Thursday July 31st, the Linsmore Tavern (1298 Danforth Ave) is excited to welcome an amazing original roots folk band, Mother Country! Music fans, you are going to love this band, as they truly are an incredible band who know how to write great songs! The show starts at 7:30pm, don’t miss out on this great opportunity to see this band!
Mother Country is a modern roots band founded by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Benton Roark, whose songs have been described as “backwoods-choir elegance” (The Georgia Straight), “dirty-southern-gothic rock-country-folk” (Discorder Magazine), and “an experience of deep and darkling beauty” (The Austin Chronicle).
Since leaving his hometown of Atlanta, GA (where early efforts dubbed him “a crafty folk-experimentalist,” Creative Loafing), Roark has called Ohio, New York, Vancouver, St. John’s, and Toronto home, and has been a bandleader for a number of groups: the Benton Roark Band (“magisterial” The Vancouver Sun), Arkora, whose Songs from the Rainshadow’s Edge earned him a Western Canadian Music Awards nomination for composition of the year, and Rollaway, whose last two records – Modern Epic and The Return of the Lonesome Coyote Patchwork Pulpit (“tone poems in the style of My Morning Jacket,” Maverick Magazine) in many ways set the scene for Mother Country’s inception.
Taking up the Americana and Southern gothic mantle, and weaving it with the distinct threads of old time, bluegrass, and trad folk music, as well as the visionary poetry of maritimes poet Luke Hathaway, Mother Country set out in 2024 with its debut record, The Sign of Jonas (Milltown Records). An apocalypse folk-tale, a concept album, a catalogue of rounds, calls and responses, incantations, airy ballads, and floor-stompers alike, the Jonas song cycle has been presented by English Harbour Arts, 10C Guelph, Camber Arts, Bannerman Brewing, and Halifax Central Library, and spent a number of weeks in the top ten Earshot radio charts in its first few months of existence.
Roark makes his home in Toronto, bringing local collaborators Andrew Ivens (dobro, pedal steel), Phil Albert and Jeff Beauchamp (bass), Andrew McCarthy (drums), and Dan Cabena (voice, fiddle) into the Mother Country fold, as well as those further afield: Georgians Peden Young (vocals, electric guitar), Dean Leeper (vocals, banjo), Trey Gibbs (vocals, mandolin), and Scott Glaser (bass), and Newfoundlanders Carole Bestvater (vocals, violin), Sandy Morris (dobro), Josh Ward (bass), and Tiber Reardon (electric guitar).
www.bentonroark.com/mothercountry
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