Tiny Bill Cody, “charlatan in residence”, Sat March 23

Saturday March 23, at 8:30 pm, $10. Tiny Bill Cody, performs an “incredibly fraudulant show” at Artword Artbar,  as part of his  “charlatan in residence” series at Artword Artbar and James North Gallery. www.tinybillcody.com
Tiny Bill Cody is the stage name of visual artist and writer Tor Lukasik-Foss, who was born and raised and is still living in Hamilton, Ontario. Tiny Bill Cody yodels, preaches, and sings earnestly on topics including electricity, small animals, nautical issues, and the human heart. Tiny Bill Cody has been performing since the early 1990’s, and sometimes performs alone in very odd and obscure circumstances of his choosing and design.
Many people and places in Canada have enjoyed the music of Tiny Bill Cody. In 2008 and 2009, he contributed a number of strange original songs to CBC Radio’s GO!, including a mildly off-colour song about former Deputy Prime Minister Sheila Copps. He has performed at the Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival, Eaglewood Festival, Festival of Friends; he has created performance works for Saskatoon’s SPASM II Contemporary Arts Festival, Alberta’s University of Lethbridge, the public galleries of Cambridge Ontario, the Art Gallery of Hamilton. In 2009 he won a Hamilton Music Award for Best Male Artist. He has released four CD’s of original music, and contributed to a number of song projects, including DodoLab’s New Workers’ Songbook, and New Songs for Sudbury. He is currently developing a one-man song revue entitled “Tiny Bill Cody is a Charlatan”. He will perform it for you, if you like.