for the Canadian Army there is also potential risk. If a holistic approach to definition and procurement is not taken, the capital expenditures could result in an ever-expanding set of stove-piped solutions that make the system harder to manage, deploy, operate, and train. Additionally, the resulting solutions may not achieve the desired operational effect.
More Than a Network
The System of Systems that underpins all of these modernization projects is the Canadian Force's Land C4ISR System. The Land C4ISR System is a complex system of systems composed of hundreds of components with thousands of possible physical configurations. Best known for its networking capabilities, when coupled with the soldiers that use it, the Land C4ISR becomes a highly dispersed decision support system.
The goal of this system is to provide soldiers at every echelon with information superiority. By moving data across the network, turning it into information and presenting it to users in a meaningful manner, the Land C4ISR provides a higher level of knowledge, enhanced situational awareness, and helps soldiers in the field make better decisions.
"The goal is not to adopt technology for technology's sake," explains J Sotropa, Chief Engineer, Land and Joint, General Dynamics Mission Systems–Canada. "Any technology insertion must add operational value. We need to help warfighters do their job better. In the case of tactical communications and information systems, we focus on the speed and accuracy of decision making; essentially tightening the OODA loop."
The Brigade as a Platform
While the concept of a highly dispersed decision support system provides a useful frame of reference to assess the efficacy of individual technologies, to deliver a cohesive, integrated System of Systems, a physical system definition is required. To address this, General Dynamics believes we should consider the Brigade as a Platform (BaaP).
"At some point you have to move past the abstract to tackle the concrete issues of baseline management, system deployment, and institutionalization. We need a physical boundary," added Sotropa. "Just as all systems on a ship need to work together and all systems on a plane need to work together, the land domain needs a bounded, comprehensive physical form to which we can apply good systems engineering."
Defining the Brigade as the physical scope at which the system is maintained and evolved enables the alignment of people, processes, and tools to achieve mission and program objectives. This increases project efficiency and decreases overall cost by providing a framework for the Land C4ISR portfolio of projects. This focus expedites the process of prioritizing high readiness units with a specific mix of mission essential elements while maintaining flexibility to train, project and sustain forces across the spectrum of operations.
As Canada matures and evolves the LC4ISR System there are important considerations for how the system will work as a cohesive unit while supporting pan domain force employment. Even with the best intentions, many of the components that support key requirements could end up being duplicated across multiple programs resulting in a host of solutions with disparate services, hardware, and capabilities.
"Without a holistic, portfolio level approach, each program could deliver a bespoke closed system that employs its own protocols, connections, translations, and interfaces. Individual programs could deliver 100% of the requirements but overall the System of Systems could still fall short in maximizing operational benefit," added Sotropa.
As capital programs move from definition to fielding, each will procure many different system elements, whether that be sensors, effectors, communications equipment or software applications. By introducing these different solutions, the Army may inadvertently be creating an operating environment that is incredibly difficult to use, expensive to maintain, almost impossible to train, and more vulnerable to cyber threats.
In an effort to avoid this, the procurement of these disparate information systems should seek to leverage the investment already made in the Land C4ISR.
Not only will this approach reduce integration risk, it additionally focuses on procuring new capabilities instead of on duplicating existing capabilities. Furthermore, a System of Systems aligned to a common enterprise architecture will allow the Army to quickly reconfigure the system to support evolving Adaptive Dispersed Operations.
The Tactical Network as a Service
To address this challenge, General Dynamics has developed an approach called the Tactical Network as a Service (TNaaS). This approach allows Canada to consider the existing Land C4ISR, and its ongoing evolution, as a service provided to future programs. At its core, the Land C4ISR houses a common set of services built within an architectural framework. As driven by future operational and programmatic needs, these core services and infrastructure can be re-used where available and evolved as required.
The TNaaS allows Canada to maximize the reuse of its prior investment and reduce the overall cost and risk of delivering capital programs. The commonality in the fielded system will also reduce the training burden, expedite the institutionalization of the system and lower the total cost of ownership. Leveraging a common architecture also enables the creation of a unified C4ISR roadmap for the adoption of new technology.
