May 8th: The Elevation Room with Reuben Bullock
We're looking forward to playing Edmonton's newest venue, The Elevation Room, with our friend Reuben Bullock from Calgary on Friday May 18th. Tickets are $8 in advance and are available here at yeglive.ca. This could be a popular one so get your tickets while you can, we'll be playing as a 4 piece for the first time in while.
April 29th: 'Hollow Ponds' wins Edmonton Music Award
We're honoured to have won 'Roots/Folk Album Of The Year' at this years Edmonton Music Awards. Many thanks to The Edmonton Music Awards and congrats to all of the other winners. It's a privilege to be a part of this wonderful music community here in Edmonton. Check out the other nominees and winners here, the wealth of talent in this fair city is remarkable.
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April 25th: Canada Live and Summertime!
Thanks to Bragg Creek for hosting us this weekend, we had a wonderful time playing for you all, we keep getting little snippets of the warm months, they're on their way.
Our summer is shaping up to be a lot of fun, we have a some festivals to look forward to, some touring and some shows at home which we haven't done for a while. Our festival season includes:
Sweetwater 905, Rolla, BC - 16th-17th June
Islands Folk Festival, Victoria, BC - 20th-21st July
South Country Fair, Fort Macleod, AB - 22nd July
Calgary Folk Music Festival, Calgary, AB - 27th - 29th July
We'll also be heading to Saskatchewan for the first time this summer with a brief June tour and having at least one Edmonton party before the summers out. We'll adding some more shows but for now our calendar will keep you up to date.
Finally, if you missed our show from The Communitea in Canmore last year on CBC 2's Canada Live you can catch the full concert here.
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April 20th: Bragg Creek tomorrow
We just returned from a quick trip to England where we played our first show for a good few years! A great time was had and now as we try and recover from the jetlag we're getting ready to head to Bragg Creek for their All Aberta Day tomorrow, the 21st April. We'll be playing the matinee and evening shows with Jen Beaupre, Souljah Fyah and Joal Kamps. Tickets and info can be found here. Its gonna be a lovely weekend so hopefully we'll see some of your friendly faces.
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March 22nd: Nickelodeon Folk Club and Festivals
Thanks to everyone who joined us at The Calgary Folk Club the other weekend with the wonderful Amelia Curran, it was one of the highlights of the year so far, a magical night. This Weekend we're heading back down to Calgary to play The Nickelodeon Folk Club with The Once, it should be another terrific night.
We've also confirmed our first festival of the year, we'll be playing Sweetwater 905 up in Rolla, BC. We've heard this is quite the weekend of music and look forward to our first trip that far north.
Amelia Curran at The Calgary Folk Club
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March 6th: Calgary Folk Club and Memphis Aftermath
We survived our trip to The International Folk Alliance in Memphis and have returned with a pile of great CD's, a bunch of new friends and a new love for catfish, what a weekend we had. We're already look forward to 2013 in Toronto.
This Friday we're heading down to what has become our second home, Calgary, to play The Calgary Folk Club with the wonderful Amelia Curran. Details and tickets can be found here. It's the final part of our prize for winning the Calgary Folk Festival Songwriting contest, Pro's and Prose category, last year and we're honoured to get the chance to play one of Canada's oldest and most respected folk clubs.
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February 15th: International Folk Alliance and Edmonton Music Awards
Next week we'll be heading to Memphis to attend the International Folk Alliance with the Bow Valley Music Club. Thanks to the Bow Valley Music Club for asking us down and for all of their help, we look forward to quite weekend.
We're honoured to be nominated for an Edmonton Music Award in the Root/Folk Album Of The Year category alongside some of our favourite Edmonton acts. The awards ceremony is on April 28th at The Royal Alberta Museum Theatre, we'll keep you updated on tickets and the such.
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January 27th: Grey Eagle Casino, Calgary
Tonight (Friday 27th Jan) we will be heading down to Calgary to play the Grey Eagle Casino. We will be pitting our cover song skills against local band Raleigh and then playing out the evening for all you fine folks. The night starts at 7pm but we'll be going til 12pm so there's plenty of time to pop by.
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January 17th: Wintertime
A happy New Year to everyone, we hope 2012 is a good one for you all. Our free Christmas single titled 'New Year' is still available at the link below if anyone missed out.
We have a couple of wintery shows this January, first off we're in Calgary this Saturday at The Area for 'Winter Retreat' with a bunch of Edmonton and Calgary bands. This was arranged by our friends at Sparrow Tree Productions, you can read all about these wonderful people here.
Then at the end of the month we will be playing 'The Tip of the Iceberg Festival' at Churchill Sqaure with a plethora of Edmonton talent, we're on at 9pm, but there will be music from 12pm, it's in a giant heated tent so there is no excuse not to go all day.
