This Saturday - The Elizabeth Riley Band with Landon Coleman and Simon Hoskyn

THIS SATURDAY


From 5 PM onwards this Saturday at Umi Cafe, we will be featuring the great Canadian talents of..





5 PM to 8:30Landon Coleman and Simon Hoskyn





Here all the way from Edmonton Alberta via the Maritimes!





8:30 PM to 11 PM





The Elizabeth Riley Band The Ottawa roots folk legends, now featuring Charline Dequincey on accordeon and violinSpanning 5 decades in age, playing electrified acoustic instruments, including the banjo, and inspired by bluegrass harmonies (among other things)... we are all... Elizabeth Riley! (Elizabeth Riley was a French-Celtic travelling musician and muse whose spirit is alive and well - ta very much.)





Landon Coleman





Landon Coleman comes to Ottawa from Alberta via the Maritimes. His songs come from the land he treads and the different lights by which he sees. Bland latte spilled on a MEC jacket and revolution in Vancouver, BC, cold water and the romantics in Golden, BC, dirty avenues and boozy breakdowns in Edmonton, Alberta, frozen toes and metaphysics in Ottawa, ON, green and yellow eelgrass with a fistful of rings in Antigonish, NS. His folky pop tunes are alive with youth and Canada and sincerity. He has shared the stage with The Bicycles, You Say Party! We Say Die!, and Cadence Weapon.





Simon Hoskyn





Having three full-length releases under his belt and experience playing much of Canada, the US and New Zealand, Simon can rightly be called a seasoned singer/songwriter. His latest release "Sing of the Beauty, Say Nothing of the Pain" is proof of his hard-earned maturity. Lyrically, the album winds its way through themes of loss, weariness, pain and love; musically it is the meticulous and sincere work of a virtuoso guitarist and skilled vocalist. A careful listener can hear the influences of Bruce Cockburn, Rufus Wainwright, Jeff Buckley, and Ryan Adams. In a culture where a willingness to "give it a shot" seems to be all one needs to be called a singer/songwriter, the raw talent obvious in Simon Hoskyn's work sets him above and apart.