SUB Music: Memoryhouse

Date/Time:	Friday, 02 Mar 2012 at 9:00 pm
Location:	M-Shop, MU
Cost:	$10 students / $12 public ($2 day-of-show increase)
URL:	http://www.sub.iastate.edu/index.cfm?nod...ntid=35849
Phone:	515-294-8081
Channel:	Student Union Board
Categories:	Arts, performances Diversity Special events Student activities
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In the depths of southern Ontario, nestled between Canada's most dangerous super-highway and the banks of the laconic, ironically-named Speed River, there is a mid-size town called Guelph, also known as The Royal City.

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More recently, because few people can recall the historic reasons for that Victorian-era subtitle, and because it is more appropriately musical than royal in the twenty-first century anyway, Guelph was rechristened as "The City of Music." And it is, in fact, a community that takes its music to heart, having sent forward any number of its native sons and daughters in indie band formation. It is also the base of the Hillside Festival, another local effort with international effects, most notably for introducing music lovers to early versions of such acts as Broken Social Scene and The Arcade Fire.

It was in this strangely creative setting, or more accurately on its somewhat more mundane south-end suburban fringe, that Memoryhouse was conceptualized some five years ago.