NORM'S PAST EVENTS
2005

PAST EVENTS 2005 AT A GLANCE - details follow list

Monday December 19, 2005 - Concert and CD Release!!
"I Am the Night" - Norm's NEW Poetry & Prose CD
8:30 p.m. - pwyc - Renaissance Cafe, Toronto

Monday December 12, 2005 - guest set at
Linda Stitt's poetry CD Release
8 p.m. - The Brownstone Bistro & Bar - 603 Yonge, Toronto

Sunday September 25, 2005 - Word on the Street, Toronto
11:00a.m. to 6:00p.m. - Metro Toronto Movement for Literacy
[ at Queen's Park - Norm's performance 2:30 - 3:00 pm - corrected time ]

Friday September 9, 2005 - 8:30 pm - A Celebration of Pat Logier
Renaissance Cafe, Toronto

Thursday June 30, 2005
Norm is the feature at Dr. B's acoustic open stage

Wednesday June 15, 2005 - 8 pm
An Evening of Poetry and Song
Linda Stitt and Joe Fromstein and Norm Hacking
Renaissance Cafe, Toronto

Friday May 27, 2005 - 7:30 pm
Fat Albert's open stage benefit concert and CD release

Tuesday May 17, 2005 - 7:30 pm - midnight+
Iridescent Music Spring Fest

Sunday May 1, 2005 - 7 pm
Free Times Cafe, Toronto - Socialist Action May Day Celebration

When Cats Go Wrong - the book!!
April 1, 2005 - Available in U.S. bookstores
Widely available in Canada since October 2004
Cynthia Nugent illustrates Norm's song - includes CD single

Winterfolk III - February 4-6, 2005
Indoor festival - 7 stages / 6 venues - Danforth and Broadview, Toronto
Norm appears February 4 (Friday) and 6 (Sunday) - great line-up!!

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Monday December 19, 2005 - 8:30 - Concert and CD Release!!
"I Am the Night"
Norm's new Poetry & Prose CD

presented by The Renaissance Cafe and Irisdescent Music

Renaissance Cafe
1938 Danforth Ave., Toronto, 416 422-1441
(1+ block west of Woodbine, on subway line)
Friendly - Licenced - Yummy Affordable Food (menu on-line)

Admission - pwyc / pass the hat

This is a concert with a few special guests, and not an open stage.
Norm likes to get together with friends and fans around at this time of the year,
but it's not a concert of Christmas songs (expect one or two of Norm's).
It IS a special evening celebrating the release of
"I AM THE NIGHT" - Norm's NEW Poetry and Prose CD!
33 selections recorded at Iridescent Music studio
with the generous help and studio time donated by Executive Producer Phil Ball
and the talent of Recording Engineer Charlie Agnello.

See the full CD description
Order the CD from Iridescent Music NOW if you can't attend.

Reminder:  Renaissance has a counter-top store with Norm's (and other) CDs.
available any time the Cafe is open; all sales proceeds go to the artist.

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Monday December 12, 2005 - guest set at
Linda Stitt's poetry CD Release
8 p.m. - The Brownstone Bistro & Bar
603 Yonge (2 blocks north of Wellesley subway), Toronto

Linda Stitt is releasing her debut CD Can You Hear Me Now?
Linda will be reading her poetry, gently accompanied by Brian Gauci,
guitarist who composed and performs the music on the CD.
The evening also includes a music set by Norm Hacking and
two instrumental sets by duo Brian Gauci and Michael Fonfara.
Linda's CD was recorded at the Iridescent Music studio and is available at www.iridescentmusic.ca

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Sunday September 25, 2005 - Word on the Street, Toronto
11:00a.m. to 6:00p.m. - Enbridge Gas Distribution Literacy Tent
Metro Toronto Movement for Literacy
Queen's Park and Queen's Park Crescent
[ Norm's performance 2:30 - 3:00 pm - corrected time ]

Literacy supporters and poetry lovers are invited to participate! Memorize your favourite poem, collect pledges on behalf of MTML or an affiliated literacy program, and then come to the Enbridge Gas Distribution Literacy Tent to recite your poem onstage. NEW (Sept 20) - map of Literacy Tent location (in the north part of Queen's Park; map is 96kb jpg; there are more booths than shown).

Not interested in reciting yourself? Come delight your ears with recitations from literacy learners, poetry enthusiasts and these published poets: Seth-Adrian Harris, Sheila Stewart and Linda Stitt. Or, take time and relax to the folk-inspired sounds of singer/songwriters Claire Jenkins, Norm Hacking and Andrea England. Norm will include both songs and poems at 2:30 p.m. Yes, performers will be selling their CDs / books.

Children are invited to stop by and play “Hook-a-Book,” a fun fishing game that requires children to reel in a book and read a short verse to receive a prize.

