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General News · 26th June 2024
Jemma + Robbie
Come one come all for a cozy night of music at Mansons Hall featuring Cortes local Jemma & the Good Thing, the ever-wandering Robbie Bankes, and Canada's next big thing, Sam Tudor.

Tuesday, July 2

Doors open at 7, music at 7:30. Suggested $20 entrance or pay what you can. All are welcome, so please don't let money be a barrier. Kids come for free.

About the performers:

Sam Tudor is an individual person, but also a project involving a large group of friends across Canada. The underpinnings of the songs are genre-less; jazz players join forces with Eno inspired beats while acoustic guitars meet distorted synths. What unifies the project is Tudor’s distinct voice: a sandy, melancholic narrator, leaning in close with confessional and cathartic writing. The band’s live show is a communal affair, moving from hushed tones to bombastic walls of sound and back again. The Georgia Straight calls the band “a gem, with a penchant for everything left field” while VICE Magazine describes the project as “a darkened digital space… embellished with jazz, baroque, and electronic touches”.

https://www.samtudormusic.com

https://samtudor.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-minute

Jemma and the Good Thing
Known for her unique voice and heartfelt performances, Jemma Hicken (Jemma & the Good Thing) is a songwriter from Cortes Island, BC. With a pop song forever stuck in her head and a folk song forever stuck in her heart, Jemma crafts catchy and cathartic tunes that have charmed audiences on both sides of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Drawing on the humour and sentimentality of John Prine, the innocence of Paul Simon and Ingrid Michaelson, and the fire of Ani DiFranco, Jemma is a folk-pop force. Based in Edmonton for three prairie winters, Jemma was featured at the New Moon Folk Club, SkirtsAFire Festival, Kaleido Fest, and won the 2019 Bent River Songwriting Competition. The pandemic brought her back to her Gulf Island home, and in 2024 she can be found touring up and down Vancouver Island, most notably debuting at festivals such as Vancouver Island Music Fest, Filberg Fest, Love Fest, and Woodstove Festival. Jemma released her debut album, Get It Together, in July 2023. Jemma & the Good Thing is a project of many iterations; the Good Thing is often other musicians, or sometimes it’s just Jemma’s tenor guitar. The common denominator is always Jemma and her songs.

https://jemmaandthegoodthing.com/epk

https://jemmaandthegoodthing.bandcamp.com/album/get-it-together

Robbie Bankes
With his perpetual bedhead, trademark wool sweater and easy smile, Robbie’s observant and gentle nature draws his audience in like a warm fire. His music and live shows are a conversation; his words carry over landscapes of mountains, crunching snow, and starry skies. His songs of sadness and hope are modern and old all at once and deeply rooted to a geography of moment and place. Robbie has played in houses, streets, halls and bars across Canada and Europe and his music has been featured in film and radio across the globe. He has released the album “Foothills” (2017) and the EP’s “The Way My Feet Fall” (2020) and “Through February Snow” (2015). He has lived for most of the past 10 years in Norway where he studied traditional music, organic agriculture and worked on farms. These days he lives in the small town of Parson BC.

www.robbiebankes.com

https://robbiebankes.bandcamp.com/album/the-way-my-feet-fall