A N D R E A H O U S E
Saturday, September 23 @ 8:00 pm - $15
Andrea House is a singer/songwriter with a penchant for melody. Her voice is reminiscent of the great singers of the 1940’s and 1950’s, yet she brings a distinctly new sound to the oldest forms of music.
L E S L I E A L E X A N D E R
Saturday, October 14 @ 8:00 pm - $15
Leslie Alexander grew up on an Alberta sheep farm & couldn't wait to get to the city. She hit the road, made a bunch of mistakes & wrote songs about them. She wound up singing on a street corner in Vancouver for spare change. She does not consider this a mistake. Today, Leslie's songs are receiving international airplay on her own recordings as well as cuts with other artists and have been licensed to film and television.
B A C K P O R C H S W I N G
Saturday, November 18 @ 8:00 pm - $15
Penguin Eggs magazine praises Back Porch Swing's music as composed of "witty, humorously charming lyrics mixed with tasty playing". This husband and wife team, along with two jazzy accompanying musicians, is known for its fiery performances at various festivals. They deliver an exciting mix of original and vintage acousticmusic from Billie Holiday to Bill Monroe.
C A R R I E H R Y N I W
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P A U L L E P A G E
Saturday, January 27 @ 8:00 pm - $15
Carrie Hryniw began playing the classical piano and continued through the Bachelor of Music program at the University of Alberta. In September 2005, Carrie released her debut recording “Pieces of Me,” a collection of songs that originate in aloneness and carry feelings of hope, hardship, and beauty. She also works as a classical piano teacher and visual artist.
Paul LePage has just released his newest CD project, "Closer to Home". Paul is a gifted musician with a guitar styling that will remind listeners of Harry Manx.
A M Y B I S H O P
Saturday, February 17@ 8:00 pm - $15
"Amy Bishop has one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard. it's unique, powerful and amazing, just like Amy Bishop. it doesn't matter what kind of songs she sings, I know I'll like them if she is singing them no matter what style of song she does, once she applies her signature vocals to them, they simply become Amy Bishop songs."
Jana Stanfield - recording artist / songwriter
Y A E L W A N D
Saturday, March 10 @ 8:00 pm - $15
True to her divergent roots and wanderings, Yael delivers songs with the demanding sensibility of folk, the landscape of a wild country, allusions to sultry jazz and mid-eastern exoticism. On stage she is captivating and charming, one of those rare performers with the ability to draw in an audience not only by the sound of her voice, clear and wrought with emotion, but also with the colour and substance of her songwriting.
J A S M I N E W H E N H A M
Saturday, March 31 @ 8:00 pm - $15
My “job” is to sing about what I feel and think and to inspire others to feel and think for themselves. I will always be nervous when I am standing up there, playing the first bars of my first song, but when I sing the first line and I feel all the discontentment rolling off of me in waves, I am home and I can say, firmly and definitively, “This is what I’m supposed to be doing.”
Jasmine Whenham
J O E L F A F A R D
Saturday, April 21 @ 8:00 pm - $15
Joel Fafard is that rare breed of instrumentalist: the kind whose appeal reaches far beyond the realm of serious guitar enthusiasts. The gifted slide fingerstyle player writes stirring, melodic compositions that paint pictures as vivid as any song with words. He introduces them on-stage with hilarious commentary delivered in a "hillbilly farm-boy" stage persona that quickly wins his audience over. And when he sinks his chops into a number like "Face Down in the Rhubarb," well, let's just say the serious guitar enthusiasts aren't disappointed either.
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