Jonathan Byrd with Corin Raymond and the Sundowners: May 14
Jonathan Byrd with Corin Raymond and the Sundowners: Saturday, May 14. 7:30pm doors/8pm show, 
$20/$10 artists and students. Cackalack is Jonathan Byrd’s first release since joining Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell on the Chicago Tribune’s list of the 50 most significant singer-songwriters of the last 50 years. His 7th album title comes from Cackalacky a strictly-fun word which Carolinians have used to describe their state for hundreds of years. For an American release by an American artist celebrating his home state, this record has many Canadian connections. www.jonathanbyrd.com
The Sundowners are an all-star line up: Corin Raymond is the Toronto-based troubadour who is also half of the 
Undesirables; John Prine comparisons often come his way. David Baxter is a coveted guitar player a fine songwriter in his own right. Treasa Levasseur has her own powerful voice and unstoppable band, Brian Kobayakawa on upright bass has a couple Juno awards under his own belt http://www.facebook.com/pages/Corin-Raymond
“Jonathan Byrd doesn’t sing songs; he sings truth.” – Performing Songwriter. “Maybe the most buzzed-about new songwriter in folkdom.” – The Boston Globe
Recorded live in just 6 hours at Ken Whiteley’s west-Toronto studio, Cackalack features Byrd surrounded by an all Torontonian cast of John Showman (The Creaking Tree String Quartet, New Country Rehab), Juno-nominated blues woman Treasa Levasseur, Brian Kobayakawa (The Creaking Tree String Quartet, Elvis Bossa Nova!), Andrew Collins and Chris Quinn (both from The Foggy Hogtown Boys), Corin Raymond and Whiteley. In the US, Cackalack has already reached #1 on the Roots Music Report chart, and entered the Americana Music Association chart last month at #31, beside Bob Dylan, and has climbed to #22, moving past Eric Clapton and Elton John. It has remained on that chart’s top 40 for 9 weeks running.
