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We're back home again after showcasing for the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils (OSAC) in Saskatoon, SK last month. We felt deeply honoured to be included in such an incredible line-up of showcasing artists (literally mind blowing) and felt warmly welcomed by everyone we met there. We can say with all certainty that attending OSAC again is definitely in our plans for the future.

We also want to thank two incredible organizations for supporting our ongoing efforts as independent Canadian performing artists: FACTOR Canada and Canada Council for the Arts. We are deeply grateful for the assistance you've offered to us this past year. We couldn't have done it without either of you.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

As for our current situation: we're gigging around the province a little in the midst of a busy life season for our family. In addition to this, we're in the middle of refining our latest songs as we'll be recording again in the next couple of months for the release our debut album in early 2020. We'll be posting more about the entire recording process and experience in the coming weeks so please keep your eyes peeled for our email updates - and feel free to SIGN-UP to our Artist Newsletter if you haven't done so already.

Lauren and I are both super excited about our newest material and can hardly wait to show each of you what we've been working on this past year. We hope you're all having a great fall and that many good things are coming your way. Until next time... ciao ciao for now!

So our summer touring season has finally winded down and we're gearing up for all that this fall is bringing with it. In super exciting news we'll be officially showcasing for the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils (OSAC) in Saskatoon, SK, CAN in a couple of weeks from now. We're really looking forward to this incredible opportunity to share our latest material with a fantastic audience of music appreciators and aficionados - and we hope to make many new friends at this creative community gathering.

We're also going to be joined at OSAC by fellow Albertan artists Over The Moon and Martin Kerr - so you know it's gonna be a great time! Super exciting for us is that the lovely Laurie Brown of Porch Swing Entertainment will be representing us again at this event and we're sooo thrilled to have her onboard for the ride. Keep your eyes peeled for more updates coming down the pipe in the coming months. We're going to be hitting the studio again really soon and can't wait to get our newest songs recorded!

WOW! We just returned from showcasing at the Southeast Regional Folk Alliance (SERFA) in Chattanooga, TN, USA and what an experience it was! Each day was filled with meet-ups, friendly meals, and workshops hosted by industry members and fellow artists, and every evening was a smattering of delicious showcase performances from groups from all across North America. Lauren and I were utterly blown away by the warm welcome we received at SERFA and we're both looking forward to seeing what kinds of partnerships and collaborations might come out of it in the near future. Our sincerest thanks to all of the SERFA organizing committee and volunteers who made this event such a memorable experience. Shoutouts to the Chattanoogan Hotel staff as well for accommodating all of us folkies and our various needs!

We also wanted to say a big THANK YOU to all of the kind folks in the Maryland Room and the lovely Laurie Brown of Porch Swing Entertainment for attending the conference with us and offering such great support, friendship, and fellowship throughout the event. We are so thankful for meeting each and everyone who attended SERFA but wanted to quickly highlight a few folks in particular:

Ellis: Thank you yet again for graciously attending our performance and chatting it up with us during the weekend. You've been a longtime inspiration of ours and we were so grateful to receive your genuine care and encouragement. We've been listening to your new album 24/7 and especially love '5 Alarm Fire'.

Michael: Thanks for being the first person to reach out to us for a guerrilla showcase! You took a big chance on us and we're so glad to have connected with you and learned more about your work with NERFA and the FMSH. We'll certainly be getting in touch ASAP once we've got our schedule sorted out a little more.

Nancy: Thank you for taking a chance on us and accommodating Lauren's pregnancy for our guerrilla showcase with you. It was our first ever guerrilla and you made us feel so comfortable to share a little of who we are and what we do. We look forward to staying in contact and learning much more about your LilFest efforts.

Joe: We really appreciated you inviting us to take part in your guerrilla showcase at SERFA. We had a lot of fun connect with your audience and were so thankful for your kind words about our performance. We definitely looking forward to see you again at the next regional!

JB: You were so kind to invite us to shoot a live video with you. Thank you for your encouraging words as well - we really appreciated that affirmation. You worked extremely hard all conference to capture all the footage you did and many folks will greatly benefit from the fruits of your labour.

David: We loved being able to take part in the magic you've developed with the Gypsy Wagon Studio and really enjoyed being interviewed for KC Cafe Radio. We hope your journeys went smoothly, as we recall you had to pack up the wagon for quite the trip! Looking forward to seeing you again at another conference real soon.

We also wanted to express our sincerest thanks and appreciation to FACTOR Canada and the SOCAN Foundation for helping to fund this incredible experience. Without their generous support, we wouldn't been able to take advantage of this amazing opportunity. Thank you again SOCAN Foundation and FACTOR Canada for helping us continue to pursue our dreams! We are so very thankful for your ongoing support and are excited for our next partnership with you!

Where to start!? So we've had a long and bitter winter up in Calgary with several cold snaps that nearly threatened to do us in, but the spring is nearly here and we're holding out hope for better days. At the moment we're working on preproduction for our debut EP, which we will be releasing later this year. Many of you know we attended the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity this past fall, and the experience was out of this world. We were able to spend five-weeks exploring new approaches to our songwriting and instrumentation, and we're super excited to start unveiling some of the fruits of this residency over the coming months.

In other incredible news, we've been invited for an Official Showcase at SERFA in Chattanooga, TN, USA in May of this year. We're honoured to have been selected to showcase and are looking forward to bringing our "Rocky Mountain Folk-Pop" sound on down to the south. Plus we'll get to see one of our favourites, Ellis Paul (pictured below), who will be the conference's keynote speaker. **Interesting fact: Joal was inspired to pursue music full-time after seeing Ellis Paul perform at a concert in La Salle, MB. Years later in a very "small world" experience, Ellis graciously came to watch one of Joal's performances in Cochrane, AB after he himself performed a sold-out show at the Calgary Folk Club.

