By Clara Musca
Lance Writer
August 3, 2010

Voted Canada’s best live music venue by CBC Radio 3 listeners, Phog Lounge is busy making preparations for the second annual Phog music festival. Phog Phest is due to hit downtown Windsor with a bang on Saturday, Aug. 14 with tickets already selling quickly, priced at just $10. The Phest is looking very promising this year, with nine Canadian bands booked for the entire day, including local bands and musicians from Toronto and Hamilton.
This year they are doing things differently—there are not as many performers on the bill as there were last year, however this will make it more enjoyable for the audience as it will give Windsorites a chance to mingle between sets. Not to mention that the audience can also expect longer sets of music from the artists they have come to know and love.
The set list features Hamilton’s explosive garage rock band Young Rival, rap/dub/hip hop artist Grand Analog, and CJAM Jammy award-winning local band The Locusts Have No King. Tom Lucier, Phog’s co-owner, believes it is important for all genres of music to be represented.>>

By Lindsey Rivait
Arts Editor

August 3, 2010

UWindsor’s School of Music is getting off to a great start this year with their new Director, Dr. Jonathan Bayley, a talented flutist with a strong background in performance and teaching.
Bayley’s previous experience includes a long stint of working with the fine arts in the music area at Grand Prairie College in Alberta (1991-2000) and Faculties of Education at both the University of Regina (2000-2003) and UWindsor.
Since coming to UWindsor in 2003, Bayley has taught in the Faculty of Education and in the School of Music and was also Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Research, and Continuing Education in the Faculty of Education.
Music has always been an integral part of Bayley’s life and he enjoys working with others in the music context.
“I’ve worked with a wide array of individuals within the music context. I’ve worked with professional musicians, amateur musicians, community music makers, adults as life-long learners whose profession was something else, whether they were a physiotherapist, a lawyer, or a doctor, but they wanted to have music in their lives and maintain that. It’s always been central to who I am,” Bayley explained. >>

By Robert Zuniga
Lance Writer
August 3, 2010

The Art Gallery of Windsor is currently hosting a transcendental exhibit from Indian-born, Canadian artist Jeet Aulakh.

In Anahada Naada, Aulakh presents the audience with several works reflecting his own spiritual existence through meditation and the use of symbols.
Symbolism in Aulakh’s paintings draws the observer into a world of circles as recurring universal forms, creating the rippling effect of symmetry and perspective away from the focal point.
One example of this is “Adi Shakti” (2008), in which a number of concentric circles are enclosed within a pattern of crossing triangles.
I caught up with Aulakh at the Opening Reception of Hot Nights, Cool Art on the third floor of the Gallery.
Two local performers were playing traditional Indian tunes through a sitar and a set of hourglass-shaped drums. The music provided the necessary cultural-backdrop with which the artist enticed his audience to appreciate his art as a means for discovering one’s spiritual transcendence.
“I use circles as universal forms,” the artist stated, “and as means to represent my own Chakra.” >>