All proceeds will benefit local adult literacy organizations. For more information or to participate in the Poetry Challenge, please call MTML at (416) 961-4013 or visit their website at http://www.mtml.ca/events.htm.

As booklovers know, The Word On The Street is a free public marketplace of book and magazine publishers, booksellers, and cultural exhibitors in Toronto, Halifax, Kitchener, Calgary and Vancouver. Last year’s 15th anniversary Toronto festival moved to Queen's Park - with more than 270 exhibitors and over 200,000 visitors! Lots of fun!
Food is available on site (expanded from 2004).
The closest subway stops are Museum or Queen's Park on the University-Spadina line.

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Friday September 9, 2005 - 8:30 pm - A Celebration of Pat Logier
Renaissance Cafe, 416 422-1441
1938 Danforth Ave (1 block west of Woodbine subway station)
Friendly - Licenced - Food available (menu on-line)

Norm joins a number of special guests in an evening celebrating the music of Patrick Shelley Logier, who died in 1996. A wizard on guitar and almost equally adept on piano, banjo, pennywhistle and half a dozen other instruments, Pat wrote hundreds of songs and saw one of them, "If I Knew Just What to Say," turned into a single by Roger Whittaker. But his work is not nearly as well known as it should be.

In addition to Steve Paul Simms, who organized the evening, and Norm Hacking,
other performers include
Kim Boyce, Annette Dillon, Geoff and Nina, Marianne Girard, Glenna Green,
Donna Marie Haslehurst, Blair Heddle,
Maurice Laframboise, Jim Layeux, Rob Minderman,
Rachel Page and Thomas Handy, Gary 17, Julie Snider and Vox Violins.
And probably more.

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Thursday June 30, 2005
Norm features at Dr. B's acoustic open stage
Renaissance Cafe
1938 Danforth Ave., Toronto
(1 block west of Woodbine, on subway line)

Times:  7:30 pm - songwriter sign-up
8 pm - music begins
around 9:30 pm - 30 minute feature performer set (only 1 feature)
Admission - pass the hat - goes to the feature
Series - every Thursday (except holidays)
Organized by Brian Gladstone, with rotating hosts summer 2005
Guest host on June 30 - Steve Raiken
Norm was the first feature for this open stage June 17, 2004
More info on Dr.B's Summer 2005 Open Stage

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Wednesday June 15, 2005 - 8 pm start - $5 at the door
An Evening of Poetry and Song
Linda Stitt - Joe Fromstein - Norm Hacking
Renaissance Cafe, Toronto 416 422-1441
1938 Danforth Ave (1 block west of Woodbine subway station)
Friendly - Licenced - Food available (menu on-line)

Poets Linda Stitt and Joe Fromstein
will read poems from their new book
LOVEPLAY: A Conversation in Rhyme
a lively exchange in verse of humorous and wise views of love.
For bios and info on the book: www.loveplaybook.com
Norm Hacking will perform both songs and poems,
including trading poems with Linda Stitt, a highlight of their 2004 evening.
Linda Stitt has published many books of her popular poetry

View or print the June 15 flyer - design by p.j.stitt

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Friday May 27, 2005 - 7:30 pm
Fat Albert's open stage benefit concert and CD release

$10 at the door / $8 in advance / cash bar
at Fat Albert's open stage home (Wednesdays)
The Steelworkers' Hall
25 Cecil St (one block south of College and east of Spadina)

Norm Hacking is one of many celebrating Fat Albert's open stage in this benefit
Norm's performance of "Crazy for Love" appears on
Darn Folksingers Vol. 2
one of two CD-Rs from tapes off the soundboard over the years -
the sound is good and you feel you're in the room.
See more on Fat Albert's open stage - since 1967!!
Especially details of the May 27 concert including the performer list
and the two Darn Folksinger CDs with detailed track lists

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Tuesday May 17, 2005 - 7:30 pm - midnight+
Iridescent Music Spring Fest
at
Hollywood on the Queensway
1184 The Queensway (between Islington and Kipling)
no cover - sponsored by Molson Canada

Norm will be accompanied by Michael Laderoute,
who will also perform a couple of his own original songs.
They contribute short sets to an evening of
some of Canada's finest professional musicians
assembled under one roof on one night!!
Master of Ceremonies - Chuck Jackson
House Band (much of the evening - to be joined by other musicians):
Pat Carey * Jimmy Casson * Michael Fonfara
Steve Grisbrook * Garth Vogan
Full details at Iridescent Music

