Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Recording: Holy Oak Family Singers

Artist: Carlyn Bezic with Joseph Shabason + Danika Vandersteen & Aiya McNee + Madelyn Kirby & Luke Robinson + Luke Kuplowsky & co.

Songs: Stay Loose + Steel Rail Blues + Saturday Clothes + A Lesson in Love [Gordon Lightfoor covers]

Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Holy Oak Family Singers present), June 7, 2023.

Carlyn Bezic with Joseph Shabason - Stay Loose

Danika Vandersteen & Aiya McNee - Steel Rail Blues

Madelyn Kirby & Luke Robinson - Saturday Clothes

Luke Kuplowsky & Co. - A Lesson in Love

This gathering of the Holy Oak Family Singers was themed as a tribute to recently-passed icon Gordon Lightfoot, a songwriter with whom this loose collective has a longstanding connection. Once more "later Gord" (especially East of Midnight) was tackled with as much zeal as the more well-known early material, though for this show the more elaborate backing band was replaced by a stripped-down rotating crew of musicians.

[This month's HOFS timeslot — which is tonight (July 5th) — will instead see Luke Kuplowsky joined by Felicity Williams, Anh Phung, Josh Cole, and Alex Lukashevsky for two sets of his own songs + poetry interpretations.]

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