CENTRAL SAANICH B次元官网网址� Critically-acclaimed Toronto indie troubadour Jon Brooks is on Vancouver Island to play a series of intimate house concerts, including one at Brentwood Bay Village Empourium on Thursday, October 12.

Nominated four times for The Canadian Folk Music AwardsB次元官网网址� English Songwriter of the Year, Brooks has released five albums and toured extensively both in Canada and Europe. His narratives captivate and provoke emotions in the same tradition as other notable Canadian singer/songwriters such as Bruce Cockburn and Fred Eaglesmith, while his vocal qualities are closer to those of Steve Earle.

BrooksB次元官网网址� music is topical: his most recent release, The Smiling & Beautiful Countryside, revisits the folk/blues tradition of the murder ballad, with shifting viewpoints ranging from the laissez-faire attitude of a gun dealer to the perpetrator of a mass shooting filtered through todayB次元官网网址檚 headlines and his own dark, literate sense of humour. Despite this, his songs are infused with compassion.

B次元官网网址淚 know no other thing more intimately than The Song, and outside of kindness itB次元官网网址檚 the one thing in the mournful world IB次元官网网址檝e occasionally touched that ascends with purpose, force and love, and so I stay seeking it more or less blindly.B次元官网网址�

Brooks will joined onstage by guitarist Neil Cruickshank, co-founder of the Vancouver-based band, Brickhouse - a mainstay of the Vancouver blues and funk-revival scene.

As BBVE House Concerts are limited to 30 seats, people are asked to purchase advance tickets in person or by phone at 778-351-0178 as early as possible to avoid disappointment. Food and licensed beverage service is available from 7 p.m. with performances beginning at 8 p.m.

B次元官网网址� Submitted