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The Community EditionLONG WEEKEND BAND CRAWL TAKES OVER WATERLOOOn Feb. 16, 2025, over 200 people gathered despite the ongoing snowstorm in Uptown Waterloo to attend the Long Weekend Band Crawl. Although many musicians cancelled due to the weather, ten musicians and bands performed at Prohibition Warehouse, Midnight Run, Room 47 and Revive Karaoke Bar.  Zack Schaffer and Brian Scheid are both heavily involved in music in Waterloo Region. Both work closely with local record labels, musicians and bands, and both have been organizing shows in the region for over ten years.     The first crawl took place in May 2022 when both Scheid and Schaffer had shows booked on the same weekend. Instead of competing, they decided to create a larger event. Now, it is a community event surpassing their individual efforts.  “The crawl is bigger than the two of us,” Zack Schaffer said. “[A]nytime one of us maybe feels like it’s too much, somebody that we don’t know comes up and tells us that they really love it, and we’re like, ‘oh shit. I guess we’re gonna do this for like another, like two years at least’.” SANGJUN HAN PHOTONearing their third year of hosting the crawl, Schaffer said consistence is key in building reliability with the community. Now, they can post early-bird tickets before announcing a lineup of artists and music lovers will buy them, knowing they will be worth the price.  “A lot of it is: if you just do it over and over and over again, then people will just know that you want to do it…we still sell lots of tickets, because people know,” he said.  Although they focus on Waterloo Region, there are some acts from across Canada and the U.S. However, Schaffer said he values providing advantages to newer bands. Sometimes, attendees at the event introduce the organizers to new musicians or bands, as well.  “The biggest way that I love the crawl is that we give a lot of advantages to bands and artists who necessarily don’t get that venue to play,” he said. “[W]e still give a lot of artists or bands their first show, or their first larger show that they’ve ever played, or like a sold out show that they’re playing that they’ve never done before,” Schaffer said. Typically, the Long Weekend Band Crawl features a spectrum of genres from heavy metal to indie to punk to rap. Schaffer said diversity is an important focus.  “There’s always a big focus just to make sure that every show is diverse, not just in the sense of the music, but that the people that are playing,” he said. The event also brings out unique people in the region. For example, one attendee shows up covered in a white sheet on which people can write in permanent marker.  “The Ghost,” as he is called, showed up in October 2024 and has attended the subsequent crawls in this costume.  “[T]he event itself is sort of like to breed like bigger personalities…we spur people enough that they enjoy the event that like this,” Schaffer said.  Schaffer, a local, began organizing concerts as a teenager throughout Kitchener and Cambridge.  “I love music because it’s the great excuse for me to convince all my friends to be in the same room and then occasionally get, a free t-shirt, or like a free sweater, or someone just gives me a free beer, because I was really nice and I booked them,” Schaffer said.   For Scheid, events and hospitality is where he thrives. He said he enjoys creating solutions as problems arise and creating structure within the chaos. “[J]ust figuring out stuff as it goes along, and making the goals to have everybody have a great time and have a sense of community and be inclusive, and just putting the smiles on everybody’s faces while having a smile on mine doesn’t feel like a task,” he said. Both Schaffer and Scheid would like the Long Weekend Band Crawl to become a larger phenomenon for the region.  “I want to see it take over KW—Kitchener and Waterloo—and have as many venues as possible and make it a destination event for Ontario and possibly more of a national thing,” Scheid said. “I want to also do this without sponsorships and other money involved.” The next Long Weekend Band Crawl is scheduled for May 18. 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katSaw this chonker tortie a block or so from Belmont Village in Kitchener. Well fed, clean coat, no collar or tags, very friendly.Fell free to repost to appropriate places on other social sites. This is the only one I’m on.<a href="https://spore.social/tags/KWAwesome" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#KWAwesome</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WatReg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#WatReg</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Kitchener" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Kitchener</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Waterloo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Waterloo</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/KitchenerWaterloo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#KitchenerWaterloo</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/CatsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CatsOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/LostPets" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LostPets</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/LostCat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LostCat</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BelmontVillage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BelmontVillage</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/LostPetsKW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LostPetsKW</a>

katI have heard nothing about what, if any, effect the fact that St Mary’s is a Catholic hospital will have on care available in <a href="https://spore.social/tags/KitchenerWaterloo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#KitchenerWaterloo</a> after this merger.Grand River and St. Mary's hospitals look to merge by next spring | CBC News <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/grand-river-hospital-st-marys-hospital-merge-1.7183308" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/grand-river-hospital-st-marys-hospital-merge-1.7183308</a>

katAnybody local to <a href="https://spore.social/tags/KitchenerWaterloo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#KitchenerWaterloo</a> need some matzoh? I have 2 boxes I won’t use.<a href="https://spore.social/tags/WaterlooRegion" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#WaterlooRegion</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/KWAwesome" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#KWAwesome</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Passover" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Passover</a>

katAny protests against the ongoing genocide coming up in the Kitchener-Waterloo area? I feel like I'm missing out on a lot that I would normally hear about on twitter.<a href="https://spore.social/tags/KitchenerWaterloo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#KitchenerWaterloo</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/StopGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#StopGenocide</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/gaza_genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#gaza_genocide</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Gaza_under_attack" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Gaza_under_attack</a>

katMy kingdom for a ranked choice ballot.<a href="https://spore.social/tags/KitchenerWaterloo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#KitchenerWaterloo</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ByElection" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ByElection</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/OnPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#OnPoli</a>

katSo if anyone local needs to borrow a small animal trap, um, we have one.<a href="https://spore.social/tags/KitchenerWaterloo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#KitchenerWaterloo</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/LiveTrap" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LiveTrap</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Chipmunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Chipmunk</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Squirrel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Squirrel</a>

katThere’s durian at T&T <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Waterloo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Waterloo</a>.<a href="https://spore.social/tags/KitchenerWaterloo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#KitchenerWaterloo</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/KW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#KW</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/durian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#durian</a>

katAny local <a href="https://spore.social/tags/KitchenerWaterloo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#KitchenerWaterloo</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/KW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#KW</a> lifters (or otherwise protein payers of attention) who like Vega Sport Vanilla? Because I bought a huge vat of the stuff and I hate it.<a href="https://spore.social/tags/kwawesome" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#kwawesome</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/weightlifting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#weightlifting</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/powerlifting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#powerlifting</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/protein" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#protein</a>

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