The Haven Social Club

Doors at 7:30pm
Ticket $10 in advance, $15 at the door
Advance ticket holders will get a free gift when you present your code at the door
Advance tickets available at YEG Live

F&M will be presenting their new musical offering Sincerely, F&M: loping, spare orchestral folk stretched over a rock-pop backbone, waves of darkness and density crashing against brightness and space: music that’s reflective, emotive across a grand scale, and fearlessly hungry for meaning.

F&M is happy to share the evening with musical guest Greg Amundson, and art by Jason Wallin. The Event will be hosted by Tara Brodin of Break The Wall Productions.

About F&M:
F&M transforms silence into a versatile and eloquent instrument: it haunts the spaces between Rebecca Anderson’s sparkling piano lines and tugs at the edges of her accordion’s nostalgic wheeze; it charges the gaps in Ryan Anderson’s guitar attacks with a crackling tension and animates the percussive skeleton and melodic flesh contributed by the rest of the band. It throws the interplay of their voices into high relief – Rebecca’s ringing with the delicate clarity of glass and lace; Ryan’s possessed by the spirits of rough wool and campfire smoke. The result is songwriting bursting with powerful sentiment and lofty lyricism set to an odd folk-rock mutant soundtrack of Douglas Sirk-ian intensity.

“They hit me like a very gentle and sincere steam-train, but hit me they did.” Suffolk N’Cool, United Kingdom

”[F&M’s] musical soul is a must have.” Main Echo, Germany.

“F&M flirt with per-fection.” The Edmonton Journal

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Greg Amundson is an Edmonton based singer/songwriter/musician who has been honing his musical and writing skills for many years. His training is in classical and jazz piano and his influences range from Radiohead and Flaming Lips to Rufus Wainwright, Tori Amos and Thelonius Monk. He has written and recorded two full length albums: Hector Fector’s We Are Romantic (”...a twinkling beauty of a record filled with lush layers that poke through each other creating a Maudlin world for the listener to dwell in.” Bryan Birtles, Vue Magazine) and his upcoming solo project album, White White.

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Edmonton based comedy troupe.
Purveyors of fine comedy since around November.

Mostly Water is:
Craig Buchert
Jason Ludwig
Matt Stanton
Sam Varteniuk
Trent Wilkie

With:
Dave DeGagné
Elizabeth Ludwig
Ellen Chorley

Managed by:
Amy Neufeld

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jASON j. wALLIN is an Assistant Professor of Media and Youth Culture Studies in Curriculum at the University of Alberta, where he teaches courses in visual art, educational technology, and curriculum theory.

Focusing on the ethical and ontological significance of ‘anomaly’ in education, jASON’s published writing has appeared in such venues as the Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, the Alberta Journal of Educational Research, Teaching Education, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, and the Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies. jASON was co-editor of Democratizing Educational Experience (Educator’s International Press, 2008), a collection devoted to rethinking the notion of democracy in curriculum theory. His most recent book, A Deleuzian Approach to Curriculum: Essays on a Pedagogical Life is forthcoming from Palgrave. In 2009, Jason received the Graduate Student Teaching Award from the University of Alberta for teaching excellence and is coordinator of curriculum@theedges research and mentoring collective in the Department of Secondary Education. Jason is reviews editor for dELEUZE sTUDIES. In addition to this work, jASON is a widely published graphic designer, sound artist, and amateur animator.

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Tara is a theatre artist and international workshop leader. An experienced director and actor, she specializes in improvisation, physical comedy and modern clown, with an interest in playwrighting and singing. Her areas of expertise as a workshop leader are in devising original works and in unleashing an actor’s sense of honest and spontaneous play.

Currently, she is most excited about her role as the Artistic Director of Break the Wall Productions, a devising company that specializes in creating works that explode the conventional audience-actor barrier, and Break The Wall between us.

“Tara has a powerful and lovely clown… fierce and naughty and full of regret. Beautiful.”
~Christopher Bayes, Yale School of Drama