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Boy Golden has a purpose: enjoy each day and make good music. Founder and minister of The Church of Better Daze, he wants to help people seeking to improve on yesterday’s themes. His songs, like hymns, are hopeful, fresh and upbeat. KD & Lunch Meat is fluorescent and fun, like its namesake, and easily ingested. Something to Work Towards searches for the meaning in life, while Smoke on the Breeze and Any Way It Works are warm, tender and linger like perfume. Church of Better Daze is the inspirational, musical manifesto. The harmonies are the collective idea of working together, the mellow melodies keep our hopes alive and the lyrics are golden rules to live by.

www.boygolden.ca

Boy Golden has a purpose: enjoy each day and make good music. Founder and minister of The Church of Better Daze, he wants to help people seeking to improve on yesterday’s themes. His songs, like hymns, are hopeful, fresh and upbeat. KD & Lunch Meat is fluorescent and fun, like its namesake, and easily ingested. Something to Work Towards searches for the meaning in life, while Smoke on the Breeze and Any Way It Works are warm, tender and linger like perfume. Church of Better Daze is the inspirational, musical manifesto. The harmonies are the collective idea of working together, the mellow melodies keep our hopes alive and the lyrics are golden rules to live by.

www.boygolden.ca

My Son the Hurricane is a multi-horn, multi-drummer, multi-singer brass funk beast from Niagara, ON. The 12-piece brass-dance crew has toured over multiple countries and played some of Canada, USA and Europe’s biggest festivals. Over 45 sold out shows in 2022 proves that there is no live show like My Son the Hurricane. The band features trumpets, saxophones, trombones, drums, guitar, keys, percussion and a wild front woman…We dare you not to dance! In 2023, the band will take on an over 70 date Canada, United States and Europe-wide tour.

www.msthofficial.com

My Son the Hurricane is a multi-horn, multi-drummer, multi-singer brass funk beast from Niagara, ON. The 12-piece brass-dance crew has toured over multiple countries and played some of Canada, USA and Europe’s biggest festivals. Over 45 sold out shows in 2022 proves that there is no live show like My Son the Hurricane. The band features trumpets, saxophones, trombones, drums, guitar, keys, percussion and a wild front woman…We dare you not to dance! In 2023, the band will take on an over 70 date Canada, United States and Europe-wide tour.

www.msthofficial.com

Jake Vaadeland is a self taught multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Saskatchewan, Canada. His traditional sound and unique style could be defined as a blend of Bluegrass and 50s Rockabilly, with Jake also specializing on guitar and banjo in addition to his impressive vocals. Jake strives to write and play with a focus on storytelling and messages that he hopes his audience can relate to, all packaged in foot stomping, high energy performances with The Sturgeon River Boys.
Jake received 2 Saskatchewan Music Awards in 2022, winning Roots/Folk Artist of the Year and the fan voted award for Album of the Year for his album Everybody But Me. Jake also was awarded four 2022 Saskatchewan Country Music Awards, including Fans Choice Entertainer of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, Alternative Country Album of the Year and Emerging Artist of the Year. His album, Retro Man finished at #2 in fan voting for the Saskatchewan Music Awards Album of the Year in 2021.
“He cut a foppish figure and seemed to have stepped right off of a Greyhound Scenic Cruiser double-decker bus, fresh from the fertile plains of Saskatchewan, bound for Music City with a pocket full of songs, a guitar, and the dog-eared stub of a one-way ticket. Jake had just enough attitude to let you know that he wasn’t kidding…a healthy dose of bravado and svelte, and a double dose of knowing who he was and where he wanted to go while working out for himself how to get there.” – Mississippi Chris Sharp, The Bluegrass Standard, Rancho Mirage, California.

