Suggested Donation: $30 per person, RSVP: rickksroom@gmail.com
Scott Nolan is an acclaimed Folk/Roots songwriter, poet, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Treaty One Territory. Releasing 7 albums since 2005, Scott will release a new album in December 2023.
Scott performs solo, duo, trio, or with full band. He is known for his spellbinding, intimate performances. He is adept at performative and instructional songwriting workshops.
His songs have been recorded by Hayes Carll, Mary Gauthier, Watermelon Slim, and Corin Raymond among others. He has toured with Hayes, Mary, James McMurtry, and Fred Eaglesmith. He has produced albums for William Prince, Lynne Hanson, Watermelon Slim, Stephen Fearing, and others.
Joe Nolan from Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta (north of Edm). Influenced by roots-music gentry like Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Lucinda Williams and Bob Dylan, Nolan reflects on his vagabond lifestyle that takes him to festivals and venues spread throughout Canada's peaks and valleys. A typical year will see him playing anywhere from 150-200 shows; he is a true workhorse and road dog.
CONGRATS to Joe for his Canadian Folk Music Awards nomination for Contemporary Singer of the Year!
MARTYN JOSEPH - Saturday & Sunday - May 4th & 5th, 2024 - 3 PM
Suggested Donation: $30 per person or 2 shows $50 - RSVP: rickksroom@gmail.com
Martyn is returning to the RickksRoom stage with a brand new album to share. Martyn is gifted with the rare ability to speak to the soul with his expressive and poignant lyrics and has a career spanning over 30 years, 32+ albums and over a half a million record sales and thousands of live performances. Please join us either Saturday or Sunday or both !
Lynne Hanson - Sunday, June 16, 2024 @ 2PM
Suggested Donation: $25 per person, RSVP: rickksroom@gmail.com
Too tough for folk and too blues-influenced for country, Lynne Hanson’s brand of porch music with a little red dirt can turn on a dime from a sunshine, blue sky ballad to a full on thunderstorm of gritty Americana swamp from one song to the next. Her hard living music has garnered her the nickname “Canada’s Queen of Americana.” And while her deep, bluesy croon has drawn comparisons to Lucinda Williams and Gillian Welch, it’s the poetry of her lyrics that really sets her apart.
Winner of two Canadian Folk Music Awards, Hanson is known for her high energy, roots guitar driven live performances, whether playing solo or with her band the Good Intentions. She has an uncanny way of connecting with her audience with an authenticity that is as entertaining as it is disarming.
Lynne returns to the RickksRoom stage to showcase her new album being released in late May 2024, we are honoured to be on her new album release tour !
Leeroy Stagger - Saturday, June 29, 2024 @ 3 PM
Suggested Donation - $30 per person, RSVP to rickksroom@gmail.com
Summer is here and what a great way to welcome summer with Leeroy Stagger with his Trio Ryland Moranz & Tyler Lieb to the RickksRoom stage. Leeroy has been working on tons of new music, we sure hope you will join us to hear his latest art and stories from the road. He has been very busy in his studio producing and mixing music for several artists when he is not on tour and continues to DJ the Dirty Windshields Hour on CKUA radio. Help us fill the room for Leeroy !
Leverage for Mountains - Sunday, August 25, 2024 - @ 2PM
Suggested Donation - $25 per person, RSVP to rickksroom@gmail.com
Leverage For Mountains is Nick Loyer, Jay Trépanier and Jay Flynn. Based in Gatineau, this independent indie/folk trio is quickly gaining popularity with their rich acoustic sound and powerful vocal harmonies. The band released their first E.P. in 2016, titled "The Essence Project", introducing their audience to their simplistic approach to giving springboard to the lyrics offered and the emotions induced in their songs. All of this is served with captivating melodies and meticulous vocal harmonies. The trio was awarded "Public’s Choice" at the Cabaret le Festif! (Charlevoix, QC) in 2017. The trio launched their second record, Love Out of the Dark, at a sold-out show at Salle Jean Desprez in only a few hours.
Come join us for an afternoon of live music, stories from the road and meet new friends who like you are all about supporting live music in our community.
Jerry Leger - Sunday, September 25, 2024 @ 2 PM
Suggested Donation: $25 per person RSVP rickksroom@gmail.com
Jerry Leger, Toronto-based singer songwriter coming to our listening room in September ! He has been a favourite of Uncut Magazine and Rolling Stone Germany. Won't you join us for a fabulous Fall afternoon with Jerry in our space.
To sample some of his music, do click in to his website and see for yourself that you do not want to miss him.
Rob Lutes with Rob MacDonald - Sunday, October 19, 2024
Suggested Donation: $25 per person RSVP rickksroom@gmail.com
A masterful fingerstyle guitarist with an unmistakable, soulful voice, Rob Lutes has steadily built a collection of exquisite songs that inhabit the intersection of folk, Americana, country, blues and the singer-songwriter genre. Originally from New Brunswick but based in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, his 8th album, Come Around, was released in April 2021 and received four 2022 Canadian Folk Music Award nominations for Album, English Songwriter, Contemporary Singer, and Producer of the Year (with Rob MacDonald) along with a Maple Blues Award nomination for Acoustic Act of the Year. He is a two-time CFMA Contemporary Singer of the Year.
His longtime collaborator, Rob MacDonald is renowned as one of Quebec's finest guitarists and has recorded and performed with a who's who of Quebec roots artists, including Guy Belanger, Dawn Tyler Watson, among many others. After more than two decades playing together, Lutes and MacDonald have developed an ability to blend their two sounds into something unique and intense.
"A gem. Among the best in a crowded roots field." Toronto Star
‟Lutes is a fine roots/blues writer, one of those gems you find by chance as you're going through a town and he's going through a town and you just want a beer and he gives you the show of the year.” - Bob Mersereau, CBC.ca