"We believe this idea to be applicable to the full portfolio of SSE and SSE 42 projects specifically. By reusing a common core set of services, the Canadian Army can maximize the funds allocated to sourcing new capabilities, reduce the training burden, and shorten the institutionalization period," said John Fisher, Director of Canadian Programs, General Dynamics Mission Systems–Canada.
Good for Canada. Good for Soldiers. Good for Business.
Utilizing the ideas described above will provide economic benefits to Canada, support the Industrial and Technological Benefits and Value Proposition policy, build the country's industrial base, maximize value for taxpayer dollars, and provide a value-driven solution over the lifecycle of the LC4ISR System.
For soldiers, the operational benefits lie in the ability to make better decisions and an increased flexibility to operate independently or as part of a larger joint or coalition force. Maintaining continuity of the core services and the primary user interfaces while peripheral devices and services are added increases usability and trainability.
An established open architecture allows for rapid technology insertion and allows industry partners to develop with confidence and invest with a view to an established system roadmap.
"Working together in a shared technology and process framework, Canada and industry partners can provide real value to soldiers. We are excited by the possibilities offered by the future portfolio of programs and the impact it can have on the Canadian Armed Forces," added Fisher.
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Our illustrious history on a timeline
Ringsted & Semler is established
In the beginning, wine and sherry are traded, and as a contact network is built, the range is expanded to various chemicals for different industries.
Sophus Semler resigns
Alongside his work with Ringsted & Semler, Sophus Semler has a bicycle shop, and in 1899 Semler decides to step out of Ringsted & Semler to concentrate on his own business. It is founded as Scandinavian Motor Co. and to this day still stands for imports and sales of brands such as VW and Audi.
Distribution of chemicals
Around the turn of the century, the product range becomes solely concentrated on the sale and distribution of chemicals.
Sulfonamide and pneumonia
The international crisis hits the sale of goods. Ringsted & Semler gets lucky, becoming an agent for an English pharmaceutical company, who shortly afterwards launch a sulfonamide preparation which is one of the breakthrough cures for pneumonia; the most common cause of death among people. Before the sulfonamide preparation the mortality rate following pneumonia was calculated at 34%. After treatment with the new preparation mortality dropped to 2%.
Stock company
In April Ringsted & Semler begins trading as a stock company. During the decade, trading of plastic raw materials becomes such a big business that the producers choose to control the sale of their products themselves. However, Ringsted & Semler A / S acquires new chemical commissions and moves more and more into the food industry.
Agent for AVEBE
Ringsted & Semler A/S becomes an agent for AVEBE in the Netherlands, beginning with the sale of starch products for the food industry, and later for the feed industry. The arrangement continues to be a large part of the company's work area to this day.
Ringsted & Semler A / S can celebrate its 100th anniversary. In connection with the anniversary, 35 employees have over 10 years of service: 9 with over 25 years of employment, 4 with 40, and 2 with 50 years
Ringsted & Semler A / S merges with Scandinavian Agro Food
Ringsted & Semler A / S merges with Scandinavian Agro Food. Ringsted & Semler is the continuing company name, and now has access to a modern production facility and the challenge of producing goods that suit the integrated business trade. The customer portfolio is substantially expanded, with export customers in most of Europe and some overseas.
Scagro A/S becomes a reality
Ringsted & Semler A/S changes its name to Scagro A/S, which prepares the company for increased internationalisation.
Scagro's Food Market beats records
Scagro's Food Market beats records and requires even more focus. It is no longer sustainable for the Fine Chem and Fragrance market to be handled by the Food Department. Fine Chem and Fragrance are considered to have further potential and the sales organization is strengthened in this area – this turns out to be intelligent foresight.
Scagro A/S celebrates its 125th anniversary and at the same time introduces the newly developed Uni Pre-FER. The product sets a new standard in its field and becomes a great success.
Record turnover of iron products
The turnover for iron products is the largest in Scagro's history. The recession affects agriculture, which, in addition to 10 years of adversity, is hit by record low prices for their animal products and is affected by the worst drought in the century. The potato crop in the Netherlands – the foundation for Protastar Potato protein concentrate – is also hit hard and leads to a decline in their production.
