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Brock Zeman at The Sunset Saloon Oct. 27, 2019!

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Brock Zeman w/Blair Hogan

(www.brockzeman.com/)

Sunday, October 27, 2019
7:30 pm

Suggested donation $15-20 (price flexible, all proceeds to the artists)

NEW! Advanced tickets and online RSVP are now available via Eventbrite. You will always be able to pay in cash at the event as usual, but this provides a new opportunity that may be convenient to some attendees. Eventbrite charges a small fee for the service, but it’s been kept as low as possible.

GET TICKETS AND RSVP HERE

If you wish, bring a drink for yourself, and/or a snack to share, but we’ve always got plenty of all of those on hand!

All are welcome (bring the kids, friends, family, people off the street, whatever)! Our house is family friendly (we’ve got 3 kids and plenty of room, so feel free to bring the family), easy-going, friendly, and open to all! If you don’t know us yet, come on down and make some new friends!

The Sunset Saloon is a house concert venue in Westwood (near the YMCA on Portage.) We’re open to all. Feel free to pass along the event info, bring friends, bring your kids (our kids will thank you), or just come by yourself and make some new friends! Admission is by donation, which goes directly to the artists. Most folks pay $20, but any hard-working performer wouldn’t turn down more and will take whatever amount is comfortable for you to give.

Please RSVP for the address and more information!

Questions? RSVP? Fill out the contact form below! Forward this to a friend!

Can you believe that it’s been 4 years since Brock & Blair played The Sunset Saloon?! Seems insane to me, but we’ve loaned them out to other venues a couple of times over the years. After a well deserved break from touring, Brock & Blair are back heading down the Trans Canada Highway and hitting all of their favourite spots along the way, including The Sunset Saloon!

They’ve already played here FIVE times (Blair has played here SIX times, including a show alongside Jim Bryson!) and they continue to be among our most demanded artists. They also happen to be high among our all-time favourites. The always prolific Zeman actually hasn’t put out a new album since the long-awaited Carnival album in 2017, but he’s ready with another one and has one more on the go! We’ll get to hear plenty of new material as well as many of our old favourites when they return back home to The Sunset Saloon on October 27!

We recommend & request getting on the guest list soon!

Mayhemingways at The Sunset Saloon, Oct. 10, 2019!

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The boys are back for show #5!

Mayhemingways

(https://mayhemingways.wordpress.com/)

Thursday, October 10, 2019
7:30 pm

Suggested donation $15-20 (price flexible, all proceeds to the artists)

NEW! Advanced tickets and online RSVP are now available via Eventbrite. You will always be able to pay in cash at the event as usual, but this provides a new opportunity that may be convenient to some attendees. Eventbrite charges a small fee for the service, but it’s been kept as low as possible.

If you do wish to attend, your seat is not 100% confirmed until you either pay online OR sign up for a FREE RSVP “ticket.” Clicking “GOING” on Facebook means nothing to most people, so I never consider that a confirmation.

GET TICKETS AND RSVP HERE

If you wish, bring a drink for yourself, and/or a snack to share, but we’ve always got plenty of all of those on hand!

All are welcome (bring the kids, friends, family, people off the street, whatever)! Our house is family friendly (we’ve got 3 kids and plenty of room, so feel free to bring the family), easy-going, friendly, and open to all! If you don’t know us yet, come on down and make some new friends!

The Sunset Saloon is a house concert venue in Westwood (near the YMCA on Portage.) We’re open to all. Feel free to pass along the event info, bring friends, bring your kids (our kids will thank you), or just come by yourself and make some new friends! Admission is by donation, which goes directly to the artists. Most folks pay $20, but any hard-working performer wouldn’t turn down more and will take whatever amount is comfortable for you to give.

Please RSVP for the address and more information!

Questions? RSVP? Fill out the contact form below! Forward this to a friend!

Benj Rowland & Josh Fewings make some mighty magical music together. They call it Fuzz-Folk, which is kind of a blend of rock, folk, some blues, some Celtic, and a whole lot of magic. They first appeared at The Sunset Saloon in 2015 and have been back every year since, and we hope they keep coming for the rest of their lives!

