Event
- Date
- Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 9pm
- Performers
- Jason Collett
- Location
- The Good Will Social Club
- Address
- 625 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- Promoters
- Winnipeg Folk Festival
- Advance Cost
- $17.00
About
Hear All Year! The Winnipeg Folk Festival is pleased to present Jason Collett at The Good Will (18+) on Thursday, May 5.
Tickets are $17.00 plus fees and go on sale Feb. 5 through Ticketmaster and at the Winnipeg Folk Festival office (203-211 Bannatyne Ave.).
“Song And Dance Man”, the title track from Jason Collett’s sixth full-length album, finds the iconic singer-songwriter back at centre stage, with three-minutes-and-change and a story to sing. Featuring the bright production touch of Bahamas’ Afie Jurvanen, “Song And Dance Man” covers the trials and triumphs of the modern musician with poignant poetry:
Song And Dance Man’s thirteen songs bear the wit and melody of classic Jason Collett: contemplative reflections on getting older, backed with an affinity for freewheeling 70s dance music. The album’s conspiring themes of love & loneliness, sun & shadows, are buoyed by its soaring sound. Each song rises into an easy, spacious groove, lead by Jason’s languid melodies and Afie’s sun-drunk bass.
“There’s a cool economy to Afie’s approach that lets the record breathe and allows it to say more with less, something I worked hard at hardly working at in writing the songs,” says Collett. “Keeping a light touch, keeping it short.”
Having spent the years since 2012’s Reckon finding himself further engaged in the growing success of his Basement Revue concert series – a cross-pollinating musical & literary mash-up of Canada’s premiere contemporary artists – the Toronto indie-troubadour describes this record as a liberating process distilled in a stretch of deep domestic reverie.