Saturday 5pm | OCT. 17 The beat: LIVE PERFORMANCES Hard Rock Café
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Astral Media Radio presents: The Beat featuring Lucie Idlout, George Leach and Jason Burnstick Hard Rock Café, Yonge-Dundas Square 279 Yonge St. Admission: $10 or FREE to Festival Pass Holders
George Leach
Lucie Idlout Lucie Idlout is Canada’s best-kept alt-rock secret. Not only does she have an incredibly great voice or sound, but she’s got just enough of everything—a complete package that comes naturally to her. Her voice at times echoes the crooning of the likes of Etta James, and then with seemingly equal ease delivers the awesome power of alternative alumni Marianne Faithful and PJ Harvey. From Nunavut, in Canada’s Arctic, Lucie’s music is not simply a testament to being Aboriginal, but a complete expression of being herself. This complexity resonates in her music, as she unfolds a story in each of her songs’ leading the listener through a dark emotional struggle. “A one-woman revolution in Canadian music, taking the old blues wraiths and wrestling them into fierce new shapes.” – The Globe and Mail
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George Leach is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist who performs his original compositions with his own distinctive and unpredictable style. On his debut album “Just Where I’m At” (Independent 2000), George chose to root himself in the Blues. He composed, performed and arranged all of the vocal, guitar and bass tracks on this self-produced album, which won him Best Male Artist and Best Rock Album awards at the 2000 Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards. If Lenny Kravitz played the Blues, he’d probably sound something like George Leach. Leach is a very skilled guitarist and his music has allowed him to work with respected artists such as Robbie Robertson, the Powder Blues, Susan Aglukark and Bo Didley. George is in the studio now working on his second, much anticipated album, due out 2009.
Jason Burnstick Juno Nominee, CAMA Award-winning and recent Jessie Richardson Award Nominee lap slide guitarist, Jason Burnstick is a Cree musician and composer who performs with his arsenal of weissenborns and double neck lap slides. “The whole play had the constant and unobtrusive playing of Jason Burnstick’s guitar and weissenborn lap slide playing and singing…” – Alex Waterhouse-Hayward, photographer, writer, artist
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