NEWS RELEASE
KALEIDOSCOPE MUSIC GUELPH
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John Borra & Lorraine Leckie
Friday, November 22, 2024
7:00 door - 8:00 show
$20 at eventbrite.ca - limited tickets
The Cornerstone
1 Wyndham St N, Guelph
An intimate double bill featuring John Borra and Lorraine Leckie, the latter's first of only two Canadian dates. A Canadian musician based in New York City, Ms. Leckie started writing poetry at a young age but didn't pick up a guitar until her late 30s. She began performing solo or with her band Lorraine Leckie & Her Demons and soon became known in some of New York's most noted venues such as Mercury Lounge and Bowery Ballroom. Leckie is a "no-nonsense singer-songwriter whose music combines honest, heartfelt poetry with beautiful, simple melodies, all performed with an attitude that's hard as nails and barely concealing of an aching vulnerability just below the surface".
"It’s fair to say that John Borra has seen and done it all within the Toronto alternative music scene, from witnessing the first stirrings of punk as a kid in the late 1970s, to joining his first bands at the dawn of the alt-rock movement in the 1980s, and forging a solo career during the roots music renaissance that followed." Jason Schneider, Roots Music Canada.
John Borra released his critically acclaimed Blue Wine in 2020 followed by Cassettes in Common in 2022. The latter is a tribute to fellow singer-songwriters such as Ron Sexmith, Frank Nevada, Kyp Harness, Bob Snyder and Sam Larkin, all originally released on cassette tapes.
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