Positive development at Specialty Chemicals and Fragrances
In 2015, the potential in the Specialty Chemicals and Fragrances business areas was prioritized. The area has since been strongly influenced by mergers and acquisitions – it was the right decision to upgrade in these business areas and revenue has developed very positively for Scagro A/S
Covid-19, the strength of diversification and birthdays
2020 will be remembered by most for the effect of Covid-19, which particularly affected Scagro's Food business and especially the ingredient section. The strength of Scagro's diversification into several independent business areas has never been more significant!
In 2020, the feed department could celebrate two major product birthdays.
The iron product Agro-FER turned 20 years old and the hygiene product ScanHYG 15 years. The products are still among the department's best-selling and still going strong.
Scagro A/S is taking over the activities of AIS Feed ApS
Scagro A/S is taking over the activities of AIS Feed ApS, which has utilized Scagro A/S for a number of years
in the capacity of production and logistics partner. The two companies' product ranges are a good match which provides exciting new opportunities and is cause for great optimism amongst Scagro A/S.
The historical details
Ringsted & Semler is established by Knud Peder Ringsted, who on 24thSeptember, as a mere 25 year old,
gets a citizen's letter from the Copenhagen Magistrate. Shortly after he forms a collaboration with wholesaler Sophus Semler on 26thSeptember. It is 1 year before the first car arrives in Copenhagen and it is a time when the number of telephone subscribers in Copenhagen has reached over 2,300. The annual salary for the bank director Tietgen amounts to the neat sum of DKK 50,000, – An amount that, of course, stretches slightly further than today, as a tailor-made suit cost in the region of DKK 55; a pair of shoes DKK 8; a whole bar of pastry 4 øre; and one could buy a dozen oysters in a restaurant for DKK 1. In the beginning, wine and sherry are traded, and as a contact network is built, the range is expanded to various chemicals for different industries.
Women obtain the constitutional right to vote. Ringsted and Semler are at the fore front, hiring the first woman in the company's history. After a few years she begins a relationship with one of the company's employees and shortly after they are married at Copenhagen City Hall. Whereupon, she leaves the company to become a housewife.
The first typewriter is acquired. However, the cash register is still written by hand and one of the ledger's accounts is called "horse and carriage"; an account that first disappears from the cash register in 1924. At the end of the twenties, the consumer price index falls by 40% and several banks go bankrupt. Many small and large companies also go bankrupt, especially because it is difficult to get businesses financed – a problem that apparently goes back in history. In the post-war years, Ringsted & Semler still trades with a number of German suppliers, but due to high inflation, deals are made exclusively in Pound. At one point, German inflation is so high that, on the Berlin stock exchange, the dollar rises by 613,000 marks per second, making international trade very difficult.
The sulfonamide business has given Ringsted & Semler some good years. Business is strongly based on foreign trade. This trade is subject to unprecedented restrictions due to the German invasion of 9th April. Against expectations, parts of the dealings with German suppliers is maintained, as well as trade with Swedish suppliers and customers. On the other hand, trade with England largely ceases. Some of the German suppliers collapse in the last years of the war for various reasons, and some are so unfortunate that they fall into the eastern block, which means they disappear completely for political reasons.
Ringsted & Semler introduces a private pension scheme for trusted employees. This was one of the first private pension schemes, something that has become a standard custom today.
With the aftermath of the war a completely new business area arises, as plastic is invented, and Ringsted & Semler sells various raw materials for this production. The significant increased activity means that the company's staff is doubled in a short time. The war has created a lot of misfortune, but has also resulted in many newly developed products. One of them is Silicone and silicone oils, which up until present day have been a significant part of the business area. The decade is also characterised by progress in the office area. New technology is purchased, including a duplicator capable of copying a written document, and at the end of the fifties, a bookkeeping machine is introduced which was actually more or less in use until 1983.
Ringsted & Semler A / S becomes an agent for AVEBE in the Netherlands, beginning with the sale of starch products for the food industry, and later for the feed industry. The arrangement continues to be a large part of the company's work area to this day. Today, the company and its factory are located in Gesten, Jutland. Throughout the 1980s, society sees rapid development, with many agencies changing: Some die out and others are introduced.