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Sunday May 1, 2005 - 7 pm
19th Annual Socialist Action May Day Celebration
Free Times Cafe (Toronto)
320 College St. (2 blocks west of Spadina) 416 967-1078
$10 waged, $5 non-waged or pay what you can
Entertainers:
Norm Hacking, brilliant veteran composer and singer-guitarist
Bill Heffernan, activist, teacher and song smith
Glen Hornblast, folk singer on the social justice scene
Michael Laderoute, amazing guitarist and soulful singer
Mad Love, three sisters in soft bluegrass harmony
Linda Saslove, rising star singer-songwriter
Speakers:
 John Clarke, Organizer, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
Gerry Foley, International editor, Socialist Action newspaper based in San Francisco
Wendy Forrest, Spokesperson, Socialist Alternative
John Riddell, Co-editor, Socialist Voice
Emily Tang, Spokesperson, Metropolitan Hotel Workers’ Committee, UNITE-HERE
Barry Weisleder, Substitute teachers’ organizer & spokesperson, Socialist Action
M.C.:
Elizabeth Byce, federal Treasurer, NDP Socialist Caucus, & member of Toronto Local, CUPE
Sponsored by Socialist Action
Event endorsed by Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, NDP Socialist Caucus,
Socialist Voice and Socialist Alternative.

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When Cats Go Wrong - the book!!
Available in U.S. on APRIL 1, 2005
Widely available in Canada since October 2004!
Cynthia Nugent illustrates Norm's song - includes CD single
This book with CD single appeals to all kids age 5 to 100+

“When Cats Go Wrong”
By Norm Hacking - Illustrated by Cynthia Nugent
Published by Raincoast Books (ISBN 1-55192-729-2)
Norm's popular song is now an illustrated book
that includes a CD single!!
When Cats Go Wrong lyrics are a litany of kitty mischief set to tango music
by Norm Hacking from the popular
Orange Cats CD by Norm Hacking & Kirk Elliott
Cynthia Nugent is a well-known Vancouver-based illustrator.
For more, see Norm's page on the book - includes link to mp3 -
and Cynthia Nugent's web page

In Canada - ask booksellers to order from Raincoast if not in stock
In U.S. - ask booksellers to order through Publishers Group West

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Update: Congratulations to festival organizers and participants for
an excellent festival and increased attendance.
Photos from the festival are now at www.winterfolk.com

WINTERFOLK III - Blues and Roots Festival
Friday to Sunday February 4 - 6, 2005
Friday 7 pm - 1 am /// Saturday 2 pm - 1 am /// Sunday 2 - 7 pm
indoor festival -- all ages this year (includes kids)
7 stages / 6 clubs - Danforth & Broadview, Toronto
Near Broadview subway station on Bloor / Danforth line OR park east of Broadview
full performer list and schedule available at www.winterfolk.com

Norm performs:
1) Friday Feb 4 - 11pm-midnight
Norm in concert - accompanied by Michael Laderoute (guitar)
Black Swan ground floor, 154 Danforth (N side, just E of Broadview)

2) Sunday Feb 6 - 2 - 4 pm - host as songwriters talk about & perform songs:
Hour 1: Greg Quill, Kim Beggs, Mikel Miller
Hour 2: Greg Hobbs, Ray Materick, Marie-Lynn Hammond, Bill Colgate
Stanley's, 129 Danforth (S side, just E of Broadview)

3) Sunday Feb 6 - 5 - 6 pm
Norm in concert - accompanied by Michael Laderoute (guitar)
Dora Keogh, 141 Danforth (S side, near Stanley's)
NOTE - this is the most kid-friendly of Norm's Winterfolk concerts

For full schedule and performer descriptions links:
www.winterfolk.com/WFIII/ScheduleIII.htm

TICKETS:
$40 / weekend --- and (subject to availability at the door) $20 / day
kids under 12 FREE (maximum 2 per paying adult)
Advance weekend tickets from
Ticketmaster 416 870-8000 (fee charged)
or for no-fee purchase, drop by
Renaissance Cafe, 1938 Danforth Ave (near Woodbine), 416 422 1441
The Black Swan Tavern, 154 Danforth Ave., 416 469 0537
The Old Nick, 123 Danforth Ave, 416 461 5546
The Willow Restaurant, 193 Danforth Ave, 416 469 5315
Tickets at the door from the last 3 above, plus
Allen's 143 Danforth - 416 463 3086
Dora Keogh 141 Danforth - 416 778 1804
Stanley's Sports & Entertainment Lounge 129 Danforth - 416 462 3373

Wheelchair access:
Yes, but not washrooms: Allen's, Black Swan (main floor), Stanley's
Yes: Dora Keogh
No: Old Nick, The Willow, Black Swan (2nd floor)

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See also
UPCOMING EVENTS
Past Events in 2007 / in 2006 // in 2004 / in 2003 / in 2002
Open stage series (both ended):
Norm's Living Room at Silver Dollar Room (2001-02)
Norm at The Tranzac (1999-2001)