We are very pleased to announce our Spring Kitchen Party with Evangeline Gentle! Opening for Evangeline will be Jimmy Breslin. Our event is a live music, fundraiser and all round really great evening if you like small venue intimate concert experiences. $35 gets you in the door and fed, and you have to buy your own beverages. Bring some extra money for our popular silent auction, featuring hand made items from the 8th concession and surrounding communities. Always good stuff!
Here is a link to our Facebook events page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1507723123484442/
Here is a direct link to tickets:
https://bpt.me/6285498
Bios listed here. They are very impressive!
Evangeline Gentle is a Scottish-Canadian, internationally acclaimed folk-pop songwriter/performer and vocalist based in Ontario, Canada. Contemplative and affecting, Evangeline’s lyrics evoke lush emotional landscapes within the listener and seek to unite audiences with a sense of “sameness”. A celebration of queerness and queer culture is woven throughout Gentle’s upcoming release Where The Diamonds Are, best heard on singles Gay Bar and Bad Girls. On this she says, “while many have never been to a gay bar, most know the euphoria of getting dressed up to go out dancing with friends. We are inextricably connected by our shared emotional, human experience. I love that songs remind us of this.”
Evangeline supported headliner Donovan Woods at the 2021 Mariposa Folk Festival, with other standout performances including those at Maverick Festival (UK) and Static Roots Festival (Germany) in 2022. She has supported acts such as Kathleen Edwards, Whitehorse, Tim Baker, Begonia, Terra Lightfoot, Basia Bulat, Craig Cardiff, and Sarah MacDougall. She recently performed at the Peterborough Folk Festival this past summer and will be a performer at Trout Festival & Northern Lights Festival Boreal this summer.
Evangeline released her sophomore album September 2023.
Jimmy Breslin: Growing up in small town Ontario Jimmy Breslin was introduced to music at an early age.
Taking piano lessons, playing guitar during family jams, and tagging along while his dad
performed around the GTA with roots groups Brookfield and Sourpuss.
During his teenage years hanging around the Greenbank Folk Music Society, taking in some
of Canada’s finest folk/roots/blues acts became a monthly routine and cemented his love for the
intimate, conversational nature of singer-songwriter performances.
In 2007 Jimmy moved north to Thunder Bay where he studied classical guitar, music theory
and voice at Lakehead University. During his time in university he helped form the band
Greenbank Trio (later Greenbank). Over the course of 10 years and 4 albums the group
performed hundreds of concerts from coast to coast across Canada and into the United States.
The group’s focus on harmony vocals and storytelling was widely received, landing them
multiple invites to perform at David Suzuki events, feature performances with the Thunder Bay
Symphony Orchestra, opening slots for Cheap Trick and Blue Rodeo, some kind words from
Burton Cummings and even a nod of approval from Bruce Cockburn.
From 2014 – 2016 Jimmy performed as guitarist for Saskatchewan born country singer Scott
Kyle King warming up north Ontario audiences for music legends Chicago, REO Speedwagon,
Leann Rimes, and Ronnie Dunn (of Brooks & Dunn). During that same period he performed as
part of indigenous folk singer Nick Sherman’s band for multiple recordings and tours, making
notable appearances at the Ottawa Bluesfest and the 2016 Pan Am Games.
Since 2018 Jimmy has been a session keyboardist for Thunder Bay based rock group The
Honest Heart Collective. During his time with THHC he has performed on several of their studio
releases and tours receiving hundreds of thousands of plays worldwide and toured with
Canadian indie rock icons The Trews.
In 2021 Jimmy relocated to Peterborough, Ontario where he currently enjoys a more
stationary life teaching music, performing on occasion, and quietly working away on his first solo
record.
