Date: Saturday 16 November 2019
Time: 08:00pm
Saturday November 16, 2019, at 8:00 pm (doors open at 7:30)
Suggested donation (100% goes directly to the artists): $15-$20 per person
Please email fingalfolk@gmail.com to RSVP. We can then keep track of how many people to expect, and send you our address so you can find us for the show!
Its hard to believe it, but it’s already time for our last concert of 2019! We are trying to build up our audience so if there is a friend you think might enjoy a house concert, bring them along!
Multi award-winning soulful Roots & Blues artist MIKE BIGGAR and critically acclaimed, globe-trotting Blues master MANITOBA HAL have come together to hit the road with their first ever combined tour, performing shows across Eastern Canada this Fall in October and November 2019 ā including all three Maritime provinces, Quebec and Ontario.
Friends for years, Mike and Halās first performance together came in February 2019 when Hal joined Biggar onstage for his blues showcase at the international Folk Alliance Conference in Montreal QC. They appeared again in May 2019 at East Coast Music Week in Charlottetown PEI for showcase appearances that garnered praise from audiences and industry delegates. Their first official tour combines Biggarās soulful melodies and powerhouse vocals ā Halās effortless mastery of the Blues on resonator, cigar box guitar and ukulele ā and abundant fun and humour from each with their onstage banter, demeanor and tales from the road.
Shows promise to be a cavalcade event of Blues and Contemporary Roots music from two of Canadaās finest in a special double bill appearance
ABOUT MIKE BIGGAR:
By any measure, New Brunswick contemporary roots and blues artist Mike Biggar is a natural live performer. With a musical history that stretches back to a gospel music childhood, Biggar is the picture of a lifetime spent in performance. Onstage his style is equal parts gutsy and joyful, reflecting the deep, soulful stamp left by those early musical days. Rollicking, high energy vocals steam down the line like a soulful, roots-inspired freight train, perfectly paired with the infectious melodies of his acclaimed songwriting and his warm, disarming banter. In his near ten year career, Biggar has been honoured with numerous East Coast Music Association and Music New Brunswick awards, including most recently the 2018 East Coast Music Award for Blues Recording of the Year.
Now with his newest album, āMIKE BIGGAR & BAND ā LIVE AT THE BMO THEATREā, (released May 1) listeners are offered the most intimate and memorable Mike Biggar musical portrait to date. His fourth full-length album on Busted Flat Records captures a special 2018 concert featuring his full band, performed before a sold out audience in his hometown of Saint John, New Brunswick.
http://www.mikebiggar.com
ABOUT MANITOBA HAL:
Manitoba Hal is a blues guitarist, songwriter and master ukulele player. Using a combination of looping technology and effects he creates a performance that is one-of-a-kind. His combination of finger picking and strumming creates an instantly accessible sound that compliments his fresh and inventive originals and arrangements of traditional blues.
Hal is a consummate blues man, and has toured Canada extensively. Manitoba Hal developed his brand of blues when he lived in Winnipeg Manitoba (where he also got his name). āWinnipeg, often referred to as the Chicago of the north, is situated in a delta between the Red and Assiniboine rivers. I was born at the blues and when I found that music inside me, I came alive and my soul started expressing itself in songs that flowed with that music. The blues is where my soul came into this world. Where it will end up I donāt know but Iām ready for the journeyā.
Halās brand new album āVintage Blendā is set to be released in early October 2019.
http://www.manitobahal.com/