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1st Annual Ottawa Community Record Show
Saturday September 26th 2009
Sandy Hill Community Centre, 250 Somerset St. East
(near University of Ottawa, just off King Edward ...map below)
Doors open @ 2 PM ends 7 PM
Admission $2.00
in collaboration with: CKCU 93.1 FM, CHUO 89.1 FM, Birdman Sound

TONS OF KILLER NO FILLER LPs & CDs!!

printable poster download here

Dave Aardvark and John Westhaver are well-known music freaks in the Ottawa area for pretty much forever now and have participated in many a regional Record Show too numerous to count. In recent years, the lack-lustre turnouts and poor promotion of the local conventions have led to them taking the bull by the horns so to speak, therefore presenting this very first local-centric (however there will be many out-of-towners as well) Record Show!! The focus will be on Quality over quantity, no peddlers of lame bootleg videos, tacky posters and paraphernalia or any other such crud. Just good music, community, fun, no frills, grassroots but loads of proper promotion!!!! If you think you want to throw down a nice spread, let the interrogation begin :-) ...contact Dave at daardvark@gmail.com for information about table costs and such... be part of the experience and unload some of your gems on appreciative local music lovers!! Dave Aardvark is the Program Director at CHUO 89.1 FM and is host of many different radio shows. He has/does worked in music distribution & retail, as a concert promoter, and as a professional DJ in the past including Les Foufounes Electriques and Café Campus in Montréal and helped get The Aloha Room off the ground back when.... He has also been in a bunch of half-baked bands over the years and has a stupid amount of records and CDs. John Westhaver is the loveable but sometimes grouchy owner of the world class and legendary Record Store Birdman Sound. He also hosts one of the best radio shows ever, "Friday Morning Cartunes", can also be found Rawking out in the fabulous heavy instrumental psych quartet "the band whose name is a symbol" and you better believe this dude has one of the sickest record collections going!

Directions: From the East, exit the Queensway (Hwy 417) at Nicholas/Mann, bear right to avoid Nicholas, then stay left to feed from Lees onto King Edward at the lights a few hundred yards from the Queensway exit. Turn left onto King Edward, and go two blocks north to Somerset, then turn right for two or three blocks to the community center. There is free parking behind the building. From the West, exit the Queensway (Hwy 417) at Lees Avenue and turn left on Lees. It will go over the Queensway and arrive at the King Edward lights mentioned above—from that point on, follow the directions above.