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Oh My Darling – Live in Kelowna this week

Tuesday, Aug. 26th @ the Grateful Fed
Wednesday, Aug. 27th @ the Minstrel Cafe

Oh My Darling is emerging as a powerhouse of superb female musicianship. Utilizing their keen sense of stylistic versatility, These fiery women have an eclectic repertoire drawing upon their own roots of blues, folk, funk and trad. The instrumentation features fast fingered banjo, saucy fiddle, grooving double bass and feisty vocals to create a high energy performance that will be sure to keep people on their feet! The members’ previous musical experiences include touring Europe, Australia and North America, recording and producing solo albums, freelance studio recordings, performing at world festivals, solo artistry, TV performances and technical direction of various musical ensembles. Oh my Darling is the new ‘darling’ of the Winnipeg scene, wowing audiences at the Festival De Voyageur, sold out crowd at the Times Change(d) High and Lonesome Club, and other venues.

YSP! WSD! Hit The Road


By: ChartAttack.com Staff

A day after the download-only release of You Say Party! We Say Die!’s Remik’s Cube remix album, the energetic dance/punk/pop band will embark on a Canadian tour beginning in Toronto.

The Vancouver quintet will join fellow Paper Bag labelmates Winter Gloves, as well as Quebec’s Beast and Toronto’s Lioness, on selected dates. Party or die here:

* Aug. 27 Toronto, ON @ Burroughes Building
* Aug. 29 Victoria, BC @ Sugar Nightclub
* Aug. 30 Tofino, BC @ The Tofino Legion
* Sept. 13 Vancouver, BC @ UBC Pit Pub w/Winter Gloves and Beast
* Sept. 17 Kelowna, BC @ Habitat w/Winter Gloves
* Sept. 18 Edmonton, AB @ The Pawn Shop w/Winter Gloves and Beast
* Sept. 19 Regina, SK @ The Lazy Owl w/Winter Gloves and Beast
* Sept. 20 Winnipeg, MB @ The Royal Albert Arms w/Winter Gloves and Beast
* Sept. 24 Windsor, ON @ Phog Lounge w/Winter Gloves and Beast
* Sept. 25 Waterloo, ON @ Starlight w/Winter Gloves and Beast
* Sept. 27 London, ON @ The Salt Lounge w/Winter Gloves and Beast
* Sept. 28 Ottawa, ON @ Babylon w/Winter Gloves and Beast
* Oct. 1 Montreal, QC @ La Tulipe w/Winter Gloves and Beast (Pop Montreal)
* Oct. 2 Laval, QC @ Bar La Clairiere w/Winter Gloves and Beast
* Oct. 4 St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, QC @ Metric Bar w/Winter Gloves and Beast
* Oct. 4 Montreal, QC @ Afterparty (Pop Montreal)
* Oct. 5 Quebec City, QC @ Le Cercle w/Winter Gloves and Beast
* Oct. 8 Charlottetown, PEI @ Hunter’s Ale House w/Winter Gloves
* Oct. 9 Fredericton, NB @ The Capital Bar w/Winter Gloves
* Oct. 10 Moncton, NB @ The Manhattan Club w/Winter Gloves
* Oct. 11 Halifax, NS @ The Marquee Club w/Winter Gloves
* Oct. 17 Guelph, ON @ Vinyl w/Winter Gloves and Beast
* Oct. 18 Kingston, ON @ The Grad Club (Queen’s University) w/Winter Gloves and Beast
* Oct. 19 Toronto, ON @ Wrongbar w/Winter Gloves and Beast
* Oct. 21 Sault Ste. Marie, ON @ Lop Lop Lounge & Gallery w/Lioness
* Oct. 22 Thunder Bay, ON @ C2 Nightclub w/Lioness
* Oct. 24 Saskatoon, SK @ Amigos w/Lioness
* Oct. 25 Calgary, AB @ HiFi Club w/Lioness
* Oct. 26 Lethbridge, AB @ The Slice Bar & Grill w/Lioness

F & M show tonight at the Minstrel Cafe


F&M, is part Low, part Nick Cave, Smog and Will Oldham. The Albertan band is hinged upon two singer-songwriters: a Forensic Recreational Therapist and a Soviet Rock Culture Historian, who prefer to describe their musical style as art-folk rock. F&M, which just developed last year (2007) after a Christmas 2006 resurrection, is currently working on an artistic collaboration with local (Edmonton) artist and Deadwear entrepreneur Glen Ronald on a new album for the fall/winter. The upcoming release will be more of an art show with painting inspired by the music, and the music inspired by loss. Some of these new songs will be a part of the July 3rd show. For now, F&M is content on touring their current album, “Let Every Light Shine” (Shameless Records Canada, June 2007). Enjoy a mix of quiet intensity and brilliant pop from 5 creative music acts on Thursday, July 3, 2008.

NOTE: F&M will be playing a more acoustic show for the Okanagan dates (August 20 and 21). These shows will provide two sets of prairie born music.

Here’s some press highlights:
“studiously crafting their own brand of cerebral melodies, brilliantly showcased on 2007’s Let Every Light Shine” The Edmonton Journal “great expressive range” Katherine Duncan CBC “focused and true to the soul of their songs” VUE Weekly “delicate and smooth” The Edmonton Journal “Lullabies for adult minds” SEE Magazine

Here’s a recent podcast we were featured in (Its Hard to Be Soft, Edmonton Journal May 27): http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/ed/podcasts.html