Mama’s Broke are the powerful folk duo Lisa Maria and Amy Lou Keeler from Eastern Canada, but have spent the past eight years in a near-constant state of transience, pounding the transatlantic tour trail. They’ve brought their dark, fiery folk-without-borders sound to major festivals and DIY punk houses alike, absorbing traditions from their maritime home in Eastern Canada all the way to Ireland and Indonesia.

Their two strong voices blend to create haunting harmonies, while they artfully juggle fiddle, banjo, guitar and mandolin, and incorporate traditional dance and foot percussion into their performance.

The driving force behind this band is – and has always been – the commitment to challenge borders between people, places, and traditions; while encouraging freedom of expression and community through music.

2017 brought the release of their debut album “Count the Wicked”, which earned them a Canadian Folk Music Award for Ensemble of the Year as well as a nomination for an ECMA Rising Star Award. Their sophomore album, “Narrow Line” is out now.

Reviews of “Narrow Line” –

“-raw, rootsy and alive – uplifting and a joy to hear” – Folk Radio UK

“On Narrow Line, Mama’s Broke brings beauty out of pain” – No Depression

https://mamasbroke.ca/home

Concert is live and streamed.

The Rogue Folk Club, in partnership with Music BC and the Canadian Folk Music Awards presents a showcase of talented BC folk, blues and roots artists in advance of the 2023 CFMAs. 

7:00pm to 8:00pm PDT
SONGWRITERS CIRCLE
with Stephen Fearing, Meg Tennant, Yael Wand and Tom & Kalissa Landa

8:05pm to 8:45pm PDT
CONCERT
with Early Spirit

9:05pm to 10:05pm PDT
SONGWRITERS CIRCLE
with Valdy, Lydia Hol, Pat Chessell and Kathleen Nisbet & Steve Charles

10:10pm to 10:55pm PDT
CONCERT
with the Jim Byrnes Band

Doors 6pm, Show 7pm. The Showcase will also be streamed.

Doug Cox and Linda McRae – two of Canada’s finest. You can see and hear the past and the present in their instrumentation, their stories and their songs. A rare treat in an intimate setting. What a long, strange – and delightful – trip it continues to be! 

With 60 years’ experience and countless performances between the two, these veteran award-winning recording artists each have a menagerie of stories to tell. Cox and Rae bring a truckload of strings and things in their arsenal and wealth of songs that will have you glued to your seat, sometimes laughing, singing along, tapping your toes and humming their melodies for days to come. 

Doug and Linda first shared a stage at the inaugural Stan Rogers Folk Festival, in Canso, NS. This pairing led to some of the most enjoyable, generous stage time they had ever experienced. Doug later invited Linda to be part of his 2016/17 “Starman: An Acoustic Evening of David Bowie Songs”. They decided to continue their collaborations and voila! their new project was born. 

Keep an eye out for “Beyond the Great Pause” – their first album together. It was recorded over three nights in the Spring of 2022 and mixed and mastered by Doug Cox at his Courtenay, BC studio. 

Concert is live and streamed.

Martyn Joseph – “One of the most charismatic and electrifying performers in Britain today…tough and passionate”. – Tom Robinson BBC Radio 6 Music

Martyn Joseph is a completely unique and mind blowing artist. Take everything you think you know about singer songwriters….and rip it up. For one man and a guitar he creates a performance with a huge far-reaching sound that is energetic, compelling and passionate. Be it to two hundred people or twenty thousand, he blows the crowd away night after night.

He is gifted with the rare ability to speak to the soul with his expressive and poignant lyrics and has a career spanning 30 years, 32 albums, over a half a million record sales and thousands of live performances.

Compared to Bruce Springsteen, John Mayer, Bruce Cockburn and Dave Matthews, he has created his own style and reputation as a mesmerizing live performer and stands in his own right, built on a reputation for giving what thousands have described as the best live music experience of their lives. A unique talent driven by passion, social awareness and love for his trade, he’s a jaw dropping guitar player who has developed a unique percussive style, teamed up with a powerful show stopping voice, and has been called “The Welsh Springsteen”.

https://www.martynjoseph.net

Concert is live & streamed.