Sly Violet: Friday, March 18
Sly Violet: Friday, March 18: $10, $8 for student/artist. Doors at 9, start 9:30pm. This husband and wife indie folk rock duo has been rockin their own musical trail for the past few years thru various venues, from festival stages, to pubs to coffee houses and cafes: they embrace them all with their passion for music. Sly Violet is Violet Clarke on vocals, guitar & harmonica and Sly Boston on drums. The duo recently received a Barrie New Music Award for ‘Best Folk’ at the annual awards show in September. Their sparse folk arrangements are built on acoustic guitar and her lovely harmonies, with ripples of piano and percussion on top. It’s a wonderful blend of folk and acoustic soft rock. Though Violet’s melancholy musings resemble Elliott Smith and Hayden, her voice has been compared to Joni Mitchell’s, her guitar style entrenches a touch of Dashboard Confessional and her pianist soul rivals Ben Folds. www.slyviolet.ca Sly grew up in Sutton, Ontario while Violet is originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Stemming from a musical family, Violet studied classical piano from the age of 3 until she was 13 when she earned Grade 8 in Royal Conservatory and moved on to learn the guitar. At age 18 she began sneaking into bars just to perform at open mic nights and by the time she was 19 she had perfected over 100 cover songs and an armful of originals and started booking gigs around Hamilton, ON under the name Shy Violet. It’s been a roller coaster journey ever since, and this is only the beginning.
