w/ Miss Emily Brown
$15 (+$2.50 tx & sc) – Buy your tickets for this show here!
Doors at 8pm, show at 9pm
It’s a hard slog to be a singer songwriter in this country, and harder still to be successful at it. Add to that an artist that favours unusual instrumentation like the mandolin and ukulele and prefers to tour countries by bicycle. A nomadic musician who’s DIY ethic is so strong that his artistry extends past making music and playing multiple instruments to producing an accomplished, satirical web series, as well as creating and directing music videos for himself and other artists. You don’t just have a musical anomaly – you have a triple threat. A singer, songwriter and multi-faceted artist rarely seen.
You have, Jeremy Fisher.
Canadian folk-pop troubadour Jeremy Fisher first broke onto the scene a decade ago, and since then his career has been on a steady upward trajectory. That momentum is bound to keep on building with the release of his latest album, Flood, due out on October 26 (Aquarius Records in Canada / Wind-up Records in the United States). The fourth LP from the two-time Juno nominee, it comes hot on the heels of a Fisher-created summer bicycle tour and a slew of video side projects from the multi-talented artist.
His first full-length since 2007’s acclaimed Goodbye Blue Monday, the album finds Fisher exploring more ornate arrangements, with his acoustic pop songs fleshed out by a diverse array of instruments. Flood is the culmination of a whirlwind writing session, during which he cut over forty demos with help of a Roland 707 drum machine. Although most of these rhythm tracks were later replaced with real drums, the electronic percussion tracks helped to form the backbone of the album’s upbeat, punchy sound. “To build dynamics” explains Fisher, “we mixed in mandolins, tenor guitars, open-tuned 12 strings, piano, timpani, a huge concert bass drum — all acoustic sounds piled on top of each other to create a sort of symphony that could swell in and out of the rhythm section.”
Miss Emily Brownʼs debut album, Part of You Pours Out of Me (April 2008) was named one of Ontario’s 2008 top ten by CBC’s Alan Neal. In January 2010 she will release In Technicolor, an album written during her recent Canada Council sponsored songwriting project based on her grandmotherʼs WWII diary. Recently featured on CBC Canada Live, CBC Canada NEXT and CBC Bandwidthʼs Remembrance Day program, Miss Brownʼs live performance impossibly combines autoharp, vintage keys, guitar and music box with her unmistakable voice. .
“Miss Emily Brown has accomplished a feat of marrying history and plain old-fashioned story telling into a compelling and delicately assembled package of distinctive folk-pop ear candies. In Technicolor is a genuinely impressive achievement.” – Amanda Putz, CBC Radio 2
Meanwhile, Emily joined producer Corwin Fox to form the neo-folk duo Morlove. Combining Fox’s instrumentalism and brilliant sound engineering, with Emily’s incredible range and sweet touch, Morlove’s tracks are slow and careful. The duo recently recorded All of My Lakes Lay Frozen Over, while tucked away in a small wooden church in snowy Wells BC. The album is a lush and delicate list of songs to be released this winter. “I think the music that prevails is unhurried and fully-developed, like tea left to steep for a long long time.”
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