Adam Baldwin + Terra Spencer at Wilmot United Church SOLD OUT
Schedule
Fri, 24 Jan, 2025 at 08:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Wilmot United Church | Fredericton, NB
Adam Baldwin + Terra Spencer at Wilmot United ChurchDoors 7pm / Show 8pm
All Ages
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With his sophomore full-length, Concertos & Serenades, Adam Baldwin - born and raised “inside these imaginary lines” that denote Nova Scotia - offers an east coast testimony that challenges the typical tourism marketing gloss. Through eight masterful yarns, the songwriter bears witness and pays tribute to a tradition of desperation: sinners and losers, perpetual failures, and down-and-out phantoms that haunt his home’s coastlines and back roads - without a passing judgement. Some of the tales happened, some didn’t, and most walk a tightrope between truth and fiction. “I feel like a lot of these stories just kinda flew in on the west wind off Porter's Lake or off the Atlantic Ocean here,” Baldwin says. “And there's a lot of stories to be told. Just from livin' out here, some of the people you meet - there're some hard, hard men and women out here who worked their asses off out on the ocean for decades. They're different types of people, man, and they’ve got different stories to tell, and I felt like they'd been left out of our song writing tradition for a few years.” In Baldwin’s voice - salty with the flavour of a dialect he comes by honestly - those stories are done justice. The uneasy folk of “Causeway Road” strums out a family fishing tragedy and Danny Fingers’ subsequent botched revenge; a ghost calls out to his wife from the bottom of a collapsed Springhill mine on the gossamer “No. 2 Colliery;” and across the water, a soldier reflects in the lonesome “A Plea to St. Peter.” It’s not all sorrow and tragedy, but no one’s winning the lottery, either - unless you count getting lucky, like the gas jockey on the upbeat “Gerald Burgess RaceTrac Full Serve Autobody,” or nearly outrunning the cops, post-stickup on the rollicking “Good Gracious.” In the shadowy “Gone to the Dogs,” Baldwin tells the story of a kid forsaken by God not once but twice. And with the dreamy “Lighthouse in Little Lorraine,” he weaves an epic of drugs, betrayal, and murder at the edge of Cape Breton. As the protagonist and his sauced crew get booted from a church hall dance, you can almost hear “The Mull River Shuffle” float out the door, too - the other side of being, “halfway through a bottle of moonshine, getting all fired up.”
Bad ideas, VCRs, crumbling factories, terrible therapists, hairy dogs, wrinkled shirts, French fries, questionable tattoos...all are fair game for Nova Scotian funeral director-turned-songwriter Terra Spencer. And the songs are good ones, judging from the stack of awards her three albums have received and from the caliber of collaborators like Ben Caplan, Dave Gunning, and David Francey, who welcomed Terra as a co-writer and performer on his JUNO-winning album The Breath Between. Terra has just released her fourth solo album, 'Sunset', which she will be touring across Canada in 2024/25 with her first US dates. Its dozen songs feature guests from East to West - Matt Andersen, The Bombadils, Ryan Cook, Ian Sherwood, Pillow Fite, and Stephen Fearing. Her duet with Stewart Legere called "Brick and Mortar" was named the winner of the Commonwealth Song Contest out of 20,000 entries. Although her butterscotch voice, deft fingerstyle guitar, and gospel-charged piano make her a formidable musician, it's her onstage ease and crackling homespun wit that make each show feel like a knee-to-knee conversation in a room of 5 or 500. “The real deal.” - Ron Sexsmith
Where is it happening?
Wilmot United Church, 473 Rue King, Fredericton, NB E3B, Canada,Fredericton, New Brunswick