Together they’ve released an EP (Mayhemingways, 2014), and full length albums Hunter St. Blues (2016) and Skip Land (2018.) All are filled with some of the most original and entertaining, toe-tapping, get up and shake your booty or sit back and groove tunes you’ll ever hear.

Mayhemingways will also be appearing in Winnipeg on September 26 at Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club!

 

Fringe Festival Favourite Paul Strickland at The Sunset Saloon July 29!

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The Sunset Saloon presents Big Laughs & Big Fun with:Paul Strickland

(www.ainttrue.com/)

Monday, July 29, 2019
7:30 pm

Suggested donation $20 (price flexible, all proceeds to the artist)

If you wish, bring a drink for yourself, and/or a snack to share, but we’ve always got plenty of all of those on hand!

All are welcome (bring the kids, friends, family, people off the street, whatever)! Our house is family friendly (we’ve got 3 kids and plenty of room, so feel free to bring the family), easy-going, friendly, and open to all! If you don’t know us yet, come on down and make some new friends!

The Sunset Saloon is a house concert venue in Westwood (near the YMCA on Portage.) We’re open to all. Feel free to pass along the event info, bring friends, bring your kids (our kids will thank you), or just come by yourself and make some new friends! Admission is by donation, which goes directly to the artists. Most folks pay $20, but any hard-working performer wouldn’t turn down more and will take whatever is comfortable for you to give.

Please RSVP for the address and more information!

Questions? RSVP? Fill out the contact form below! Forward this to a friend!

“An hour spent with master storyteller Paul Strickland is an hour well spent and one which you shouldn’t miss.” – Cincinnati Enquirer

During the summer of 2015 we were lucky enough to host a very special show for our good friend Corin Raymond, who was in town for The Winnipeg Fringe Festival, where he performed his powerful one-man-show Bookworm, then performed a set of amazing songs. It was a different format from the all-music shows that we’d done in the past (and since) but it was a really nice change of pace and something that we’ve often thought about trying again.

That same night, we were introduced to fellow Fringe performers Paul Strickland and Erika Kate MacDonald. They stayed long after most of the audience had left and swapped hilarious songs and stories with Corin and Andrew Neville, and it was wonderfully entertaining.

Paul was in town at that time for his almost-entirely-sold-out run of a highly acclaimed show called Ain’t True and Uncle False, which the Winnipeg Free Press gave 5/5 stars. Since then he’s gone on to produce other wonderful and highly acclaimed shows like Papa Squat (review), Balls of Yarns (review), and last year’s wonderful, collaborative Tales Too Tall for Trailers (review). Each show has been hilarious, entertaining, and almost always sold out with universal rave reviews. And every time we see Paul and Erika we suggest that we should hang out and let people hear some of the magic that happened after-hours in 2015.

And here we are!

Paul and Erika are at this year’s Winnipeg Fringe Festival July 18-28 with a show called 13 Dead Dreams of Eugene: (www.winnipegfringe.com/performer-detail.aspx?kw=Theatre+Mobile)

X-Files meets the Twilight Zone…
in the dark!

This award-winning shadow and flashlight reenactment of nightmares won “Best Show” at the Orlando International Fringe Festival in May 2018 and ran OFF-BROADWAY in November of 2018.

After that show wraps, they’re going to stick around for an extra day and put on a special, intimate evening of songs & stories exclusively at The Sunset Saloon!

You won’t see a show quite like this at The Fringe Festival, any other house concert or any other festival anywhere! This is a special opportunity, and once we start telling people at the festival about it, I’d bet that we’ll fill the place in no time. We’d rather fill the room with our friends and supporters, though, so get on the list as soon as you can to avoid being left out!

Please RSVP to confirm your seat ASAP! Advance tickets may be sold during the Fringe Festival, and those who have confirmed and/or pre-paid will be given priority access to ensure the best possible outcome for the performers.

