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"If you live in Hamilton and you enjoy feminist surf rock, ukuleles, tapes, new music, supporting women in music, burritos, community gardens, bookstores, anarchist bookstores, broken hearts, bake–offs, healthy living, organizing workers, yarn bombing, and smashing patriarchy, then you really shouldn’t miss this.” -- Katie C.
Amazing inventor Athanasius Kircher designed this cat piano in in the 17th century. Kitties with differently-pitched voices were placed in the pens and then "triggered" to meow with a sharp poke in the butt. From Kircher's Musurgia Universalis (1650):
In order to raise the spirits of an Italian prince burdened by the cares of his position, a musician created for him a cat piano. The musician selected cats whose natural voices were at different pitches and arranged them in cages side by side, so that when a key on the piano was depressed, a mechanism drove a sharp spike into the appropriate cat’s tail. The result was a melody of meows that became more vigorous as the cats became more desperate. Who could not help but laugh at such music? Thus was the prince raised from his melancholy.
Katie Caron has been nominated for Female Vocalist of the year at the 2005 Hamilton Music Awards Sunday November 20th, 2005 at 6:00pm for her song "In This World I Know Nothing" !!!! The awards will be held at the Dofasco Centre for the Arts in Hamilton. She is up against ... 
