Well folks, we’ve been playing at the Cloak & Dagger pub on College St. in downtown Toronto for two and a half years. We’ve had a good run, but all things must come to an end, and this Tuesday, May 7 will be our final Cloak appearance, at least for a while.
Come on out and party with us, bring an instrument if you got one!
We’ll be opening for Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell at the Toronto Jazz Fest main stage in Nathan Philips Square on Saturday, June 29.
This should be a fun one folks!
For details and tickets: torontojazz.com/concert/steve-martin-and-steep-canyon-rangers-featuring-edie-brickell
Check out the The Huffington Post’s review of Shaking Down The Acorns!
“This is an excellent album, all the more for being a debut disc, and well worth repeated listening.”
Read the whole article here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-d-winick/more-canadian-finds-from-_b_3078359.html
Big spring show announcement!
We’ll be co-hosting a night at the Main Hall of the Tranzac with The Boxcar Boys on May 17! It just so happens that we both released albums in that same hall exactly half a year ago, so it only made sense to put on a big party of a show in that same spot six months later.
We’ll be joined by frequent collaborator and fiddler extraordinaire John Showman, and you can expect a double-quintet extravaganza to end the night! (Special note, the stage with then feature two fiddles, & two Johns).
Info:
Date: Friday, May 17
Where: Tranzac Main Hall 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto
Doors: 7:30
Tickets: $12 advance/$15 door
Tickets available at: http://slocanramblers.com/merch/
The Boxcar Boys are are one of our favourite local bands, an amazing old-timey amalgam of dixieland, folk and klezmer, and we’re certain that a Slocan fan with become a Boxcar fan at first sight.
Some words on The Boxcar Boys:
The Boxcar Boys deliver a veritable gumbo of wild gypsy, old-jazz, klezmer, and folk music always performed with a good-time New Orleans spirit. The group of fun loving performers is the combined efforts of clarinetist and sometimes vocalist John David Williams (Lemon Bucket Orkestra), violinist Laura C Bates (Del Bel, Trent Severn) trombonist Karl Silveira (Lemon Bucket Orkestra), accordionist Ronen Segall, and JUNO nominated sousaphone player Rob Teehan (Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Heavyweights Brass Band).
This past winter The Boxcar Boys released their second full-legnth LP “Rye Whiskey”, an album that captures The Boxcar Boys’ sound after 3 years of performing everywhere – on the streets, in parks, on boats, at parties, folk festivals, jazz festivals, markets, and house concerts.
“21st-century eclectics, mixing Roma, roots and plain-old rambunctious whimsy… [The Boxcar Boys] are guaranteed to put a smile on your face and a spring in your step.”
-John Terauds, Toronto Star
See ya there!
Yours in perpetuity,
The Slocan Ramblers
Feb. 2013.
Petit Campus, Montreal
The Slocans will be heading east for a 3 day tour in February, and bringing ace fiddler John Showman with them.
Friday Feb. 15: Brasserie Dunham, Dunham QC, 8pm
Sat. Feb 16: Petit Campus 8pm, Montreal – Double bill with Notre Dame de Grass – Part of Wintergreen Concert Series presented by Hello Darlin Productions
http://www.facebook.com/events/382398841852900/?fref=ts
Sunday Feb 17: Ottawa House Concert
Time: Dinner at 5:30, show at 7:00
For tickets, please contact:
email:Carole@EvansTeamOttawa.com
Phone: 613-271-8120
Info: http://www.evansteamottawa.com/index.php/carole-evans-team/home-concerts
http://www.facebook.com/events/127616494079157/?fref=ts
See ya there!
The Slocans will be playing a house concert in Ottawa on Feb 17. We’ll be joined by fiddler John Showman, and the show is open to the public.
email:Carole@EvansTeamOttawa.com
Phone: 613-271-8120
The Slocans will be playing Petit Campus in Montreal on February 16.
We can’t wait to hit the road for this mini-tour, joined by fiddle ace John Showman.
We’ll be double billing with Montreal’s great Notre Dame de Grace.
Tickets available here:
