Manitoba Live Music Event

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25 tickets available - $20 each 
to reserve a seat transfer $20/ticket to leaherenberg@gmail.com password tinyshow or indicate password

tiny shows is a concert series at tiny gallery in the exchange district, focusing on creating an intimate environment for musical performances, in an alcohol-free space, max. 20-25 seats available, where performer/audience interaction and creating an alternative performance space is encouraged 

About Brodie Moniker: 

Artistic diversity can be an elusive mistress. Natural diversity, the gift to seamlessly transition from genre to genre, to infuse individual ideas into a prescribed musical mold, is rare, a gift given from the muse of endless Inspiration. 

Regina based, fifteen year music veteran Brodie Moniker (PandaCorn, Brain Sauce, Fancy Diamonds), is a truly musical diverse talent with sophisticated songwriting, artistic arrangements, and progressive-pop presentations. 

Polite, honest and aggressive, Moniker puts his entire being into every song, challenging listeners’ presumed ideas of modern rock, reminiscent of past and present sound masters with Frank Zappa arrangements, Brian Eno production, Nick Drake tone, Jack White blues, Trent Reznor edge and Gordie Johnson style. 

Touring internationally with critically acclaimed artists like Jeff Straker, while producing and engineering breakthrough albums for artists like Megan Nash (Song Harvest Vol 1), Moniker has honed his sound and developed his songwriting, melding his influences into a true sonic mosaic. Poignant and poppy, expanding and exploratory, Moniker combines modern avant-garde sensibilities with a pop flare, creating brave, listenable music, pushing boundaries while retaining an accessible ear.

While guitar is his true tonal voice, there is an ease in his arrangements for all instruments, every part having its distinct natural voice while seamlessly blending within the entire composition, Percy Grainger layering two versions of “Rufford Park Poachers” one on top of another. His production is sharp and clever with an impressively diverse tonal palate. 

With songs like “Is”, a blend of ambient sound scape, dirty electronic soundbites, ethereal vocals, angelic harp-inspired instrumentals with soaring saxophone and hand drums, to “Push Play DJ”, a straight ahead, blues rock tune with guitar and bass sounds bigger than the Canadian prairies provinces, Moniker’s debut album is the voice of a true musical savant. 

Presenting beautiful production, diverse instrumentation and creative sound-generation, Moniker’s musical and lyrical lines are subtly placed and wonderfully arranged, layered but never overdone, huge and quiet, fixed and exploring, catchy and cerebral.

More expansive than Saskatchewan’s living skies, this debut solo album promises a true musical journey, a mixed-genre compilation with eased delivery, ambient soundscape, poignant lyricism, huge guitar riffs and catchy melodies. 

Accompanied by Drake Mark (Lords Kitchner) on drums and Steve Leidal (Johnny 2 Fingers) on bass, Moniker is touring Midwestern Canada preparing the roads, Oregon Trail style, for his upcoming debut album tour. 

Prepare for one of the farthest reaching musical journeys to ever come from Saskatchewan!

About Ava Wild:

From the skies of Saskatchewan Ava Wild began to collect inspiration and translate her world through music. Dwelling primarily in the genres of folk roots and acoustic pop, her writing style is spiced up with embellishments of jazz and old-country (as being influenced by Tom Waits and Norah Jones). Within her lyrics are original ideas about land, love and life. There are drinking songs without alcohol; fairytales wrapped in leather; and an admiration for humanity. With a honey sweet voice laced in a red shoe attitude, Ava Wild dances with crowns and grasps her audience’s attention with her authentic storytelling. In 2016 Ava released her debut EP BARE as a representation of some of her best work to-date. Recording it live-off-floor the listener is introduced to her reckless perfection and truths that speak to where she has come from, where she is, and where she plans on going.

About Micah Erenberg:

Micah Erenberg is a diversely talented multi-instrumentalist, singer songwriter and frontman extraordinaire from Matlock, Manitoba. He has strong family roots and an affinity for the country. He has been writing songs his whole life with inspiration from the rural surroundings of his hometown and the solitude this lifestyle provides.
Like the man himself, his music is charming, witty and authentic. His full disclosure style of writing makes for captivating material that varies from poetically clever to gracefully heartbreaking. Erenberg continually finds ways to reinvent the art of songwriting by expressing a mixture of honest lyrics, mesmerizing melodies and distinctive musical arrangements.
His band is a dream team of Winnipeg talent and has become renowned in the thick and eclectic Winnipeg music scene, performing frequently in town, most notably at treasured venues such as the Good Will Social Club and the Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club.
After years of live performances with various groups, Micah released his debut album, Poor Mic's Toe in the fall of 2016. The album is a refreshing cleanse of new music that showcases Erenberg’s aptitude for songwriting and the band’s formative musical collaboration. The lyrics are simultaneously sharp, clever and even hilarious without compromising depth. Each song offers a different perspective from Erenberg’s highly self-aware and crooked compass. The album is a mosaic of stories, thoughts and reflections about sleeping eternally, drinking with Jesus in Los Angeles, losing a toe to a lawnmower, kissing while smiling, drinking away the seven seas, and everything in between. He reflects on both the hilarity and misery of life in a highly accessible manner.
The band has been consistently touring their debut album across Canada and is now in the process of recording their follow up album, to be released in early 2018.

About Chenoa McKelvey:

Chenoa McKelvey is a songwriter of diverse talents, blending influences from blues, folk and jazz. Her lyrics paint pictures with careful details that draw the listener in to their story. With her soft, sultry voice and warm, clean guitar tone, she captivates her audiences and fleetingly carries them away to a simpler time.

Besides her songwriting, Chenoa is attending the University of Manitoba's Jazz Studies program. She performs as a jazz guitarist for the Manouche band Juvel, as well as accompanying singers such as Gabriela Ocejo and Larissa Johnson.

Influences: Tom Waits, Feist, Florence and the Machine, Bjork, Joni Mitchell, Josephine Foster, Billie Holiday, Astrud Gilberto, Paul McCartney, Bessie Smith