Rose Cousins w/ Slow Spirit
Saturday, April 5, 2025
8:00 PM / West End Cultural Centre
For fans of rough and beautiful places (in general), sensitivity, Elton John's sad stuff, Gordon Lightfoot, Jan Arden, Natalie Imbruglia, Amelia Curran, Ron Sexsmith
Juno winner Rose Cousins is back at The WECC with her newest record Conditions of Love. Piano ballad lovers rejoice! Rose Cousins breathes gentle life into every surface her songs touch. She is just magical live.
On her forthcoming record, Rose Cousins holds our hands as she guides us on a journey through the "conditions of love." Ever the emotional explorer, the acclaimed, Nova-Scotia-based folk artist seeks truth, in all its imperfection, in the depths of our most complicated of emotions: love.
Co-produced with trusted friend and longtime bandmate Joshua Van Tassel, this new collection of songs sees Rose return to her first love, the piano. “Piano is where I feel the most connected.It’s the best partner in expressing the emotion I’m mining,” she shares.
Rose’s work as garnered her two JUNO Awards (2013’s We Have Made a Spark & 2021’s Bravado), two Canadian Folk Music Awards, eleven East Coast Music Awards and one Grammy nomination (2018’s Natural Conclusion), along with praise from the likes of the CBC, NoDepression, LA Times, Billboard, Folk Alley, and NPR, who raved “Cousins’ disarmingly fluid vocal tone has the ability to convey the most internalized feelings without an ounce of fuss.” Over the years, she has shared stages with Patty Griffin, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Jann Arden, BruceCockburn, Josh Ritter, Kathleen Edwards, Joe Henry, Aoife O’Donovan and Anais Mitchell, and her music has fittingly underscored scenes from notable TV shows including Grey’s Anatomy,Fire Country, Station 19 and Batwoman along with several independent films.
Slow Spirit
Beloved local band Slow Spirit will open the show with songs off their latest album That's the Gods Talking. Who’d have thought it possible, after the formidable ‘Nowhere No One Knows Where To Find You’ (2020), for Natalie Bohrn and Eric Roberts to take their deliciously blurred sound even further into the realm of dream music? As Slow Spirit, the project from Winnipeg, Canada, truly accomplishes the perfect blend of bedroom pop, punk, indie rock and boreal songwriter folk with frequent flashes of Joni Mitchell and Elliott Smith - no easy feat. Four years, one pandemic and countless jam sessions later, the duo have finished That's The Gods Talking (2024), a new set of songs that sounds like a blissfully exhausted and beautiful soundtrack to inner healing from start to finish. It's the sort of album that sends shivers down your spine on the first listen, but still reveals new hidden splendours of beauty with each successive listen. Slow Spirit sends us on an introspective journey that we can only normally hope for in good cinema films. This is a must-see film.