Garnet Rogers in Concert – Friday June 5 @ The Loft

Presented by Black Fly Jam in cooperation with Algoma Conservatory Concerts

Doors open at 7:00, showtime 8:00pm

Single tickets from $28 to $40, with no online fees!

Garnet asks to PLEASE BRING A NON-PERISHABLE FOOD OR PERSONAL CARE ITEM for a charitable drop-box.

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Join us for a marvellous evening of intimate music, with one of this continent’s finest folk artists!

Garnet Rogers’ songs give expression to the unspoken language of the heart. His passionate music and humor never fail to entertain & delight.

When barely out of high school, Garnet Rogers was on the road as a full-time working musician with his older brother Stan. Together they formed what has come to be accepted as one of the most influential acts in North American folk music. It was a national and untimely tragedy when Stan was killed in a plane crash in 1983.

While honouring the legacy that Stan began, Garnet has singularity and most ably established himself as a major singer-songwriter of our times.

Influenced by a wide array of musical styles, Garnet has taken a much more contemporary approach to his own music than his older brother did. His songs are literate, sensitive and often cinematic in detail — presenting slices of life infused with humor and social commentary.

Among the best known of his almost 20 studio compilations are several compositions that can be found on most folk-roots playlists – “All That Is,” “Frankie & Johnny,” “Night Drive,” “Small Victories” “Summer Lightning” and “The Outside Track”, all of which “give expression to the unspoken vocabulary of the heart” (Kitchener Waterloo Record). An optimist at heart, Garnet sings extraordinary stories about people who are not obvious heroes, and of the small victories of the everyday.

He has also branched out to lay down those stories into several books, both autobiographical and fictional; his first book, “Night Drive”, a memoir of his travels with his brother Stan, is particularly poignant. True stories of growing up and becoming a band with his brother Stan, and being part of the struggle to get folk music back on the radar in Canada.

“It was just really fun to write, and I like telling stories, I always have liked telling stories on stage,” Rogers told CBC reporter Karen Mair, when asked why he wrote the book. “And also to counter some of the stories that are out there about Stan”.

Hailed by the Boston Globe as a “charismatic performer and singer”, Garnet is a man with a powerful physical presence – close to six and a half feet tall – with a voice to match. With his “smooth, dark baritone” (Washington Post) his incredible range, and thoughtful, dramatic phrasing, Garnet is widely considered by fans and critics alike to be one of the finest singers anywhere. His music, like the man himself, is literate, passionate, highly sensitive, and deeply purposeful.

As memorable as his melodies, his over-the-top humour and lightning-quick wit moves his audience from tears to laughter and back again.

“Garnet Rogers is capable of awe-inspiring and unpredictable stuff – and that includes more than just music”