The Aforementioned will bring their blend of what lead guitarist and vocalist Dean Thompson dubs, “Roots-jazz-country-folk,” to open at 6:30 pm the November 5th Open Mic featuring Julie Berry. Lead vocalist and guitarist, Noële Hall, adds “a blues influence” to this amalgam of genres. The Aforementioned is composed of Hall, Thompson, and Helen Thompson on bass guitar and vocals. The band formed in November 2013, and they released an album, Everything That Used To Be, in August, 2014.  Hall, recovering from ovarian cancer, wrote for the album as part of her recovery process. She says, “We all have our own journey. My journey has been writing these songs.”

Go to music.cbc.ca/#!/artists and search “The Aforementioned” to check out their music.

Thanks to James Reaney, whose February 26, 2014 interview for The London Free Press was a key source for this biography. 

THE EVENT

WHERE:  The Mykonos Restaurant at 572 Adelaide St. North, London, Ontario. The restaurant has a large, covered terrace just behind the main restaurant, which comfortably holds 60 poetry lovers. Mediterranean food and drinks are available. Except for the coldest months, the terrace is open to the parking lot behind. Overflow parking is available across the side street and in the large lot one block north, in front of Trad’s Furniture.

WHEN: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014.

LIVE MUSIC: "The Aforementioned,"  a folk, blues, and country group, will open the event at 6:30. They will also perform during the intermission and  at the end of the event. 

THE FEATURED POET: Julie Berry will open the poetry portion of the event at 7:00, followed by a Q&A.

OPEN MIC: Following the featured poet, 15 open mic poets will read for about 1.5 hours, ending about 9:00 pm. Each poet has five minutes (which is about two good pages of poetry, but it should be timed at home). Sign up on the reader`s list, which is on the book table at the back. It's first come, first served.

RAFFLE PRIZES: Anyone who donates to London Open Mic Poetry Night receives a ticket for a raffle prize, three of which will be picked after the intermission. The prizes consist of poetry books donated by Brick Books and The Ontario Poetry Society. Donations are our only source of income. We still haven't paid off our initial debt!

 
Julie Berry’s first book, worn thresholds was published by Brick in 1995 and reprinted in 2006. A second collection of poems was published by Buschek Books of Ottawa in the fall of 2010. Her poems have appeared in a number of periodicals from Canadian Forum in the late seventies to most recently, The Malahat Review and Brittle Star, a UK publication. Julie’s work has appeared in numerous anthologies including Open Wide a Wilderness from Wilfred Laurier University Press (2008).  Being an elementary school teacher for most of her working life has given her the gift of a child’s-eye view of the world. In 2007 she wrote and presented, with the help of Steve Wadhams of CBC, The Poetry of the Woods, an award-winning CBC production of Outfront and this experience has led to her present job producing children’s radio programs. She was long-listed for this year’s Canada Writes competition with an excerpt from a work-in-progress,  I am &c. The Gilbert White Poems. Julie lives just outside of St. Thomas, Ontario with her partner, Jonathan and their dog, Guinness. Her four sons have grown and flown.


Stay tuned for the upcoming interview with Julie.

WHERE:  The Mykonos Restaurant at 572 Adelaide St. North, London, Ontario. The restaurant has a large, covered terrace just behind the main restaurant, which comfortably holds 60 poetry lovers. Mediterranean food and drinks are available. Except for the coldest months, the terrace is open to the parking lot behind. Overflow parking is available across the side street and in the large lot one block north, in front of Trad’s Furniture.

WHEN: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014.

LIVE MUSIC: "The Aforementioned,"  a folk, blues, and country group, will open the event at 6:30. They will also perform during the intermission and  at the end of the event. 

THE FEATURED POET: Julie Berry will open the poetry portion of the event at 7:00, followed by a Q&A.

OPEN MIC: Following the featured poet, 15 open mic poets will read for about 1.5 hours, ending about 9:00 pm. Each poet has five minutes (which is about two good pages of poetry, but it should be timed at home). Sign up on the reader`s list, which is on the book table at the back. It's first come, first served.

RAFFLE PRIZES: Anyone who donates to London Open Mic Poetry Night receives a ticket for a raffle prize, three of which will be picked after the intermission. The prizes consist of poetry books donated by Brick Books and The Ontario Poetry Society. Donations are our only source of income. We still haven't paid off our initial debt!