Vancouver’s Pratt brings all-new setlist
Vancouver multi-instrumentalist Cary Pratt will have a setlist of new songs to play at his Copper Owl concert on Saturday as his new album under the Prairie Cat moniker hits stores a day earlier. The indie-pop effort, Is Cary Pratt, was co-produced by Ryan Dahle of The New Pornographers, who is also Pratt’s bandmate in the super-group Mounties.
Prairie Cat is performing with locals Iceberg Ferg at the Copper Owl, which is located above Paul’s Motor Inn at 1900 Douglas St. The show is just one of six dates in Canada to promote the album. Tickets are available at the door. Cowichan Valley singer-songwriter Scotty Hills — who can play drums, guitar, and bass equally well — will perform Monday at Hermann’s Jazz Club (753 View St.), showcasing songs from his brilliant E.P. from earlier this year, Nature Girl.
Hills’s performance is sure to appeal to music fans who like their music outside the box. The multi-talented Saskatoon native is deft at mixing soul, jazz, folk, country and blues, a skill honed by years of playing in blues acts across Canada and the U.S. After years of work, Hills eventually earned a Juno Award nomination with his former group, The Perpetrators.
Tickets are $12 at the door. Showtime is 7 p.m. There might be some longawaited new music from Elliott Brood in the fall, judging by the glut of tour dates on their schedule in the coming months. But at this point, it looks like their national tour in September will be solely in support of the limitededition vinyl release of Work and Love, the Toronto band’s 2014 recording. In addition to the studio activity, Elliott Brood reportedly have plans to release a live recording that was captured during the band’s tour in 2016.
The Juno Award-winning group performs Sept. 27 at Sugar nightclub (858 Yates St.). Tickets $22.50 at Lyle’s Place and ticketfly.com. Victoria author Michael Layland has been recognized by the British Columbia Historical Federation for his book A Perfect Eden, Encounters by Early Explorers of Vancouver Island, which placed third in the B.C. Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing.
Layland, a former Royal Engineers mapmaker, received a $500 prize. The awards were presented during a May 27 awards ceremony at the Coast Hotel in Chilliwack.
Authors were recognized for books that contribute to the historical literature of the province. Vancouver singer-actor Ben Rogers will spend his summer on a 27-date tour of Canada, which will be separated into two distinct halves. The first part of his tour in support of his new single, The Highway of Tears, will be held at intimate venues. The second portion will feature his full band, The Bloodred Yonder, in larger venues.
The solo portion of Rogers’s tour gets underway June 12 in Victoria at Vinyl Envy Records. He will also perform June 13 at a house concert in Comox, June 14 in Nanaimo at The Vault and June 15 in Duncan at The Ou Gallery.
The Highway Of Tears was written to raise awareness about missing and murdered indigenous women. A portion of the sales from the single go toward the battered women’s support services in Vancouver, including programs for indigenous women.
Rogers is the brother of Matthew Rogers, who plays in Vancouver blues duo The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer.