All shows start at 8pm Alberta time, doors open at 7pm
Tickets are $30 advance (plus ticketing fee) $35 door
Season ticket only $168!
3 pack for $87
2024-2025 Borderline Culture Series
Memberships
Due to our type of Liquor license, membership is required for ticket purchase.
Annual memberships are $5.00 which will be donated to a local non profit group and entitle you to vote at our AGM, receive notifications about our shows, events and workshops at the Demmitt Community Centre, and be entered into a draw at each concert they attend for 2 tickets to the following concert. A member may bring guests that are non members to events.
After purchase you will receive the password. Once you have the password, click on Buy Tickets, and enter the password.
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Tickets go on sale Friday August 9, 10am!
Be one of the first 15 to buy a season ticket and get a $50 gift card from Brown's Social House in Grande Prairie
Harry Manx
Friday, September 27, 2024
Doors 7pm, Music 8pm
$30 Advance, $35 Door
Harry Manx has been dubbed an “essential link”between the music of East and West, creating musicalshort stories that wed the tradition of the Blues with thedepth of classical Indian ragas. The resulting sound isuniquely bewitching and deliciously addictive to listen
to.
Manx is a prolific artist, releasing nine albums in an eight-year span with no signs of stopping. He has received seven Maple Blues Awards, five Juno nominations, the Canadian Folk Music Award in2005 for Best Solo Artist and won CBC Radio’s “Great Canadian Blues Award” in 2007.
Blend Indian folk melodies with slide guitar blues; add a sprinkle of gospel and some compelling grooves and you’ll get Manx’s unique “mysticssippi” flavour. It’s a sound that goes down easy and leaves you hungry for more.
“Watching Harry play tonight I feel like I learned something new …. ”
Bruce Springsteen (after seeing Harry perform “I’m On Fire” at the International Guitar Festival in NYC)
“Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter Harry Manx is an artist that critics have occasionally had a hard time getting their minds around. His unique amalgam of blues and other American roots music, classical Indian forms, and bits of rock, pop, and folk makes him difficult to pigeonhole, and self-appointed gatekeepers of those traditions sometimes bemoan his lack of purity, stubbornly missing the point. But Manx’s trip is really quite easy to grasp: He’s an accomplished and adventurous lap-slide guitarist – whether playing a National resonator, a solidbody lap-steel, a modified banjo or cigar-box guitar, or his signature 20-string Mohan Veena – and a compelling singer with a rich, warm, and soulful voice who writes intelligent and compassionate songs and puts them over with heartfelt conviction.”
Barry Cleveland, Guitar Player
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Terra Lightfoot (trio)
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Doors 7pm, Music 8pm
$30 Advance, $35 Door
Terra Lightfoot is a Juno- and Polaris-nominated guitarist-singer-songwriter from Hamilton, Ontario. In 2020, she marked her first decade as a recording artist with Consider the Speed, recorded by Grammy-winning producer Jay Newland at Memphis' legendary Royal Studios. In early 2022, Lightfoot launched her own label, Midnight Choir, with single “Sleepyhead.” Sixth album Healing Power (released Oct 13, 2023) reunites her with producer/engineer Gus van Go for a career-best outing, one that earned the artist a second long-list nomination for the Polaris Music Prize.
PRAISE FOR TERRA LIGHTFOOT
“One of Canada's best all-around musicians... an amazing tour de force, the complete package” - CBC Music
“Canada’s Terra Lightfoot has a huge voice and a big and gutsy guitar tone to match“ - Guitar Player
“Cuts like lightning to a tree” - The Globe and Mail
“One of today’s brightest emerging rock artists” - Twangville
“Timeless influences from above and below the border” - American Songwriter
“The most emotionally developed project from the Hamilton singer-songwriter so far” - Exclaim!
“Exhilarating” - Plunger
“Has the swagger of Tina Turner and the guitar riffery of the Stones” - Fatea
“Drawing from rock, soul and blues, Terra Lightfoot is a monster talent” - PopMatters
The Woodshed
Saturday, November 30, 2024
Doors 7pm, Music 8pm
$30 Advance, $35 Door
Acclaimed roots songwriters John Wort Hannam and T. Buckley make up The Woodshed, a modern folk duo based in Alberta, whose name refers to the beginning of Buckley and Hannam’s collaboration - woodshedding songs together during a residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in 2017.
After a captivating performance at the 2023 Canadian Folk Music Awards, Buckley and Hannam finally decided to ratify their collaboration and bring The Woodshed to life. Together they bring a beautiful vocal blend of brotherly harmonies combined with gutsy and sophisticated song writing alongside intricate guitar playing.
Caleb Hart (with band)
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Doors 7pm Music 8pm
$30 Advance, $35 Door
No matter how many changes the music industry experiences, the one thing that always remains, is the power of a passionate live show. Caleb Hart has the ability to bring something fresh, honest and powerful every time he steps on a stage. A natural born performer since he was a young boy growing up in the small Caribbean island of Tobago; Hart has been taking his music across Canada and around the world to Australia, USA, New Zealand, Europe, Africa & the Caribbean full time for the past decade, playing over 1100 shows. From his inception as Bravehart to his success with Tasman Jude, Caleb Hart has also managed to win prestigious awards from Edmonton Folk Fest, the Western Canadian Music Awards and much more.
With 6 Records under his belt, including chart topping albums with his former band Tasman Jude, Hart promised that his 6th release ‘11’ alongside Trinidadian super Producer Aaron ‘Track7’ Peters would be the best portrayal of music and showmanship that he had ever delivered and on September 11th, 2019, that came true. The ‘fam’ (as he calls his fans) got treated to an 11 track album that spans numerous genres and topics. It racked up over 100,000 streams within the first few days of release.
Caleb is currently working on his 7th album with his new project Sonic Alley.
Morgan Toney Trio
Saturday March 15, 2025
Doors 7pm, Music 8pm
$30 Advance, $35 Door
Music’s an almost alchemical force to Canadian Mi'kmaq fiddler and singer Morgan Toney. In just a short amount of time, Toney has invigorated both the Atlantic music communities and Mi’kmaq communities by bringing together the fiery fiddling of Cape Breton Island with the old songs of the Mi’kmaq, some dating back up to 500 years. He calls this fusion Mi’kmaltic (Mi’kmaq + Celtic) and it's his way of celebrating his language and heritage. “There are two worlds of Mi’kmaq music,” Toney explains, “song and fiddle. They had never come together before. People knew of each, but never had I ever seen a collaboration between Celtic and Mi'kmaq culture before.
Toney’s debut album First Flight, nominated for 3 East Coast Music Awards and a Canadian Folk Music Award, showcases this unique combination, both in the way he transforms traditional songs like the Ko’jua and the Mi’kmaq Honour Song, but also for the new songs he’s creating. “Msit No’kmaq” was written partially in Mi’kmaq and features a fiddle break from the great Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac. “Kwana Li” is a traditional Mi'kmaq song that Toney added new English lyrics to and “For the Elders” is a newly composed waltz from Toney.
With the immediate accolades and attention, it’s easy to forget that Morgan Toney is so new to the music, having only played the fiddle for a few years. But there’s something deeper at work here. His great-grandfather and three other great-uncles were all Mi'kmaq fiddlers of renown in the community. In a sense, Toney’s coming back full circle. And circles are something he understands. “We are living in circles,” he says. “The earth is a circle. The drum is a circle, how we move around is a circle, how we greet each other. The talking circle is huge.”
Ishkōdé Records introduces First Flight to the world on March 25, 2022.
Ndidi O (4 piece)
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Door 7pm, Music 8pm
$30 Advance, $35 Door
Ndidi O, is an award-winning Contemporary Roots & Blues singer-songwriter. For nearly two decades she has carved out an adventurous career that deftly moves between soul, blues, contemporary roots, folk and Americana. A two-time JUNO award nominee and the 2019 Western Canadian Music Awards winner for Blues Artist of the Year, Ndidi has released six solo albums to date with a new album slated for release in April 2024 (produced by Steve Dawson, Hen House Records).
A force of nature from the wilds of British Columbia where she grew up, Ndidi is the daughter of a Nigerian father and a German mother. She represents a distinctly Canadian experience – standing astride lines blurred between contrasting cultures and heritages. Once she discovered her voice and collected a diverse range of sounds and styles, her talents took her away from home to New York City, Toronto, Paris and Los Angeles. Her music, like her lineage, explores the globe while keeping ‘home’ at the centre of it all.
Through her singing Ndidi invites us into a musical universe filled with waves of blues, folk, rock, Americana and country that results in a journey that starts and ends in the soul. Her voice and her music feel like old friends. She is truly her own creature. As varied as her influences may be, they culminate in an expression of the blues that is undoubtedly Ndidi.
AWARDS & ACCOLADES
2019 Western Canadian Music Awards winner Blues Artist of the Year
2015 JUNO award nominee Adult Contemporary Album of theYear (Dark Swing)
2009 JUNO award nominee Best Solo Roots & Traditional Album of the Year (The Contradictor)
2007 Maple Blues Award winner New Artist of the Year
Leave the car at home, bus to Borderline!
We will be continuing to offer the bus service to our concerts this season from Grande Prairie!
(pick up in Beaverlodge and Hythe available)
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