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Live Acts Canada + The Live Agency present:

Mud Bay Celebrates 40 Years with featured guests Buck Cherry (Modernettes), Scott McLeod (Big Top) and Tony Walker (The Rubes)



Mud Bay Blues Band (Vancouver) //

For 40 years (and counting) Mud Bay has been electrifying audiences with their high-intensity brand of original Roots & Blues music. Weathering more than a few storms along the way, they have been hailed as true Soul Survivors--“The Band That Won't Go Away”--much to the delight of their legions of fans throughout the world.

The five-piece band features four songwriters, three of whom are lead vocalists. Underlying this diversity is a remarkable consistency, the result of a shared vision refined over many years; distinct as the individual contributions may be, it all comes out sounding like Mud Bay.

The band features strong vocals and rhythmic elements reflecting a wide range of influences—classic Chicago Blues, Country, Cajun, Rock, Soul—all finding common ground inside well-crafted, inventive songs. Unconventional and uncompromising, Mud Bay has always taken the road less travelled, favouring innovation and interpretation over imitation and their dedication to expanding and enriching the Roots idiom they cherish has never wavered. And with four decades of dues paid, they have earned respect and praise from such blues legends as James Cotton (“Just like playing with family”) and the late great Stevie Ray Vaughn (“Mud Bay..?... More fun!”)

Mud Bay's fourth album, Colebrook Road, receives national airplay on CBC’s Saturday Night Blues and Stingray Music, on CFRO, CITR and LG104 and Roundhouse Radio locally, on internet radio in Europe, Canada and the US, and on community and university radio across Canada.

In 2018 Mud Bay celebrates 40 years of music making with their 5th independent release “Mud Bay - Live at Lorenzo’s”



Modernettes (Vancouver) //

Coming ashore with the second wave of Vancouver new wave punk, the Modernettes really hit some high points but, like Icarus flying too near the sun, they burned out quickly.

It wasn't long before the Modernettes became known as a brilliant pop punk combo, delivering some truly great songs.

Led by Buck Cherry (John Armstrong) and backed by Mary Jo Kopechne on bass and Jughead on drums, the Modernettes had a distinct personality and style that wasn't just a copy of the latest band of yobs from the U.K.

Listen to the rawness and pure ecstatic melody of: "Teen City", "Suicide Club" and "Rebel Kind" and of course, what should have been a smash hit, "Babra." Then check out the melancholy of "Confidential."

Then you will see some of the best pop/punk/new wane to emerge from the early eighties.

Pure fun, pure craziness, pure teen angst, purely worth owning, another retro release from Sudden Death Records that you don't want to miss.



BIG TOP (Vancouver) // http://bigtopmusicgroup.com/

BigTop sees music. Inspired by images and stories told through the camera lens, with a bit of circus style thrown in for good measure, Big Top’s music seduces the listener into a different time and place. Their Roots Americana soundscapes bring to mind cinematic compositions that are atmospheric, emphasizing melody and mood.
“I watch films with the sound turned off. A character does something and I put it to music and all of a sudden I have a song”

Guitarist/composer Scott McLeod is an experienced performer with a deep history in the Canadian roots music scene, including an extended tenure in Linda McRae’s band. For Big Top, McLeod assembled a group of talented, like-minded musicians: Ed Goodine – Drums, Stephen Graf - Bass & Soundscapes, Marc L'Esperance – Guitar, Gordon Rempel - Organ and Electric Piano, and Jon Wood - Lap Steel. Together they create a haunting musical dedication to the life and times, both past and present, of the roustabouts, carnies, rubes, misfits and performers of the circus.


The Rubes (Vancouver) //





Doors: 8PM // 19+

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