85 Queen: Songs & Stories with Tom Wilson
Event Details
Free tickets available starting Friday, August 31 at 10 am.
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Presented with Centre in the Square
Tom Wilson is the best-selling author of Beautiful Scars as well as a three-time
Juno winning Canadian musician with multiple gold records. He has written for
and recorded songs with Sarah McLachlan, City and Colour, Jason Isbell, Colin
James, Lucinda Williams, Billy Ray Cyrus, Mavis Staples and The Rankin Family
to name a few. His band Junkhouse scored eleven top-ten hits, and his iconic,
Americana-fuelled Blackie and the Rodeo Kings was widely publicized for its
presence on George Bush’s iPod. Tom’s most recent incarnation, Lee Harvey
Osmond, has received extensive praise and airplay throughout the United States.
His art has shown in galleries in New York City, Vancouver, Toronto and more
recently, The National Gallery in Ottawa. The author lives in Hamilton,
Ontario.
Copies of Beautiful Scars will be available for purchase from Words Worth Books and a book signing follows the talk.
Registration required and opens Friday, August 31 at 10am.
Doors open at 6 pm for reception; event starts at 7 pm.
Descendants Beer & Beverage Co. will be on site; cash bar
Event poster by Bearface Design will be available for purchase with all proceeds donated to the Sanguen Health Centre
***Limit two tickets per valid email address. As events are free, it is our policy to overbook. In case of a full program, your reservation may not guarantee admission. Unclaimed reservations will be released to standby customers ten minutes prior to the start of the program. We recommend that you arrive early.***
Souvenir Poster
Purchase a memory of this great event, and donate to a great cause at the same time! Posters are $15 each, with all proceeds to the Sanguen Health Centre.
The opinions of guest speakers do not necessarily reflect the values and mission of Kitchener Public Library. We champion the right for ideas to be heard and words expressed without censorship.
Intellectual freedom is a fundamental right.
