New: Wallets and Pendants from Lavishy!

Meow! Guelph is currently featuring a selection of new accessories designed by Lavishy Boutiques.

We have lots of wallets, change purses, and enamel pendants!

Dance Performance Downtown Guelph

Thursday: Dancetheatre David Earle & The Pendrecki String Quartet at the Riverrun Centre, Downtown Guelph!

April 8, 2010 | time: 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm


River Run Centre
35 woolwich street, guelph n1h 3v1
519.837-5662 · riverrun.ca
tickets $5-$30 (lots of student discounts!)
As part of the uGo program, university and college
students may purchase tickets for only $20 each. And through
eyeGO, high school students may attend for just $5 each. All
tickets may be purchased online at www.riverrun.ca, by phone at
519-763-3000 or in person at the Box Office from 11 a.m. to 6
p.m., Monday through Saturday.

The River Run Centre presents a program
of works by Dancetheatre David Earle (DtDE) on Thursday, April 8th,
2010 at 8:00 pm. The featured work is Odyssey - a collaborative
piece for string quartet, live electronics and dance - choreographed by
David Earle to a new score by Canadian composer Omar Daniel, and
performed by Omar himself, and the Penderecki String Quartet.
An epic tale of separation and reunion, Odyssey was commissioned by
The Banff Centre for the Arts, where it received its World Premiere just
last year. The April 8th program also includes Serious Games (1998),
which was originally commissioned by Canadian Children’s Dance
Theatre, and DtDE’s signature piece, Miserere, set to music by Grigorio
Allegri.
David Earle is one of Canada’s most prolific and celebrated
choreographers. He has also been an inspirational figure in Canadian
and international dance as a teacher and mentor to successive
generations of young dance artists. A lengthy list of accomplishments
and accolades illuminates a stellar artistic career. He has trained at
the Martha Graham School in New York, performed around the world,
cofounded Toronto Dance Theatre, choreographed over 140 original
works and received the Order of Canada – to name a few. David is
best known for merging rich imagery and evocative music to create
powerfully moving dance.
In 1996 he established Dancetheatre David Earle to support continuing
creation and preservation of his repertoire, and to serve as a forum for
younger artists whose concern is the expression of humanity in dance.
He is particularly interested in creating opportunities for dance
audiences to hear new contemporary and traditional music, and he
regularly choreographs to live accompaniment, including choirs, small
ensembles, and orchestras – including the Penderecki String Quartet.
“We've worked with the Penderecki for the past 12 years,”’ says Earle.
“There is nothing to equal the experience of dancing to live music — to
sounds that are born in that moment. Each performance has its own
life, its own electricity.”

Easter Weekend Hours

Happy Easter Everyone!

Long Weekend Hours for Chat Noir and Meow!

Friday April 2 1pm - 4 pm
Saturday, April 3 11am - 6pm
Easter Sunday, April 4 -CLOSED-
Monday, April 5 1pm - 6pm

Meow and Classic LPs in the Guelph Mercury

We were interviewed in the local paper yesterday about vintage vinyl!

Spin cycle goes full circle: Vinyl records are cool again

March 10, 2010
Troy Bridgeman

GUELPH — Sales of compact discs have been dropping since the introduction of downloading, MP3s and iPods but the popularity of vinyl is enjoying a growing resurgence.

U.S. record companies saw the sale of vinyl records nearly double from 2007 to 2008 and the spin cycle appears to be repeating itself exponentially as many old and new artists are choosing to release a growing percentage of their work on the old format.

Bryan and Kara Munn own Meow and Chat Noir. Those are vintage clothing and furniture stores in downtown Guelph. They say used vinyl records are a growing part of their business.



Read the full article

New Vinyl at Meow!

New arrivals!

Two new crates of records have just been unpacked and priced at Meow!
Lots of vintage rock, folk, pop, new wave, and punk. Come check it out --prices range from $4 to $20 so there's something for everyone.

LPs by John Lennon, Pink Floyd, Cyndi Lauper, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, BB King, The Replacements, Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan, CCR, The Clash, Michael Jackson, The Doors, Beach Boys, and many more....

Bonus: Check out this feature on vintage vinyl in the University of Guelph's student newspaper, The Ontarion. The reporter Zack Macrae talked to local vinyl hound DJ Chad and to our friends in Waterloo DJ Charless and Vince who own the excellent Orange Monkey.

Happy International Women's Day!

Spring?

Could this be Spring? The snow is certainly melting. And Meow! has started stocking Spring and Summer dresses and tops, plus lots of colourful accessories, bags, sunglasses, shoes, etc.

Come in and have a look!