The Fugitives – March 11 & 12

Hey everyone! We had such an awesome time in the culture lab in January that we’re going to do it again! For two nights!

March 11 and 12 we will be bringing you special guests, new songs, old songs, funny stories from the road, and competition between teams accordion, banjo, straight white male with guitar, and triangle.

As seating at the cultch lab is limited, and the last show sold out, please buy tickets in advance. You can grab them from www.thecultch.com

Thursday opener Chris Masson
Chris Masson is an actor, writer and educator. He has twice represented Montreal at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word’s National Slam. He is a founding member and former coordinator for the Throw Poetry Collective in Montreal. His poetry has been featured in numerous anthologies and has published various chapbooks. His one-man play, Pathos, Punchlines & Painkillers, is a dynamic blend of theatre, spoken word and storytelling that has earned rave reviews from audiences across Canada and in the U.S.

Friday Opener: Bodhi Jones
www.bodhijones.com

See you then!

The Fugitives are the combined talents of Vancouver artists Adrian
Glynn, Barbara Adler, Brendan McLeod, and Steve Charles. A group of multiinstrumentalists, songwriters, poets and novelists, each with their own burgeoning solo career, they’ve won individual accolades as diverse as the Canadian SLAM poetry championship, CBC poet laureate, and a top-ten placing in the Peak performance songwriting series. But their primary focus lies in banding together to integrate their sensibilities into a dynamic mix of modern folk.

Formed four years ago on Vancouver’s East Side, The Fugitives have
trod their instruments and words numerous times through Canada and Europe.
Performances that began in abandoned bank vaults and small vegetarian
restaurants in England have turned into mainstage appearances on the
Canadian folk festival circuit and sold out headlining shows at venues as diverse as the Vienna Literary Festival, the Winnipeg Fringe Festival, the Vancouver Jazz Festival, and the Chutzpah Dance Festival.

Like most young bands The Fugitives have weathered poverty, missed
trains, and a few line up changes (parting amicably with upcoming folk talents
Mark Berube and CR Avery), while honing their live act into a versatile mix of
story and song. As the CBC has it, “whether you go for the poetry, the music, or both, this show is simply brilliant.”

In late 2009, The Fugitives followed up on their Canadian Folk Music
Award nominated debut album, In Streetlight Communion, with the release of a short EP called Find Me. Praised for its “tight, note-perfect harmonies” (Spinner), and “great storytelling and lyrical ability” (Discorder), Find Me has built anticipation for the band’s full length release, due out in March, and distributed by Universal Records. Featuring orchestration by Veda Hille and production by Matthew Rogers, ‘Eccentrically We Love’ will be supported this April by a tour across the country.