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Ace Canadian Blues-Rockers MonkeyJunk Celebrate 10 Years With Thrilling #MJ10 Tour<\/b><\/p>\n
The trio, whose career-best fifth album Time To Roll recently netted their second Juno Award, prepares to travel from east to west this spring and summer, visiting key venues and festivals in between\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n
Ottawa\u2019s ace swamp roots-rockers MonkeyJunk \u2014 f\u00eating 10 triumphant years together in 2018 \u2014 are preparing to lift lids from Saskatoon to Sault Ste Marie, Thunder Bay to Nanaimo, as they hit the highway supporting their scorching, career-best Time To Roll<\/i> album. Audiences will be dazzled.<\/p>\n
Winner of 2018\u2019s Blues Album of the Year Juno Award (their second overall), the latest and fifth release from singer\/guitarist and harp player Steve Marriner, drummer Matt Sobb, and guitarist Tony D is precisely the kind of corker you\u2019d expect from a trio of musical veterans who, between them, have boosted luminaries from Fabulous Thunderbird Kim Wilson to Buddy Guy, the late Jeff Healey to the lamented Stevie Ray Vaughan.<\/p>\n
Launched in Ottawa in 2008, MonkeyJunk \u2014handle inspired by delta blues great Son House, who once intoned, \u201cI\u2019m talking about the blues, I ain\u2019t talking \u2019bout no monkeyjunk!\u201d \u2014 have consistently updated contemporary blues with a blistering mix of chops, soul, grit, humour and harmony.<\/p>\n
MonkeyJunk has won a collective 21 Maple Blues Awards<\/strong>, two Canadian Independent Music Awards, a Blues Music Award (USA)<\/strong> in 2010 for best new artist debut (Tiger In Your Tank), and have been nominated three times for a JUNO Award<\/strong>, winning<\/strong> the award twice<\/strong> for Blues Album of the Year<\/strong> in 2012 for To Behold<\/em> and in 2018 for Time To Roll<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe name MonkeyJunk comes from Son House, who once said \u2018I\u2019m talking about the blues, I ain\u2019t talking \u2019bout no monkeyjunk.\u2019 But I am going to talk about MonkeyJunk \u2013 they are brilliant and have produced one of the best albums I have heard in a long time\u2026; Ten tracks that prove that this Canadian band is here to stay. And as Son House would have said if he had seen these boys: \u2018I\u2019m talking \u2019bout the blues, I\u2019m talking about MonkeyJunk!\u2019\u201d \u2013 Bob Boncey, Blues Matters (UK)<\/b><\/p>\n Cost: $60.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Date<\/strong> : Event location<\/strong> : Contact<\/strong> :
\nDecember 7 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\nThe Cove
\n2 Bedford St.
\nWestport, Ontario K0G 1X0 Canada<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.coveinn.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n