THE CROOKED BROTHERS ANNOUNCE CANADIAN TOUR DATES
WINNIPEG BLUES / ROOTS TRIO THE CROOKED BROTHERS BEGIN ‘A DIFFERENT KIND OF WINTER’ CANADIAN TOUR ON FEB 24
The Crooked Brothers spent much of last fall on the road in Europe supporting their latest album, Thank You I’m Sorry, which was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award for New/Emerging Artist Of The Year. Now the brothers are packing up their dobros, banjos, and mandolins in preparation for another run clear across Canada. ‘A Different Kind Of Winter Tour’ begins February 24 making its way through a variety of intimate venues from the West Coast to Quebec before returning home to Winnipeg.
For the last few years the band have been joined by a full rhythm section while on tour, this time around they’re back to a three piece, or as brother Matt Foster puts it, ‘the original recipe.’ "The arrangements are simple, but the songs certainly aren't,” says Foster. “I love all the different incarnations a song can take on if you just trust it and follow it where it wants to go. Songs are like people, there is a lot more than just one side to them. We've always had this dual identity as a band and it's very exciting to have traveled the world as a big 5 piece only to come home, shake everything up, do the laundry if you will, and set out again as a different kind of band."
To get a glimpse of the cozy set up the band are bringing along, viewers can watch brothers Darwin Baker and Jesse Matas perform “North Of The Border”, live on the banks of Assiniboine River. Inspired by a lifelong student and teacher of voluntary simplicity Matas met in his 20s, “the song is about the beginning and ending of journeys; the many beginnings and endings we see throughout our lifetimes; the many places we discover and leave and; our many relationships that begin and end,” he says. “It is the story of a man who is compelled, and sometimes forced, to keep moving throughout his life, taking us from his childhood in the lakes of Minnesota, to university at Kent State, to draft-dodging a war and roughing it in the bush north of Lake Superior, to attempts to settle in Toronto and, to Winnipeg, where he finds a job and legally immigrated to Canada. I wrote the song in my tent, in the piney, precambrian-shield lakes, where the story begins and we recorded the video beside the Assiniboine River in Winnipeg, where the story ends.”
The Crooked Brothers would like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts for helping to develop and tour a concert based on the idea of returning to their original configuration as a trio. Full tour dates can be found below.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF WINTER TOUR DATES
Feb 25 - Vancouver, BC - Wise Hall w/ James Lamb
Feb 26 - Victoria, BC - Upstairs Lounge @ Oak Bay Rec Centre
Feb 27 - Courtenay, BC - Native Sons Hall
Feb 28 - Powell River, BC - Cranberry Hall
Mar 1 - Prince George, BC - House Concert*
Mar 2 - McLeod Lake, BC - House Concert*
Mar 3 - Hudson Hope, BC - House Concert*
Mar 4 - Ft St John, BC - House Concert*
Mar 5 - Dawson Creek, BC - House Concert*
Mar 6 - Prince George, BC - House Concert*
Mar 8 - Frase Lake, BC - House Concert*
Mar 9 - Houston BC - House Concert*
Mar 10 - Smithers, BC - House Concert*
Mar 11 - Hazelton, BC - House Concert*
Mar 12 - Terrace, BC - House Concert*
Mar 13 - Prince Rupert, BC - House Concert*
Mar 16 - Jasper, AB - Olive Bistro
Mar 17 - Edmonton, AB - Mercury Room w/ Post Script & Billie Zizi
Mar 18 - Calgary, AB - Festival Hall, w/ Matt Patershuk
Mar 19 - Black Diamond, AB - Beneath the Arch Concert Series
April 9 - Forget, SK - Happy Nun Cafe
April 14 - Toronto, ON - Cameron House
April 15 - Picton, ON - Acoustic Grill
April 16 - Haliburton, ON - Northern Light Performing Arts Pavilion
April 20 - Oakville, ON - Moonshine Cafe
April 21 - Kemptville, ON - The Branch
April 22 - Montreal, QC - Divan Orange w/ Bad Uncle
April 23 - Wakefield, QC - Black Sheep Inn w/ Zachary Lucky
April 29 & 30 - Winnipeg, MB - Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club
*Contact crookedbrothers@gmail.com for info on availability of house concerts
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