“Paul Strickland is a nice combination of Gamble Rogers, Kevin Kling and Willy Claflin. He’s got a whole bunch of tall tale type stories from his fictional trailer park  with a whole host of quirky, sweet, smart, and hilarious characters.” – Bil Lepp

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NEW DATE: Ben de la Cour at The Sunset Saloon, Friday, January 27, 2019!

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Tell the Band to Go Home proudly presents:Ben de la Cour
at The Sunset Saloon (house concert in Westwood)
Sunday, January 27, 2019
7:30
Suggested donation $20 (price flexible, all proceeds to the artist)

If you wish, bring a drink for yourself, and/or a snack to share, but we’ve always got plenty of all of those on hand!

All are welcome (bring the kids, friends, family, people off the street, whatever)! Our house is family friendly (we’ve got 3 kids, a trampoline, and plenty of room, so feel free to bring the family), easy-going, friendly, and open to all! If you don’t know us yet, come on down and make some new friends!

The Sunset Saloon is a house concert venue in Westwood (near the YMCA on Portage.) We’re open to all. Feel free to pass along the event info, bring friends, bring your kids (our kids will thank you), or just come by yourself and make some new friends! Admission is by donation, which goes directly to the artists. Most folks pay $20, but any hard-working musician wouldn’t turn down more and will take whatever is comfortable for you to give.

Please RSVP for the address and more information!

Questions? RSVP? Fill out the contact form below! Forward this to a friend!When Ben first stopped by the Saloon in 2017, we didn’t know a whole lot about him other than that he came highly recommended. We found out really quickly why. He is the sweetest, most wonderful gentleman, and he writes some astounding songs. His last album, Midnight in Havana, was a real revelation and continues to be a mainstay on our stereo, and this year, he released The High Cost of Living Strange, which upped the ante substantially! It is rightly landing on a bunch of Best Of 2018 lists (including ours, of course), and has garnered widespread acclaim and recognition, and has earned him a lot of new fans.

With an album still relatively new, it seemed somewhat surprising that he was ready to record a new one already, and especially surprising that he’d leave his home of Nashville, TN, you know, Music City, and choose to come record an album here in Winnipeg, with none other than Scott Nolan, in the midst of our winter! Nashville is home to undoubtedly the greatest studios and producers on the planet, and, oh yeah, it’s WARM year-round! So to come to Winnipeg in the winter to record an album proves that Ben is either absolutely insane or has great faith in Scott and his studio. (Personally, I’m betting it’s a bit of both, but he swears it’s just the latter.)

“Biting wit and heartbreaking honesty.”

– ROOTS MUSIC CANADA

”Strange fever dreams of bad luck gone right, of embracing the long odds and playing them anyway, of laughing in the face of despair… and then inviting her in for a nightcap.”

THE BLUEGRASS SITUATION

“In songs like “Guy Clark’s Fiddle”, Ben writes about wounds that don’t heal, about the things in life that can’t really be put back together again. He is able to write about these often unspoken, painful, and tarnished events in a way that is deep and profoundly beautiful.”

– ADAM CARROLL (Texas Songwriting Legend)

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Tony Furtado & Luke Price at The Sunset Saloon, Sept. 19!

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Tell the Band to Go Home & The Sunset Saloon proudly present:

Tony Furtado w/Luke Price (tonyfurtado.com/)
at The Sunset Saloon (house concert in Westwood)
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
7:30
Suggested donation $25 or more (price flexible, all proceeds to this amazing duo!)

If you wish, bring a drink for yourself, and/or a snack to share, but we’ve always got plenty of all of those on hand!

All are welcome (bring the kids, friends, family, people off the street, whatever)! Our house is family friendly (we’ve got 3 kids, a trampoline, and plenty of room, so feel free to bring the family), easy-going, friendly, and open to all! If you don’t know us yet, come on down and make some new friends!

The Sunset Saloon is a house concert venue in Westwood (near the YMCA on Portage.) We’re open to all. Feel free to pass along the event info, bring friends, bring your kids (our kids will thank you), or just come by yourself and make some new friends! Admission is by donation, which goes directly to the artists. Most folks pay $20, but these hard working guys wouldn’t turn down more.

