Lynn Miles is looking forward to returning to Lethbridge, though she can’t remember when she was last here. 
“People always tell me I’ve played places before and I say ‘No I haven’t.’ I’m sure it’s been about a year that I played Lethbridge,” Miles said from her Ottawa home, getting ready to embark on a quick, two week, 12 date tour with special guest Keith Glass of Canadian country stars Prairie Oyster, with be playing the Lethbridge Folk Club, May 7.
“We’ve been playing together for five or six years. He’ll be playing guitar and mandolin. And his vocal harmonies are excellent,” Miles enthused.
“He can play any style of music. A lot of singer-songwriter material doesn’t have a groove, but he makes that groove happen so it really adds to it,” she said adding he won’t be playing any Prairie Oyster material.
“They have their own gigs for that, but sometimes he’ll play songs he wrote that won’t go to Prairie Oyster,” she continued.
“I have 600 songs. I wish I could play them all, but I only have an hour and a half,” she said adding she doesn’t know what the set list will look like.
“It depends on my mood and there’s usually the songs Keith wants to play. Usually I’ll play the newer songs because they are fresher,” she said.
Her latest CD,“Fall For Beauty,” is getting rave reviews across North America and even Europe, where she will be touring for six weeks in October. The CD is getting airplay in the U.S. as well, placing in the Top 20 on the Americana charts in January.
It also earned a Juno nomination for best roots and traditional album this year.
“I always hope it will get a Juno nomination. It gives the CD publicity and hopefully gets into the hands of more people. But It meant I got to play at Massy Hall in toronto,” she said adding that was part of the Juno’s songwriters showcase, so she shared the stage with the likes of Randy Bachman, Luke Doucet and Johnny Reid.
“So that was pretty cool,” she said adding she is already looking at a new record which she’d like to record next January.
“I’ve been listening to a lot of bluegrass music. So I’ve been trying to write some bluegrass songs. And I’ve been reading a book called ‘the Untethered Soul,” so I’ve been thinking alot about freedom and courageous people and people who do courageous things for freedom,” she continued.
“I just love being on the road. We’ll be driving on the prairies. I love going that especially when there’s no snow. And I loving touring with keith,” she said.
The show begins at 8 p.m. with opening act Common Ground. Tickets cost $20 for Lethbridge Folk Club members, $25 for non-members.
