Deep Roots Music Cooperative
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The Deep Roots Music Cooperative was incorporated in 2003 by a group dedicated to developing and promoting the music scene in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley.
Vision:
We envision an enduring community, celebrating and enriching our culture through music.
Mission:
To create meaningful connections between cultures, community groups, artists, and audiences by offering music-related events, programs, and an annual festival.
Our aim is to present regular concerts and educational musical events, nurture local musicians, support other local arts organizations and worthy community projects and produce the annual Canadian Deep Roots Music Festival. And while we're at it, have a lot of fun!
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Deep Roots Music Cooperative Limited is a registered non-profit organization with the Registry of Joint Stocks of Nova Scotia under the Co-operative Associations Act. Basic membership is free and you will receive our monthly news -e- letter. To become a registered voting member with full voting rights at our annual general meeting, you need to pay a $10 fee, or volunteer a minimum of 15 hours throughout the previous year, or provide a sponsorship/donation to Deep Roots, or buy a weekend pass to the Festival.
Visit our Membership page for more information.
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Deep Roots Cooperative News
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Deep Roots Saturday at the Market
Posted on: September 6, 2010
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Music – Various Deep Roots Artists
Saturday Sept. 24 – 10am to 1pm at the Wolfville Farmers' Market
Enjoy all the amazing produce, crafts, food, art and more at the Wolfville Farmers' Market with a variety of Deep Roots performers enhancing each joyful moment. The Fresh Beats Rhythm Parade passes through the Market just a few minutes after 12 noon. Come and join the fun!
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Pre-festival Fund-raiser - Brewery Dinner at Kentville Paddy's
Posted on: September 6, 2010
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Thursday September 23rd, 6:00 PM
Paddy's Pub in Kentville
Entertainment by Connie Kaldor & Carmel Mikol
Price $50 includes Meal
The Deep Roots Music Co-op is pleased to be offering an 'intimate' supper concert starting at 6:00 PM on Thursday September 23rd. Along with a presentation and sampling from Paddy's Brewmaster, and a sumptuous three course meal, guests will be treated to musical sets from Carmel Mikol, ECMA 'New Artist of the Year' and Connie Kaldor, one of Canada's top Folk Musicians.
There are only 50 tickets being sold at $50 apiece and they are available through Paddy's Pub in Kentville, 902-678-3199. Best to hurry - this is expected to sell out quickly.
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Donations Gratefully Accepted - and Rewarded!
Posted on: September 6, 2010
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Donations can be rewarded with tickets to Deep Roots mainstage concerts.
Please let us know if you can help out.
Here is what we need:
Flowers, fresh local fruit and finger food for our After Hours party and for performer Green Rooms.
Craft stuff - We have craft activities on Saturday morning in preparation for our famous Fresh Beats Rhythm Parade. We are glad to have lots of craft stuff for making Fancy Hats and Crowns, as well as rhythm instruments from recycled materials. As well we have craft and game activities (for festival goers of all ages) which take place concurrent with our mainstage shows (Friday night, Saturday night and Sunday afternoon). We welcome your donations of any appropriate craft supplies. Tempera paint, large sheets of paper, glue and masking tape are much appreciated.
Our 'Fancy Hats and Crowns' and 'Beat your own drum' workshops are made special by the type of craft materials people donate. Suggested items for hats include: Feathers, glitter, junk jewellery and beads. We also need a few large piles of newspapers – can you save some for us?
For the kids' rhythm instruments, we want dowel pieces and other good sticks, jinglers (anything from beer caps to bells!), buckets and lids (they make good drums and tambourines!):
- big coloured markers for decorating
- big twist-ties, string, duct tape &/or packing tape
- pieces of plastic water pipe to beat on drums
- old junk cd's and such for decorations
- garbage can lids for cymbals
- pieces of pine - 12in.x1in.x1/2in. for shaker sticks
- hammers [rubber or kid-sized are ok] to nail the beer caps on to the shaker sticks
- kazoos + pieces of plastic plumbing pipe to construct big trombones etc.
You can drop them off to our office (Main Street in Wolfville, downstairs from the Box of Delights) or email lisa@deeprootsmusic.ca to arrange pick up.
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Can you lend us a Cell Phone?
Posted on: September 6, 2010
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For the festival, we need to borrow a few cell phones that work well in the Wolfville area. We'd like to borrow them for the weekend if possible, but most importantly on Saturday. We will only be making local calls. Can you help?
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Billet host needed for group of 4
Posted on: September 6, 2010
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We have a wonderfully welcoming crew of Deep Roots billet hosts gearing up to receive their performer guests. We still are seeking one more house in Wolfville that can house a group of 4 people. We look forward to hearing from you if you can help. Please contact the office by
email office@deeprootsmusic.ca or phone 542-7668 (ROOT).
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2010 Valley Arts Award
Posted on: June 18, 2010
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Nominations for the 2010 Valley Arts Award are now being accepted.
Nominations are accepted until the end May each year. Nominations should be in the form of a letter or e-mail outlining the contribution the individual has made to the cultural life of the region. Please provide names and contact information for two references as well.