And finally 'hollow ponds' is popping up on various 2011 lists including CKUA's top 100 and CBC's Key of A 'Best of Alberta 2011'. Thanks again to anyone who bought this album or just enjoyed a song from it at some point.
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December 5th: FREE CHRISTMAS SINGLE
Thank you to everyone that came to our final show of the year at Wunderbar on Saturday and helped us cap off a great 12 months. As a thank you to everyone we’ve met and has supported throughout this year we’ve released a FREE 2 track Christmas single, ‘New Year’, that can be downloaded from the link below.
Thanks again and have a great December and Holiday season.
100 mile house
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December 2nd: CHRISTMAS SINGLE RELEASE AND PARTY
This Saturday December 3rd we will be releasing our first ever Christmas single 'New Year' at The New Wunderbar on Whyte Avenue. As a thank you to everyone who has supported us this year we will be giving away the single absolutely free! The tracks will be available from next week on our bandcamp account but the only way to get a hard copy is to come to the Christmas shindig this Saturday.
Deets:
Saturday 3rd December
At The New Wunderbar
8120 101 St NW Edmonton, AB T6E 3Y9
Doors at 8 Show at 9:30
W/ The AwesomeHots and RocketPony UK
$5 Entrance (includes free copy of the Christmas single and baking and candycanes)
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November 1st: Hair of the Dog
It's November 1st, when did that happen? The Winter is almost here so come and join us this Saturday (5th) at The Black Dog, Edmonton between 4-6 for a FREE full band show. _______________________________________________________________________
October 7th: Balcony TV
With Autumn officially here its time to share a video from our summer adventures, Balcony TV were kind enough to have us on at the beginning on August and today they shared the video from that afternoon.
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September 23rd: On the road and CKUA
We're heading out today to join Jesse Dee and Jacquie B on the Alberta stint of their release tour for their new album 'Our Ghosts Will Fill These Walls'. Come join us for one of these shows:
Friday 23rd September: The Hideout, Red Deer
Saturday 24th September: The Ironwood, Calgary (reservations can be made through 403-269-5581)
Sunday 25th September: The Pawn Shop, Edmonton (tickets available at www.yeglive.ca)
If you can't make it to Red Deer tonight CKUA will be broadcasting our show from the TransCanada Alberta Music Series recorded in Calgary earlier this year. The Show starts at 8pm, listen live here.
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September 16th: News and stuff and Autumn and stuff
Autumn is kind of creaking into Edmonton at the moment but we won't let the cold keep out spirits down. If you want to avoid leaving the house though we have a couple of suggestions to keep your ears warm.
The kind people over at CBC's The Key Of A recorded our show at The Communitea earlier this year and have now made it available online as part of CBC2's Concerts on Demand. The whole show can be heard here.
Also for your listening pleasure, the wonderful Luka Symons is back sharing her unique musical tastes with a monthly podcast for Kerf Music that can be downloaded here. She was kind enough to include the track 'Freeland' from 'hollow ponds' on her lastest edition.
Also, the end of this month will see us joining Jesse Dee and Jacquie B to celebrate the release of their great new album 'Our Ghosts Will Fill These Walls.' The 3 Alberta dates are:
Friday 23rd September: The Hideout, Red Deer
Saturday 24th September: The Ironwood, Calgary (reservations can be made through 403-269-5581)
Sunday 25th September: The Pawn Shop, Edmonton (tickets available at www.yeglive.ca)
These are going to be some great shows so reservations and tickets are suggested.
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August 24th: Shows and Shows
Thanks to everyone who has been at one of our shows recently, from Bragg Creek to Carstairs, we've had a great month. We have a couple of busy weekends in September too including a stint with Jesse Dee and Jaquie B as they release their new album 'OUR GHOSTS WILL FILL THESE WALLS'. We're lucky enough to be joining them on the following dates:
Friday 23rd September: The Hideout, Red Deer
Saturday 24th September: The Ironwood, Calgary
Sunday 25th September: The Pawn Shop, Edmonton
Thanks also to Folk Radio UK for their beautifully written review that can be found here.
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August 1st: Mountain View Music Festival
Happy August everyone, thanks to The Calgary Folk Festival for for a wonderful weekend a couple of weeks ago. This coming weekend we'll be at the Mountain View Music Festival in Carstairs, Alberta.
This is a great festival just outside Calgary that hightlights Alberta Talent, admisison is by donation and details can be found by clicking the banner above. We'll be playin at 1:15 on Sunday the 7th.
Also, many thanks to Wildy's World for the flattering review here.
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July 22nd: Calgary Folk Fest
We're at Calgary folk fest this weekend to perform our winning song from the Calgary Folk Fest Songwriting competition, 'better, still', as well as to enjoy a weekend full of great music. Thanks to the Calgary folk fest for bringing us here and treating us so well. We're on stage one at 11:50 on Sunday. See some of you around the site!
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