Please RSVP for the address and more information!

Questions? RSVP? Fill out the contact form below! Forward this to a friend!

One of the most amazing and acclaimed musicians to ever step into the Saloon is BACK, and this time, he’s got some incredible accompaniment in the form of three time National Fiddle Champion Luke Price!

Tony has been asked to play on diverse albums by Alison Krauss, The String Cheese Incident, Michelle Shocked, Aoife O’Donovan, and, uh, Billy Ray Cyrus. (We’ll have to ask him about that one and see if he can play Achy Breaky Heart for us. Or maybe not.)

Tony is a giant in the folk, bluegrass, blues,americana, and various other musical communities. This is his ONLY Canadian stop. A few days after he plays here, he goes on to headline the renowned Cedar Cultural Centre in Minneapolis. He’ll sell hundreds of tickets in that big room. And he’s bringing a hotshot fiddle player. This one’s special. We’re going to ask you to dig a little deeper and suggest a $25 minimum donation. To be honest, we’re hoping a few generous souls might think it’s worth a little more. We understand that for some, $20 or less might be your best offer. We’ll take ’em all, just be here!

If you were lucky enough to witness Tony’s 2016 show at The Saloon, well, I shouldn’t have to say another word. If you weren’t here then, correct your past mistakes and get on the list this time!

A bit of the official bio:

Tony Furtado is a major musical force without a doubt. He has his black-belt in voice and bottleneck guitar and his banjo playing scares the crap out of me.”

– David Lindley, musical adventurer

Very few musicians of any stripe so personify a musical genre as completely as Tony Furtado embodies Americana roots music. Tony is an evocative and soulful singer, a wide-ranging songwriter and a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist adept on banjo, cello-banjo, slide guitar and baritone ukulele who mixes and matches sounds and styles with the flair of a master chef (he’s also an accomplished sculptor, but that’s another story). All of the music of America is in Tony’s music. Relix hit the nail on the head when writing of Tony: “True talent doesn’t need categories.”

Tony’s latest release:

Colleen Brown @ The Sunset Saloon, Feb. 23!

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Tell the Band to Go Home & The Sunset Saloon proudly present:
Colleen Brown w/Elijah Abrams (of Major Love) at The Sunset Saloon
(house concert in Westwood)
Friday, February 23, 2018
8:00
Suggested donation $20-25 (all proceeds to the artists)

If you wish, bring a drink for yourself, and/or a snack to share, but we’ve always got plenty of all of those on hand!

All are welcome (bring the kids, friends, family, people off the street, whatever)! Our house is family friendly (we’ve got 3 kids, a trampoline, and plenty of room, so feel free to bring the family), easy-going, friendly, and open to all! If you don’t know us yet, come on down and make some new friends!

The Sunset Saloon is a house concert venue in Westwood (near the YMCA on Portage.) We’re open to all. Feel free to pass along the event info, bring friends, bring your kids (our kids will thank you), or just come by yourself and make some new friends! Admission is by donation, which goes directly to the artists.

Please RSVP for the address and more information!

Questions? RSVP? Fill out the contact form below! Forward this to a friend!

Colleen (along with her constant companion/partner/accompanist Elijah Abrams) was a late, surprise addition to the “On a Western Swing” Tour, featuring Luther Wright & Rueben de Groot, which we were lucky enough to host at The Saloon in November of 2016. After that, Rueben & Colleen played a stellar show at The West End Cultural Centre on the way home. You may have caught Colleen at the 2017 Interstellar Rodeo backing up Sarah Slean or doing her own interlude set. If you’ve seen her, surely you adore her.

If you haven’t had the pleasure, GET ON IT NOW! 2018 is poised to be a BIG year. Later this year, Colleen and Eli will release an eagerly anticipated album under the name Major Love, which is a band made up of hot indie pop/rock trio Scenic Route to Alaska, up-and-coming singer/songwriter Jesse Northey of Jesse & The Dandelions, and in-demand pedal steel mater/producer Aaron Goldstein. There’s some MAJOR attention circling Major Love, with a major release and a major tour later this year.

