The McDades, Colleen Brown
Library and Archives Canada
Thursday, April 28, 2005
at 8:00PM
Colleen Brown
Colleen Brown is an accomplished singer-songwriter and pianist whose talent and drive are as deep as her Lloydminster, Alberta roots. Having sung, played and composed music from a young age, Colleen is a recent graduate of Edmonton’s esteemed Grant MacEwan music program. Colleen writes catchy, melodic roots/pop music with a compositional and lyrical maturity that belies her youth. Her inspiration comes from everywhere – an elderly woman on the bus, a trip to the West Coast, the complexities of love... and the challenges of making a living as a musician! Her new CD is entitled A Peculiar Thing.
The McDades
The McDades, an Edmonton band consisting of three talented siblings and two very eclectic French Canadian musicians, treat their audiences to everything from modern bluegrass sounds reminiscent of Nickel Creek or Alison Krauss to Tuvan Throat singing, from bowed bass and violin parts that remind you of George Martin's Beatles productions to horn improvisations in the style of the Paul Winter Consort. Their percussion sounds range from frame drums to more modern sounds. Add an upright bass, a master violinist, and a guitarist whose style includes modern Celtic, traditional French Canadian and jazz, and you begin to understand the McDades. They can perform in both French and English and are a festival programmer’s dream for the variety they bring to the stage.
Presented in co-operation with the Ottawa Folk Festival
