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Garnet Rogers
His deep voice and finger-picked guitar work have a reassuring quality, even when he is singing about the darker side of life.
Where: Vancouver
Vancouver, BC
When: Oct 13, 2008, Mon 8:00 pm
Details: Old Crow House Concerts – 243 East 22nd Street, Vancouver ($20.00)
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.
Neil Young in concert
One of the leading lights of modern rock and roll.
Where: Canada Hockey Place
800 Griffiths Way
Vancouver, BC V6B 6G1
When: Oct 22, 2008, Wed 7:00 pm
Neil Young is one of rock and roll’s greatest songwriters and performers. In a career that extends back to his mid-Sixties roots as a coffeehouse folkie in his native Canada, this principled and unpredictable maverick has pursued an often winding course across the rock and roll landscape. He’s been a cult hero, a chart-topping rock star, and all things in-between, remaining true to his restless muse all the while. At various times, Young has delved into folk, country, garage-rock and grunge.
Several of his more modest-selling titles contain some of his most trenchant performances. It is typical of Young that he followed his most polished and popular album with one of his most raw and uncommercial. While he’s avoided sticking to one style for very long, the unifying factors throughout Young’s peripatetic musical journey have been his unmistakable voice, his raw and expressive guitar playing, and his consummate songwriting skill.