A fantastic double billing of music coming to Charlotte Street Arts Centre this month!
Don Ross and Pipo Romero bring their masterful musical workings to the Centre on May 19th. Advanced tickets are on sale now through our office, but you can also snag your early tickets online
Caroline Brooks with Ben Kunder live at The Cottage
Wednesday, June 21 7PM Doors 6:30PM Tickets $30 E-transfer to davejaglove@gmail.com
Come kick off Summer with a special night of songs & music.
Caroline Brooks:
Thereโs a wall, in your family home. Itโs next to an old stairway that leads to an attic you never go into, but the wall is alive and lined with photos. Each one a cherished memory locked in time, waiting to be brought down, dusted off and held in the hand of a storyteller intimately connected with the finer points of every detail. Caroline Marie Brooks is just such a storyteller. On Everything at the Same Time, the first solo outing from โ of Canadian harmony trio Good Lovelies, Brooks walks you through a wall of stories, taking moments from her life down and carefully recounting the feeling of the sun and the wind in the trees from days past and present.
Over 11 tracks, Brooks leads a vivid journey through feelings familiar to our hearts. Gentle guitar work laying a backdrop for Brooksโ sweetly divine vocals, densely layered with wurlitzers and mandolins and steel guitars to evoke feelings of memories both lost and found. Lead single โVitaminโ evokes a sun-drenched nostalgia, albeit a nostalgia happening right in front of you, one that you can live in and hold onto. Even at the end of the record, with a cover of Roger Millerโs classic โOo-De-Lallyโ (from Disneyโs Robin Hood), Caroline Marie Brooks has crafted an album that feels wholly familiar and distinctly her own – an instant classic waiting to be discovered and have its stories told.
Songs like โNight Drive” draw up the feeling of a night’s journey alone, just your headlights and the sky illuminating your endless path. โI canโt always be thereโ is a love letter to a child growing up before your very eyes and wanting to hold on to the memories of every perfect day. Even the instrumental โSong for Fredโ is evocative of a feeling, a memory. Itโs a place that we draw from in the moments when the future feels insurmountable.
Everything at the Same Time is a pandemic record only in time, recorded in the midst of an age when sometimes living through our memories of easier days may be all that we have. It asks only that we live and be present in the moment and to remember that though the days are long, the years are all too short. The inevitability of change looms in the distant, and Caroline Marie Brooks challenges you to hold on to the gift of the times we are in.
Ben Kunder:
Occupying a rare but accessible musical space between folk, pop, and Cali-style Americana, Toronto singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ben Kunder chronicles the ordinary and the extraordinary in luminous detail. With three highly acclaimed studio albums (2019โs Searching For the Stranger, 2018โs Better Human, and 2015โs Golden) and multiple international tours and festival appearances achieved to date, Kunder has amassed a devoted following while establishing himself as a sought-after collaborator and electrifying live performer. A committed social justice advocate, father to two young kiddos and compassionate member of the human race, Kunder consistently yields exquisite musical insights.
A career spanning 25 years has brought Canadian guitarist Jesse Cook multiple accolades, including a coveted Acoustic Guitar Magazine Playerโs Choice Silver Award, 11 Juno Award nominations (he won for 2001โs Free Fall), a Gemini Award and, most impressively, 10 platinum and gold studio albums. Moreover, he has sold out concert halls the world over, produced 5 PBS television specials and 5 live CDs.
Since launching his career with 1995’s Tempest, Jesse has blazed an incredible trail. Along with being a global-guitar virtuoso, he’s honed his skills as a composer, producer, arranger, performer and, more recently, filmmaker and cultural ambassador.
Mark your calendars and plan to join us this summer for an unforgettable weekend in stunning St. Martins. Let’s hoist the sails and make memories that will last a lifetime.
Harpsichordist Tim Blackmore and baroque violinist Katherine Moller present a program of 18th century baroque and classical works for violin and harpsichord by Handel, Telemann, Haydn, J.C. Bach and C.F. Abel. Come join us for a lovely musical afternoon.
Tickets available online, in person at AX, or by calling (506) 433-8351.