Dinner & Show with Oliver Swain

Victoria-based, award winning roots artist, Oliver Swain, has been a celebrated musician in western Canada for years, held in high regard in acoustic and folk music styles for both his astonishing instrumental and vocal abilities, and he bends the folk genre in always interesting ways. Swain strays towards the whimsical, the spiritual, and the socially conscious side of what he likes to refer to as “chamber folk odyssey”.
Oliver Swain got his start performing and writing with many of the US and Canada’s most loved roots bands including The Bills, The Duhks, Outlaw Social and The Red Stick Ramblers. He’s a two time Prairie Music Award (WCMA) winner, 3 Time Western Canada Music Award nominee (2016 Roots Artist of the Year), a Juno nominee and has a few other awards under his belt as well. In 2011 he released In A Big Machine, hailed as “absolutely mesmerizing” and “one of the best albums of 2011, regardless of genre”.
Oliver’s new album, Never More Together, is a rich and sublime example of his personal obsessions; clawhammer banjo, bowed bass and slack key guitar style, and fascination with ethnomusicology. Modern rock and early R&B are curated within the traditionally-based songs, used as springboard into the imagination.
He has toured extensively across Canada and the US and been featured at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Calgary Folk Music Festival, Vancouver Folk Festival, The Harrison Festival of the Arts, North Country Fair and Canmore Folk Festival, among others. Between his own shows and tours, Oliver is a busy side man with artists like The Fretless, Twin Bandit and Daniel Lapp and also runs the Victoria Django Festival each February in his home city. Oliver is also one half the Leonard Cohen tribute duo project, Tower of Song.
Dinner and entertainment combined is $55.00 including HST. Show-only seats are $20.00 each. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. with the buffet dinner served at 6:30 p.m. and the show approximately from 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Reserve now to assure good seats and dinner by calling 705-222-6685.
The Motley Kitchen is proud to present this series in collaboration with the Northern Lights Festival.
For more info visit:
http://oliverswain.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Oliver-Swain-216237865071784/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh8AkpcS_VA