Ringsted & Semler A / S can celebrate its 100th anniversary. In connection with the anniversary, 35 employees have over 10 years of service: 9 with over 25 years of employment, 4 with 40, and 2 with 50 years. During the nineties, the development of the Internet creates new ways of communicating and new ways of getting in touch with both suppliers and customers. Commissioned agent work becomes difficult as companies can now create direct communication with customers. After the turn of the millennium, Ringsted & Semler A / S initiates a collaboration with Scandinavian Agro Food ApS, which produces various kinds of feed and supplementaries for agriculture. For the first time in history, Ringsted & Semler A / S is part of an actual production, where previously it had focused exclusively on business in trade.
Ringsted & Semler A / S changes its name to Scagro A / S, which prepares the company for increased internationalisation.
Scagro A / S intensifies its export efforts and strengthens organisation of the Feed department, whilst simultaneously investing in further product development. Scagro has had an underlying philosophy that Feed products should be based on prevention rather than treatment. This philosophy is further reinforced in all subsequent progress.
Requirements for quality management, food safety, data acquisition and documentation are greater than ever – Scagro strengthens the organisation within the "Regulatory" department.
Scagro A / S celebrates its 125th anniversary and at the same time introduces the newly developed Uni Pre-FER. The product sets a new standard in its field and becomes a great success.
A year in which the turnover for the Food department, combined with a distribution surge, increases so much that a food warehouse is established and opened.
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«Доміно» () — кримінальний трилер 2019 року режисера Браяна Де Пальми з Каріс ван Гаутен, Ніколаєм Костер-Валдау, Гаєм Пірсом у головних ролях. Фільм розповідає про поліцейського, який шукає правосуддя для вбивць свого напарника.

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Зйомки фільму почались у 2017 році в Малазі. Крім того знімальна група була помічена в Алмерії. Після зйомок в Іспанії робота над фільмом продовжилась у Данії.

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 Кінорежисер — Браян Де Пальма
 Сценарист — Петтер Скавлан
 Кінопродюсер — Міхель Шеннеманн, Ельс Вандеворст
 Композитор — Піно Донаджо
 Кінооператор — Хосе Луїс Алькайне
 Кіномонтаж — Білл Панков
 Художник-постановник — Корнелія Отт
 Артдиректор — Крістель Дотремон, Курт Лоєнс
 Художник-декоратор — Гендрік Ван Кетс
 Художник-костюмер — Шарлотта Віллємс
 Підбір акторів — Дес Гамільтон, Гро Терп

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Berkeley Does YouTube
by Chad Weirick — Wednesday, October 03, 2007, 08:30 PM EDT
Most educators agree that most, if not all, people will fall into one of three categories based on the way their mind acquires and stores new information best: visual learners, auditory learners, and tactile learners. Many educational institutions try their best to include a decent balance of all three aspects in an attempt to make sure that just about everyone can remember what they've been taught.
Enter Berkeley, the same school where The Woz used to attend classes and occasionally hawk devices that allowed hippies to make free long distance phone calls, who is now planning on offering classes on YouTube. This is likely to be great for anyone who's been listening to podcasts of Berkley courses (available via iTunes since '01) but hasn't been able to retain much.
While the courses are free, it seems that your choice in subjects is a little slim:
"University offerings at the dedicated YouTube channel include peace and conflict studies, bioengineering courses, and a science class titled "Physics for Future Presidents."
"UC Berkeley on YouTube will provide a public window into university life: academics, events and athletics," said vice provost for undergraduate education Christina Maslach.
The University plans to continually add videos to the channel, which officially launched Wednesday with about nine full courses consisting of approximately 40 lectures each."
If you're a tactile learner you can always try to save up a few dollars and go to Berkeley and do things yourself.
Tags: YouTube, K, DOE


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Share Dealing News Lloyds Shares Top Buys And Sells
Lloyds shares top buys and sells
21 August 2010 / by Paul Dicken
A stockbroker has said its customers bought and sold more Lloyds Banking Group shares than any other stock during the past week of trading on the FTSE 100.
TD Waterhouse said its 200,000 customers had been buying and selling Lloyds shares in the highest numbers between 11 and 17 August 2010.
Darren Hepworth, trading and customer services director at TD Waterhouse, said: "Lloyds topped both the buys and sells list this week as TD Waterhouse customers continued to trade heavily in financial stocks."
