David Barrett Live Tonight in Toronto
Progressive rock guitarist David Barrett will be celebrating the release of his “The Acoustic Guitar Album’ compact disc at Whistler’s McNeil Room tonight in Toronto.
The club is located at 995 Broadview Ave and the doors will open at 7pm. Tickets will be $10, $20 if you want your own copy of the new compact disc. The show begins at 8pm. Click here to view David Barrett’s catalog on iTunes.
Interesting Crowd Funding Campaigns
You’ll notice that from time to time I like to link interesting music related crowdfunding campaigns, either on Kickstarter or Indiegogo. And today I think i’d bump two of them.
The first is actually as accessory item ; A fleece jacket that has hidden pockets for your phone, tablets, portable power banks, etc.
The SCOTTeVEST not only conceals your devices but enables you to run wires through-out the jacket to charge a phone in one pocket from a portable power bank in another pocket. And this jacket also contains a packet that blocks RFIDs, to prevent people from stealing personal data from passports, etc.
You can find more information about this campaign by clicking here.
The second crowd funding campaign I encountered is a piano that teaches people to play.
The Apple MFi-Certified ONE Smart Piano and Light Keyboard are pianos or keyboards that connect to phones and tablets, on which learning software and games can be played.
The piano version is a classic body upright 88 key piano with 3 pedals whilst the keyboard version has 61 LED keys, AUX Output and MP3 speakers. And the included APP has thousands of interactive free sheet music and virtual music lessons.
Details on that campaign can be found by clicking here.
Feds To Match Donations To Nepal Until May 15th
Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada has issued a press release stating that the Federal government will match Canadian donations to help Nepal that were performed via registered charities like the UN Refugee Agency and Red Cross Canada until May 15th, 2015.
Click Here to Donate To Red Cross Canada
Redbox Canada Closing
Redbox Canada has decided to stop renting movies on February 13th, 2015 and will be turning their boxes off on March 5th, 2015.
“We were excited to bring our service here, but unfortunately, demand just didn’t meet our expectations. We will be focusing our attention on our U.S. business, where demand for physical media remains strong.”
Apparently most Canadian consumers have moved on to online movie renting from companies like iTunes, Cineplex or Cinemanow and I suspect more services like Amazon Instant Video
Google’s Chromecast HDMI Streaming Media Player
Unfortunately I liked picking up Blu-Rays at my local store at $2 a pop. And although discounts can be had on Tuesdays on Cineplex, I suspect I will be paying more for rentals again.
$4.99 appears to be the average price for standard definition rentals but i’m hoping more discounts will come our way, especially on the high definition rentals ; Those can be as expensive as $7.99 on some services.
I seriously doubt I will be renting high definition films at $7.99, especially older releases that I can view on my Hollywood Suite package on cable. And chances are I will simply wait to purchase individual blu-rays when they are discounted at Amazon