Kev Corbett - Live Recording

Take Note! Music House, address given upon reservation, Orillia, ON

Take Note! House Concerts and Meek Monk Music present:

'Live In Orillia' house concert recording session with Kev Corbett Thursday, August 16, 2012 7:30 pm

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Take Note! Promotion will be presenting – and Meek Monk Music will be recording – a house concert with Music Nova Scotia's 2011 'Musician of the Year', Kev Corbett. Orillia audiences will remember Kev from his November FridayFolk performance with the Orillia Folk Society. This intimate gathering takes place on Thursday, August 16 at 7:30 p.m., at the Take Note! Music House (directions given upon reservation)

Tickets are $15, and may be reserved by e-mailing takenote@takenotepromotion.com or calling 705-345-8095.

Kev Corbett (http://www.kevcorbett.com)

'The man is an exceptional guitar player ' for one thing ' but also writes extremely clever, finessed, clockwork folk-pop songs whose singable surface belies a tremendous underlying sense of craft.' ' Jowi Taylor, Six String Nation

'Corbett embodies everything that is wonderful about the song as an art form, while most folk singers today are mere shadows of great singer/songwriters.' ' KV Style

'This native Nova Scotian's voice is like no one else. He is all Canadian, with hints of Cockburn, Cohen and Lightfoot in his voice. Corbett weaves through well-crafted and skillfully written songs about everything from love to fallen idols to roadside adventures. [His] dazzling guitar playing compliments his unique perspective on life [and] passionate commentaries.' ' Penguin Eggs Magazine

Kev particularly likes one fan's description: 'Like Cohen, but with a sense of humour; Dylan, without the angst.'

Kev Corbett is one of the best of Eastern Canada's bumper crop of fine young songwriters. He's known for his confident and compelling lyrical turns of phrase, his top-notch musicality, and his always entertaining storytelling on stage.

Kev has placed twice in the Telluride Bluegrass Festival song contest, and played legendary folk rooms the Yellow Door (Montreal), the Freetimes Cafe (Toronto), The Carleton (Halifax) and Club Passim (Cambridge MA). He once played at the Times Changed High and Lonesome Club in Winnipeg and lived to write a song about it. He's showcased at conferences like the East Coast Music Awards and the Ontario Conference of Folk Festivals, earned mainstage spots at the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival and the Deep Roots Festival, and his music gets played on Canadian public and college radio.

People keep telling Kev Corbett he really doesn't sound like anybody else. He's a wordy guy with a big heart. A serious guitar picker. A man who loves a great story, especially if it isn't his. He's comfortable in his own skin, not a hint of pretence. As a writer, he's known for the attention-to-the-everyday of an Alice Munro, the attention-to-detail and research of a Robertson Davies, the brutal frankness of a Farley Mowat, the warm-cuddliness of a Peter Gzowski.

Kev Corbett is the best kind of folksinger, writing zingers that can veer hilarious, heartbreaking, lusty, pious, political, fighty, thoughtful, wistful, helpful and/or clever; and then usually throw a self-deprecating monologue on top. It's hard not to pay attention; stories become songs break down into stories, and you realize he's not singing about his own life. He's singing ours.

A skilled multi-instrumentalist and side musician on top of his solo career, Kev recently won Music Nova Scotia's 2011 'Musician of the Year' award. Congratulations, Kev, well deserved!