[mplpost] GIG ON: Garnet Rogers - Sun. Dec. 9 in London for his Annual Concert in support of the London & Area Food Bank

[Ian Davies]

Folk at the Aeolian presents GARNET ROGERS -- Sunday, December 9, 7:30 pm,
Aeolian Hall, 795 Dundas St., London. This is Garnet's annual concert in
support of the London & Area Food Bank. Please bring non-perishable food
items.

Tickets are $15 Advance / $20 Door -- Available at Belle Air Music,
Centennial Hall, Chapters (Masonville), HMV (Westmount Mall), Hysen Music,
The Madrigal, Studio Celtia (Galleria Mall), Village Idiot (Wortley
Village). Call 473-2099 for information or by email to folk@iandavies.com

Garnet has just released his new CD "Firefly" which is getting great airplay
on CBC, especially on Richardson's Roundup.

Q: The concert that you’re doing in London is in support of the London and
Area Food Bank. How did you come to be so supportive of the Food Bank?

Garnet: "It’s kind of a non-denominational thing and it’s kind of a
no-brainer. It goes across party lines kind of stuff, everyone gets hungry.
It’s an enormous privilege for me to stand up and be able to sing my own
songs. I always say I’d do it for free, I just get paid for the driving.
That’s pretty much the way it is for me. But I would like to be able to
build something else into the concerts and have something left behind after
the smoke and dust is cleared away where people are actually benefiting from
the concert at some level."

Garnet in a recent interview had this to say about his years on the road
with his late brother Stan and his journey as a solo artist since Stan's
death.
"Scott Alarik at The Boston Globe once astutely observed that without having
worked for 10 years developing a signature sound with Stan, I was forced to
find a different style of writing after his death. To continue in that style
we developed together might have been perceived as opportunistic or simply
lazy. I had to find some other way to write while others, perhaps
opportunistic themselves, stepped in to claim that sound as their own. It
was frustrating to watch, but at the same time I was making slow steps
towards another sound, another voice and a somewhat different way of
expressing thoughts in song. By the time I wrote the songs on Night Drive, I
realized that I'd been skirting the issues of aging, loss and love (i.e. the
big stuff) in my writing. If I did address the issues at all, it was in an
oblique way, and I did my best to cover my tracks and eradicate any
connection to myself. But writing Golden Fields and Night Drive addressed
clearly and in a direct way my own personal sense of loss and the passage of
time since the loss of my brother and my best friend. And the recording of
the song, Night Drive, as well as playing it every night was a kind of
cleansing or catharsis. For over a year, I wrote nothing, feeling prety much
at times that I'd finally said my piece and exorcised a few demons in the
process. So again, I felt I had to find a new way to write, and a different
sound. I couldn't simply repeat what I'd just done. And having, at least in
my own mind, publicly reclaimed my connection with Stan (there being so many
fans who came to his music after hisa death that some don't know that we
played together), I found myself writing about the Maritimes and drifting
back to the elements of the sound we created together 25 years ago - my own
sound. I've come to recognize over the years that the writing process for me
is one of trying to make sense of my life, of what goes on in the world
around me. My new songs are for the most part, far more personal and
relevatory than what I've written in the past."

Thanks to Real Internet Co. Inc. www.real.ca for sponsoring and hosting our
website.

Thanks to the Idlewyld Inn, 36 Grand Ave., London info@idlewyldinn.com for
being our accommodation sponsor

We thank the Home County Folk League www.homecounty.ca and all of our
dedicated volunteers for their continued support.

For more information, please contact Ian Davies at 519-473-2099 or by e-mail
at: folk@iandavies.com






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