GOLD & SHADOW, a four-piece art rock group from Nanaimo, BC, are excited to announce the release of their debut full-length album ‘TORCH’ on Friday, September 4th and the premiere of their video for ‘Half Moon’ on Exclaim.ca today! Watch the video here. GOLD & SHADOW are also hitting the road for a string of Western Canadian dates, starting on Vancouver Island on September 9th in Parksville. Full tour schedule is listed below.

GOLD & SHADOW has a wild, passionate sound that will capture your heart and mind. Their vigorous and organic approach to music is a perfect companion for the wild, oceanic landscapes of their Vancouver Island home, and a testament to the hope, beauty, and inspiration found therein. With a penchant for creative, soaring melodies, they are intent on creating a dynamic, tuneful response to the natural wonders of the Island area. Influenced by the likes of Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, and Bon Iver, GOLD & SHADOW also shares many of the same sonic ambitions as Vancouver’s We Are The City, Saskatoon’s Close Talker, and Victoria’s ZERBIN.

‘TORCH’ is GOLD & SHADOW’s debut release. Their music has previously been included on compilations such as “All Together Now”, a 2012 Seva Canada charity album featuring Canadian artists such as the Great Lake Swimmers, and they have also proudly shared stage with diverse Canadian talent ranging from PEAK Performance Project finalists We Are The City, Jordan Klassen, Vince Vaccaro, and Towers and Trees, to groups such as ZERBIN and Paper Lions. It’s been a wild ride so far for GOLD & SHADOW and the band is looking forward to the release of ‘TORCH’.

“We’re excited to finally release the record, and get it out there into people’s ears,” singer Dane Letourneau explains. “We’re also looking forward to hitting the road and sharing these songs with audiences across Western Canada. It’s been a long time coming, but we’re proud to finally release a record which we feel fully represents us as a group.”

GOLD & SHADOW‘s debut album ‘TORCH’ will be available online at iTunes and all other digital retailers on Friday, September 4th. GOLD & SHADOW will be touring in support of the album starting in Parksville on September 9th. Please visit goldandshadow.com for more information and the most up to date tour listings.

GOLD & SHADOW // WESTERN CANADIAN TOUR DATES

09/09 Parksville, BC – Parksville Fellowship Baptist Church

09/10 Campbell River, BC – Campbell River Baptist Church

09/11 Nanaimo, BC – The Vault (w/ The Stacks)

09/12 Nanaimo, BC – Buzz Coffee House (w/ Morning Show)

09/13 Vancouver, BC – Railway Club (w/ Royal Oak)

09/16 Kelowna, BC – Fernando’s Pub (w/ JoyfulDoor)

09/17 Kamloops, BC – Dallas Barthartville Baptist Church

09/18 Calgary, AB – Broken City (w/ The Sweets, Mitch Belot Band)

09/19 Edmonton, AB – The Mercury Room (w/ The Most of August, Forester)

09/20 Banff, AB – Elk & Oarsman

09/22 Saskatoon, SK – Capitol Music Club

09/25 Ladysmith, BC – Oceanview Baptist Church

GOLD & SHADOW ‘TORCH’ TRACKLISTING

RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 4th, 2015 (INDEPENDENT)

1.  First+Foremost

2.  Search For Sara

3.  Running out of Room

4.  Half Moon

5.  Providence

6.  Kings

7.  Creature Down

8.  Waiting for the Unwind

9.  (Reprise)

10. Torch

GOLD & SHADOW is: Dane Letourneau • Vocals/Guitars/Keys // Jesse Janzen • Bass  // Wes Holmes • Drums // Jordan Lineker • Guitar

FOR MORE INFO: www.goldandshadow.com

Twitter: @goldandshadow

Instagram: @goldandshadow

Facebook: www.facebook.com/goldandshadow

“With a textured pop-rock sound similar, though piano-less, to their west coast brethren We Are The City, to say Gold & Shadow make powerful music is stating the obvious.” – GrayOwlPoint.com

Winnipeg indie rockers Hearing Trees are set to release their sophomore EP ‘Dear Sahara’ on August 28th and to celebrate, they’re releasing the video for the first single – the frenetic, captivating track ‘Sahara.’ Watch the video here. The band will also embark on a Canadian Tour in support of the EP, starting in Brandon on September 11th and ending back in Winnipeg on October 2nd with an Album Release Show at The West End Cultural Centre. See below for a full listing of tour dates.

