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Black Bellows Brewing Company

40 Simcoe Street, L9Y 1H6, Collingwood, ON, Canada

Get Off The Bus Concerts

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Get Off The Bus Concerts came about through the vision of Joe and Fatima Bamford, former owners of HALJOE COACH. After a long and varied career in the music and entertainment industry, Joe thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be fun to do some concerts with artists who have traveled on our buses over the years?’ Inspired by his daughter, Jenn, who fundraises relentlessly for several organizations in their hometown of Fredericton and Moncton, New Brunswick, Joe and Fatima realized the importance of giving back to their community, so decided to turn their concert idea into fundraisers for charities. They held their first Get Off The Bus Concert in the summer of 2011 in Parry Sound, Ontario in support of the West Parry Sound Health Centre Foundation and have been holding great concerts for great causes ever since.Since that first concert, Joe and Fatima have held many Get Off The Bus Concerts in Ontario, Florida and New Brunswick including such artists as Jann Arden, Blue Rodeo, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Styx, Neil Sedaka, Loretta Lynn, Emmylou Harris, Three Dog Night, and Bill Engvall to name a few. To date, Get Off The Bus Concerts has raised over $500,000 for charity. They now live in Fredericton, NB and have already started putting on Get Off The Bus Concerts in support of worthy causes, with many more coming throughout Eastern Canada.Joe started in the music business as a concert promoter while attending high school in Fredericton, New Brunswick. After becoming the first licensed booking agent in Eastern Canada and the first to book Legendary Matt Minglewood and Sam Monn and The Universal Power, he also managed Naked Lunch. Joe moved to Toronto and, after a short time as an agent, formed a partnership that managed such popular bands as The Kings, Glass Tiger, Leslie Spit Treeo and The Headstones.While managing Glass Tiger in the mid-eighties, he recognized a need in the music industry and purchased his first tour bus. It was a small bus that he called Paradise, but it got them where they needed to go. Over the next 22 years, that business grew to thirty plus buses on both sides of the US/Canada border and carried entertainers such as Leonard Cohen, Elton John, Bruce Cockburn, Sarah McLachlan, Lilith Fair, Jann Arden, Blue Rodeo, The Tragically Hip, Nickelback, Broken Social Scene, Barra MacNeil’s, Trailer Park Boys, Johnny Reid, Guess Who, Sloan, Leahy, JJ Grey & Mofro, and more!Joe and Fatima are happy to be back in Joe’s beautiful hometown of Fredericton, and are excited to hold great concerts for great local causes. Stay up to date with Get Off The Bus Concerts at GetOffTheBusConcerts.com or find them on Facebook and Instagram.