What's Happening ....

On September 6, the Hon. Lindsay Blackett, Minister of Culture for Alberta, presented Sid Marty with the Grant MacEwan Literary Arts Award, The award recognizes Sid's contribution to Alberta and Canadian Literature during his career to date, as a nonfiction author and poet. The Grant MacEwan Literary Arts Award consists of a silver sculpture and a cash prize of 50,000 dollars. It is one of the largest literary prizes in Canada

Delta Blues and Mountain Ballads,
the Ken Hamm and Sid Marty Fall Tour

  • Sept 24 - Twin Butte, AB Country General Store - ph: 403-627-4035 w/ Sid Marty
  • Sept 25 - Calgary, AB Ironwood Grille ph: 403-269-5581 - w/ Sid Marty
  • Sept 26 - Canmore, AB Miners' Hall ph: 403-678-0023 - w/ Sid Marty
  • Sept 27 - Canmore, AB Guitar Workshop ph: 403-678-0023
  • Sept 28 - Fernie, BC Arts Station ph: 250-423-3325 - w/ Sid Marty
  • Oct 1 - Nanton, AB Main Street Cafe - ph: 403-646-1155 - w/ Sid Marty
  • Oct 2 - Golden, BC Civic Centre ph: 250-344-6186 - w/ Stephen Fearing & Sid Marty
  • Oct 3 - Invermere, BC Pynelogs ph: 250-342-7108 - w/ Sid Marty
  • Oct 4 - Black Diamond, AB The Stop - ph: 403-933-3002 - w/ Sid Marty
  • Nov 11 - Lumsden, SK Lumsden Arts Council Music Series @ the Catholic church - ph: 306-731-2441

For Booking Information contact:
Ken Hamm
Box 68 Forget, SK S0C 0X0
Tel (306) 457-2426
Email

  • Sid's fall singer songwriter tour with bluesman Ken Hamm, http://www.kenhamm.com/ kicks off at the Twin Butte Community store and café on September 24. Twin Butte is located south of Pincher Creek Alberta not far from Waterton Lakes National Park. Call Jenny at (403)627-4035 for ticket information.
    Other dates in Alberta and interior B.C. TBA.
  • The current literary project is a book of new and selected poems, which will include poems from Headwaters (l973), Nobody Danced With Miss Rodeo(l981), Sky Humour (l999) and a number of other poems published in anthologies, literary magazines and chapbooks.

Sid Marty and Dave Wilkie at the former Daily Grind Café in Pincher Creek, performing on CBC's national television special The Road Home, filmed by White Iron Television of Calgary.