With 2019’s Bare Knuckles and Brawn ( BNAB), released on Spanish label FOLC Records, they were nominated as Blues Artist of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards and Indigenous Songwriter of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards. In a rare feat, it also reached #9 on the !Earshot National Jazz Chart. The album has also topped the charts in the US and Canada achieving #1 on the !Earshot National Folk/Roots/Blues chart and #3 on their National Top 10 Chart for all genres, #1 on Canada’s Top 50 Chart by Roots Music Report, #6 on the International NACC Radio Chart and #8 on the coveted Living Blues Radio Chart. The release also swept the Maple Blues Awards (Canada’s highest honour in Blues) with four wins including, Album of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, Acoustic Act of the Year and Entertainer of the Year. The album was honoured with the Blues Foundation’s Blues Music Award for Emerging Artist of the Year(2023). While they have primarily performed as a duo since 2013, over the last couple of years they have been performing often as a trio or quartet featuring Darcy Phillips (Jann Arden) on piano and Jerry Cook (Colin James) on tenor and baritone saxophone. Co-produced by Duke Robillard and recorded live to tape, SHH blazes forward with a full band featuring some of Canada’s finest veteran players. With their highly anticipated 5th album Scream, Holler & Howl ( SHH), Blue Moon Marquee have captured their most sophisticated collection of songs yet. This is a tremendous sound by a hugely talented duo” says American Roots UK. Modern Blues doesn't really get any better than this. "Blue Moon Marquee has its own completely original style. They collect the roots and smoothly braid them with lyrics that often touch on the underbelly of society, woven with elements of Indigenous storytelling and poetic cadence. Their gift is bringing all these elements together without anything sounding out of step. It stomps and struts through the wilds, conjuring a blend where Howlin’ Wolf tangos with Django, Earnest Tubb shoots firecrackers with Cab Calloway, and Memphis Minnie throws dice with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. Carving a path through blues, jazz, jump jive, folk, country, swing, and Indigenous soul with an authentic spirit, their sound does not idle easily in one certain category. The result of 9 years of rigorous touring, crisscrossing Europe and North America, is a distinct energy and style from this acclaimed duo. Cardinal’s distinctive and soulful vocals barrel out like a raging bull while his guitar crackles with the swinging energy of jazz-tinged blues. Badlands Jass (vocals/bass/drums) have played for a vast gamut of crowds at jazz clubs, Lindy Hop dance halls, folk venues, blues haunts, hospitals, prisons, markets, motorcycle joints, dive bars and prestigious festival stages.Ĭolette not only commands the upright bass but also brings the rhythm with her feet on a custom foot drum kit, all while singing in her signature honey-dipped tone. Cardinal (vocals/guitar) and Jasmine Colette a.k.a. Duke Robillard (Roomful of Blues, Fabulous Thunderbirds), Award-winning guitar player and producerīlue Moon Marquee writes and performs original compositions influenced by anything that swings, jumps or grooves. However, higher resolution photos from different perspectives "revealed" the face was simply a natural rock formation.They are poised for worldwide recognition in a brilliant and unique genre-bending ride through American blues and folk, Gypsy jazz, Native American themes, jump blues, swing and more. One of the most famous pictures is the Satellite photo of a mesa in the Cydonia region of Mars ( The "face" of Mars). There's actually a psychological phenomenon called Pareidolia, which involves a stimulus (image) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern (like a face) when none actually exists. It has been touted as both a "net sensation" and a "geological marvel".īut, this obsession with finding human heads in, well, just about everything isn't a new sensation. The head was first "discovered" in 2006 via Google Earth. The long line and hole starting near its "ear" (sometimes called earphones) are man-made structures, to be specific, an oil well and a road. This "face" was caused be erosion into the clay of the land. From above, the land feature bears a striking resemblance to a human head wearing an Aboriginal Canadian headdress. Now, these softs hills are beautiful in their own right, but it's whats above that's really exciting. If you search for pictures of the Badlands Guardian on google earth street view, you'll simply see lush, rolling hills. In Alberta, Canada there is a view that is breath taking from the ground and above.
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