www.jakevaadeland.com

Jake Vaadeland is a self taught multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Saskatchewan, Canada. His traditional sound and unique style could be defined as a blend of Bluegrass and 50s Rockabilly, with Jake also specializing on guitar and banjo in addition to his impressive vocals. Jake strives to write and play with a focus on storytelling and messages that he hopes his audience can relate to, all packaged in foot stomping, high energy performances with The Sturgeon River Boys.
Jake received 2 Saskatchewan Music Awards in 2022, winning Roots/Folk Artist of the Year and the fan voted award for Album of the Year for his album Everybody But Me. Jake also was awarded four 2022 Saskatchewan Country Music Awards, including Fans Choice Entertainer of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, Alternative Country Album of the Year and Emerging Artist of the Year. His album, Retro Man finished at #2 in fan voting for the Saskatchewan Music Awards Album of the Year in 2021.
“He cut a foppish figure and seemed to have stepped right off of a Greyhound Scenic Cruiser double-decker bus, fresh from the fertile plains of Saskatchewan, bound for Music City with a pocket full of songs, a guitar, and the dog-eared stub of a one-way ticket. Jake had just enough attitude to let you know that he wasn’t kidding…a healthy dose of bravado and svelte, and a double dose of knowing who he was and where he wanted to go while working out for himself how to get there.” – Mississippi Chris Sharp, The Bluegrass Standard, Rancho Mirage, California.

www.jakevaadeland.com

“Megan Nash is writing some of the most beautiful songs in this country right now”
Tom Power on CBC’s q.

Megan Nash is a songwriter that lives on Treaty 4 Territory. She has won and been nominated for numerous awards, including a 2022 Saskatchewan Music Award for Rock/Pop Artist of the Year, 2021 Saskatchewan Music Award for Alternative Artist of the Year, and a 2019 JUNO Award nomination for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year for the album Seeker. The recognition back home is in no small part due to her long and winding history of hitting the road, where she’s done international showcases in the United States, the UK, Germany, Portugal, and Estonia on top of countless gigs across Canada.

www.megannash.ca

Megan Nash is a songwriter that lives on Treaty 4 Territory. She has won and been nominated for numerous awards, including a 2022 Saskatchewan Music Award for Rock/Pop Artist of the Year, 2021 Saskatchewan Music Award for Alternative Artist of the Year, and a 2019 JUNO Award nomination for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year for the album Seeker. The recognition back home is in no small part due to her long and winding history of hitting the road, where she’s done international showcases in the United States, the UK, Germany, Portugal, and Estonia on top of countless gigs across Canada.

www.megannash.ca

The Garrys are a trio of sisters from the coldest part of the landlocked Canadian prairies. Formed in the spring of 2015, The Garrys use layered 3-part blood harmonies, hazy sun-bleached melodies, classic lo-fi guitar tones, and syncopated surf beats to create a unique “doom-wop” sound, dripping with dark nostalgia and touched by psychedelic dread. Their music is likely to leave you with an urge to do the Watusi, bittersweet thoughts about slow-dancing with your middle school crush, or a nagging feeling that it’s not quite safe to go back into the water.

www.thegarrysband.com

The Garrys are a trio of sisters from the coldest part of the landlocked Canadian prairies. Formed in the spring of 2015, The Garrys use layered 3-part blood harmonies, hazy sun-bleached melodies, classic lo-fi guitar tones, and syncopated surf beats to create a unique “doom-wop” sound, dripping with dark nostalgia and touched by psychedelic dread. Their music is likely to leave you with an urge to do the Watusi, bittersweet thoughts about slow-dancing with your middle school crush, or a nagging feeling that it’s not quite safe to go back into the water.

www.thegarrysband.com

Big Willie G (‘Namgis/Kwakwaka’wakw) is a 21 year old Blues, Rock and Country
Folk Musician Artist from Alert Bay on Vancouver Island who currently resides in
Campbell River B.C.
At the early age of 9 Big Willie got his first guitar and by age 17 he was almost lethal
with hands needing to be registered as deadly weapons. His inspirations go from Ice
Cube to Stevie Ray Vaughan. Growing up in the ruff and tuff town of Alert Bay off
north Vancouver Island left him with an unquenchable thirst to set the world on fire
with his own brand of Blues, Rock and “Hybrid Bluetry”
Big Willie G shocks crowds with a voice never heard before that sounds like gravel
over honey as well as soft and sweet. Coupled with guitar playing and a
performance that is out of this world. His music will bring you to your feet to cheer
And to your knees in tears. He is an experience of a lifetime.
Big Willie G set the stage on fire with his cowboy boots and down south like
swagger.

