The Devil Makes Three
Foundation Concerts’ presents California-based Americana trio, The Devil Makes Three, this April in western Canada. The traveling trio will make stops in Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon and Winnipeg over the course of the Easter weekend.
Concerts
The Beatnuts
09 Mar, 2010 (Edmonton) 10 Mar, 2010 (Calgary) 11 Mar, 2010 (Winnipeg)Foundation Concerts presents legendary Queens, New York hip-hop duo, The Beatnuts, this March in Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg. Celebrating their 20th Anniversary, The Beatnuts are touring in support of their 2009 release, Planet of the Crates (Pit Fight).
Hawksley Workman
18 Mar, 2010 (Saskatoon)With 12 albums now to his name and a live show that is second to none, Juno Award winner Hawksley Workman has become a beloved Canadian cultural icon, celebrated from coast to coast. 2010 is going to be an exciting year for Hawksley Workman fans, as he adds fresh material from not one but two new albums to his live repertoire for his biggest national Canadian tour to date.
From the compelling opening yodel found on his debut album, For Him and the Girls to this very day, Hawksley Workman has refused to mark just one territory on Canada’s musical landscape. Hawksley roams like a rogue force: unpredictable, dramatic, exuberant, and focused on the pursuit of a sound that is never static, but always highly identifiable. Two new albums, numbering eleven and twelve in the Hawksley Workman catalogue, mark new terrain for this moving musical target. Entitled Meat and Milk respectively, the music traverses in great leaps and bounds the stylistic differences between tracks, while always keeping one foot firmly planted in Hawksley Workman territory.
The albums take you from bright, dance pop extravaganzas to dark, warring times where the battle is long over only the repeated and brutal refrain of heartbreak and defeat remains. Hawksley writes songs that have staying power, and now 12 albums into a career that has taken him from indie to major and back again, he is ready for another round. Meat hits the streets on January 19, 2010, while the songs from Milk will be released via a non-traditional digital strategy which will unleash singles from the album over a five-month period.
Daniel Wesley
18 Mar, 2010 (Saskatoon) 20 Mar, 2010 (Edmonton)In the winter of 2008, for two night’s running, Daniel Wesley mounted the stage before a sold out crowd at Vancouver’s 1000 capacity Commodore Ballroom. The venerable concert hall has seen its share of local artists, but Wesley’s extraordinary two-night stand was something different; a grass roots event without precedent, based on the cyclonic success of an independently produced, windswept reggae-bomb called “Ooo Ohh”. The most requested song of the year on powerhouse local radio king 99. 3 The Fox, “Ooo Ohh” is and always will be and solid-gold, no-shit, genuine phenomenon - the kind of thing that very, very occasionally cuts through all known conventions based on nothing more than it’s own mojo. Same goes for Sing + Dance, the breezy full-length it came from.
News
The Wailin' Jennys come to Edmonton
08 Feb, 2010
Foundation Concerts presents Winnipeg's The Wailin' Jenny's, Tuesday, May 11th at Edmonton's MacDougall United Church. This award-winning trio of ladies has taken the folk music...
Jenn Grant and Jason Plumb & The Willing tour western Canada
05 Jan, 2010
The Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad and Foundation Concerts present Jenn Grant and Jason Plumb & The Willing this February in western Canada. As part of...
Jay Malinowski (of Bedouin Soundclash) coming to Edmonton and Vancouver
15 Dec, 2009
Foundation Concerts presents two dates with Jay Malinowski, front man of popular Canadian band, Bedouin Soundclash, this coming March in Edmonton and Vancouver. Promoting his...