Event Info
"An evening with Canadian Icon, performing 2 sets": Garnet Rogers
"An evening with..."
Garnet Rogers
Friday, April 18, 2008
Herman's Jazz Club,...
8:00pm - 11:00pm Doors at: 6:00pm
$28 Advance / $30 Door
Event Description
"An evening with..."
Garnet Rogers
Friday, April 18, 2008
Herman's Jazz Club, 753 View St., Victoria
Doors 6pm- Showtime 8pm
Tickets: $28 Advance / $30 Door (Tickets on sale Monday, December 3, 2007)
Available at: Lyle's Place 770 Yates St. and online at www.hightideconcerts.net
Garnet Roger's website: www.garnetrogers.com
In a darkened bedroom, lit only be the amber glow from an old floor model radio, two young brothers aged 6 and 12 lay in their beds, listening to the country music broadcasts from the Grand Ol' Opry, and practiced their harmonies. Two years later, the youngest one was playing the definitive 8-year-old's version of "Desolation Row" on his ukulele. He soon abandoned that instrument to teach himself the flute, violin and guitar.
Within ten years, and barely out of high school, Garnet Rogers was on the road as a full- time working musician with his older brother Stan. Together they formed what has come to be accepted as one of the most influential acts in North American folk music.
Since then, Garnet Rogers has established himself as 'One of the major talents of our time". Hailed by the Boston Globe as a "charismatic performer and singer", Garnet is a man with a powerful physical presence - close to six and a half feet tall - with a voice to match. With his "smooth, dark baritone" (Washington Post) his incredible range, and thoughtful, dramatic phrasing, Garnet is widely considered by fans and critics alike to be one of the finest singers anywhere. His music, like the man himself, is literate, passionate, highly sensitive, and deeply purposeful. Cinematic in detail, his songs "give expression to the unspoken vocabulary of the heart" (Kitchener Waterloo Record). An optimist at heart, Garnet sings extraordinary songs about people who are not obvious heroes and of the small victories of the everyday. As memorable as his songs, his over-the-top humour and lightning-quick wit moves his audience from tears to laughter and back again.
"Garnet Rogers is capable of awe-inspiring and unpredictable stuff - and that includes more than just music"
Resolutely independent, Garnet Rogers has turned down offers from major labels to do his music his own way.
Venue
753 View Street
Restaurant / Cafe / Pub
Capacity150
In-Person Event
Fri. April 18th 2008 + Add to Calendar
Hermann's Jazz Club
