Champagne Weather

Champagne Weather with special guest Chime of Wrens
at LIVE! on Elgin

Chime of Wrens:
Chime of Wrens is the solo instrumental project of pedal steel player Tom Thompson, in which he takes the steel guitar out of its traditional context. His sonic experiments involve deftly layering phrases upon each other in order to create an orchestra of sound that can be hypnotic and serene, or eery and menacing depending on his frame of mind. For 2024 he has expanded his palette to include throbbing baritone guitars, skittering polyrhythms and haunting vocal samples to build an otherworldly sound experience right in front of your eyes.

Champagne Weather:
In a world that seems to spin faster every day, Champagne Weather makes time stand still. With a blend of songwriting and sound sculpture, the band artfully connects folk/roots to modern minimalism. Every song is a shimmering blanket of sound with flashes of Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Appalachian fiddle and Maritime folksong.
Champagne Weather is new music from James Hill and Anne Janelle. Separately and together, Hill and Janelle have won a Canadian Folk Music Award and garnered both JUNO and ECMA nominations. They have performed widely at venues and festivals across Canada as well as internationally from New York to London to Tokyo. With Champagne Weather, the duo explores musical territory that reflects the full breadth of their musical lives and loves. The result is both healing and haunting: strange and beautiful music for strange and beautiful times.

October 2nd, 2024
220 Elgin Street, 2nd Floor
6:30pm Doors \\ 7:30pm Show
Tickets $25 + fees