Saturday shows can be tough to hit as I’m on the air on CKXU 88.3 F.M. spinning the blues on the Hotrock Blues beat so I miss anything that begins before 10.
So unfortunately I missed an opening set from Burning Bridge ( Steve Foord and Megan Brown) but arrived just in time for another hauntingly beautiful, yet brief set from Edmonton trio F & M at the Owl Acoustic Lounge, Feb. 20.
Becky Anderson whispered sultry vocals as she alternated playing accordion and keyboards. She took turns singing lead vocals with R Guitarist Ryan Anderson.
Multi-instrumentalist Bryan “Miot” Reichert sat back in the shadows adding tasteful lead guitar and some mandolin.
The set started slowly with Becky Anderson playing sad accordion and singing hypnotically.
Reichert switched to mandolin as the trio put their own, spooky French cabaret style jazzy stamp on “ Maybe Tomorrow,” the theme from Canadian classic TV Show the Littlest Hobo.
In addition to spooky jazz, Rebecca Anderson also showed some impressive operatic vocal chops.
They wound down their set with “ Photographs,” a song about their favourite “creepy Russian film maker.”
