Breaking the Ice With Mama’s Broke, John Wort Hannam, and Reckless Burning!

Name: Breaking the Ice With Mama’s Broke, John Wort Hannam, and Reckless Burning!
Start: 2025-02-05T19:30:00-08:00
Location: Knox Performance Centre

Schedule

Wed, 05 Feb, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Knox Performance Centre | Prince George, BC

We kick off Coldsnap with an unforgettable evening of authentic folk and roots music, where soulful melodies and heartfelt lyrics resonate. Rich storytelling and emotive performances take center stage, captivating audiences with songs that touch on life’s raw truths. Expect a blend of haunting harmonies and traditional influences that create a powerful and stirring atmosphere. This is a night filled with compelling narratives and stirring tunes that will linger long after the final note.

Mama’s Broke
Mama's Broke is a powerful duo that deliver a compelling performance with heart and raw energy. Although highly influenced by their Canadian roots, Lisa and Amy are based out of nowhere and everywhere.
Their two strong voices blend to create haunting harmonies, while they artfully juggle fiddle, banjo, guitar and mandolin, and incorporate traditional dance and foot percussion into their performance. Their original -and often dark- compositions push the boundaries of tradition and the constraints of genre. Drawing from old-time, Quebecois, blues, punk, celtic, balkan and doom metal, they create a soundscape that is both familiar and new.
John Wort Hannam
John Wort Hannam has been on his folk and roots-fueled troubadour journey for two decades, spinning song writing gold from the chaff of the lives he has encountered and those within his fertile imagination. Twenty-two years in, he shows no sign of slowing down. In fact, he’s gaining both momentum and a wider audience, winning two 2023 Canadian Folk Music Awards for Solo Artist of the Year and Contemporary Album of the Year. Add to this a Juno Award nomination, a Kerrville New Folk Win, a previous Canadian Folk Music Award, and it’s easy to see why audiences and critics alike hear something special in his narrative and lyrically driven songs. Effortlessly mixing rich and clear timbered vocals with lyrics that tug at the heart, his sound is both unique and familiar.
Reckless Burning
Reckless Burning is a band rooted in a rare alchemy: five distinct and celebrated musicians and songwriters joining forces and drawing inspiration from the stolen, unceded territory of the Lheidli T’enneh in Northern British Columbia. Driven by an impassioned commitment to social justice, this group uses music as both an outlet and an antidote to the wild horrors plaguing the world. Each dedicated to their own craft, together they create and share songs filled with beauty, pain, politics, and love. Refusing to be defined, labeled, or directed, these friends make music that makes sense of the times.