Music in your eyes Tour 2012

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Friday, May 11th, 2012
8:00 PM to 10:30 PM

Alberta born, Vancouver Island based musicians join up for

The Music in your eyes Tour

The Konsorados & Allen Dobb

The tour celebrates music & sight with partial proceeds going to the Trish Turner Memorial Fund (Seva Canada).

Seva Canada is an organization marking 30 years of service preventing blindness and restoring sight in developing countries.
For more information please visit their website @ www.seva.ca

Special guests "Victoria's own Brave New Waves ....

The Konsorados are a husband and wife Folk/Roots duo from Lantzville, B.C.

Donna Konsorado a singer-songwriter and music promoter. Her roots in Western Canada stretch from her current home on Vancouver Island to the big sky landscape of Saskatchewan. Donna's unique style of folk music reveals her prairie roots, and embraces the sensibilities of Vancouver Island and the coast.

Donna spent many years playing and touring with Roots/Blues artist Ken Hamm,

and has promoted concerts in the Nanaimo area for artists such as John Reischman, Tom Wilson, David Essig,Joel Fafard.

She supports Seva Canada (blindness prevention in developing countries) by donating a percentage of the proceeds from each concert to the Trish Turner Memorial Fund. www.donnakonsorado.ca

Bill Konsorado is a keyboard player and percussionist.

He received classical training on piano early in life but soon found improvised music a more natural form of expression.

Bill has been around pianos all is life and is a professional Piano Tuner/Technician. During the 1980's and 90's he performed and recorded with Neo Tribal Vision, a world beat tropical party band on Vancouver Island.

With his wife Donna, in the Konsorados, he provides instrument and rhythmic accompaniment to her original songs and adaptations of other songwriter's material. He also performs his own instrumental compositions and unique arrangements of popular melodies. In addition to traditional piano and organ sounds on the keyboard. He uses a number of realistic guitar sounds that compliment the rootsy nature of Donna's vocals. Bill is also pioneering a one man band technique, playing drum-kit simultaneously with the keyboard.

..."like pulling up a chair in the kitchen kinda music that'll get you tapping your toes and smiling in no time.� Gillian Butler�

Allen Dobb ..."is one of the finest and most literate tunesmiths in this country" ... Peter North, Edmonton Journal

He knows the country. He�s farmed and tossed bales of hay, juggled an academic career in Range Management from Washington State University, and applied his education in the Arizona desert and on African plains. You can hear his travels and deep roots in every song.

His music career has taken him to major festivals across North America with his former band "Dobb & Dumela" and as a solo artist.

For the past few years Allen has been a member of the District of Highlands Council, his focus, time and passion has been directed toward community on southern Vancouver Island.

Music in your eyes Tour will bring Allen down from the mountain for a rare musical treat. A celebration of community, music and sight. www.allendobb.com