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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 | 24 Students show art Holly Cole plays The Oakville Centre Two Oakville students attending OCAD University are exhibiting their wares at Gallery 1313 in Toronto. The two students, Samantha McAdams and Heather Roblin, are part of an exhibit, Materialize, by the university's Material Design Program. Both Oakvillians make jewelry. The exhibit features the works of 30 students, creating jewelry, fibre art and ceramics. The show ends Sunday. The gallery is located at 1313 Queen St. W. For gallery hours and more information, visit www.g1313.org. by Dominik Kurek Oakville Beaver Staff Artscene "Connected to your Community" Insecta book signing Oakville author David J. Bartolini is holding a book signing for his novel Insecta: Unexpected Beginnings at Oakville Chapters, 310 North Service Rd. W., Saturday (June 22). The signing runs from 1-4 p.m. Insecta is a story of adventure by young Antime, a brave and determined ant, who is separated from his colony and sets out on a perilous quest to discover the secrets of his own identity and to save his threatened colony. Down There book signing Oakville resident Marc J Loranger will be signing copies of his new book, titled Down There, at Chapters Oakville, 310 North Service Rd. W. Sunday (June 23). Down There is the third book in an adventure series aimed at readers in middle grade to early high school. The first two books are titled Diamond in the Rough and You're It. The book deals with young adult and pre-teen social issues, such as post traumatic stress disorder and parental alcoholism. The book signing runs from 1-4 p.m. Canadian jazz legend Holly Cole is returning to The Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts fresh off the release of her latest album, Night. Her concert is on Saturday (June 22) at 8 p.m. Cole said she always has a great time performing in Oakville where the audience is vocal and seems appreciative of her music. "I love playing in Oakville. We played at The Centre a bunch of times and the sound is great and the sightlines are great. It's really a great place to communicate. The size of it is just great and the band is going to be incredible," Cole said. Night is Cole's first album in five years and features originals, such as You've Got a Secret, as well as the music of such legends as Tom Waits, Gordon Lightfoot and Captain Beefheart. It also includes Cole's take on the James Bond theme You Only Live Twice. "It's a real cross section of different types of music. Some of it is certainly jazz standards, but there's also country music, pop music, R&B. It's a real cross section of styles of music," she said. Sale in effect June 3-30/13, on selected in-stock merchandise. Most items available in all stores; selection may vary. Look for the red sale tags. See our flyer for full details! Juno Award-winning jazz musician Holly Cole will play at The Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts Saturday. Submitted photo on a huge special selection of o tto p p u u e ve av S Sa and more, off our reg. prices Spring & Summer Fashion & Basic Fabrics, Home Decor, Notions and more! Follow us on Facebook & Twitter! www.fabricland.ca MISSISSAUGA: 3015 WINSTON CHURCHILL BL. (N.W. side @ Dundas) 905-828-9966 BURLINGTON: 3515 FAIRVIEW ST. 905-639-2516 "It's from a jazz perspective but it's also a myriad of styles and genres combined within that." Cole never intended to take five years between album recordings, but some personal issues slowed the recording process. Among the album delays was the Japanese earthquake in 2011. "That was a horrifying experience. We feared for our lives and the lives of others and saw how people lost their lives," she said. "When I came home, I decided to take a chunk of time to recover. It was a lifechanging experience so, of course, it's going to affect your art." However, she said, she didn't want the experience to affect her art at the time, when she had already started on the album project. So she took a break. From the beginning of the project, Cole didn't know the album would have a nighttime theme, but it's something that presented itself during the recording process. "As I recorded in chunks, I realized, it just dawned on me, wow, a lot of these songs seem like they're about the night or they have a nighttime feel or they're songs I wrote at night or they were arranged at night or recorded at night," she said. She said she's very happy with the way the album turned out. Cole was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and grew up in New Brunswick, but moved to Toronto to study where she continues to live. She grew up in a musical household. Her parents were classical musicians and she and her siblings studied classical piano in their childhood. Her grandfather was a country and western accor- dion player, who performed with country musician Hank Snow. "Growing up there, I didn't really listen to a lot of jazz. But I discovered jazz when I went to visit my older brother Allen Cole, who writes music for theatre now. He went to study jazz at Berklee College of Music in Boston," she said. That visit with her brother isn't something her parents would be happy about. She was around the age of 16 when she hitchhiked from New Brunswick to Boston to visit her brother, who was not aware she was coming. "In those days you could hitchhike across the border," she said. She used her brother's ID to get into residence and slept on the floor. "I heard the music. I tell you, my jaw just dropped. I knew what I wanted to do. I wish everyone could discover what their passion was and what they had a talent for when they were that young because some people never do and others discover it a little later. It was fortunate for me to be able to find out what I wanted to do when I was pretty young," she said. That discovery led to what is now a three decade-long career that has led to Cole receiving Juno Awards for the best contemporary jazz album (Don't Smoke in Bed) and best vocal jazz album (Shade). This year, Cole became the second Canadian ever to receive the Ella Fitzgerald Award, which is handed out in recognition of the versatility, improvisational originality and quality of repertoire of a singer renowned on the international scene. When she performs in Oakville, Cole said she will perform music off the new album and some of her older tunes along with music people haven't heard before. Tickets cost $80. For tickets, visit www.oakvillecentre. ca.