--------Backspace + Tonic Records Present:--------

An eclectic evening of country-noir, folk, garage soul, the Burmis Tree CD release , a DJ, bbq + more!

BACKFEST
Burmis Tree (Album Release Show)
Rodney DeCroo + The Wise Blood
Shiloh Lindsey
HAMM: One Man Band!
Soul Proprietors
w/ opening set by DJ Su Comandante (5:30-6:30pm)
w/ Churrasco Brazilian BBQ!

SATURDAY, AUGUST 27
Backspace (1318 Grant Street, Lane Entrance)
Doors 5:30pm / Music 6:30pm
All Ages
Cash Bar
Tickets: $20 Adv / $25 Door

Advance tickets available via Eventbrite (link above), Highlife Records (no service fee!), Red Cat Records, Zulu Records, and via Backspace at 604-831-6263.

Burmis Tree
Conjuring the lonesome whisper of the Great Plains and the ancient hymnodies of the Cordillera, Burmis Tree weaves a mythological patchwork of western historiography, exploring the darkness found in the ghost towns, badlands and wandering skies of the Canadian West. Burmis Tree's album 'Blood of the Land' is being released at Backfest.
burmistree.bandcamp.com

Rodney DeCroo + The Wise Blood
Rodney DeCroo + The Wise Blood play country-noir inspired songs with a poetic swagger. Performed with an agnostic-evangelical-like-fervor, their songs carry a dark, poignant and haunting mood that transports listeners into the corners of DeCroo’s mind, where memory, monsters and desires meet.
rodneydecroo.com

Shiloh Lindsey Music
Seasoned songwriter and storyteller Shiloh Lindsey is a most unique character in Canadian music. Hard-raised on a ranch in south central Alberta, based for many years out of Vancouver, and most recently returned from a residence in Halifax, she pairs open country authenticity with big city sensibilities, for a complex blend of prairie, mountain and coastal textures.
shilohlindsey.ca

HAMM: One Man Band!
Hamm One Man Band is legendary Vancouver musician and entertainer Stephen Hamm’s latest solo adventure into psychedelic outsider rock. Combining his larger than life personality with Organ, Synthesizer and Theremin let Mr. Hamm take you on a musical journey into new dimensions. Though Stephen has played in a number of seminal Vancouver acts; Slow, The Evaporators and Canned Hamm, One Man Band has played only a couple of shows, most recently the Khatsalano Street, the show has been met with excitement, joy and requests for more!

Soul Proprietors
Abbey Road studios? Carnegie Hall? Coachella? what's next for our intrepid proprietors of garage soul? Backfest!!! that's what!! Kevin Finseth - James Hutchinson - Bill Hood -

DJ Su Comandante
DJ Su Comandante (Raul Espinoza) has opened for acts such as K-OS, Wyclef Jean of the Fugees, Yellowman, Kinnie Starr, Kytami, Native Guns, Canary Sing, Gabriel Teodros, Alpha Yaya Diallo, Kevin Finseth, The Boom Booms + more. He’s also known for hosting Victoria’s CFUV’s underground hip hop radio show, working at Highlife Records and spinning regularly at the Reef Restaurant on Main Street, and his work as a youth empowerment workshop facilitator. He is currently working on an EP with Los Migrantes, a project with spoken word lyricist Stahz Grandson.
sucomandante.wordpress.com