Blue Moon Marquee at Mills Hardware

Blue Moon Marquee writes and performs original compositions influenced by anything that swings, jumps or grooves. A.W. Cardinal (vocals/guitar) and Jasmine Colette a.k.a. Badlands Jass (vocals/bass/drums) have played for a vast gamut of crowds at jazz clubs, Lindy Hop dance halls, folk venues, blues haunts, hospitals, prisons, markets, motorcycle joints, dive bars and prestigious festival stages. Colette not only commands the upright bass but also brings the rhythm with her feet on a custom foot drum kit, all while singing in her signature honey-dipped tone. Cardinal’s distinctive and soulful vocals barrel out like a raging bull while his guitar crackles with the swinging energy of jazz-tinged blues. The result of nine years of rigorous touring, crisscrossing Europe and North America, is a distinct energy and style from this acclaimed duo. Carving a path through blues, jazz, jump jive, folk, country, swing, and Indigenous soul with an authentic spirit, their sound does not idle easily in one certain category. It stomps and struts through the wilds, conjuring a blend where Howlin’ Wolf tangos with Django, Earnest Tubb shoots firecrackers with Cab Calloway, and Memphis Minnie throws dice with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. Their gift is bringing all these elements together without anything sounding out of step. They collect the roots and smoothly braid them with lyrics that often touch on the underbelly of society, woven with elements of Indigenous storytelling and poetic cadence. Unbound by genre or era, Blue Moon Marquee has an edge that demands you take notice. With an authentic mixture of tempo, melody and imagery, they are timeless artists perfect for this time. Their album, Scream, Holler & Howl, co-produced with Duke Robillard (Fabulous Thunderbirds, Roomful of Blues), was honoured with a JUNO Award for Blues Album of the Year, the Blues Foundation’s Emerging Artist of the Year nomination and swept the Maple Blues Awards (Canada’s highest honour in Blues) with four coveted wins. The album has also topped the charts in the US and Canada achieving #1 on the !Earshot National Folk/Roots/Blues chart, #6 on the International NACC Radio Chart and #8 on the coveted Living Blues Radio Chart. Since then, their 2024 release New Orleans Sessions was also nominated by both the JUNOS and Western Canadian Music Awards for Blues Album of the Year. Their latest album, a collaboration with Powwow drumming and singing group Northern Cree, (also known as Northern Cree Singers) called Get Your Feathers Ready, dropped October 24, 2025. The unique collaboration blends Powwow with the Blues like we’ve never heard before and was inspried by the influence of Indigenous peoples on North American music.
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$20+ FEES in ADVANCE
19+ | LICENSED | DOORS at 7PM
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