Known for incorporating slam-style poetry into performances, Hearing Trees takes you from anxiety-laced post-punk to uplifting sing-along choruses that garner comparisons to Interpol, Matthew Good, R.E.M, and Tragically Hip. Frontman Graham Hnatiuk’s backdrop of reference-filled lyrics grasp the gritty, dry edge of modern life — from Canadian soldiers coming home from the Spanish civil war, to kayaking in the Arctic Circle, through a swath of eclectic shards of culture.

Their sophomore EP, ‘Dear Sahara,’ produced by Michael P Falk (Les Jupes, Head in the Sand) is a marked evolution in maturity for the band. It is also an art project, featuring handwritten lyrics, liner notes and sketches, in singer Hnatiuk’s distinctive style. Through a theme of letter writing, ‘Dear Sahara’ explores uncertainties about relationships, paths in life, and the anxiety of youth; Hnatiuk lives with depression and following a serious episode in 2009, he left school to pursue music, art and writing.

“There is life after a destructive force. Letting the earthquake swallow you is a good way to learn how to dig out,” Hnatiuk explains.

The band released their debut self-titled EP in November 2014 and toured in early 2015, with great showings at the legendary Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto and the Rainbow Bistro in Ottawa. In their short time on the Winnipeg scene, Hearing Trees carved out a reputation for an exciting live show and have opened for prominent local bands such as Mariachi Ghost, Indicator Indicator and Sc Mira.

Hearing Trees is embedded into the Winnipeg arts scene, which includes “Suite 421,” the band’s rehearsal space and custom venue, where up-and-coming artists share the walls and stage for a completely bespoke, 100% local show every few months. Singer Hnatiuk is also involved in the Winnipeg slam poetry community and was a part of the inaugural “Folk’n Word” in Winnipeg, an event pairing musicians with spoken word artists and slam poets for a night of artistic fusion at the West End Cultural Centre. He also regularly publishes poetry, musings about struggles with depression and anxiety, and the occasional non-fiction to the band’s website and tumblr.

Hearing Trees’ new EP ‘Dear Sahara’ will be available online at iTunes and all other digital retailers on Friday, August 28th. Hearing Trees will be touring in support of the EP starting in Brandon on September 11th. Please visit hearingtreesmusic.com for more information and the most up to date tour listings.

HEARING TREES // UPCOMING CANADIAN TOUR DATES

September 11 – Brandon, MB – Double Decker

September 13 – Edmonton, AB – Wunderbar

September 14 – Red Deer, AB – Fratter’s

September 15 – Revelstoke, BC – The Last Drop

September 16 – Kamloops, BC – TBD

September 17 – Vancouver, BC – Seven Dining Lounge

September 21 – Kelowna, BC – Fernando’s

September 22 – Golden, BC – Rockwater

September 23 – Banff, AB – Elk + Oarsman

September 24 – Calgary, AB – Broken City

September 25 – Lethbridge, AB – Owl Acoustic Lounge

September 26 – Regina, SK – TBD

October 2 – Winnipeg, MB – West End Cultural Centre (Album Release party w/ Micah Visser)

HEARING TREES – ‘DEAR SAHARA’ TRACKLISTING

RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 28th, 2015 (INDEPENDENT)

1.  Sahara

2.  Magnetic Moment

3.  Kabloona

4.  Among Giants

September 10, 2015
House Concert

#2- 3105 Thacker Drive
West Kelowna

Doors 7:00 pm — Music 7:30 pm
Tickets are on-sale at
ABC Hobby – Dilworth Drive in Kelowna
(near the BC liquor store) &
the Mad Hatter Bookstore in West Kelowna
($20 cash only please)

or on-line here with paypal

Alberta Songsters Bluebird Bound Tour

The Kelowna Folk Club is very excited to be bringing in such an exciting show as their season opener.
John Wort Hannam and Leeroy Stagger are touring a double bill solo show in BC this fall as they make their way out to perform at Bluebird North in Vancouver.  Both are touring brand new records.

