Tiem: 9 p.m.
Cover:$10
http://www.fugitives.ca
The
Fugitives are a group of musicians, poets, and multi-instrumentalists
from Vancouver. The quartet features the songs of novelist/musician and
former Canadian SLAM poetry champion Brendan McLeod, and musician Adrian
Glynn, recently nominated for Emerging Artist of the Year at the
Canadian Independent Music Awards. Together with their band, they create
“dizzying, Arcade Fire-ish crescendos, replete with parallel melodies, complex harmonies and brimming torrents of emotion.” ( Uptown, Winnipeg)
A hard travelling band, they have trekked their instruments (and words)
all over Canada, the US, and Europe. Performances that began in small
vegetarian restaurants in East Vancouver have turned into mainstage
appearances at Canadian folk festivals, and sold out shows at venues as
diverse as the Vienna Literary Festival, the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre
Festival, and the Vancouver Jazz Festival. Along the way they’ve honed
incredible performance versatility, just as likely to spin a story as to
sing in harmony, to spit a verse as to tell a joke.
The Fugitives
first release, In Streetlight Communion (2007), was nominated for a
Canadian Folk Music Award for pushing the boundaries of contemporary
music. They returned in 2009 with an EP, Find Me, variously described as
“an inventive piece of art” (Gauntlet), “tight, well-composed music
that demonstrates great lyrical ability” (Discorder), and utilizes
“tight, note-perfect harmonies” (Spinner). Their full-length follow-up,
Eccentrically We Love, charted in the earshot top 30 for Canadian roots,
and was praised for being “poignant” (Uptown), “eclectic and exciting”
(See), and “infectious” (CBC).
The Fugitives release their next
album in early 2013. This fall, they hit Western Canada and the United
Kingdom to workshop new material, and have also earned a spot in the
Peak Performance Project. As with previous efforts, their work will be
born on the road – new songs fuelled on a steady diet of gas station
food and spirited late night carolling. Grab them in your town as
they’re coming through. As the CBC has it, “whether you go for the
poetry or music or both, this show is simply brilliant.”
Tom Dooley is a Lethbridge based Celtic musician.
403-320-0117
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