Thanks! Plus Univox Gig, Christmas Mix, and the Right Amount of Hard

Posted By: Shagz
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First, a big big thank you to everybody who came out to Heart For The City on friday night! We had a great crowd near capacity at the Bang Bang Bar, collected several boxes of food for the Sharing Place and had a great time while doing it.

Also a big thanks to Jai and Chris for throwing down some dope, dance floor rockin' beats! Always a pleasure working with these two.

In case you missed it, you can listen 'n download my Heart For The City preview mix at the following, fine websites...

Stream: http://www.mixcloud.com/djshagz/heart-for-the-city-preview-mix/
Download: http://soundcloud.com/dj-shagz/heart-for-the-city-preview-mix

Second, just a reminder about my choir, Univox, is having our Christmas concert next monday night! Shaping up to be a really good show, we practice the Dave Matthews song with our guest artist on monday night, should be really magical. :) And Eric Whitacre's "Lux Aurumque" is heavenly...you can hear it here, performed by the first virtual choir on YouTube. (Sorry, none of Univox is that vid, alas and alack)

Tickets are $15 in advance (available online at http://tickets.univoxchoir.org), $20 at the door. You can still get 'em through me in person, but I'll have to work to get you sorted out on that front.

What: The Light That Shines
Who: Univox Choir
Where: Christ Church Deer Park (1570 Yonge Street, 1 block North of St. Clair)
When: Monday Dec 13th, 8pm
How much: $15 in advance (tickets online, or through me in person)

What again: A holiday concert featuring music from the secular, Jewish and Christian traditions, including traditional choral works by Francis Poulenc, Eric Whitacre, Healey Willan, and contemporary popular Christmas songs as performed by Dave Matthews, Amy Grant, and John Denver. Come have your hearts warmed by the spirit of the season!

Buy tickets online: http://univoxchoir.org/tickets
FB Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=131955186861098

Second, it's getting closer and closer to Christmas - we finally got a good dumping of snow here in Ontario - so it's time for Christmas tunes! Check out my entry into MixCloud's Christmas competition! If you wanna get into the holiday spirit AND you wanna help me out, all you need to do is listen the mix a few times on MixCloud. Easy!

Lots of lounge and heart warming cheer from the greats like Lou Rawls, Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee and more, plus updated beats 'n remix from Ohmega Watts, A Skillz and others. It's all win, really. :)

And lastly, been meaning to post this for awhile...the vinyl vs. mp3, turntable vs. laptop debate has been going on for (what seems like) years, but I've never heard the argument framed quite like this: are turntablists just ticked off that laptops have made it *easy* to dj? And if so, how do laptop jockeys compensate?

Another excellent post from DJ Tech Tools.

This is probably my last mail out of 2010 as well, so I'll also wish you a very blessed and safe Christmas. Despite all the sadness in my life these past 12 months, there's a been a lot of great times as well, and I have definitely been at my happiest when I've been dropping beats for you guys, be it through an mp3 flipped across the www, or seeing your the sweaty smiles in person on the dance floor.

Thanks for making it such a great year to dj, hope to see you all again in the next one.

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