Rose and Crown (Banff)
Aug. 28
Murder Mouse Blues Band
Murder Mouse Blues Band is a three-piece blues and roots Australian outfit mixing blues with folk and Celtic music and coming up with something stunningly original.
Started in 2008 by author and songwriting juggernaut Adam Morris and one of Australia’s greatest solo multi-instrumentalists, Jon Edwards, it’s not a surprise The Thirst, The Hunger and The Horn, was featured in Rolling Stone Magazine and has taken the band to locales throughout the world.
“We do some serious genre bending, so our music has touches of country, Irish folk, early ’50s rock, some jazz, Bernard Herman/Ennio Morricone-type atmospherics, swamp, juke and pre-war nightclub blues. It’s all over the shop, just the way it should be,” Morris.
“We love playing festivals and love travelling to get there. Give us a month on the road travelling through a strange country and you’ve won us over. Anywhere there is good energy, live music and love in the air, we’ll take it. If you don’t have any, we can bring all three.”
Elk and Oarsman (Banff)
Aug. 29
Windborn
Windborn is the name Jeff Pike has given to his music. It’s a unique sound that’s proven very difficult to define. You have to experience the energy of a live performance before you can understand what the music is all about.
Pike knows how to put on a show that can suit any type of venue and his
guitar playing lays the foundation of every song and is truly unique.
He plays rhythm and lead lines at the same time, creating some of the biggest and most percussive riffs you’ll hear on the guitar. On top of all that, he lays complex beats with foot percussion and cuts through with powerful vocals. The size of the sound coming from just one musician is unlike anything you’ve ever heard or seen before.
Pike has shared the stage with some of Canada’s biggest acts, including Matthew Barber, Jon and Roy and Honeymoon Suite. If you live anywhere in the western half of Canada, expect Windborn to be playing at a venue near you soon!
Wild Bill’s (Banff)
Aug. 21-23
Shane Chisholm
Shane Chisholm is a singer/songwriter and Canadian Country Music Association Award winner hailing from Claresholm, Alta.
He’s a simple man with a lot to say as he travels across Canada and other parts of the world sharing his unique interpretation of country music.
Chisholm was voted Alberta’s very first male artist of the year from the Alberta Country Music Association and received a publishing deal with Ole Publishing for his debut album Hitchhiking Buddha with the single “Kickin’ up dust,” which also charted at #16 in Australia.
When he’s not writing, producing or performing, Chisholm is busy crafting homemade musical instruments from recycled materials, including a gas tank upright bass, a gas tank from a Chevy Astro; The Grinder, an electric grinder with pickup and pitch bender effects; Stanley Cup bass, an upright bass made from pots, pans and a salad bowl from Ikea to resemble the NHL’s Stanley Cup, among others.
The above was compiled with information from band websites.
