6th Annual Spring Festival Of Craft Breweries

Friday May 28, 5 to 10 p.m.

Victoria's birthday has come and gone and it's time to drink beer. Lot's of different flavours in tiny glasses with hundreds of other like-minded people.

Here's the line-up so far:

11 Cask Beers:

C'est What Al's Cask Ale, Black Oak Mucho Mango, Beau's Beaver River, Neustadt Big Dog Porter Extra, Granite Hopping Mad, Great Lakes Imperial Hefeweisen, Flying Monkeys Smash Bomb Atomic IPA, Duggan's Porter, F&M Stonehammer IPA, Wellington Anniversary Ale, Grand River Plowman Anniversary Ale.

30 Draughts:

Amsterdam Spring Bock and Oranjeweiss, Barley Days Lager, Big Rock Warthog Ale, Black Oak Ten Bitter Years, C'est What Mother Pucker's Ginger Wheat and Coffee Porter and Steve's Dreaded Chocolate, Church-Key Weissenbitter, Cool Beer Spezial, Creemore Kellerbier, Durham Hop Addict, Grand River Raspberry Pils, Great Lakes Miami Weiss, Heritage Sargent Major, Hockley Valley Black & Tan, Hop City Lawnchair Weissbier, King Pilsbock, St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout, McAuslan Cream Ale, Mill Street Lemon Tea Ale and Roggenbier, Muskoka Born Bitter, Nickel Brook Strawberry Wheat and Gluten-free IPA, Railway City Dead Elephant Ale, Steam Whistle Pilsner, Unibroue Ephemere Cassis, Waupoos Cider, Peeler Cider.

Free admission and, as usual, most samples are a loonie each.

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Face it?

C'est What has a fan page

They like us, they really like us...

Since we went live with our Facebook fan page last month one hundred and eighty people have affirmed their interest in finding out what we are doing tonight. Important things like who is performing and what cask is being tapped not what James scored on tap-tap.

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Get Real, Get It Live

Susan Crowe

Often described as a "writer's writer", Susan Crowe is one of Canada's most respected singer songwriters in the folk genre. At once complex, challenging and accessible, Susan's intelligent and moving songs have captivated audiences and reviewers from coast to coast, continent to continent. She possesses, in the words of Britain's Folk Roots magazine, "that rare ability of crafting a lyric that bears scrutiny on its own terms." That rare ability has earned her two Juno nominations, and nominations from both the West Coast and East Coast Music Awards.

Appearing on Thursday May 27, Doors 9:00 p.m., Show time 10:00 p.m. Advance tickets are available for $6.00.

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David Newberry

David Newberry sings songs about the social - the way we move together in our everyday lives; at work, at play, in sickness and in health, under the ground or on top of the mountain, at home alone or wasting away in a crowd at the casino.

Influenced predominantly by the older, acoustic music he grew up around (Woody Guthrie, Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle) David tries to modernize this sound by accompanying his folk songs with a Fender Telecaster electric guitar and an ever-growing collection of subtle effects. David's songs are political without being overbearing, and personal without being uncomfortable. He calls it Electric Folk-Rock'n'Roll.

"It's not often you hear songwriters talking about research, but if therein a good way to describe Vancouver-based David Newberry's sound, it is 'well researched.' Newberry draws heavily on traditional folk themes in order to tell his honest and personal stories; and it's obvious he has done his musical homework. Songs about traveling, brotherhood, leftist politics and whiskey are presented here in a way that is representative of skills learned not just on a guitar but also in a library. David Newberry is a student of popular music as much as he is a practitioner." -Trent Arthur (Trent University's Student Newspaper).

His sibling-rivalry-duets record is available on iTunes and CD Baby. NEWBERRY VS. NEWBERRY: Freight Lines.

Appearing on Saturday June 5, Doors 9:00 p.m., Show time 10:00 p.m. Advance tickets are available for $8.00.

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