Hepworth said that buys had outweighed sells overall in Lloyds, with Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays stocks also heavily traded on news of staffing-cuts in the Barclays Capital investment unit and RBS' sale of a £1.4bn portfolio of European loans to fund manager Intermediate Capital.
Intermediate Capital chief executive Christophe Evain said the acquisition would contribute to the firms "strategy of growth as a leading global alternative asset manager", building on a track record of investing in this type of European loan.
RBS has embarked on a programme of divestment and reduction in its exposure to loans. Earlier this month RBS announced the sale of a majority stake in its RBS WorldPay business, also known as Global Merchant Services.
The card payment services business was brought by private equity firm Advent International and investment firm Bain Capital.
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"Creating order out of chaos is a particular strength of Rose's, not least because her subject matter is vast, wide, and deep"
In this commissioned work, Rachel Rose offers Enclosure, a heist film about survival in the 17th-century agrarian English countryside during a period of radical transformations that left the disenfranchised in a state of uncertainty and fear. As an artist who is "redefining video art" (Interview Magazine), Rose uses the massive canvas of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall as an opportunity to push her practice to a new scale. The film follows the Famlee, a cult-like clan of grifters led by Jaccko, a hustler who in the wake of the Enclosure Laws, persuades the rural inhabitants to sell him their land for almost nothing, for his own mercenary purposes. Recent, the key teenage member of The Famlee, is essential to Jaccko as she is tasked with learning the behaviors and livelihoods of their targets, and then closing the deal. It is on the journey to their last predation that the story begins. Set beneath a mysterious black orb whose inky aura and other-worldly presence hints at a major cosmic event, the film shows how the natural world was perceived at the time and alludes to the scale of the dire changes soon to come. Accompanying the presentation of the film will be supportive materials on the Enclosure Laws and their widespread social, economic and ecological consequences that resonate with many of today's issues.
Artist Talk: Enclosure
Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 6:00pm
North American Premiere
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Enclosure is supported by a generous gift from Ken Kuchin and Tyler Morgan. The production is also supported in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Image: Rachel Rose, Enclosure (still), 2019. Courtesy of the Artist, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London and Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York/Rome
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In the second of two posts considering the relationship between the UK courts and their EU and ECHR counterparts, Rhodri considers some of the differences between them and the implications for lawyers appearing before the supra-national courts. The text of these posts is based on a speech given to the Butterworths' Commercial Judicial Review and Regulatory Proceedings Conference 2012.
Another issue that was once often mentioned was a more intrusive attitude (a more intense scrutiny) by the European Courts as against the domestic administrative courts, including a greater willingness to substitute their own views for that of the relevant public body – again, it appears to me that this difference can be seen with the benefit of hindsight to have been significantly exaggerated. Certainly, both these points seem to me in reality less significant that the three points that I now turn to discuss.
The first and to my mind the most important area of difference is the constitutional role that the administrative courts of the United Kingdom play as against those of the European Union and the Council of Europe.
A good place to start to see the different roles that the EU Courts play as against those of the United Kingdom is the landmark Opinion of Advocate General Mischo in the Francovich litigation, viewed against the majority judgments of the Court of Appeal in the Bourgoin litigation a few years earlier. Both cases concerned the liability of the Member States to provide compensation for breaches of Community law.
Although this Opinion could be said to represent one of the high water marks of EU federalism, and much has certainly changed in the constitutional structure of the Union and the relationship between the Member States since then, it seems to me nonetheless to reveal in a particularly stark form the difference that necessarily exists between the basic approach of the English administrative Courts, whose most fundamental principles include the sovereignty of Parliament and the promotion of sound and effective public administration within the United Kingdom, with that of the Court of Justice, whose constitutional preoccupation is the coherent development of EU law in accordance with its founding Treaties. Against the latter background, the protection of narrow national interests as against the wider interests of the Union must necessarily appear parochial.
the judgment of the Court of Appeal in an early case on the internal market, R. v. Home Office, ex parte Flynn  3 CMLR 888, where the Court memorably found that the rules on the free movement of persons "have nothing to do with internal frontier control" – this judgment stands in striking contrast to a series of cases of the Court of Justice, notably Wijsenbeek, to very different effect.
