Mar 28 2008 - 8:00pm
Mar 28 2008 - 10:00pm
You’ll always find me in the kitchen at parties...
Come On In My Kitchen and feast your hungry ears with a rich meal of roots. Tantalize your taste for blues. Warm yourself up with folk remedies. Inspired by the age-old tradition of congregating in the kitchen, or on the porch, and swapping stories and songs, this show brings intimate and raucous jamming to the Arts Station March 28.
Since beginning in 1999, the show and its host, Edmonton-based guitarist and singer Mark Sterling, boast impressive musical alumni, including Big Dave MacLean, Donnie “Mr. Downchild” Walsh, Bill Bourne and Harry Manx. With cups of Delta, Chicago and Piedmont blues and dashes of swing, country and vintage folk, Come In My Kitchen cooks up old-style comfort food and dazzling original recipes.
“It’s like the best ingredients of a folk festival workshop, but with musicians who have a telepathic thing going on and a fearlessness that allows everyone to jump in and take a song to a place it’s never gone before,” Sterling says. The musician cut his teeth recording and touring with Toronto’s award-winning folk-rock trio Hemmingway Corner, before he returned to Edmonton in the late ‘90s, leapt back into the blues and knocked off two fine solo albums.
Joining Sterling on stage and sharing vocal duties are bassist Ron Rault and harmonica player Dave “Crawdad” Cantera. Rault is veteran of the Western Canadian blues scene, having played alongside John Lee Hooker and Bo Diddley. Cantera is a first-call harmonica player based in Edmonton who gained recognition in the ‘80s as a member of Three Times Blues.
“Mark Sterling and friends have been serving up some of the best acoustic blues to be found in this country. With pals like Big Dave MacLean, Will MacCalder and Brent Parkin, one is guaranteed a great time full of authenticity and energy. Come On In My Kitchen would bring a smile to Robert Johnson’s face.”
—Holger Petersen, Saturday Night Blues, CBC Radio
Date: Friday, March 28
Time: 8 pm
Place: The Arts Station (601 - 1st Avenue)
Tickets:
Members - $20/adult; $12/ youth
Non-members - $25/adult; $15/youth
Available at the Blue Toque, Carosella’s, Freshies, the Good Earth and the Arts Station.
For more information about the show, please call Oz Parsons at 423.4842.
