Ben Caplan with Paula i Karol: March 20
Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers: Tuesday, March 20: 8:00.$15 door. $10 artists/students. Rugged, raspy, and 
roaring with charisma, Ben Caplan, former Hamiltonian, now living in Halifax, delivers it all from poetic ballads to frenetic gypsy anthems. He has just been handed the honour of playing the Canadian Music Week (CMW) Opening Night Gala in Toronto’s CN Tower with one of Canada’s top songwriters and performers, Joel Plaskett!
It is not surprising that Ben has arrived at this current pinnacle with songs that have a depth and musicianship that combines expressive percussion, upright bass, violin, sax, clarinet, flute, with terrific use of call and response sing-along choruses. Caplan has marked his place in the Canadian music landscape with a growling spirit similar to that of Tom Waits while his use of gypsy-inspired strings, amid the sultry tones of clarinet and saxophone, sync beautifully with the energy of his live show. The show is raging, strong, and exploratory; it’s the blues in Ben’s soul, pounding with the heart in your chest that makes Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers a gotta-be-there kind of act. www.bencaplan.ca
Folk-indie Polish band Paula i Karol will open for Ben. Inspired by Canadian kitchen parties, acoustic instrumentations, and music collectives, this new band is creating a buzz on the Warsaw scene and helping define the multinational nature of Polish and Canadian pop music. “[They are] Poland’s new superheroes. Not the tight pants, fluttering cape kind. More like, come to our concert – we’ll break your heart, and then we’ll fix it up kind,” – The Guardian www.paulaikarol.pl
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