These cautionary tales are not intended to ridicule our senior domestic judges for their lack of understanding of basic principles of EU law. The point is rather that issues of public law and policy that may appear obviously misguided from the traditional perspectives of national administrative law may seem compelling when viewed from the wider perspective of the Court of Justice.
And it is not only the UK courts that are liable to be caught out by a failure to give due weight to considerations of public policy as they may appear from the perspective of the international judge. It is equally true that considerations of Union policy, such as the needs of the common agricultural policy or the promotion of free competition within the internal market, may appear of quasi-sovereign importance from the perspective of the Court of Justice but to be only one of a number of competing policy objectives when viewed from the external perspective of the Court of Human Rights.
Turning to my second major point of difference, the composition of the Court, this is in a sense no more than a matter of common sense and common observation. Although there has been some change in the composition of the English senior judiciary over the forty year period since accession to the European Communities at the start of 1973, it remains overwhelmingly the preserve of senior barristers who have practised in the English courts for at least 20 years before their appointment. It is inevitable that such a group of judges will have a very extensive set of common assumptions when confronted with novel issues of law expressed in a relatively unfamiliar idiom.
By contrast, the European courts are composed of a kaleidoscope of judges with a very wide range of experiences as lawyers in private practice, legal academics and advisors to their national governments, operating under a very wide range of legal systems, national histories and political settlements. In such circumstances, it is again unsurprising that the common bond between such a diverse group will be a strong commitment to develop the body of law that binds them all together, namely the coherent development of the corpus of EU law and ECHR law respectively. The preoccupations of any individual group of national judges will inevitably be of relatively little significance to such a body.
Thirdly and finally, there are real and substantial differences of procedure with significant implications for the approach of judges to the cases before them.
Again, I am not concerned in this speech with points of detail but there are at least four major issues that need to be taken into account: standing, evidence, hearings and remedies.
On the first two issues, standing and evidence, it is well known that, although there have been some significant developments at the EU level, the general approach is far more restrictive at the international level than before the UK domestic courts. Although there are domestic cases that fail for lack of standing, and the practice in respect of evidence in judicial review is in practice substantially more conservative than in general civil or criminal litigation, the English approach is inherently flexible and focused on the underlying policy issues at stake. By contrast, the rules at the EU level are strictly enforced, not only in respect of standing and evidence but also in relation to time limits and pleadings, in a way that would be seen as draconian in the Administrative Court.
questions from the court, although quite common in the General Court, are unlikely to last more than an hour.
The inevitable consequence is that the case is to a large extent determined on the papers, with only rare exceptions that indicate that the view of a court has been materially altered by the oral submissions made by the parties. This is only more obviously the case because the international judge, in contrast to the great majority at least of UK judges, is supported by réferendaires (judicial assistants) whose role is to analyse the pleadings and to research the case law for all the cases before the court.
Finally, the question of remedies is a crucially important one in domestic administrative law proceedings, with the administrative court having a very broad discretion to tailor its response to a particular case from no remedy or a bare declaration to specific mandatory orders requiring particular action by a public body and the payment of damages. By contrast, the normal remedy at the EU level is simply annulment of the relevant administrative act, with the practical consequences being a matter for the EU institutions to determine in the light of the judgment or for a separate action for damages for harm resulting from the unlawful act.
These practical difficulties lead me into the last short section of this piece, how a UK advocate who is moving from the relatively familiar world of the administrative courts to the different world of the EU or ECHR Courts should conduct him or herself. What are the practical implications of all these similarities and differences? I will simply mention two simple points, neither of which make any pretension to originality, but which are often not well observed in practice.
First of all, remember the importance of your initial written document.
The first stage in any EU or ECHR case is going to be a pleading, or in the case of a preliminary ruling a draft order that forms the basis of the matter referred. This is going to be a crucially important document in the case, significantly more so than the statement of grounds in a judicial review. Indeed, another important procedural difference between the domestic courts and the EU courts, particularly in actions for annulment, is that the scope of the proceedings is set by the notice of application and there is very little room to expand or to vary the case. There is certainly no opportunity to supplement or replace your pleading with a fully researched skeleton argument prepared for the oral hearing, as is invariably the position in domestic judicial review. Indeed, in the preliminary reference procedure, you have only one opportunity to file written observations on the issues before the Court of Justice, and no opportunity to respond in writing to points made by other parties.