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Big Willie G (‘Namgis/Kwakwaka’wakw) is a 21 year old Blues, Rock and Country
Folk Musician Artist from Alert Bay on Vancouver Island who currently resides in
Campbell River B.C.
At the early age of 9 Big Willie got his first guitar and by age 17 he was almost lethal
with hands needing to be registered as deadly weapons. His inspirations go from Ice
Cube to Stevie Ray Vaughan. Growing up in the ruff and tuff town of Alert Bay off
north Vancouver Island left him with an unquenchable thirst to set the world on fire
with his own brand of Blues, Rock and “Hybrid Bluetry”
Big Willie G shocks crowds with a voice never heard before that sounds like gravel
over honey as well as soft and sweet. Coupled with guitar playing and a
performance that is out of this world. His music will bring you to your feet to cheer
And to your knees in tears. He is an experience of a lifetime.
Big Willie G set the stage on fire with his cowboy boots and down south like
swagger.

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Taking their name from the cluster of galaxies containing the Milky Way, the Local Group plays music of astronomical proportions. With their most recent album (Produced by Clayton Linthicum of Kacy & Clayton) released in June of 2022 via Grey Records, this young Saskatoon-based quartet puts their own unique spin on hard-driving traditional bluegrass, while seamlessly blending in their original songs and their passion for country, Celtic, and Canadiana. Featuring mandolin, bluegrass banjo, flatpicking guitar, and upright bass, The Local Group showcases hot instrumental picking, tight 3-part harmonies, surprising arrangements, and an entertaining energy. Their show has been described as “tight and charmingly zany” and is guaranteed to take you out of this world!
Gigging regularly across the prairies for five years, they have played most everywhere you can imagine. From festivals like Blueberry Bluegrass Festival, Shady Grove, Northern Lights Bluegrass Festival and the Saskatchewan Jazz Festival to opening for Corb Lund in small town Cadillac, they have entertained at just about any kind of show you can think of. House concerts, dive bars, schools, theatres, weddings and old-time dances (guitar player Elliot Dillabough moonlights as a square dance caller) are all familiar territory for this traveling band. They’ll be touring throughout Western Canada this summer, making music and memories wherever they go.

www.thelocalgroupsk.com

Taking their name from the cluster of galaxies containing the Milky Way, the Local Group plays music of astronomical proportions. With their most recent album (Produced by Clayton Linthicum of Kacy & Clayton) released in June of 2022 via Grey Records, this young Saskatoon-based quartet puts their own unique spin on hard-driving traditional bluegrass, while seamlessly blending in their original songs and their passion for country, Celtic, and Canadiana. Featuring mandolin, bluegrass banjo, flatpicking guitar, and upright bass, The Local Group showcases hot instrumental picking, tight 3-part harmonies, surprising arrangements, and an entertaining energy. Their show has been described as “tight and charmingly zany” and is guaranteed to take you out of this world!
Gigging regularly across the prairies for five years, they have played most everywhere you can imagine. From festivals like Blueberry Bluegrass Festival, Shady Grove, Northern Lights Bluegrass Festival and the Saskatchewan Jazz Festival to opening for Corb Lund in small town Cadillac, they have entertained at just about any kind of show you can think of. House concerts, dive bars, schools, theatres, weddings and old-time dances (guitar player Elliot Dillabough moonlights as a square dance caller) are all familiar territory for this traveling band. They’ll be touring throughout Western Canada this summer, making music and memories wherever they go.

www.thelocalgroupsk.com

A hush sweeps across Turtle Island. Birds flock to perch on towering maples and the waving prairie grasses still. There is a name upon the tongue of every creature from the elk to the shrew. FONTINE. A gust of wind blows open the shutters of every home and young and old kneel in reverence to the dawn of a new era. FONTINE. Queen of the road, King of the song, FONTINE is here with a brand new EP.
Co-produced with Kris Ulrich and mixed by Boy Golden, the Yarrow Lover EP is set to be released in 2023. Taking inspiration from her Nehiyaw Iskwew roots, the natural surroundings of her prairie home, and her musical surroundings in Winnipeg, the EP presents as a beautiful introduction to a powerhouse songwriter and vocalist.

