Bragg Creek Performing Arts is kicking off its 2018 Spring Season with Over The Moon, who will be performing on Feb. 10 at the Redwood House in Bragg Creek.
Over The Moon is a Canadian roots and swing duo made up of Suzanne Levesque, who was formerly a part of The Travelling Mabels and Craig Bignell, an award winning vocal and multi-instrumentalist. The couple, who recently got married, are blessed with vocal styles that possess great warmth with the ability to express a great number of emotions in an easygoing fashion.
The duo linked up a short while ago, when a band from Calgary was recording a CD and they hired Bignell to record drums, percussions, and banjo from his home studio in Grey County, Ont. The band then asked Bignell to be part of their CD release in Alberta a few months later. This would be the first time Bignell met Levesque and they hit it off from day one. The pair first performed at a mutual friend’s dinner party, as Bignell was performing a solo before Levesque joined in shortly after. They have been singing together ever since, and have been married for two years.
The duo currently live on a ranch in the foothills of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, where a strong sense of place and rhythms of the land are added to their music. When the couple released their debut album, the resonances were there for all to hear, as the music reflects on the pulse of life, lived in a territory that is both dirt-hard rugged and beautiful.
Their music is a wild ride of 19040’s sounding western swing, Appalachian old-time, to cowboy blues … simple and sweet, all of their material has a common thread that speaks of the Canadian west.
Their first CD titled Moondancer, has just been released and it reflects the pair’s two-part harmony style that they are known for and the wide acoustic instruments that they play. Most of the songs featured are original and tell stories of life lived in Southern Alberta’s ranching country.
Tickets are available through www.secure.ticketpro.ca or call 1-888-655-9090. Pricing is $30.00 for adults and $28.00 for seniors.
