MRG Live presents
Old Man Luedecke Plus Guests
Event Details
Date
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Time
Doors: 11:00 AM - Show: 12:00 PM
Age Restriction
19+
Venue
Capital Ballroom
Address
858 Yates St, Victoria, BC
Artist
Old Man LuedeckeWith
About the Event
Old Man Luedecke is the recording name of two time JUNO award winning and Polaris prize nominated singer songwriter Chris Luedecke. A multiple East Coast Music Award winner known for his high energy banjo driven stompers, touching guitar ballads and dry humorous stories, Luedecke has been making a soundtrack to an authentic life for nearly twenty years.
Born in Toronto and long time resident of the country near Chester Nova Scotia, Luedecke began recording in the early 2000’s DIY folk scene of Halifax. He made his two JUNO winning albums for Black Hen Music in the late 00s with Steve Dawson as producer at Vancouver’s famed Factory studio. While on a tour of England in 2009, he met and supported folk roots legend Tim O’Brien who produced Luedecke’s next two albums. Tender is the Night was recorded at John’s Prine’s Butcher Shoppe Studio in Nashville in 2012 and 2015’s Domestic Eccentric was recorded in a cabin Luedecke built himself at his home in NS. 2019 saw Luedecke recording Easy Money at both the Banff Centre in Alberta and at Hotel2Tango in Montreal.
Songs like I quit my Job at the beginning of his career and the Early Days at the beginning of his family and dozens of other fan favourites trace a warm line of effort, sadness and joy and provide a soundtrack to many peoples’ own progress through adulthood, touching a rare place of truth and charm in the holiness of the mundane. His performing style with his easy going humour and storytelling creates a rare space of hopeful and intimate magic.
Luedecke has kept up many worldwide concert appearances, playing in Europe and around Canada and the USA and six trips to Australia, including a memorable tour where his whole young family travelled with him around rural Queensland for the Festival of Small Halls.
In May 2022 Luedecke was awarded an honorary doctorate from King’s University in Halifax for his cultural contributions.
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Old Man Luedecke
An award-winning Canadian singer/songwriter and banjo player, Old Man Luedecke is the nom de plume of Nova Scotia native Chris Luedecke. One of Canada's most acclaimed and unique roots music personalities, Luedecke won his first Juno in 2009 for the album Proof of Love, which took home the prize for traditional folk album of the year. He continued to earn accolades on subsequent outings like 2010's My Hands are on Fire and Other Love Songs and Easy Money (2019), the former of which also earned a Juno.
A native of Toronto, Luedecke developed his troubadour persona after relocating to Canada's Yukon, the country's smallest and westernmost province. He debuted his virtuosic banjo skills and wry storytelling in 2003 on the album Mole in the Ground, which he promoted via a heavy bout of touring both at home and abroad. After moving to the rural south shore of Nova Scotia he inked a deal with Black Hen Music and issued his sophomore effort, Hinterland.
Abandoning the stark simplicity of his earlier works, Luedecke enlisted a full band for 2008's Proof of Love, which drew comparisons to John Prine and John Hartford, and received a Juno Award the following year. 2010's Juno Award-winning My Hands are on Fire and Other Love Songs also featured a full band, and boasted a guest appearance by bluegrass great Tim O'Brien, and a tribute to Canadian folk music legend Willie P. Bennett. Luedecke headed south to Music City for his fifth studio long-player, the True North-issued Tender Is the Night, which saw Tim O'Brien in the producer chair and a crew of Nashville's finest session players coming along for the ride. In 2014 he teamed up with renowned Halifax singer/songwriter Joel Plaskett for a three-song EP, I Never Sang Before I Met You, and in 2015 he put out his sixth full-length effort, Domestic Eccentric, which was recorded in his self-built backwoods cabin with O'Brien once again producing. For 2019's Easy Money, Luedecke decamped to Montreal with producer Howard Bilerman. Composed and recorded at the Banff Centre's songwriter-in-residence program, the album featured guest spots from O'Brien, Afie Jurvanen of Bahamas, and Fats Kaplin.
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