Send them to Wendy Elliott, The Kings County Advertiser, P.O. Box 430 Kentville, N.S., B4N 3X4 or e-mail welliott AT kentvilleadvertiser.ca.
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Emerging Artists Update
Posted on: June 18, 2010
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The Emerging Artists line-up has now been selected. The panel were delighted that applications came from as far away as Winnipeg and Connecticut as well as our local home grown musicians. The best have been picked and we hope you will be a part of discovering new talent. With a special guest appearances by Alice Stops, the show promises to be a great addition to the Mud Creek Days line up. Show starts at 7:30pm on July 31st at the Festival Theatre. Free will donation at the door.
Special thanks to our sponsors RBC, Magic 949, AVR, Annapolis Valley Events and Tourism, Culture and Heritage.
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Debbie Roza-Mercier is our new DRMC General Manager
Posted on: May 23, 2010
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After months (and possibly even years) of discussion and planning, we are pleased to announce that the Deep Roots Music Cooperative now has its first General Manager. Please join us in congratulating our own Debbie Roza-Mercier on being the successful candidate.
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Message from COOP President Peter Mowat
Posted on: May 14, 2010
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Welcome to our new website - we hope you'll like it.
For starters, let me fill you in on some of the recent activities of the Cooperative. The DRMC Board of Directors, who oversee all of the undertakings of The Deep Roots Music Cooperative, has recently been going through a Strategic Planning Process with assistance from The Acadia Centre for Social and Business Entrepreneurship and funding from ACOA. This project is on-going as we work to develop a multi-year business plan. As well, we have been diligently working to broaden the scope of activities that take place annually under the umbrella of the Cooperative.
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Peter Mowat - Chair
Colby Clarke - Vice Chair
Julie Harris - Treasurer
Vacancy - Secretary
Kathleen Hull
Marie Jardine
Bernie Young
Angie Davidson
GENERAL MANAGER:
Debbie Roza-Mercier gm@deeprootsmusic.ca
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Beginning in October 2009 and continuing over a five-week period, members of the Deep Roots Board of Directors and several members of the Deep Roots Music Cooperative, participated in a strategic planning process. This was made possible by funding from ACOA and was facilitated by the Acadia Centre for Social and Business Entrepreneurship. The process is ongoing and will continue until a Business Plan has been created. Please click on the following link to view the Strategic Plan document that was created.
CLICK HERE to view/download a copy of the 2010 Strategic Plan in PDF format.
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Look at a map of Nova Scotia and you will see we are almost entirely surrounded by water. Only the narrow strip of the Isthmus of Chignecto connects us, umbilic-like to the larger portion of our country. We are literally on the edge of the sea. The interior of the province is dotted and criss-crossed with thousands of lakes and streams, rivers and inlets. Nova Scotia is a place that water has shaped and defined.
Generations of immigrants from Europe and New England, joined the native Mi' kmaq here on a land that is both beautiful and brutal, cruel and benign. It is a land that beckons as a haven of romantic history, pastoral and serene. What was and is the appeal of Nova Scotia, a place that we fiercely love, proudly display, declare our own? Most of us know at least a little of the history of this wild, rugged, forested peninsula where the native Mi'kmaq lived and flourished moving from shore to inland according to the seasons. We know about the arrival of the early French settlers whom the Mi'kmaq befriended.
From our school days we remember the maps of Samuel de Champlain who explored this region from 1604-1607, the stories of the early French settlement of Port Royal, and Acadie, the French name given to the area that covered Nova Scotia and much of New Brunswick. We still bear the scars of the tragic Deportation of 1755 when the Acadians were expelled from their homes for refusing to sign an oath of allegiance to the British monarch. There is admiration for our forefathers who came to this place and made their way, many of them destitute, having lost, given up or escaped another life. The Mi'kmaq, Acadians, Foreign Protestants, Planters, the Loyalists, both Black and White - our ancestors all. By their stories we feel rooted, proud of our heritage.
We only need look across the Acadian dykelands, to the rising majesty of Cape Blomidon, where Glooscap, the legendary hero of the Mi'kmaq lived, and beyond to the ocean to see what they saw; a place of surpassing beauty, changing throughout the seasons from frozen landscape to pastoral wonderland. Blomidon forms the easternmost end of the North Mountain, an ancient 160-kilometre range that protects the Annapolis Valley from the cold, wind and fog of the mighty Bay of Fundy and helps to create an ideal agricultural environment. The cliffs and weather-beaten crags of the Bay of Fundy shoreline are fronted by rocky beaches, seaweed strewn and wild. The tides beat in and out, an incredible disparity from high to low. We are blessed to live in such a place, where the landscape is infused and enriched by history, nature and the deep roots of our ancestors.
Visitors know there is something special here. They feel it in the hospitality they are shown, the easy-going attitude of the people they meet and what they describe as our 'laid-back' life style. They long to return, dream of making a life here. Many do. Those fortunate enough to have ties here, if living elsewhere, treasure those ties and come home as often as they can, vowing to permanently return someday. Most of us would never dream of leaving. It is our mission to share the stories and traditions of this land through music and song, to honour our place in the world and to invite new stories, new traditions, connecting with those who would celebrate with us.
For more information about the Deep Roots Music Cooperative, events or the festival, please contact us.
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