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Besides making karaoke available to the masses 7 nights a week in various venues throughout Ottawa, DOG & PONY Sound is honored to also provide services and support for many fine causes, events, and festivals such as The Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre, Cancer Care Ontario, Make A Wish Foundation, Bruce House, Aids Committee of Ottawa, Ottawa Pride, CHEO, MS, Centertown Movies Festival, Fringe Festivals, Centertown Citizens of Ottawa Corporation, Gallery 101, school fundraisers, neighborhood block parties, community centers and nursing homes, The Ottawa Police, The Ottawa Mission, Carleton University, Westfest, Bankfest, Pride Festivals, PSAC Public Service Alliance of Canada, OPSU Ontario Public Service Union, LGX Lesbian Gay Expo, Pink Triangle Services, Ten Oaks Project and Capital Xtra. We've been honored to be asked to sit on judging panels for several community pageants including The Ottawa Bears, Mr. Leather Ottawa and Miss Gay Ottawa and say with pride that it is a joy to be able to give back to the communities that have supported us for so many years.

As proud Canadians, it's also an absolute pleasure to provide entertainment for The Liberal Party of Canada and several Government of Canada Departments including National Defense, Public Safety, Customs & Revenue Agency, Natural Resources & numerous annual Government fundraisers through CWCC The Canadian Workplace Charitable Campaign.

We've undertaken the production of several singer showcases including a 4 hour showcase at Ottawa's famous Barrymore's Music Hall and have co-produced several shows for MLO and MGO as well as provided sound, lighting, and tech support for many local venues, live bands, and both Bywards and Dusty Owl poetry & writer's collectives for many years.

We've also enjoyed sharing the stage over the years and have co-hosted events with several well known Canadian personalities including CJOH's Eric Longley & Max Keeping, TV's beloved John Dore, Toronto's Jazz FM icon, Jaymz Bee, Ottawa's lounge genius Johnny Vegas, Chez 106's Woody sans Doc, Ottawa Citizen's Gary Dimmock and A Channel's Leanne Lang.

We've had a blast providing entertainment to a vast array of businesses; small to large including the Grand Opening of The Putting Edge, Scotia Mcleod, Distributel, Bitheads, Natural Convergence, and the Lonestar Ranch to name just a handful, as well as countless sporting leagues and club events covering baseball, bowling, curling, hockey and golf. Although we have been invited to host karaoke for nudists, we're holding out and hope to be invited to host **** skydiving karaoke before we retire.

We've enjoyed the challenges of participating in all of Ottawa's Pump Idol Competitions as well as producing the CNKC Canadian National Karaoke Championships where our Canadian Champions were sent to Finland to represent in the World Championships.

We were thrilled to have been invited by Rogers 22 and A-Channel to represent Karaoke and have been voted Best Karaoke in Ottawa by readers of Ottawa Xpress and viewers of A-Channel over the years.

We've also been extremely honored (chuffed as our friends in the UK would say) to have been invited to sit on various panels and provide product testing and counsel for major karaoke manufacturers such as Sound Choice in the US, Canada's Eat Sleep Music & Gamesman and The UK's Sing To The World, as well as our local distributor Fleet Pro Sound.

We've had the opportunity to witness many great moments; parties, birthdays, celebrations, memorials, anniversaries and then, of course, there are the many who have invited us to witness the most important day of their lives, their wedding.

We're grateful to all our pals for supporting us over the years. You make all the hard work worthwhile. We're blessed to have so many wonderful people in our lives. ♥