At this intimate duo show, we’ll surely hear a bunch of songs off of that record, as well as songs from Colleen’s previous releases, which include 4 full length albums and 2 EPs, including last year’s stellar Seasons are Circling, which included one of the most gorgeous songs of the year, I Can’t Wrap My Heart Around It.

Maybe you remember Colleen’s big breakthrough single, Love You Baby, which still gets a lot of play on CBC Radio and other outlets.

If you’re lucky, your life has been blessed by this song already!:

Let’s not forget about Elijah Abrams! Besides being an in-demand multi-instrumentalist, known for backing up Colleen, Oh Susanna, Rocket Surgery, and many others, Eli grew up on stage alongside his cousins The Abrams Brothers. Together, they toured the world, were the youngest Canadians to ever play The Grand Ol’ Opry, and won a bunch of awards. The guy’s no slouch.

Please join us for what’s sure to be a wonderful night of music! Your support helps keep musicians on the road and events like these happening!

And don’t forget, we’ve also got another exciting event in February:

Oh Susanna

February 4, 7:30 pm @ The Sunset Saloon
Event info: http://tellthebandtogohome.com/2017/12/12/oh-susanna-sunset-saloon-feb-4/

February 5, 7:30 pm @ The StuDome (RSVP: stureid@shaw.ca)
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1536869346409498/

And speaking of house concerts!


Please join the new Winnipeg House Concerts Facebook Group!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/554601468209276/
If you know anyone else who hosts or might want to attend house concerts in Winnipeg, we’d love to get to know them!

Thanks for reading! We welcome your feedback, and we’d sure love to know if you can make it out to one of these shows!

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TTBTGH/Second Chance Saloon Email Lists!

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If you’d like updates, you are encouraged to join the official email list for both Tell the Band to Go Home and The Second Chance Saloon!

If you want to get on board, fill out the form below. We hardly ever email you, but when we do, it’s because there’s something that you should know. The list will never, ever be used for anything other than emailing you info about the topics that you choose.

Joining and unsubscribing are easy and can be done without any kind of help or interference from me. Of course, if you need help with either or just want to say hello, you can still drop me a line, but feel free to come and go from the list as you please!

NOTE: these are emails, not posts to this site that you’ll be receiving. As always, if you want to know when something new appears on this site, you can fill in the form right near the bottom of the column to your left!

You can choose to just get emails about one of three topics. If we’ve got a message that suits everyone, it’ll go to the full list, but occasionally emails are just about one topic or another, so choose whether you want specific topics or the whole meal deal.

Thanks for joining/remaining!

 

 

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We don’t use this list very often, so when I get around to it, it’s because I think I’ve got something you might want to hear about.

Oh Susanna @ The Sunset Saloon, Feb. 4!

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Oh Susanna at The Sunset Saloon (house concert in Westwood)
Sunday, February 4, 2018
7:30
Suggested donation $25 (all proceeds to the artist)

Advance tickets are available (and encouraged!) Fill out the contact form at the bottom of the page to get your hands on some. They make GREAT Christmas gifts!

Oh Susanna will also be performing the next night in Winnipeg at The StuDome in Crescentwood. Good-hearted music lovers will surely want to see both. Suzie’s got more than enough great songs to fill two nights, so we bet that there will be some of your favourites at each show, with perhaps a bit of overlap. RSVP to that one by emailing Ol’ Pal Stu: stureid@shaw.ca

If you wish, bring a drink for yourself, and/or a snack to share, but we’ve always got plenty of all of those on hand!

All are welcome (bring the kids, friends, family, people off the street, whatever)! Our house is family friendly (we’ve got 3 kids, a trampoline, and plenty of room, so feel free to bring the family), easy-going, friendly, and open to all! If you don’t know us yet, come on down and make some new friends!

The Sunset Saloon is a house concert venue in Westwood (near the YMCA on Portage.) We’re open to all. Feel free to pass along the event info, bring friends, bring your kids (our kids will thank you), or just come by yourself and make some new friends! Admission is by donation, which goes directly to the artists.