In addition to recording this spring we've also got a great string of shows coming up in Alberta over the next while. Please visit Shows for more details on a performance near you! As always, thank you for following along our journey! It means much more to us than you know.

It's a New Year and we're super excited to share that we're in the recording studio again! Last year was such a productive time of songwriting and honing our sound at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, but now we're pleased to announce that we are beginning to track demos for our debut album (which we'll be releasing early in 2020). Thank you so much for your continued support and patience in waiting for this to finally happen. We can promise you that we're working hard on these new songs and hope that they really connect.

We're currently working out of Evergreen Sound recording studios with longtime friend, Mark Troyer. For those of you who caught our Banff Centre performances last fall, you'll have a few ideas as to what we may be recording... In other news, we're starting to fill in our summer schedule and have some other exciting news to share in the coming weeks. We hope each of you are having a great start to 2019 and that this year brings each of you great successes, opportunities to grow, and plenty of laughter along the way.

Many of you have been asking where we've been since wrapping up our summer tour this past September... Well, we're pleased to finally announce that we just spent the last five weeks songwriting at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Located in the Bow Valley region of the Rocky Mountains, the Banff Centre offered us a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to focus on writing and refining new Flint & Feather material in a breathtaking location with access to world-class faculty and facilities. It was an incredibly productive time for us and we made some great connections with a host of talented musicians from across the globe.

We also wanted to express our sincerest thanks and appreciation to the SOCAN Foundation for partially funding this incredible experience. The bills really start adding up when you take five weeks off to focus on songwriting. Thank you SOCAN Foundation for helping us continue to pursue this full-time music adventure. We are truly grateful for your ongoing support and look forward to partnering with you again in the future!

Hooray! The summer is finally here and we're ready to hit the road to share our latest music with audiences throughout western Canada. We've got a ton of gigs lined up throughout Alberta and British Columbia (details listed under Shows) and you can catch us at a host of festivals, summer concert series, music venues, and house concerts all the way into the fall.

We also wanted to say a special thank you to FACTOR Canada for their funding assistance. Because of their help, we can continue on touring like this each year. The cost of hitting the road is enormously high and we're sooo thankful for FACTOR Canada and their ongoing music career support. Without their help, it would be very VERY difficult to make a go of things.

**If you would like to to play at a place near YOU, please get in touch! We're always looking to fill in any extra dates on the road (particularly House Concerts), and we would love to hear from you.

Hey friends! It's been a busy start to the year and we're very excited to share lots of cool news with you over the coming months. First off, Lauren and I found out that we made the top 3 finalists in the 2018 Emerging Artist Program put on by the Prophets of Music Society. We're honoured to be selected alongside fellow artists Kate Stevens and Josh Sahunta, and as finalists, we'll be recording our debut single with JUNO Award-winning producer/musician Russell Broom at OCL Studios this summer. How cool is that!?

In other news, we've finally finished building our music room!! This project began last year and took a while to complete, but now it's done. **YAHOO!! This place is where we write all of our new songs, practice, rehearse, and work on all things music related. We'll be putting together a short video in the coming weeks that documents the build process, so keep your eyes peeled for that. For now, here's a photo from the drywalling stage last spring (Luna has grown SOOO much since then).

Howdy folks! It's a new year and we figured a quick update and recap would be in order. 2017 was a really exciting year for us and we hope it was a great year for you as well. We officially launched our Flint & Feather project this past June and spent the next seven months working hard to share our new sound and direction with folks all over the place. It's been quite the journey since then! Some specific career highlights from this past year include:

- Performed 65 gigs (32 in Europe, 33 in North America)
- Performed 11 Music Festival (1 in Europe, 10 in North America)
- Received three separate career support grants
- Recorded a new single with producer Russell Broom
- Upgraded our touring vehicle to a 1984 Dodge Ram Prospector
- Survived 3500+ KMs through the Rocky Mountains

At the moment we're in the midst of a songwriting season, an we'll be performing a few specific public events over the next couple of months. We'd love to see you at an upcoming gig! A full listing of our upcoming performances in and around Alberta can be found HERE.

Lastly, we have a lot of plans for 2018 and if you'd like to get more of an inside scoop on things, please SIGN-UP to our Artist Newsletter and keep your eyes peeled for more personal updates. 

Hey folks! We hope you're doing well. There's snow in Calgary now... but it's brought with it a fresh breath of productivity! We recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Karl Magi for a feature on his Canadian Folk Band Profile blog. It's one of the more in-depth interviews we've done so far, and we talked all about our touring endeavours, running a music business, and how family is very important to us. It was a lot of fun and if you like reading, we hope you'll take a peek for yourself. See the full interview by clicking HERE.

We were recently awarded tour funding from the SOCAN Foundation to help cover some of the expenses we faced on western Canadian tour this summer. We're thrilled about their support because touring Canada sure ain't cheap, and once you factor in the cost of fuel and BC ferries, it's just downright expensive! Thank you SOCAN Foundation for helping us pursue our dreams!

Next week we'll be hunkering down for a very important project: a 12-week self-imposed songwriting residency. It'll be the first time in our lives where we'll be spending regular, dedicated time honing our craft and focusing on writing new material. In a lot of ways I (Joal) think I'm a little scared as an artist that we won't have anything worthwhile to share, so I would greatly appreciate your thoughts, prayers, and encouragement for artist inspiration and creativity.

 

#tbt to earlier this year when we were #jamming in #rotterdam #netherlands with this #groovy couple. Pretty #funky for #folkies eh? We enjoyed #dutch #koffie and #pancakes afterwards and #Luna even took a nap! Best day ever. #funk #folk #roots #canyoufeelit #holland #guitar #violin #piano #jamsession #jammin #eh

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