Terra Lightfoot w/ Ryland Moranz
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
8:00 PM / West End Cultural Centre
Rock.
For fans of Hawsksley Workman, Boy Golden, Adam Baldwin, Sarah Harmer, Joel Plasket, Begonia, and Whitehorse
Canadian Rock and Roll powerhouse Terra Lightfoot is revisiting the WECC, this time with her new album Healing Power in hand.
Healing Power delivers the peerless pop-rock album that fans have long known she always had in her. The set captures the crackling chemistry of the core live trio — most of the album finds Lightfoot backed by bassist Elijah Abrams and Blue Rodeo’s Glenn Milchem on drums. This compact and capable team of players reinforces the strengths of Lightfoot's remarkable material. From hand-clapping head-turner “Cross Border Lovers” through the cinematic ballad “Out Of Time” that closes it, Lightfoot’s artistic range is again on full display, and her musical talents never short of dazzling. A buoyant pop-rock record at its core, Healing Power is a prismatic tour de force from the charismatic rocker.
The album’s cover photo sets the scene — a striking European larch at the edge of the timberline, high above a grassy plateau, Limestone Alps rising in the distance like a dream just out of reach. Alone in Austria, ahead of a string of solo European dates, and a third of the way into a sprawling world tour, Lightfoot found herself on a mountain-top beneath that tree, singing and playing guitar, touching grass and drilling into the depths of her emotions.
“The story,” Lightfoot says, “is that everything comes back around. It was my idea to call the record Healing Power, and I thought of the most healing place that I knew in the world. That tree taught me about perseverance. It was the only tree living at that altitude. It just kept growing. And I knew I had to be like that too: just to keep growing and changing.”
Ryland Moranz has come into his own in these strange times. A folk/bluegrass multi instrumentalist and singer-songwriter from Lethbridge, Alberta in the traditional territory of the Siksika, Piikani and Kainai peoples, Ryland has stepped into the great beyond, empathetically exploring his own stories and the stories of others. His compositions span bygone days, the here and now, and what may yet be to come, both for himself and for us all.
Ryland’s anticipated forthcoming album, “Better/Worse” will be released with Tonic Records on November 15th, 2024. Recorded at Barnhouse Studio on Vancouver Island by John Raham (Frazey Ford, Dan Mangan) and produced by Leeroy Stagger.
Ryland Moranz will be on tour in Australia and New Zealand for seven weeks this October and November.
You are invited, as always.