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SUMMARY:Jon Brooks at the Duncan Showroom
URL:http://www.harbourliving.ca/event/jon-brooks-at-the-duncan-showroom/
LOCATION:Duncan Showroom :: 131 Station Street Duncan, V9L 1M8
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:<p>Canadian singer-songwriter Jon Brooks performs at the Duncan Showroom on April 13.<br /><br />Tickets are $20 in advance at http://www.showroomproductions.ca/buy-tickets and $25 at the door.<br /><br /><strong>Jon Brooks</strong><br />Nearing the end of a year of travel in 1997 throughout Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and particularly, throughout war ruined Bosnia-Herzegovina, Jon Brooks discovered what kind of song he wanted to write. In 2005, he began writing and performing that song &ndash; the song that looks for the soul of things.<br /><br />In 2010 Jon became the fourth Canadian since 1975 to win the prestigious Kerrville (TX) New Folk Award. Founder of The Kerrville Folk Festival, the late Rod Kennedy, said of Jon: &ldquo;(Brooks) speaks and sings words that need to be spoken and sung and he does it beautifully, perfectly, and with absolute finesse.&rdquo; He has now been nominated four times for &lsquo;English Songwriter of the Year&rsquo; by the Canadian Folk Music Awards (2007, 2009, 2012, and 2015). Jon&rsquo;s fifth album, The Smiling and Beautiful Countryside, was released November 1, 2014 by Borealis Records and was nominated for two 2015 Canadian Folk Music Awards: &lsquo;Contemporary Album of the Year&rsquo; and &lsquo;English Songwriter of the Year.&rsquo; Jon will be accompanied onstage by his long time friend and guitarist, Neil Cruickshank. Some may even know of him out there as he is a co-founder of his Vancouver-based band, Brickhouse - a mainstay of the Vancouver blues and funk-revival scene for over 20 years now.<br /><a href="http://www.jonbrooks.ca">http://www.jonbrooks.ca</a></p>
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