The Haven Social Club

Doors at 7:30pm
Tickets $10 in advance
Advance tickets available at YEG Live

Music with spirit. Music akin to roots, folk, blues, country,...and pop??
Don Brownrigg is a musician’s musician… This Halifax-based Newfoundlander blends his haunting voice, morose melodies, and pensive writing into non-assuming folk-pop music. He has toured Canada, New England, and Europe….he has performed at events such as Popkomm (Berlin), CMJ (New York City), and CMW (Toronto).......shared stages with Serena Ryder, Great Lake Swimmers, Gurf Morlix, Martyn Joseph, Rose Cousins, and Jenn Grant….....he has guested as an instrumentalist, vocalist, or writer on…a bunch of artist’s records.

”...takes the listener in instantly and, like a good novel, keeps you captivated from beginning to end. Acoustic based, the songs don’t try too hard and aren’t intimidating in any way – it’s just beautiful, truthfully written music.” (The Telegram, St. John’s, NL)

a “prolific musical anthology” (The Coast) and “timeless anthology of thoughts” (ChartAttack)

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The Sumner Brothers are, in my opinion, the most talented band Vancouver (if not Canada) has seen in a long time. Their sound is so pure, so honest, and so good. Seeing them live is a revelation; listening to their recordings is a profound experience. What they have to offer is more than entertainment-it’s medicine.” “They are my new favorite band.
Sam Parton – The Be Good Tanyas

I’ll just label this “eclectic, damn good and for this writer, perhaps country’s saviors.”
Chris West – Skope Magazine

Honesty, courage, moral fiber cannot easily be hidden or disguised. These guys have it. Now I know what it felt like to have a young Johnny Cash wander in from the street with a guitar.
Don Henry Ford Jr. – Americanaroots.com

There’s a spiritual quality to the men and their songs, not some church going “ain’t Jesus wonderful kind of stuff”, but truth and in your face honesty. Embracing life on this planet as it is rather than how you’d like for it to be, yet tempered with hope and even a note of certainty that something better is yet to rise from this dark and miserable place. That justice prevails in the end. Johnny Cash had this same quality. Makes me wonder if somehow or other, these young men didn’t inherit a measure of the man’s spirit when he departed.
Don Henry Ford Jr. – Lonestar Music Magazine – Texas

“Their music is about light, though it is not afraid to explore the dark. Their music is about hope, but it does not ignore despair. It’s a mournful Johnny Cash, a repentant Willie Nelson, a reflective Stompin Tom. It’s the power of boozy sincerity and hopped-up honesty, and that, brothers and sisters, I can get behind.”
R.C. Joseph – 24hr news.