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FEO Welcome Reception
Monday, February 26, 2024
7:00pm to 10:30pm
Salon A
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Club Cadetta
CLUB CADETTA is a four piece indie-rock band that loves playing music. Inspired by all-time greats like the Beatles, the Band, B.B. King, Pink Floyd and Bob Dylan, to more
modern influences like Coldplay, Wilco, Thundercat, Arctic Monkeys and The Strokes, CLUB CADETTA is ready to make their mark on the music world.
Formed in Brampton, Ontario and writing songs together since March 2022, this vibey collective of musicians relish the time they have on stage with audiences.
"We love every crowd we get to play in front of, no matter the size. Not only do we get to share an experience of playing and listening to music we (hopefully) all love,
but we get closer and closer to being a better band than we were last show."
CLUB CADETTA has been playing regularly around the Greater Toronto Area and has shared stages with industry heavyweights like Keshia Chante and Our Lady Peace.
They are currently working towards an EP set to release in late 2024.
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Service Excellence Awards Dinner
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
7:00pm to 10:00pm
Oakes Ballroom
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Switchback
There is a point in certain musicians’ careers where their music begins to be recognized for its influence on others. At that point, they cease to be part of the crowd,
but rather, the standard to build upon. The duo Switchback, has become such a standard, with critical recognition of their contribution to Celtic and Americana music, as
well as their overall success as consummate entertainers.
American Songwriter Magazine (along with Americana icon Steve Earle) praised Switchback as one of the seminal groups to blend American
roots and traditional Celtic styles. Switchback’s hybrid has an energy and joyous abandon that Matt Malloy of The Chieftains proclaimed “powerful!”
In his review of their music, Ron Pen, professor and Director of the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music’s (division of
musicology and ethnomusicology at the University of Kentucky) says Switchback is “more than Americana-it is America itself.“
Peggie Miller of the The Courier in Montgomery County, Texas writes, "Not in recent memory has the Crighton Theatre, through the
Montgomery County Performing Arts Society, hosted so personable a duo...Their voices blended in heart-tugging harmony, and they made
more music with two guitars, a sometimes mandolin, and those voices than some six piece bands produce."
With three PBS specials, music on NBC, and appearances with the Moody Blues, Jethro Burns, Clifton Chenier, John Hartford, Leon Russell, Dale Watson,
the Chieftains, Liz Carol, Martin Hayes and many others, Switchback has earned a place among musical legends.
That said, it is perhaps the continuing mission of playing music for those who need it most, in prisons, special need homes, schools, juvenile detention centers, and
nursing facilities that set them apart from their peers. As the creator of the National Poetry Slam and author Marc Smith said, “Switchback hits an everybody note.”
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FEO Awards Gala & On-Line Auction
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
7:00pm to 10:00pm
Oakes Ballroom
Bounty Enterprises Presents:
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ABBAMANIA Canada: The Best Of ABBA with Special Guests
ABBAMANIA is an all Canadian Cast that is the largest production of ABBA in the world with a fantastic look, vocals and sound. With a cast of studio musicians,
ABBAMANIA recreates ABBA in concert. They are the only production to perform TWICE for the cast of MAMA MIA.
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