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A hush sweeps across Turtle Island. Birds flock to perch on towering maples and the waving prairie grasses still. There is a name upon the tongue of every creature from the elk to the shrew. FONTINE. A gust of wind blows open the shutters of every home and young and old kneel in reverence to the dawn of a new era. FONTINE. Queen of the road, King of the song, FONTINE is here with a brand new EP.
Co-produced with Kris Ulrich and mixed by Boy Golden, the Yarrow Lover EP is set to be released in 2023. Taking inspiration from her Nehiyaw Iskwew roots, the natural surroundings of her prairie home, and her musical surroundings in Winnipeg, the EP presents as a beautiful introduction to a powerhouse songwriter and vocalist.

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The Northern Boyz Drum Group from “Amachewespimawin – Stanley Mission Cree Nation” have been singing together for well over 10 years. As avid Woodland Cree Traditionalists, you could find the Northern Boyz helping with traditional and cultural events in and around the Lac La Ronge Indian Band communities. The Group members are Ricky Mckenzie (lead Singer), Ricky Jr Sanderson, Asa Ballantyne and Troy Charles. Proud singers of the north, The Northern Boyz strive for Cree culture and language revitalization through song, ceremony and tradition. 
“Culture is not a perk for an Aboriginal child, it is a lifeline. There is strength in our traditions!”

Always looking for the next groove, Funky Bus aims to get you dancing by playing a mix of funk, soul, motown and R&B style with classic and modern covers. The bus makes regular stops in the La Ronge area and picks up other local musicians looking for a lift to another stop along their funky way.

A combination of the unruly and the refined, Cupid’s Heart uses cello, electric guitar, drum
machine and low female vocals in an exploration of alt-rock. This moody duo brings a
dynamic energy, and weaves together an atmosphere which is at once both hypnotic and
energizing. Influenced by bands such as Metric, Santigold, and Nirvana, the band resists
easy classification. Alternative rock fits them like a baggy sweater. Lyrically bent towards
the poetic, Cupid’s Heart expresses some of the complexities that go along with love and
life, and does so from a queer female perspective. Based in the Northern community of
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Cupid’s Heart occupies the unexpected space where the
Prairies turn into the Boreal Forest.

www.cupidsheartband.com

A combination of the unruly and the refined, Cupid’s Heart uses cello, electric guitar, drum
machine and low female vocals in an exploration of alt-rock. This moody duo brings a
dynamic energy, and weaves together an atmosphere which is at once both hypnotic and
energizing. Influenced by bands such as Metric, Santigold, and Nirvana, the band resists
easy classification. Alternative rock fits them like a baggy sweater. Lyrically bent towards
the poetic, Cupid’s Heart expresses some of the complexities that go along with love and
life, and does so from a queer female perspective. Based in the Northern community of
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Cupid’s Heart occupies the unexpected space where the
Prairies turn into the Boreal Forest.

www.cupidsheartband.com

Heart & soul. Passion & grit. Freedom of expression & the triumph of the human spirit. Black Suit Devil represents all of these things.
With a tongue-in-cheek name meant to pique the curiosity and a tenacious DIY approach, Black Suit Devil has been spreading inspiration and awareness through music since 2015.
A Solo project led by Singer/Songwriter Andy Du Rego of Hastings, Ontario whose style has been likened to that of Ray LaMontagne, Tom Waits, and Chris Cornell.
With his melodic and thought provoking songwriting inspired by the Folk, Rock, Blues & Soul genres, Andy continues to impress audiences with his signature raspy self-harmonizing dual vocal and passionate presence.

www.blacksuitdevil.com

Heart & soul. Passion & grit. Freedom of expression & the triumph of the human spirit. Black Suit Devil represents all of these things.
With a tongue-in-cheek name meant to pique the curiosity and a tenacious DIY approach, Black Suit Devil has been spreading inspiration and awareness through music since 2015.
A Solo project led by Singer/Songwriter Andy Du Rego of Hastings, Ontario whose style has been likened to that of Ray LaMontagne, Tom Waits, and Chris Cornell.
With his melodic and thought provoking songwriting inspired by the Folk, Rock, Blues & Soul genres, Andy continues to impress audiences with his signature raspy self-harmonizing dual vocal and passionate presence.

