Original Princess
Sat. Sept. 24, 8:00pm - A Very Special Evening with Garnet Rogers
Live On Stage at the Original - Concert Performance & Book Launch for NIGHT DRIVE: TRAVELS WITH MY BROTHER, Garnet's long-awaited memoir about life on the road with his brother, Stan - Advance tickets still available (but going fast!) [1]
In a darkened bedroom, lit only by the amber glow from an old floor model radio, two young brothers aged 6 and 12 lay in their beds, listening to the country music broadcasts from the Grand Ol’ Opry, and practiced their harmonies. Two years later, the youngest one was playing the definitive 8-year-old’s version of “Desolation Row” on his ukulele. He soon abandoned that instrument to teach himself the flute, violin and guitar.
Within ten years, and 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.
Since then, Garnet Rogers has established himself as "One of the major talents of our time”. 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. Cinematic in detail, his songs “give expression to the unspoken vocabulary of the heart” (Kitchener Waterloo Record).
“Garnet Rogers is capable of awe-inspiring and unpredictable stuff – and that includes more than just music”... indeed!
Copies of 'Night Drive: Travels with my Brother' will be available for purchase and signing at the concert.
In his review of 'Night Drive,' Rob Reid wrote, "Night Drive is a love letter to his dear late brother, a postcard home, an anthem to independent music when Canada came of age creatively and artistically, and a prayer of remembrance to those who pay the music forward."
Read Rob Reid's full review of Garnet's memoir, Night Drive [2]