www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, March 19, 2015 | 30 Intimate concert evening with Laila Biali Oakville's Saint Matthew Parish is hosting an intimate evening concert with award-winning Canadian musician Laila Biali Wednesday (March 25). The jazz pianist, vocalist and songwriter will perform at the 1150 Monks Pass church to celebrate the upcoming release of her new album House of Many Rooms. The show will feature a range of musicians supporting Biali on piano and vocals, including: Anna Atkinson (violin, vocals, and musical saw); Alex McMaster (cello and vocals); Graham Campbell (guitar and vocals); Peter Murray (electric bass); and Ben Wittman (percussion). Biali has toured with Chris Botti, Paula Cole and Suzanne Vega, and recorded with Sting. Her accolades include SOCAN Composer of the Year and Keyboardist of the Year at Canada's National Jazz Awards. She has played at venues spanning five continents, such as the North Sea Jazz Festival, Tokyo's Cotton Club, Peru's El Festival Internacional de Lima, and Carnegie Hall in New York City. Doors for the concert open at 7 p.m., followed by cocktails and then the start of the show at 8:15 p.m. For more information, including ticket costs, or to reserve your seat, visit www. theradianceproject.org/events. Registered nurses, from left, Kim Renton and Kathy Young Keefe recently appeared on Dragons' Den in hopes of securing financial backing for their pillow line. | photo courtesy CBC Kim Beggs cross-country tour makes local stop Music artist Kim Beggs' cross-Canada tour is making a stop at Oakville's Moonshine Café Wednesday (March 25). Having started the tour with a Jan. 30 show in Winnipeg, Beggs has made stops in Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia, so far -- it is scheduled to end off at the Alaska Folk Fest in Juneau, Alaska April 10-12. For the second leg of the tour, Beggs will share the stage with other musical talents, such as Kim Barlow, Kim Wempe, Rozalin MacPhail and more. She has also previously performed with Buffy Saint Marie, Chris Jagger, and David Baxter, the latter will back her up at the Moonshine Café performance. Beggs' latest album, Beauty and Breaking, was released independently and has received critical acclaim in Canada, the U.S. and U.K. since its debut in 2013. The album was also nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award (WCMA) and a Canadian Folk Music Award (CFMA), and made the Top 60 albums for Galaxie Folk Roots Channel 2014. Throughout her music career, Beggs has received six WCMA and three CFMA nominations. Tickets to the Oakville show, which starts at 8 p.m., cost $12 per person and can be purchased by calling 905-844-2655 or visiting www.themoonshinecafe.com. Moonshine Café is located at 137 Kerr St. Oakville business, Dragons' Den engage in `pillow talk' ness ideas and products in the hopes of securing financial investments from a panel of Canadian business moguls -- the "dragons." Young Keefe and Renton's product is a When registered nurses Kathy Young Keefe memory-foam pillow meant to reduce wrinand Kim Renton found themselves on Drag- kles, align the spine, ease insomnia and mions' Den, they never thought the "dragons" graines, and rejuvenate sleep. would talk them out of investing in their Renton had been training doctors and product. nurses in North America on Botox and facialCo-creators of the Oakville-based enVy filler injections and saw thousands of patients pillow line, the pair pitched their product on with wrinkles and imbalances. a recent episode of the CBC TV series, which "Not because of normal aging but because features entrepreneurs presenting their busi- they were `smushing' their once youthful faces into their pillows every night. Their beauty sleep was aging them," said Young Keefe, who is also an Oakville resident. 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