www.blacksuitdevil.com

Alex Flett is a one-man-band experience. He plays the harmonica, guitar, cajon, tambourine and hi-hat all at the same time, while singing his original poetry. Although only being one person, the way he plays can pack a punch like a full band. His music tells honest, from-the-heart stories drawn from his journey through life.

www.thesundragon.com

Alex Flett is a one-man-band experience. He plays the harmonica, guitar, cajon, tambourine and hi-hat all at the same time, while singing his original poetry. Although only being one person, the way he plays can pack a punch like a full band. His music tells honest, from-the-heart stories drawn from his journey through life.

www.thesundragon.com

Singer-songwriter Brian Paul D.G. and his ever-evolving musical friends offer a dynamic synergy of inspirational folk songs, some traditional, and mostly original vocal/acoustic compositions with a focus on story-telling, improvisation, sincerity, holographic poetry and all inclusive sing and play along potentials! check out their website for various albums, music videos and much more!

www.brianpauldg.com

Singer-songwriter Brian Paul D.G. and his ever-evolving musical friends offer a dynamic synergy of inspirational folk songs, some traditional, and mostly original vocal/acoustic compositions with a focus on story-telling, improvisation, sincerity, holographic poetry and all inclusive sing and play along potentials! check out their website for various albums, music videos and much more!

www.brianpauldg.com

A local sibling duo and Ramble regulars, poe lacey, is branching out again this year in adding drums, keys, and a second guitar to the party! “We like to tell the personal story of some tough subjects through the lens of our prog-rock/alt infused pop sound. Get ready to feel things n rock out!!”

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A local sibling duo and Ramble regulars, poe lacey, is branching out again this year in adding drums, keys, and a second guitar to the party! “We like to tell the personal story of some tough subjects through the lens of our prog-rock/alt infused pop sound. Get ready to feel things n rock out!!”

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Pat Hanley has been thrilling Saskatchewanians since 2015- often musically.  He sings songs of passion, woe, fury and anguish, and handles his guitar with surprising dexterity for such a lumbering man.  Those Manitobans don’t know what they’re missing.

Tansi! I am a First Nations Cree woman who grew up North of the Saskatchewan River in a beautiful place called Tweedsmuir. I am a proud band member of the Lac La Ronge Band.
I am greatly influenced by classic country, folk and the rhythm and blues. I love all kinds of music! I would describe my style as contemporary country rock genre.
In 2013 I completed my first cd titled “Facing the Storm”, all songs are originals, and they are about love, heartbreak, survival, remembering, joy in life and letting go to make room for new growth! I have just finished my second album and it is called “Dreams”. The songs continue to evolve as my life carries me forward with new experiences and adventures of the heart. I have enjoyed the journey of writing songs and creating two albums to date and I am very grateful for all the joy music brings to my life.

www.lizajaynebrown.com

Tansi! I am a First Nations Cree woman who grew up North of the Saskatchewan River in a beautiful place called Tweedsmuir. I am a proud band member of the Lac La Ronge Band.
I am greatly influenced by classic country, folk and the rhythm and blues. I love all kinds of music! I would describe my style as contemporary country rock genre.
In 2013 I completed my first cd titled “Facing the Storm”, all songs are originals, and they are about love, heartbreak, survival, remembering, joy in life and letting go to make room for new growth! I have just finished my second album and it is called “Dreams”. The songs continue to evolve as my life carries me forward with new experiences and adventures of the heart. I have enjoyed the journey of writing songs and creating two albums to date and I am very grateful for all the joy music brings to my life.

www.lizajaynebrown.com

Mike and Jo really like each other and playing music. It’s been like that for a couple decades but they’re somehow just getting around to playing some fun, funky cover songs together now. They blame living, working, and raising kids in La Ronge.

Skip Johns is no stranger to the Ramble or the La Ronge music scene. A veteran of five decades of performance in bar bands, hair bands, blues, rock, and country, Johns has stripped down his performance to an acoustic set of originals and roots covers featuring slide and flat-picking guitar with engaging vocals. Along with his side kick and daughter, Wapun, Skip is excited to see 2023 Ramble goers at the Welcome Gate this year!