Please RSVP for the address and more information!

Questions? RSVP? Fill out the contact form below! Forward this to a friend!

Most of the folks who play at The Sunset Saloon just happen to be passing through town and are in need of a welcoming place to play. On rare occasions, we reach out to our favourites in hopes that they might consider making the trek to Winnipeg just to play for us. The latter is the case with this show, featuring one of the country’s finest songwriters and an amazingly intriguing performer. She also happens to be a real sweetheart and a longtime friend. Suzie is special all-around, and it’s a rare treat to see her in an intimate house concert environment.

You can catch Oh Susanna pretty regularly in town playing festivals and bigger stages, but up close and personal is definitely the way to go. Her thoughtful, detailed, powerful songs are best experienced in a quiet, comfortable room full of like-minded folks ready to be swept away. This will be a special night, and one that you do not want to miss!

Of course, it helps that Suzie is touring on the strength of one of the most acclaimed and amazing releases of 2017. Already she’s been nominated for has earned three Canadian Folk Music Award nominations: English Songwriter of the Year, Contemporary Singer of the Year, and Producer of the Year.

“A Girl in Teen City” is an exquisite song cycle set in 1980s Vancouver, represents a second coming for the rootsy Toronto-based songstress…..her thoughtful and tuneful coming-of-age is universal.” — The Globe and Mail

“A Girl in Teen City” is a gorgeous piece of work. There’s something here for anyone who appreciates the art of songwriting and great musicianship. I haven’t heard a better, or more complete, album this year so far.”
Rating: 5 stars — MusicRiot.co.uk

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Ben de la Cour at The Sunset Saloon, Tuesday, November 28, 2017!

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Tell the Band to Go Home  proudly presents:

Ben de la Cour
at The Sunset Saloon (house concert in Westwood)
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
7:30
Suggested donation $15-20 (price flexible, all proceeds to the artist)

If you wish, bring a drink for yourself, and/or a snack to share, but we’ve always got plenty of all of those on hand!

All are welcome (bring the kids, friends, family, people off the street, whatever)! Our house is family friendly (we’ve got 3 kids, a trampoline, and plenty of room, so feel free to bring the family), easy-going, friendly, and open to all! If you don’t know us yet, come on down and make some new friends!

The Sunset Saloon is a house concert venue in Westwood (near the YMCA on Portage.) We’re open to all. Feel free to pass along the event info, bring friends, bring your kids (our kids will thank you), or just come by yourself and make some new friends! Admission is by donation, which goes directly to the artists. Most folks pay $20, but any hard-working musician wouldn’t turn down more and will take whatever is comfortable for you to give.

Please RSVP for the address and more information!

Questions? RSVP? Fill out the contact form below! Forward this to a friend!

I get requests all the time from people wanting to play at The Sunset Saloon. Most of them, especially artists that are completely new & unknown to me (and presumably everyone else in town) get turned down. But this one came from a reliable source, Sunset Saloon mainstay, Brock Zeman. He knows what I like, and when he first came across Ben de la Cour in Nashville, he knew that this guy was something special, and knew that we’d be interested.

Boy, was he right! More out of courtesy to Brock than anything, I gave Ben’s newest album, Midnight in Havana a listen. It didn’t take long for this to turn from a friendly courtesy into an obsession. Here, have a listen to one of my favourites and see what I mean:

and watch this:

Zeman tells me “He’s oddly energetic on stage as well. He is really something. I heard him with a full band at Americana fest in Nashville and he was all over the stage. Really interesting stage presence.”

One of the best albums I’ve heard from 2016 and high praise from Brock Zeman? Sold! We’re really looking forward to this one!

If you want to know more about Ben, here’s some official bio praise:
Ben de la Cour has lived a different kind of life. After growing up in Brooklyn, he set out to see the world as an amateur boxer, bartender, janitor and agricultural worker in Havana, London, Los Angeles and New Orleans before settling in Nashville. Influenced as much by giants such as Townes Van Zandt and Warren Zevon as by Nick Cave and The Gun Club, Ben de la Cour has managed to meld all of these influences into a uniquely modern, haunting and sometimes darkly humorous sound that is all his own.