Leeroy Stagger is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter and a Western Canadian Music Award Nominee for “Roots Solo Recording of the Year”. Raised in rural British Columbia, Stagger has garnered an international fan base through relentless touring both home and abroad. Leeroy’s songs have been placed in TV shows Grey’s Anatomy, Sons of Anarchy, Degrassi, and Heartland.  Releasing ten albums in ten years Stagger is already well on his way to joining the likes of John Hiatt, Ryan Adams and John Prine as an ambassador for North American roots rock ‘n’ roll.

John Wort Hannam is a Juno Nominee and a Canadian Folk Music Award Winner who writes and sings lyrically driven acoustic roots music in a style somewhere between contemporary and traditional.  One reviewer said. “John’s songs are woven textiles of metaphor, phrasing, irony, and rhyme that read with ease like well-written prose.”
Another said, “Like Tom Russell, Hannam’s narrative, achingly resilient writing approach hooks the listener immediately. The real deal.” But Sing Out! magazine really summed up John’s writing style when they wrote “Hannam makes the world personal instead of his personal life the world.”

Streaming Cafe is very proud to present Séan McCann of Great Big Sea Saturday, November 7.

Séan McCann, widely known as “the shantyman” of internationally renowned band, Great Big Sea, has spent the last 20 years sailing around the world enamouring audiences from Copenhagen to California. Known as much for his intense sea shanties as his tender ballads, McCann decided it was time to leave the comfort of safer waters and set out on his own for a new shore.

Show at 8pm – Doors at 7pm Adv. tix $25+tx&fees

All ages show | No reserved seating | No ticket refunds or exchanges permitted.

Bottega Farm Inn & Studio is proud to present The Bros. Landreth: Runaway Train Tour with special guest
Donovan Woods

Friday, October 23, 2015
SHOW: 7:00 pm
DOORS: 6:00pm

The Bros. Landreth
http://www.thebroslandreth.com/

The Bros. Landreth earned their first JUNO for their debut, Let It Lie, which won for Roots Traditional Album of the Year in the group category. The band has been on a hot streak, signing with U.S. label Slate Creek Records, winning a Canadian Folk Music Award for best new act, launching a video on CMT, and garnering accolades from international media, including a spot on Rolling Stone’s list of country artist to watch at SXSW

“Leave it to a group of Canadians to dish up some of the best Southern-style blues we wolfed down all weekend. …a quiet storm of slide guitar solos, blue notes, three-part harmonies…” Rolling Stone: 20 Best Things We Saw at Americana Music Fest 2014

Donovan Woods
http://www.donovanwoods.net/ 

With a voice as notable as his lyrics, Donovan Woods is a critically acclaimed and in-demand Canadian recording artist, performer and songwriter. His third record, “Don’t Get Too Grand”, featuring the hit single “Put On Cologne” garnered radio airplay around the world, and was nominated for “Roots & Traditional Album of the Year” at the 2014 Juno Awards. Splitting his time between Nashville and Toronto, Woods’ versatile songs have been recorded by everyone from Canadian indie artists to established stars like Tim McGraw or Alan Doyle (Great Big Sea), and been featured in television shows, major motion pictures and commercials. Piercingly honest and quietly anthemic, Woods sings with a striking sense of the world that produced him – the unsung towns of Canada’s industrial heartland. The result is music that’s transporting, but never loses the dry, self-deprecating humour that has endeared Woods to audiences from the start.

