Leaf Rapids with Two Crows for Comfort

Cinematic Canadiana, Manitoba Motown, or Spacey Spaghetti Western. Critics can’t decide.

For fans of Dolly Parton, Fleetwood Mac, Kacey Chambers, Heavy Diamond Ring, Mathias Angelhus

Leaf Rapids is a small isolated town in Northern Manitoba where Aurora Borealis graffitis the winter skies. It is also the borrowed moniker of this Winnipeg band featuring sweet and smoky harmonies, luscious guitar licks, the eerie sound of the theremin, and a bassline that walks the talk.

Keri Latimer, Devin Latimer, Joanna Miller and Chris Dunn are realists and dreamers. They are chemistry professors, dry-wallers, child rearers, and custodians of the night that croon about love as it applies to vultures, barbershop stabbings, satellites and velvet paintings to name a few. 

On the recently released third Leaf Rapids record, Velvet Paintings, veteran Winnipeg songwriter Keri Latimer makes room for the world. Over a lush palette of roots music—ethereal folk, driving country, and wiry honky-tonk—she shifts her gaze to the environments around her, observing and reflecting on their movements and the movements of the people who direct their motion. While the JUNO Award-winning Latimer has always been a keen seer and interpreter of places and people— as evidenced on Leaf Rapids' globetrotting, identity-investigating 2019 album Citizen Alien— she's never focused her pen outward to the extent she does in the songs of Velvet Paintings. "I'm trying to explore more hopeful areas of this world," she explains. "And I think I just let go of a lot of things."

Two Crows for Comfort

MCMA’s 2021 Roots Duo/Group of the Year, Two Crows for Comfort are a touring folk-roots duo from the prairie wonderland of Manitoba. These wandering troubadours, accompanied by their pup, Elliot, travel across North America in an 18 foot camper, playing countless shows from coast to coast to coast.

They have opened for some of their heroes including Bruce Cockburn, Ani DiFranco and Pokey LaFarge and have released two full-length albums. Their third project, a 2 volume EP ‘Next To Me’, is available now.

Friday, November 1, 8:00pm

Doors - 7:00pm
Show - 8:00pm

All Ages

$30-35

All tickets subject to service fees