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Flamenco guitarist Jesse Cook show sold-out at Oakville Centre Dec. 18 Canadian guitarist, composer and producer Jesse Cook is coming to the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts Friday, Dec. 18. While the concert is sold out, those with tickets will be treated to Cook's 20-year career of creating music. His latest release, One World, is still No. 1 on the Amazon New Age Charts after 28 straight weeks, and seven of the songs have entered the Top 20 Jazz Song Charts upon release, according to a media release. One World debuted No. 1 on the World Music Sales chart and spent 25 weeks in the Top 10, as well as debuting at No. 10 Overall on Soundscan -- the artist's biggest first week in three albums. "Over the years, I've taken my music and tried to cross-pollinate it with music from different parts of the world," Cook said in the release. "For the (2003) album Nomad, I went to Cairo and recorded with musicians there. On my (2009) record The Rumba Foundation, I went to Colombia, and worked with musicians from Cuba as well. On (1998's) Vertigo, I went down to Lafayette, La., and recorded with Buckwheat Zydeco," he continued. "For me, the question has always been: Where did you go? Where did you take your guitar?" The 50-year-old global-guitar virtuoso has more than 1.5 million records sold worldwide. He is also a Juno Award winner and 11-time nominee. Cook, however, stayed in his Toronto home studio to produce One World, which features rumba, flamenco, jazz, gypsy, pop and classical guitar. "I didn't want my crossroads to be limited to only traditional instruments. I wanted music from different time periods represented as well. Now, you have ancient instruments like the Armenian duduk or the Arabic oud (the ancestor to the guitar), meeting record scratching, industrial textures, sample and loop technology," he continued. "That is the world I wanted my guitar to venture through. I've always been interested in music technology, but on this record I gave it a wider scope." For more, visit www.jessecook. com. 33 | Friday, December 11, 2015 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com Jesse Cook DIRECTORY If you'd like to advertise your place of worship in this feature please call JENNIFER GOULD 289-293-0683 PresbyterIAN PresbyterIAN warmly welcomes you to grow with us in faith this Advent Season December 13th Advent 3 - Celebration of Joy 9:00am - Informal Worship 10:30am - Traditional Worship 7:00pm - Lessons and Carols Christmas Eve 5:00pm - Family Pageant Worship 9:00pm - Informal Worship 11:00pm - Traditional Worship Christmas Day 9:45am - Family Worship Ask about our "Young Children and Worship" Program Lakeshore & Dunn 905.844.3472 KnoxOakville.com ANGLICAN Knox Presbyterian Church Epiphany................ 8:30 am & 10:30 am Wednesdays at 10:00 am (except July & August) 905-827-2546 141 Bronte Road epiphanyoffice@cogeco.net www.epiphanyoakville.com 905-825-2851 1240 Old Abbey Lane visit our website at www.incarnationchurch.ca 905-844-6200 Maple Grove & Oakhill email us at stcuthbert@bellnet.ca or visit our website at www.stcuthbertoakville.ca Sunday Bible Teaching & Worship Service, 12:30-2:30pm (SOUTH RIDGE ROOM) IROQUOIS RIDGE COMMUNITY CENTRE 1051 Glenashton Dr. Glenashton & Eighth Line Friday Teaching & Youth Service 7:00-8:30pm Tel: 416-892-8123 · Fax: 1-866-281-5983 Pastor: Elder M.J. Brissett Email: mjbrisse@yahoo.ca JESUS IS LORD Incarnation ........... 8:30 am & 10:00 am St. Cuthbert .......... 8:00 am & 10:00 am St. Jude .........................8:00 & 10:00 am Walton Welcomes You Sun. Dec. 20 - Advent Four 9:30 am - Family Service Sunday School and Nursery 11 am - Traditional Service Christmas Eve Thurs. Dec. 24 4 pm - 1/2 Hour Kids Service 5 pm & 6:30 pm - Family Services 10 pm - Candlelight Communion Service Third of Advent Sunday worship (Sunday School Pageant) Service of Nine Lessons & Carols 4:00 pm 905-844-3972 160 William St. www.stjudeschurch.net St. Simon...................8:15 am & 10 am Wednesdays at 9:30 am 905-845-8351 1450 Litchfield Road visit our website at www.stsimon.ca St. Luke, Palermo ................... 10:30 am 905-825-3364 3114 Dundas St. West visit our website at www.stlukepalermo.ca Rev. Jim Gill Coordinating Minister St. Aidan's........... 8:30 a.m. Celtic Eucharist 10:00 am Family Eucharist and Sunday School 905-845-6111 318 Queen Mary Dr., Oakville www.staidensoakville.org http://www.waltonmemorial.com www.oakvilleanglicans.ca