Given this lack of flexibility, it is very important to set the agenda with your pleading or statement of case. Likewise, it is crucial that your arguments are appropriate to the international tribunal, where doctrines such as the sovereignty of Parliament will be of much less importance than the development of the internal market or the promotion of the specific policies of the European Union or, in Strasbourg, the protection of democratic institutions and a free and equal civil society subject to the rule of law.
In summary, it is crucial to remember that your written argument is likely to be your main and possibly your sole opportunity to state your case, on the basis of which, in the ECJ, the Report for the Hearing will be written by the reporting judge – other judges may not read the papers and will be dependant on this document for their understanding of the case. The oral argument, while it can sway the court in a complex or politically sensitive case, is not likely to be decisive. It offers only a limited opportunity to respond to written arguments submitted by others or to sway the Court by your eloquence or ability to answer questions from the Court.
Secondly, remember who you are addressing, both in your written pleadings and your oral presentation.
It is crucial to remember your audience, a panel of judges from a range of backgrounds and legal cultures whose language is unlikely to be English and whose only definite commitment will be to the development of the jurisprudence of the international institution of which he or she forms part.
it is essential to identify arguments that are firmly based in the policies and legal principles of the European Union (such as equal treatment on grounds of nationality or legal certainty) or similarly central preoccupations of the European Convention (such as a fair balance between the interests of the individual and the wider community or the avoidance of arbitrary interference with individual rights). Such arguments will be your trump cards if you find them in your possession.
This is true not only in your written but also your oral advocacy – the fact that judges may appear to understand your fluent English and nod sagely at your more ingenious points will not assist your client if the judges do not in fact understand what you are saying. Although that is an occupational risk in any tribunal, that risk is significantly higher before an international panel of judges, very few if any of whom speak English as their native language, than in the administrative court or the Court of Appeal. Of course, clarity of expression and focus on arguments that are likely to appeal to the judges that you are addressing are virtues in any advocate, so there can be wider benefits for your development as a lawyer!
Finally, all I have offered in this piece is a few personal observations based on experience of cases before the UK and EU courts over a period of 20 years. Despite the criticisms that have been made of the Luxembourg and Strasbourg courts, some of them well founded, these two courts can be seen from the perspective of international cooperation and the rule of law, to be two of the greatest successes of the reconstruction of Europe since 1945.
In Europe …, a truly European judicial system has grown up, with two complementary branches, the European Community branch and the European Convention on Human Rights. By a combination of history, political impetus, chance and design, the two branches have developed, independently yet interactively; and the European experience has attracted interest and indeed admiration worldwide.
I am not sure that the European experiment has always attracted the "admiration" it deserves in the United Kingdom, but that is for another day.
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The thief rings your doorbell and poses as a legitimate caller, such as a salesperson or canvasser. It's one of the most common theft techniques. If you don't open the door, they know you aren't home and will feel much more confident about breaking and entering. Having a visible camera on your doorbell is excellent security against such attacks, with would-be burglars knowing they've been caught on video.
If the worst happens, a wireless smart doorbell can provide video evidence of a burglary. It might be enough to help the police catch the offender and recover your belongings before they're sold. Even if that's not possible, having video footage could be enough for your insurer to approve your claim and pay out more quickly.
Leaving your kids at home can be a stressful situation, whether they're with a babysitter or on their own. No matter how loudly they protest that they didn't invite their boyfriend or girlfriend over while you were out, it can be hard to be sure. Reviewing video footage through our app on your electronic device will let you find out if you need to have words, or if your child or babysitter deserves your trust.
You may also feel comforted by being able to use the two-way audio ability of your video doorbell to talk to your children while you're away. Additionally, you can also check your live video feed if someone comes to the door while your children are home unattended. This lets you still have some control over who your children answer the door to while you're not home, giving both you and them greater security.
At best, Murphy's law says that if you leave the house for even a moment in a delivery window, you'll miss the call. At worst, the delivery person will either show up late or never even arrive, then claim you didn't answer the door. Having a camera will settle any argument about when they actually arrived.
It's even useful for unattended deliveries. By checking the camera remotely from your mobile device, you can get home and bring the package indoors and away from opportunistic thieves, without having to take the whole day off work just to be home to answer the door. You can also use the two-way communication feature of a video doorbell to speak with the delivery driver from your smartphone app and gives instructions on where to leave the package.