Upcoming Shows from Wet Ape Productions

JP Maurice w/ Mindil Beach & special guests – Sept. 4th
Norm Macdonald – Sept. 11th
Chad VanGaalen – Sept. 17th
Glorious Sons – Oct. 21st
Hawksley Workman – Oct. 28th
Bahamas – Nov. 14th
Paper Kites – Nov. 19th
Harry Manx – Nov. 28th
http://www.wetape.com/events/kelowna/

Other cool upcoming shows:

Dave Matthews Band – Sept. 1st @ Rogers Arena, Vancouver
John Wort Hannam and Leeroy Stagger – Sept. 10th @ House Concert
Foo Fighters, Gary Clark Jr.– Sept. 11th @ Rogers Arena, Vancouver
Ben Harper – Sept. 4th @ Malkin Bowl, Vancouver
Big John Bates – Sept. 19th @ Doc Willoughbys
AC DC – Sept. 22nd @ BC Place, Vancouver
Ron Sexsmith – Sept. 24th at Dream Cafe, Penticton
Ann Vriend & Jory Kinjo – Sept. 26th @ Streaming Cafe
The Tragically Hip – Sept. 27th @ Interior Savings Centre, Kamloops
Tea Party – Sept. 29th at Vernon Performing Arts Centre
The Who with Joan Jett And The Blackhearts – Sept. 29th @ Rogers Arena, Vancouver
Chris Cornell – Sept. 30th @ Orpheum Theater, Vancouver
Neil Young – Oct. 5th @ Rogers Arena, Vancouver
Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band – Oct. 10th @ South Okanagan Events Centre, Penticton
Gang Of Four – Oct. 13th @ Venue, Vancouver
The Pack AD – Oct. 14th @ Habitat
Good Riddance – Oct. 18th @ Doc Willoughbys
The Bros. Landreth and Donovan Woods – Oct. 23rd @ Bottega Farm Inn
Ben Caplan & the Casual Smokers – Oct. 24th @ Streaming Cafe
Barenaked Ladies and Alan Doyle – Oct. 25th @ Prospera Place
Florence + The Machine – Oct. 25th @ Rogers Arena, Vancouver
Big Sugar – Nov. 5th @ Coast Kamloops Theatre Room
Sean McCann (Great Big Sea) – Nov. 7th @ Streaming Cafe
Glen Hansard – Nov. 12th @ Orpheum, Vancouver
Zappa Plays Zappa – Nov. 29th @ Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver

Come join us for 3 great nights of music in Kelowna, BC from August 25-27th. Intimate, interactive shows in the beautiful natural setting of UBCO’s Woodhaven Eco-retreat Center. This concert series will run in conjunction with a youth music camp. All shows start at 7pm and suggested donation is $20. Please email terezatomekmusic@gmail.com to reserve seats. Map to the site and more details at http://www.barefootcaravan.ca/wood-haven-concert-series/

The schedule:

Tuesday, Aug. 25th- RED HAVEN & BLAKE MCANDLESS
Red Haven is raucous. A mixture of folk, swing and roots redesigned with modern, intuitive songwriting. These guys are the best.

Wednesday, Aug. 26th- TEREZA TOMEK & LITTLE LOUDER
“Cryptozoology is the technical term for the study of animals whose existence has not been proven, and the beautiful, sombre stories behind Tomek’s songs come from a mixture of science, reality, and folklore….mixing folk tradition with a love of nature, heart-stirring empathy and scientific vocabulary that comes from her university studies in biology” -HERE Magazine, New Brunswick

Thursday, Aug. 27th- SCOTT COOK & DOUG KOYAMA
Two of the most talented and unique performers we know. This will be a night of magic.

“Scott Cook has distilled his travels down into songs powered by a sharp eye for imagery, a healthy dose of humanity, and that unforgettable voice, that at the same time intones the rigors of the road and the most comfortable couch you have ever slept on.” –David Francey, 3x Juno-winning songwriter

Doug Koyama makes songs about love. Each impromptu composition is the expression of the moment in which it exists.

In support of Derrival‘s new EP ‘Departure & Arrival’ available now ⇆http://derrival.bandcamp.com/album/departure-arrival-ep

______________________

Saturday, August 29th
Fleetwood Public House
Kelowna, BC
______________________

$5 at the door – 9PM