Jim Bryson and The Weakerthans Band will be performing in Calgary March 3 to promote Jim’s fourth studio album, his first with the Weakerthans, The Falcon Lake Incident.

Imagine walking through the Manitoba woods, following the footsteps of Stefan Michalak, the mineral prospector who described an unidentified spacecraft landing here in 1967—a close encounter the RCMP filed under The Falcon Lake Incident. Instead of bright lights it is sound that draws you through the trees. Faint at first, there is music that is at once familiar and unexpected. There are recognizable voices, but not in this place. The first voice sings and you hear Ottawa. A second joins and it is unmistakably Winnipeg. Walk closer and there is a guitar, drums, bass, then vibes, trumpet. The sound is lush but there is space as the first voice begins: “And we slept under constellations, scattered under all kinds of combinations, wondering where in the hell it is we’re even calling from.” Yes, this is a different combination, but one that makes even a cabin in the remote wilderness feel like home. And with this new album from Jim Bryson and the Weakerthans Band, we are all invited inside.

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