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From left, Capital Grass and the No Men’s drummer D’Arcy McGuire, bassist Mike Short, vocalist Matt Gower and guitarist Wayne Coulis. The band is set to play Bluesfest on July 13.
Nepean-based garage folk band to play Bluesfest Saturday Jennifer McIntosh jennnifer.mcintosh@metroland.com
Entertainment - As they work on mixing their second album, Nepean-based Capital Grass and the No Men will take a break to play the Black Sheep Stage at Bluesfest on July 13. The self-described garage folk band was working on their debut album Don’t Wait for the Mountain when they first played the festival for the first time in 2010. The band started in 2006 with vocalist Matt Gower and guitarist Wayne Coulis, whose wives were both in the vet school at Guelph University. “We just started jamming at parties and people liked what they heard, so it grew from there,” Coulis said.
Mike Short, a bassist who lives in the Glebe, is the band’s newest acquisition. He started playing with them last July. Gower, the vocalist, hails from south Ottawa, and said he initially he wrote most of the songs. Now the group tends to work as a team, and work together on recording in Coulis’s Nepean home. The band – whose style has a touch of Canadiana folk – has played the Branch in Kemptville, along with the Elmdale Tavern and the Black Sheep Inn in Wakefield. They are also regulars at the Rainbow Bistro. Gower, who also plays banjo, harmonica and mandolin, said they have been compared to Blue Rodeo. The style is a mix of the influences and each member’s tastes, he added. It’s Gower who coined the term garage
folk, Coulis said he enjoys punk rock and D’Arcy has Celtic roots. Short said he grew up listening to Gordon Lightfoot and James Taylor and branched out to hip hop and indie rock. The band is excited to play Bluesfest for the second time, both to expand their audience and to see some of the other local acts on stage that day. Plans for the future include a CD release party later this summer or fall, and branching out to tour Ontario. “We’d like to hit Kingston, maybe Toronto,” McGuire said. But we are pretty happy with where we are right now.” For more information on the band’s upcoming shows, visit www.capitalgrassandthenomen.com.
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Nepean-Barrhaven News EMC - Thursday, July 11, 2013