Join us for a fabulous evening of music with the legendary Ray Bonneville on Monday, April 14th @7:30 p.m. Tickets are $30.00 each and available online through Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/knox-presentsray-bonneville-in-concert-tickets-1248578163899?aff=oddtdtcreator or at local retailers Fireside Books & Close To You Boutique in Parksville and Edge Outdoors in Qualicum.
Acclaimed raconteur Ray Bonneville strips his bluesy Americana down to its essentials and
steeps it in the humid grooves of the South, creating a compelling poetry of hard living and deep
feeling. Rich guitar and harmonica lines resonate over spare but spunky rhythms, while Bonneville’s deep, evocative voice confesses life’s harsh realities.
Jim Withers (Montreal Gazette) describes his sound as “folk-roots gumbo… a languid
Mississippi Delta groove, seasoned with smooth, weathered vocals and a propulsive harmonica
wheeze.” Whether performing solo or fronting a band, playing electric or acoustic guitar,
Bonneville allows space between notes that adds potency to every chord, lick, and lyric. Thom
Jurek (Allmusic.com) remarks, “With darkness and light fighting for dominance… he’s stripped
away every musical excess to let the songs speak for themselves.”