March 15, 2010

Welcome to the Bragg Creek Performing Arts Newsletter with information on our upcoming concerts.

Stephen Fearing - Saturday, March 20, 2010
Main Series concert with Andy White opening for Stephen

Multiple Juno Award winning Stephen Fearing is one of the foremost performing singer-songwriters in Canada.

Mixing powerful lyrics, creative arrangements and brilliant guitar playing, Fearing has built up a loyal and dedicated international audience with a wide range of songs - from his 1988 release Out to Sea, to his last Juno winning album Yellowjacket. A founding member of Blackie & the Rodeo Kings, Stephen has collaborated with many artists 

The consistent quality of work produced over Stephen Fearing’s two decades plus career has earned him a West Coast Music Award for Best Folk Music Recording and five Juno Award nominations as a solo artist along with a faithful international fan base.

Born in 1963 in Vancouver, he spent most of his boyhood and teenage years in Dublin. There, he picked up the guitar and traces of the Irish and English musical traditions that have informed his music ever since. After a short stint in the U.S. Midwest, he returned to Canada, and is now long-established as a regular and popular fixture on the folk club and festival circuit in North America and the U.K. Successful appearances at the prestigious WOMAD and Reading Festivals in the U.K. confirmed Fearing’s ability to engage large audiences with his onstage charm.

Appearing with Stephen and opening for him will be Andy White.

A song by Andy is a sonic documentary driven by beautiful and transforming narration. Referred to as “Belfast’s Bob Dylan”, Andy’s instrumentation can be quite rudimentary, yet he can disarm 15,000 people with simple chords and pure lyrics. He is a man that lets us into his journeys, and relationships with comfort and an openness that is fantastically welcoming.

More information and tickets for Stephen Fearing are available on our web site. 

Lorne Elliott - Saturday, April 17, 2010
Final Spotlight Series Concert in 2009-2010
This is a Spotlight Series performance. Seating is at tables and an appetizer, main course and dessert are available for purchase. Menu details are available on our web site.

Lorne started performing in 1974 as a folk musician in East Coast Canada. At the same time he kept writing fiction as well as songs, monologues and one-liners. The outcome of such a training is a very special show of comedy and music, totally original, entertaining, up-lifting and foolish enough to make everybody laugh. Along with his unique and wacky performance style, it is the timelessness of his material, joined with keen observations of today's trends that make Lorne Elliott's work so special.

Lorne Elliott has performed his one-man show in theatres, universities and clubs. He opened concerts for Rodney Dangerfield in New York City and Jay Leno in Montreal. He has made regular appearances at the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival since it started in 1986: each time his segments were selected for TV Specials, thanks to their universal quality. In Canada and the U.S. he has appeared on numerous talk shows and Variety shows.

Tickets and more information on our web site. 

Luke Doucet and the White Falcon, May 1, 2010
Concert Change for our final Main Series concert
Paul Quarrington, Canadian author, filmmaker, playwright, songwriter, lead singer and guitarist for Porkbelly Futures, died on January 21, 2010. Porkbelly Futures is taking a touring break and will not be available for our May 1, 2010 concert. We have booked Luke Doucet and the White Falcon for the May 1, 2010 concert.

Canadian singer/songwriter Luke Doucet is a difficult figure to pin down. On the one hand, he is an acclaimed singer, songwriter, and guitarist whose songs sound like a prairie-bred and countrified Elliott Smith; on the other, he spent several years as the leader of the spacy neo-psych rockers Veal, Vancouver's answer to the Flaming Lips.

A proud and vocal member of Canada's exploding indie music scene, Doucet also pays the bills as a studio musician and producer for decidedly non-indie acts like Sarah McLachlan and Chantal Kreviazuk. Doucet was born and raised in Manitoba, where he initially planned to become a lawyer before the guitar became his primary obsession. He moved to Vancouver and formed Veal in the mid-'90s, when bands such as Zumpano and Cub were making the coastal city Canada's primary indie pop mecca.

Performing with Luke will be his wife Melissa McClelland of whom the Globe and Mail said: “unforgettable... a coolly expressive singer, a gorgeously gritty lyricist, and a vivid painter of pop noir.”

See our web site for more information and tickets. 

Bragg Creek Festival
Returns May 28, 29 and 30, 2010
We're finalizing plans for the third annual Bragg Creek Festival. The artists for the festival include:

• MG3 - Montreal Guitar Trio
• Amy Bishop
• Calum Graham
• Chris Sandvoss
• Elizabeth Shepherd Trio
• Nathan Rogers
• Steve Pineo
• Rod Thomas Squance and Abbas Janmohamed

You can check out the tentative schedule for the third Bragg Creek Festival on the Festival web site. Tickets are now available.

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