September 28, will be our first concert to start the celebrations for the Nick’s 40th anniversary season. We feature some favorite old friends, Tri-Continental with opening act Kevin Cook.
Advance tickets for this concert are on sale now at Brown Paper Tickets.
All Nick concerts are held at the Crescent Heights Community Hall, 1101 2nd St. N.W. Doors open at 7:00 and showtime is 7:30.
Bill Bourne
Lester Quitzau
Formed in 1999, Tri-Continental is a one-of-a-kind blues / folk / world music mélange that builds on artistic respect and a deep passion for, and knowledge of the blues. Bill Bourne, Lester Quitzau and Madagascar Slim present a truly unique and critically acclaimed sound that is soulful and present, intense and atmospheric. Individually and collectively, Tri-Continental has received four Juno awards and 10 nominations, a 2018 Album of the Year nomination for Dust Dance at the international Folk Music Awards and 2019 Western Canadian Music Awards nomination for Roots Group / Duo of the Year. Something very special and magical happens when Bourne, the grand improvisor, Quitzau, kidnapper of the blues, and Madagascar Slim, promotor of the Malagasy blues take the stage. Sharing and curiosity leads them on fascinating musical explorations resulting in their infectious sound where world, Celtic, Latin, folk, flamenco, blues and African rhythms fuse into one.
Kevin Cook
From greasy blues to country soul this western Canadian roots artist delivers the real thing. An accomplished guitarist with a signature dusty voice, the real gold is in his lyrics. Cook’s tales of dark beauty tempered with an offbeat sense of humour will captivate you. Hard to pigeon-hole, his influences range from Hank Williams to J.J. Cale and everything in between. He cut his musical teeth in Alberta’s rough and tumble honky-tonks and blues bars playing for cowboys, lumberjacks and bikers. In Cook’s words “It grows a thick hide on you.” His newest CD eventually is being released this September.
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