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

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 including Shawn Colvin, Richard Thompson, Sarah McLachlan, Tom Wilson, Colin Linden, Margo Timmins and most recently producing Happy Here the latest Juno-nominated album from Suzie Vinnick.

His latest recording, The Man Who Married Music is a 'Best Of' collection, with tracks handpicked by Stephen, featuring some of the best music he has released over his career as well as two brand new tracks No Dress Rehearsal and The Big East West.

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.

Like most contemporary songwriter/performers, Stephen is not bound by any particular musical genre or category and the release of Yellowjacket continues this exploration of various musical forms, as does his continued participation in the highly successful Canadian roots rock super trio, Blackie & The Rodeo Kings. Over the past decade, B&RK have released three highly praised and award-winning albums including a Juno Award for their most recent release “BARK”. “It’s wonderful to be able to work as a solo artist and to be active in such a powerful ensemble as The Rodeo Kings. These guys are my friends and there is no doubt in my mind that my continuing work with them influences my solo playing very deeply”.With two more Blackie records on the near-horizon plus an ongoing collaboration with Irish singer/songwriter Andy White, Stephen has never been more prolific. In his own words, “Yellowjacket feels like a new beginning.”

Tracks

Sample tracks are available on Stephen's web site and at his mySpace site

Reviews

"Fearing (is) a king amongst minstrels"
- The Chronicle Herald - Halifax - 2009

Web Site

Stephen Fearing's web site

Andy White

Andy White will be opening for Stephen Fearing and will also play with Stephen.

As a young lad in Northern Ireland, Andy White grew up in what is globally known as “the Troubles” - a thirty-year period of religious and political uprising in Northern Ireland from the late 1960’s until the Belfast Agreement of 1998. The era represents a stark contrast to the tranquility that should have prevailed in a land known for its lush green country meadows, prose, music, fine ales and whiskeys. Like all great folk musicians, Andy’s social conscience took note of the issues and the players in the daily drama before him, and created a musical style to support, punctuate and transmit the moods, whether joyous, sorrowful, intense or soothing.

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.

ndy has worked with the great names of Irish music including Van Morrison, Mary Black, Sinead O’Connor and The Frames and he has participated in powerful collaborations with such artists as Peter Gabriel, Neil and Tim Finn, and Canada’s Stephen Fearing. His release, “Out There”, won the Irish Times Album Of The Year in 1992 and Songwriter Of The Year in the national Hot Press Awards. In 1998, at the age of thirty-six, Andy White was included in the Irish HQ Rock Hall of Fame. To celebrate Andy as one of Ireland’s finest contemporary poets, Lagan Press published a collection of Andy’s complete poetry and lyrics in 1999 entitled, “The Music Of What Happens”. As a result of a long-term and productive relationship with WOMAD and Real World, Andy was also awarded the role of musical director and host of the WOMAD UK grand finale in 2005.

Web Site and Tracks

Andy White's web site is here. You can check out his music on his MySpace site

Online Tickets: for Stephen Fearing, March 20, 2010

2009 - 2010
Season

Stephen Fearing
with

Andy White
March 20, 2010

Lorne Elliott
April 17, 2010

Luke Doucet and
the White Falcon
May 1, 2010

Bragg Creek
Festival
May 28 - 30, 2010
 

Appeared Previously

Prairie Oyster
Sept. 26, 2009

Carmen & David
Nov. 7, 2009

David Myles
Feb. 6, 2010

Rankin, Church
& Crowe
Feb. 27, 2010