Big Fancy & The Shiddy Cowboys w/ The Burying Ground & Madelyn Read

August 31, 2023

Big Fancy & The Shiddy Cowboys w/ The Burying Ground & Madelyn Read

LIVE at The Wise Hall

1882 Adanac Street

Doors at 7 PM | Music at 8 PM

19+

Tickets $20

~ Big Fancy & The Shiddy Cowboys ~

Big Fancy & The Shiddy Cowboys play the type of music that you might hear in a smoke filled 1950’s Honky Tonk. Singing Steel Guitar, screeching Fiddle and the clicking and thumping of an electric guitar and Doghouse Bass delivering a bare bones dance rhythm. The band focuses on original tunes played the old way with emphasis on love and loss with just enough humour to keep the tears inside. This is Loser Country.

Big Fancy is on tour (Northern BC) joined by Shiddy Cowboys; Woody Forster on steel guitar, Alex Hallbom on upright bass and Sam Pike on fiddle

Music: https://bigfancy.bandcamp.com

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~ The Burying Ground ~

Local Roots, Country Blues & Ragtime band, and old bandmates of Big Fancy's (The Dire Wolves) will kick off the show with some original and traditional tunes.

"There cannot be too many acts around whose principal influences and musical heroes emanate mainly from the first half of the 20th Century, but The Burying Ground is emphatically one of them. Yet they do not merely ape the source material that inspires them: Forster and Laye are devotees that study and absorb it deeply, filtering such as prewar blues, early jazz and American rural folk music traditions into their own lovely material. Punk rockers at heart and previously in actuality, they acutely recognize and hold dear the ‘original punks’ – the Lead Bellys and the Woody Guthries of this world – and reverently project the same spirit of fierce independence." David Morrison, Folk Radio UK

Music: https://theburyingground.bandcamp.com/

Website: www.theburyingground.com

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~ Madelyn Read~

Though she may have spent her whole life in the city, Madelyn’s heart is in the rural tales of folk and country music. Pulling inspiration from artists like I’m with Her, Joni Mitchell, and First Aid Kit, Madelyn blends classic folk instrumentation with lyrics about growing up in Vancouver to create a unique alt-country sound. Her debut album, "Concrete Country”, does just this, telling thought-provoking tales of city life accompanied by fiddle, pedal steel, and three-part harmony.

*solo performance

website: www.madelynread.com

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