Manitoba Live Music Event

The New Customs Album Release

Date
Friday, May 12, 2017 at 8pm
Performers
The New Customs
Richard Inman
Location
West End Cultural Centre
Address
586 Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Folk

About

Hailing from the prolifically musical city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, The New Customs are the compelling pairing of Emma Cloney and Dale Brown. The splendid mix of guitarist Emma Cloney’s haunting voice and the playing of multi-instrumentalist Dale Brown (fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki, cigar box guitar, stomp) make up the heart of their sound. In writing together, the pair effortlessly crafts songs that range in flavour from folk to celtic to blues, yet always sound uniquely like themselves.

In the wake of a conversation in the parking lot of the West End Cultural Centre in April 2016 following the annual Prairie Kitchen party, and a receiving a surprise offer 12 hours later of a Western Canadian tour from Winnipeg's Home Routes, Cloney and Brown formed The New Customs almost out of necessity. Instantly however, they were struck by how well their diverse musical backgrounds and writing styles meshed together. Songs flowed forth, arrangements fell into place with ease, and their style formed so naturally that it seemed effortless. 

Hitting the ground running at a breakneck pace, The New Customs wrote and released their debut EP (recorded with folk music aficionado Scott Nolan and Juno Award winner Jamie Sitar) and were appearing on festival stages within months of that initial conversation. 

In January of 2017, The New Customs decided to challenge themselves; for 4 days in a rented cabin at the Falcon Trails resort in Manitoba’s beautiful Falcon Lake, they recorded the songs they had written and arranged over the previous 9 months as a band. With a clear vision for the sound they wanted and having resolved to embrace their DIY principles, they not only sang and played everything themselves, but also did all the engineering and setup, working long days to achieve their goal. What they ended up with was the 9 song record “All Walls Fall”. 

Now nearly one year to the day following that West End parking lot chat the duo are prepared to release their first full length album “All Walls Fall” and what better place then where it all began.

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All Walls Fall

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"All Walls Fall" by The New Customs

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Chasing Light by The New Customs

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