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GIVERS with Lord Huron @ Wrongbar - October 26 at Wrongbar

Toronto Event Date: Wed, October 26, 2011

07:00 PM

Neighbourhood:
parkdale, west queen west
Activity:
live music, live performance
Venue type:
bar, dance club, lounge
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19+
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Music:
indie, indie pop
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Cover $13
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GIVERS with Lord Huron @ Wrongbar - October 26

EMBRACE PRESENTS

GIVERS with LORD HURON
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 – Wrongbar
1279 Queen Street West, Toronto

Adv. Tickets $13.00 (plus s.c.) | Doors @ 7pm | 19+ Event

Tickets on sale at http://www.ticketweb.ca/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3852955&pl=embrace, ROTATE THIS & SOUNDSCAPES

GIVERS
http://www.facebook.com/pages/GIVERS/65782606394
http://www.giversmusic.com
Lafayette, Louisiana-based indie rockers the Givers formed in the late 2000s around the talents of Kirby Campbell (drums/samples/vocals), Taylor Guarisco (guitar/vocals), Tif Lamson (vocals/percussion/ukulele), Josh Leblanc (bass), and William Henderson (synths/samples/vocals). Steeped in the culture and traditions of their native Louisiana, the band’s self-described “Afro-beat, dancey pants, indie pop love music,” which relies heavily on the spirited back-and-forth vocals of Lamson and Guarisco, has been compared to bands like Vampire Weekend, Dirty Projectors, and Mates of State. The group’s eponymous debut EP arrived in 2009 on Valcour Records. In 2011, after replacing Henderson with Nick Stephan, the band released its full-length debut In Light on Glassnote.

LORD HURON
http://lordhuron.com
http://www.facebook.com/lordhuron
Ben Schneider, a.k.a. Lord Huron, grew up in Michigan plagued by wanderlust. Once he graduated from art school at the University of Michigan, that desire to see the world not only took him to places like New York, Southern France and Bali, Indonesia—where he was fascinated by gamalan orchestras—it also shows up all over his own poly-rhythmic Laurel Canyon-by-way-of-both-Bali-and-Mali music.

“I always liked those old calypso tracks from carnival tents in Trinidad,” says Schneider, who now lives in Los Angeles. “My music is pretty rooted in American folk, but those other elements add the spice.”

Schneider initially moved to L.A. to pursue a career in the visual arts, and created the artwork for his two EPs. “I had a tough time deciding between music and art school,” he says. “I’d been doing these photo collages of things I’ve taken over the years, but I kind of got tired of how the art scene works. It’s nice to be able to do both.”

After all the travel, he returned to Michigan to record his second EP, Mighty. Both short-players were recorded completely on his own, but he recently gathered a full band in Los Angeles made up entirely of fellow Michaganers. One, Schneider’s childhood friend Mark Barry, drove across the country from Nashville, where he worked as a studio drummer. They’re joined by electric guitars, bass, theremin and other electronic effects.



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