“Ben de la Cour’s songs are brimming with urgent authenticity. There is thematic hardness and vulnerability throughout, but what distinguishes de la Cour’s songs from lesser guitar-and-anguished-vocals hacks is the raw humanity of his delivery and the potency of his way with words.”
(No Depression)

In 2016 Ben de la Cour won the prestigious Kerrville New Folk Competition and released ‘Midnight in Havana’, eleven tightly crafted songs of what he refers to as “Americanoir”. Tales of substance abuse, murder and mental illness sit in perfect juxtaposition with occasional moments of playful lightheartedness and the ever-present glimmer of hope. However, upon closer inspection, darkness almost always wins…an unlikely hero, but one that suits de la Cour.

“Gruff but well-read, quiet but dancing circles on one heel in the kitchen, Ben de la Cour is the enigma, the lone picker, the troubadour, the drifter, the one man band. He is a revitalizing force, providing the songwriting world with the honesty and emotion, the wisdom and history that is usually lost on singers trying to write the next beer can-blue jean hit.”
(American Music Project)

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The Tell the Band to Go Home Pledge-O-Rama Spectacular, This Sunday!

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UMFM’s 6th annual Pledge-O-Rama starts TONIGHT! Each year we look to listeners to help cover some of the monumental costs of running a radio station that is not beholden to major advertisers. The costs are huge but we think the benefits of having the station are huge. We’d love for you to help us out:
http://tellthebandtogohome.com/music-angels/
http://www.umfm.com/events/pledge/
https://www.umfm.com/info/donate/
This Sunday, Tell the Band to Go Home ramps up our efforts to once again raise at least $3000 toward the overall goal of $34,000. It feels like a bit of an uphill climb this year, so we could sure use your support.
We always try to bring in some big guns to help, and this year, we’ve got a number lined up, and more possibly will be added!
We’ll catch up with TTBTGH favourite & friend Christina Martin! She’s hard at work on a new album. We’ll hear the first single and find out what she’s been up to. We may even have some long-distance live music! http://christinamartin.net/
Live in-studio:
Another TTBTGH longtime friend who’s been away for a while, JP Hoe! He just announced his annual Ho Ho Ho Holiday Show, so we’ll find out more about that holiday tradition. He has a longstanding tradition of debuting new songs on the show, but it’s been quite some time. Hopefully he’s got something in his pocket to pull out! http://www.jphoe.com/
And, flying in all the way from Toronto for the show, Jay Aymar! OK, so maybe he’s in town for other reasons, but he’s taking time out of his visit to stop by the studio and play us some songs from his upcoming new album! https://jayaymar.com/
And, we just got word that our good friend Gail has some family matters to tend to this weekend, so we’ll be manning the counter at The Comfort Cafe, and to do it, we’ve welcomed an old friend of Gail’s and mine, Oh Susanna to give us a call and let us know about her show next Saturday at Times Change(d)! https://www.ohsusanna.com/
That’s a lot of talent doing their part to help the station in our time of need, now it’s your turn! We sure love hearing from our listeners. No donation is too small (or too big!) and there’s a convenient payment plan and various options to help make things easy.
We’ll be rolling out our 15th annual Best Of compilation soon, and the only way to get in on the fun is to pledge your support! Please help us out today.
And don’t forget that I have a big box of exclusive prizes to give away on my show. The full list can be found at my website. Pledge and pick your prize soon! It’s truly first-come, first served! http://tellthebandtogohome.com/music-angels/
Gail has some pretty nifty prizes for us to enter to win as well. She’s got 2 tickets to see The Skydiggers on November 15 AND it comes with a $50 gift certificate for Sorrentos to enjoy dinner before the show – That’s a $110 prize package! She’s also got a pair of tickets for Steve Bell‘s Christmas show with the symphony on December 12. You can get in one of the draws with a $25 pledge.
Thanks for supporting great music! Your attendance at The Sunset Saloon and your support of UMFM & Tell the Band to Go Home are so very greatly appreciated!