Mama's Broke will bring along crunchy instrumentals and haunting harmonies to their show at the Errington Hall on Sept. 20.
The folk music duo of Amy Lou Keeler (vocals, guitar, banjo, fiddlesticks) and Lisa Maria (vocals, fiddle, foot board, mandolin) hail from Halifax and have spent the past nine years in a near-constant state of transience, pounding the transatlantic tour trail, according to a news release.
They've brought their dark, fiery folk-without-borders sound to major festivals and DIY punk houses alike, absorbing traditions from their maritime home in eastern Canada all the way to Ireland and Indonesia.
Nowhere is the duo's art-in-motion approach more apparent than on their long-awaited Juno-nominated sophomore record Narrow Line, released in 2022.
Bates and Keeler met on the road. As Bates remembers it, “Amy was driving her old Mercedes from Montreal to Nova Scotia and I was looking for a ride. We spent the 17 hours in the car talking almost exclusively about music. By the time we reached Halifax we started playing together, and within a week or two became a band.”
Both come out of travelling communities that are focused on music and protest, and the two owe the way in which they move through the world to the integrated and self-sustaining nature of DIY culture and activism.
It was a busy life that took them on a roundabout annual touring schedule running between Canada, the U.S., Ireland, the UK and Europe.
The driving force behind this band is – and has always been – the commitment to challenge borders between people, places, and traditions, while encouraging freedom of expression and community through music.
Doors at 7:30 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $25 at Shades of Green and Errington Store, and $27.50 online at https://ErringtonHall.Tickit.ca.
Children aged six to 12 are $5 and teens are $10 at the door; free for children under six.
Home baked goodies, ginger tea and Creekmore’s coffee will be available from the kitchen.