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2017 - Unfurling a Banner Year for Canada - and The Rogue!!
Thursday January 12, 2017

Tower of Song is a duo -- Oliver Swain and Glenna Garramone -- based in Victoria, who re-imagine and interpret the songs of Leonard Cohen, as well as present original material. They will be joined by special guest Marin Patenaude, another star of the recent Cohen Celebration at The Rio.

Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Elizabeth Laprelle are historians, storytellers, visual artists, and gifted, intuitive musicians. In combination, theirs is a groundbreaking approach to Old Time music - accentuated by home made puppets and rolling cloth and paper story screens, called crankies (19th century multimedia from Appalachia!)

Starman is an acoustic evening of David Bowie Songs, presented in a songwriters-in-the-round format, with lead vocals split evenly among band members. Doug Cox has recruited a solid cast of professional musicians, including Linda McRae, Steve Dawson, Helen Austin, Sam Hurrie, Robin Layne, and Rick May. 

"Two Cajuns and an old time stringband walk into a bar…” Spanning generations from across the nation the Cajun Country Revival is a veritable supergroup of American roots musicians comprised of Cajun musicians Jesse Lége and Joel Savoy & Portland's Foghorn Stringband. 

Alasdair Fraser, long regarded as one of Scotlandís premier fiddle ambassadors, and the sizzlingly-talented young Quebec-based cellist Natalie Haas are about to launch their 5th album. The concert will be preceded by a workshop at 2pm and an award-winning documentary film about Alasdair, The Groove Is Not Trivial, at 6pm! Don't miss this unique celebration of Scottish music and its roots in the groove!

After touring extensively with the John Jorgenson Quintet, Gonzalo Bergara has emerged a virtuoso composer and lead guitarist, mixing a cascade of arpeggios with the sounds of Paris and his native Argentina, to forge his own style of progressive Gypsy Jazz. The quartet features Leah Zeger on fiddle and vocals.