Home Routes hits Lacombe!

Lacombe: Tuesday, 30 August 2011 10:47

Home ROUTES
Redefining folk and roots music in Lacombe
7pm Flatiron Building 5005 – 50Ave. $20/person, $35/couple or $45/family
2011/2012 Schedule at a glance
Thurs Sept 29
 Alan Rhody
Fri Oct 28
Jenny Berkel with
Michelle Elrick
Sat Nov 26
Dakota Dave Hull
Sun Feb 5
Eileen McGann with David K
Tues March 6
Tim Harrison
Wed April 18
Michael Jerome Browne
Alan Rhody is one of today's most respected solo acoustic
singer-songwriters. In the Kentucky native's thirty-year career, he has
established a reputation writing songs for such artists as Kevin Welch,
Oak Ridge Boys, Del McCoury, Lorrie Morgan, George Jones, etc. Recently he
has returned to his roots, touring and writing songs on a more personal
level.
www.alanrhody.com
Jenny Berkel’s deep, resonant smoky voice and truly poetic lyrics have
been garnering fans ever since she started performing. In that time, she
has played with bands The Wandering Goose and Lady o’Lakes, toured across
Canada, busked on the streets of Paris and Belfast, and been nominated for
two music awards. Accompanying Jenny is the talented Michelle Elrick, who
will be adding her delicate banjo and soaring harmonies.
www.myspace.com/jennyberkel
 
 
Hailed by everyone from Dave Van Ronk to Doc Watson, from the Washington
Post to Downbeat, Dakota Dave Hull’s guitar style spans a wide musical
geography to create an infectious, uniquely personal blend of jazz,
ragtime, folk, blues, Western swing, and vintage pop. A gifted composer as
well as a strikingly original interpreter of older tunes, Dakota Dave
calls what he does "classic American guitar." Folk legend Van Ronk called
Dave "one of the best guitarists in the world."
www.dakotadavehull.com
Eileen McGann is widely acclaimed as one of the best contemporary Canadian
songwriters, as well as one of the finest Celtic traditional singers
anywhere.  Add to this a singing voice described as "magnificent",
"stunning" and "hauntingly beautiful", and you have an artist not to be
missed.  Eileen tours with acclaimed multi-instrumentalist sideman David
K., on Irish bouzouki, bass, national        tri-cone and harmony vocals. 
                                         www.myspace.com/eileenmcgann
 Tim Harrison is one of Canada's finest singers and   songwriters on the
folk music landscape today. His poignant themes and vivid images reveal
him as a storyteller of our time, and his delightful wit and      uncanny
knack for storytelling make him an audience favorite. Enthusiastic
response to his recordings and performances has led to tours across
Canada, the United States, and the UK.
www.timharrison.ca
 The blues is a common thread that runs through virtually all of the music
derived in the early American South and no one gets this connection
better than internationally acclaimed singer and multi-instrumentalist
Michael Jerome Browne. Browne performs everything from old Appalachian
music to Chicago Blues with such captivating authenticity, that he has
earned three Juno nominations in two distinct categories. He has
performed at Carnegie Hall with Kate and Anna McGarrigle, in the studio
with Taj Mahal and Eric Bib, and on tour with Guy Davis. Song Out
magazine calls him “one of today's most accomplished interpreters of
traditional music styles”.
www.michaeljeromebrowne.com