Whether you're working upstairs, busy in the kitchen or enjoying a relaxing summer's day in the garden, answering the front door can be annoying, particularly when it's someone trying to sell you something. Having a wireless doorbell camera, particularly one that connects in real time to your phone or tablet through a mobile app means you can safely ignore strangers without the risk of missing out on visits from friends or family.
The best doorbell cameras work as part of a smart home system, meaning they can both enhance and benefit from other smart home devices.
When part of a smart home, a doorbell camera automatically begins recording when somebody approaches the door, and you can view that footage live or later thanks to playback DVR. You can also connect the doorbell camera to smart lighting that only switches on via motion detection when someone approaches to avoid wasting electricity.
Those are just some of the benefits of a doorbell camera. These devices aren't obtrusive, don't cost much and can be fitted quickly on your door frame or near your front door without any major disruption.
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TOPIC:	Is 40 cents too optimistic ?
Maybe we are being too optimistic hoping that Cytori can raise the needed funds at $0.40.
Maybe it will need to be 70 million shares at $0.35 or even $0.30. Pure speculation of course but the clock is ticking and we still seem to be trending lower.
Mt Tiago....H E L P !!!
Being optimistic might mean believing Chris Calhoun was hired as CEO of Celative Therapeutics last week because they are close to doing a deal with Cytori. Remember Calhoun's severance package was only 3 months salary UNLESS he completed a partnership deal and then he would basically get a commission on the up front cash involved. I don't remember the details, but they were spelled out in a SEC filing. Perhaps the next capital raise will not involve shares at all. Although I think that would be unlikely because Calhoun's style is to issue shares to partners for cash at a premium to get the deal done and provide the partner with a vested interest in the success of the partnership. Calhoun has little to no stock in Cytori after losing all of his options. He would want to get some back if a deal happens, IMO.
My question is: why was he hired last week and not months ago?
It sure looks like Celactive Cellular will be in the business of sports medicine. The domain celactive.com advances the surfer to celactive.co.uk , which already his this screen.
Maybe a Maltesian centre will be opened similar to Okyanos in the Bahama´s but with a different focus????
Actually- the predecessor of Celactive- CytOrtho Ltd with the Luton office was founded in late 2013. So everything is pretty new.
Why would anyone find CC associated with Cytori in any remote form as positive ?
All I know for sure is boating in the North Atlantic is going to be very COLD !!!
Probably a part ofthe master scheme to deceive shareholders. CC's company will probably wind up owning Cytori technology after bankruptcy. Oh what a tangled web one weaves when they practice to deceive. I put nothing past this group based on history.
DOV wrote: Being optimistic might mean believing Chris Calhoun was hired as CEO of Celative Therapeutics last week because they are close to doing a deal with Cytori. Remember Calhoun's severance package was only 3 months salary UNLESS he completed a partnership deal and then he would basically get a commission on the up front cash involved. I don't remember the details, but they were spelled out in a SEC filing. Perhaps the next capital raise will not involve shares at all. Although I think that would be unlikely because Calhoun's style is to issue shares to partners for cash at a premium to get the deal done and provide the partner with a vested interest in the success of the partnership. Calhoun has little to no stock in Cytori after losing all of his options. He would want to get some back if a deal happens, IMO.
Please god. No. Is it really THAT difficult to sit down with Medtronics or Johnson/Johnson or Merck. Give me a break.
There are certain people who "have it" and then there are certain people who are just constantly chasing "it".
Calhoun is a chaser. Stay away from his energy.
rothco619 wrote: Probably a part ofthe master scheme to deceive shareholders. CC's company will probably wind up owning Cytori technology after bankruptcy. Oh what a tangled web one weaves when they practice to deceive. I put nothing past this group based on history.
Real companies don't want to have bozos for partners. Otherwise this is certainly the most negative post I have ever seen DOV make. Usually its a pump just before bad news...LOL...this time the bad news speculation is spelled out !!! Ugggh !
I remember it being suggested that Hedrick was temporary until the fundamentals would attract a quality CEO to run the business. A bit different from what you are saying...but maybe I just missed it.