A trio of Canadian singer/songwriters hailing from three different regions is making its way to Haines Oct. 11 to perform at 7 p.m. at the Chilkat Center.
The show is sponsored by the Haines Arts Council.
The Canadian Troubadour Trilogy is comprised of Kim Beggs, of Whitehorse, Y.T., Ben Sures of Edmonton, Alberta, and Jay Aymar of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. The three musicians are joining forces for a fall tour of Canada, but are popping down to the United States to bring their songwriting to Haines and Skagway.
Beggs describes her music as old-time country with original folk roots, blended with American and bluegrass bramble. Her music “infuses sweet old-time roots country with dark tales of northern life.”
Beggs has garnered six Western Canadian Music Awards nominations and three Canadian Folk Music nominations, and plans to release her fifth solo album in early 2016.
Sures, a guitarist, has released seven albums; the latest, “Sons of Trouble,” is described on his website as “a new adventure making forays into African Blues and singing in French and Spanish in addition to English with a focus on his very old-fashioned approach to the electric guitar.”
Aymar, according to his website, has “been described as a Canadian everyman, because he gets his songs from the people he meets, and they are as complicated – and simple – as the drifter in the tap room, the traveler in the bus station, and the school teacher at Starbucks. He gets ideas from movies, great books and trash novels, and tunes he hears on the radio as the station fades between Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The winners and losers and lovers and fighters all contribute their voices, adding the details as well as the big ideas.”
Arts council president Tom Heywood said he was glad to snag the group for a Haines show. “It is very exciting to tap into the Whitehorse music scene, which is so often stymied by border issues,” he said.
Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for students. They are available at the Babbling Book and at the door.