BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:1.0 TZ:-07 BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Lion The Bear The Fox at the Duncan Showroom URL:http://www.harbourliving.ca/event/the-lion-the-bear-the-fox-at-the-duncan-showroom/ LOCATION:Duncan Showroom :: 131 Station Street Duncan, V9L 1M8 DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:

The Lion The Bear The Fox perform at the Duncan Showroom on March 25.

Tickets are available in advance for $20 at www.showroomproductions.ca/buy-tickets and for $22 at the door.

It took Christopher Arruda (The Lion), Cory Woodward (The Bear) and Ryan McMahon (The Fox) over thirty years to find each other but only one month for this “musical force of nature” (Nanaimo Daily News) to realize they were meant to join their voices as one.

In May of 2012, the three men set out on tour to promote their respective solo efforts. Over wine, campfires, nights in cheap hotel rooms and woodland cabins an unshakeable bond began to form. They shared stories of their lives, successes and failures in the music industry, and ultimately their dreams of what they hoped to accomplish as artists. Three big voices began to support each other during shows and at the tour’s conclusion, they had a setlist worth of material. Something that had come together so naturally; so organically, simply had to be allowed to grow.

And grow it has – in the eight months since the band’s inaugural show, the lion the bear the fox have set Western Canada on fire. After securing a top 20 position in 102.7 The Peak’s prestigious “Peak Performance Project”, the band released their debut EP “We’d Be Good Men” on October 8th, 2013 and went on to celebrate the effort in numerous sold-out venues across BC and Alberta. The self-produced record is steeped in character with performances captured in bedrooms, hallways, board rooms and open-spaces across British Columbia. By experimenting with sounds freely and building the sonic landscape from the ground up, “We’d Be Good Men” succeeds in showcasing a genuine energy and sincerity rarely heard this side of the 2000′s.

Amidst the chaos, the band has also started a life-long partnership with “Music Heals” (musicheals.ca), a charity that advocates, fundraises and creates awareness for music therapy across Canada. Having been touched personally by it’s effectiveness, their first initiative “bandwagonproject.com” aims to increase the use of mobile recording studios in a wide array care facilities, from patients facing life altering diagnosis, to schools and retirement homes.

    “All three artists are known for the passion they bring to their performances and the honest songs they write” says the Ladysmith Chronicle, and they have succeeded in creating gripping, dynamic songs while capturing a sincerity rarely heard this side of the 2000′s. Bridging the gap between Vancouver, where the lion and the bear dwell and Ladysmith where the fox resides is only a testament to their collective commitment of creating their brand of passionately honest songs. ”

In less than a year, the lion the bear the fox have cemented themselves as a hard-working Canadian band with an uncompromising dedication to performance. 2014 will be the year they start to deliver their energetic brand of “stomp rock” to the United States and beyond. Gone are the days of the boy band. Harken the era of the man band! http://thelionthebearthefox.com

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