Manitoba Live Music Event

About

Bry Webb is best known as the singer and principal songwriter in the well-loved and celebrated Canadian band, The Constantines. During the band’s four-year hiatus from 2010-2014, Webb returned to his one time home of Guelph, Ontario, became a father, and wrote his first album, Provider, released in 2011 by Idée Fixe. In 2013, Bry released his second studio album, Free Will, through Idee Fixe Records. The album, while still sparse and quiet in spots, also brought together the musicians who would become Bry’s world-class backing band, The Providers: Rich Burnett (Justin Rutledge, Spencer Burton) on lap steel, Aaron Goldstein (City and Colour, Tom Wilson, Daniel Romano) on pedal steel, Tom Hammerton (Cuff The Duke, Odd Years) on piano/organ, Nathan Lawr (Minotaurs, Royal City, King Cobb Steelie) on drums, and Anna Ruddick (Andy Kim, Randy Bachman) on upright bass. 

Through touring festivals and clubs across Canada and the US in 2014, Bry Webb and The Providers became a tight, joyful, freewheeling rootsy folk-rock band, able to move seamlessly from soft, emotive acoustic arrangements to full-on jammed out rock and roll expositions, reminiscent of The Rolling Stones or The Grateful Dead. Their work together is celebrated on the 2015 LP release and concert film, Bry Webb and The Providers Live At Massey Hall.