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SUMMARY:Annie Lou at the Errington Hall
URL:http://www.harbourliving.ca/event/annie-lou-at-the-errington-hall/
LOCATION:Errington War Memorial Hall :: 1390 Errington Road Errington, V0R 1V0
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Canadian folk/roots act Annie Lou will be performing at the beautiful Errington Hall=0D=0A=
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Fresh on the heels of two Canadian Folk Music nominations and chart-topping radio play with her new album “Grandma’s Rules for Drinking”, Annie Lou will be bringing original stringband music to the Errington Hall stage (as well as all over BC, from Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast to the Okanagan and the Lower Mainland.)=0D=0A=
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Annie Lou is built around the original songwriting of Anne Louise Genest, who spent twenty years living in the Yukon woods. Now relocated to the balmier shores of Parksville on Vancouver Island, Genest carries the spirit of an old storyteller inside her, and this voice, mixed with the stringband sounds of fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin and upright bass, traces a journey through days gone by to the here and now.=0D=0A=
Genest founded Annie Lou after being drawn to old time mountain and traditional country music. It was in these older musical traditions that Genest found her muse and set out to explore her original music in the context of oldtime stringband sounds. “This music has a profound edge to it - in the voices and in the playing is the lament we all carry as people, just trying to get by in this beautiful, terrible world.” says Genest. “Joy and grief are two sides of the same coin. The older music expresses that tension so perfectly."=0D=0A=
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Genest’s first outing as Annie Lou garnered 2010 Juno and WCMA nominations, and “Grandma’s Rules for Drinking” won nominations for English Songwriter of the Year and Solo Artist of the Year at the 2012 Canadian Folk Music Awards. The album was at the top of the international Folk DJ charts for November, taking the #1 and #2 spots for top songs, as well as the top Canadian album spot, coming in at #2 on the international list in a tie with Iris Dement.=0D=0A=
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“Grandma’s Rules for Drinking” features beautifully crafted songs that range from rousing and boisterous to gentle and poignant. They map a homescape of hard-drinking grandmas, rural dancehalls, blue collar fashions, and the deep snows and silences of a Canadian winter.=0D=0A=
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Touring with Annie Lou are some of Canada’s finest acoustic musicians, including Genest (guitar, banjo, vocals), with Kim Barlow (banjo, guitar, vocals), Max Heineman on double bass and vocals, and Andrew Collins on mandolin and fiddle. Collins, a multiple Juno-nominee and founding member of some of Canada’s most celebrated stringbands (including The Creaking Tree String Quartet) is an accomplished composer and multi-instrumentalist. Heineman is a vocalist and bass player known for his work with The Foggy Hogtown Boys, and Barlow is a well-known Juno-nominated singer-songwriter.=0D=0A=
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With such a powerhouse of a lineup, Annie Lou’s CD release tour promises to deliver great songwriting, great playing, and a really good old time! This is original string band music, rooted in tradition, and a vibrant celebration of our culture and our times that moves the heart as well as the feet.=0D=0A=

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