Manitoba Live Music Event

Event

Date
Saturday, Apr 8, 2017 at 7:30pm
Performers
Madeleine Roger
Matt Foster
Location
Grant & Wilton Coffee House
Address
1077 Grant Ave, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Folk

About

About Madeleine Roger:

Madeleine Roger is a singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba, intrigued by the magic in life and the way that things are. Acoustic guitar in hand, she comes to the stage bearing her imaginative songs full of insightful lyrics and captivating melodies, expressing herself with a maturity well beyond her years.  

She often appears in the folk/roots duo Roger Roger with her twin brother Lucas. Her work is influenced by a lifelong love of music, and she especially admires songwriting gurus Sarah Harmer, Ron Sexsmith, Gillian Welch, and Anais Mitchell, to name a few. 

Madeleine's background is in theatre artistry which, alongside traveling and kayaking, consumed her life from the age of 7 into the end of her degree in Theatre & Film when she finally picked up one of the many guitars lying around her home and started writing songs. A year later she "quit" theatre - although she can still be found there from time to time - falling hopelessly in love with song-craft and the endless possibilities of music.  

She's got a lifelong history of singing in choirs, living rooms, musicals, and around bonfires, and has spend countless hours hanging out in the control room of her Dad's recording studios, growing up thinking that everyone talked about album production and songs at the dinner table. 

When she isn't performing, writing, or kayaking, she can be found as a backing vocalist, theatre tech, and stage manager at music festivals. 

 

About Matt Foster:

Matt's music has been around the world. He has toured in 11 different countries, has had his songs placed in major motion pictures as far away as Mexico, and received major radio airplay in the Netherlands. As a member of the Crooked Brothers, his albums have received international critical acclaim, and have landed nominations at the Canadian Folk Music Awards and the Western Canadian Music Awards at home in Canada.

Jonathan Aird of Americana UK has said: "Blackbird In The Snow could be my song of the year, it is perfection."

In many ways, Matt's songs are a step removed from what most expect.  At times, they feel more like snapshots or a short scene in a novel.  A glimpse in on a moment, on a feeling, a character. There is something partial about them, a simplicity or a sparseness that through listening, gives way to a full feeling.  He takes great care to carve out the contours and shapes of a thing, and then allows the song to colour itself in as we listen.  Sometimes simple, sometimes a puzzle... the room he leaves for his listeners themselves to walk and be and breathe inside the very song being sung to them - that's one of Matt's subtler talents.

When performing on his own, his songs appear in their more skeletal form, stripped and unadorned, just as they were written.  He favours the guitar, but toys with other things, and other sounds as he sees fit. He is comfortable, funny, honest, and inviting.  

David and I are excited to have MATT FOSTER on the program and should be a GREAT SHOW!  We are lucky to have a performer of Matt's calibre on the program.

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