Charlie Brown Program 2019_Dec2_Final

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2019 Board Of Directors

Doug Fischer, President
Jeanie Vanderzon, Vice President
John Freamo, Secretary
John Cvetan, Volunteer Coordinator
Matt Mersereau, Treasurer
Poppy Vinebery, Past President
Deborah Ferrigan
Mark Dregas
Jacquie Dixon
Yves Ménard
Adam Douglas
Gavin McLintock
Catherine O’Grady, Executive Producer

2019 Staff

Catherine O’Grady, Executive Producer
Petr Cancura, Programming Manager
Suzan Zilahi, Director of Marketing & Partnerships
Stephanie Berrington, Sponsorship Manager
Jacqie MacKay, Artistic Associate & Programming Coordinator
Adi Cajo, Operations Manager
Grant Young, Production Manager
Elisha Davidson, Social Media & Marketing Coordinator
Jillian Wright, Community Outreach Coordinator
Joni Hamlin, Community Outreach Coordinator
JoAnne Sherry, Bookkeeper
Natalie Nehlawi, Graphic Artist

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Proceeds in support of the
Ottawa Children’s Festival’s Adopt-A-School Program

Raffle prizes will be drawn after the performance.

PRIZES TO BE WON

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• The Hair Resort Gift Certificate
Great Christmas • Artisan Alpaca Series Blanket by Pokoloko
gifts and stocking • Ottawa Children’s Festival - Family 4-Pack
• ISÖ Spa Floatation Centre Package
stuffers!! • AVÄYA Med Spa Customized Treatment
• North and Navy Gift Certificates
*Please note: no exchanges • Signed Collectibles
on raffle prizes • Tickets to Chris Botti @ the NAC
• Jazz Festival Bronze Passes for 2020
• And Much Much More!

Thanks To Our Supporters!

A Charlie Brown Christmas What saved A Charlie Brown
Fun Facts Christmas?

• A Charlie Brown Christmas first aired • Coca-Cola sponsored the program

at 7:30 p.m. ET on December 9, 1965 • it was already listed in TV guides

• initially CBS thought the final version • half of American TV viewers tuned in

would be a flop to watch Charlie Brown with outstand-

• CBS executives didn’t think jazz ing reviews

belonged in a cartoon • Washington Post TV critic Lawrence

• they didn’t want kids doing the Laurent wrote, “Good old Charlie

voices Brown, a natural born loser … finally

• they thought Charlie Brown would turned up a winner.”

have one airing and be shelved for

perpetuity

Charlie Brown fun fact sources courtesy nymag.com

Beer, Cider & Wine $7 / Festive Cocktails $5
Soft Drinks & Water $2 / Juice $1
Beverages available at Woodside Hall

Tales of a
Charlie Brown Christmas

For more than 50 years, the Christmas But did you know the initial project
classic A Charlie Brown Christmas has faced so many challenges in the
entertained generations of fans in what early planning stages that it’s truly
Rolling Stone lists as one of the top ten a miracle this iconic production was
most essential Christmas albums of all ever made?
time.
Did you enjoy A Charlie Brown
Part oral history, part concert and part Christmas? Let us know.
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with stories and insights into the Add a rating or write a review on
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Photo: Dan Nawrocki JERRY GRANELLI

PERFORMED BY Jerry Granelli is best known as an
award-winning jazz percussionist having
Jerry Granelli - drums played with all of the jazz greats for 45 years.
Simon Fisk - bass
Chris Gestrin - piano He is also one third of the legendary San
Francisco-based Vince Guaraldi Trio, which
MUSIC COMPOSED recorded arguably the greatest Christmas
BY album of all time in 1965, the soundtrack
to the animated classic “A Charlie Brown
Vince Guaraldi Christmas”.

THANKS Today, Granelli is the only remaining member
of the famed trio and this Christmas season
Lulu Healy, JazzEast, he’s on the road to share the story of the
Catherine O’Grady, the band that recorded the famous soundtrack.
Ottawa Jazz Festival,
Colin Mackenzie and THE CROSS TOWN YOUTH CHORUS
Lee Mendelson Film
Productions. Kurt Ala-Kantti, Christopher Peddle
Beatriz Pelletier
SPECIAL THANKS Choir Leader Dahlia Reid
FROM JERRY Lily Reid
GRANELLI Anne Ashford Rosalee Reid
Masha Bashkurova Violet Reid
Biggest thanks to Vince Aeryn Chiasson Isobel Schiller
Guaraldi and Charles M Mélodie Colbourne Luke Schiller
Schulz, Lee Mendelson, Mel Cormier Liam Sear
Bill Mendez, Fred Marshall Samuel Day Maggie Sear
- the original bassist and Maria DeLaat Zoé Sinden
friend. All the folks who Jasmine Diab Fenna Suurland
turned this into a social Wren Ferguson Eric Thorne
phenomenon. Jaylon Fu Owen Thorne
Ynez Furlong Melody Tu
THIS IS AN Torin Gauld Tess Verhoeve-Dobson
Jasper Gorwan Joshua Ward
Alexis Music Production Maëlle Harding Jacob Ward
Liya Joseph Madison Ward
Myla Joseph Jack Ward
Tiana Joseph Benjamin Zdunich
Kai Lebel Gabriel Zdunich
Lily Mattar Karina Zdunich
Dorothy Missen
Annika Nadal
Greta Nadal
Patrick Pearce
Rose Pearce





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