Garden Party: Steven Lambke / New Hermitage

Part of the Wolfe Island Garden Party! June 17-26 — Nine days of live music, great food, art, & community. See https://wolfeislandrecords.com/gardenparty/ for more information.

STEVEN LAMBKE
https://stevenlambke.com
Over his two decades in Canada’s indie-rock trenches, Steven Lambke has often thrived in supporting roles. A former member of soul-punk rabble rousers the Constantines, his seventh solo album trades straight-ahead country rock for joyful, junk-shop irreverence, reveling in his peculiarities while offering an unmistakably homey atmosphere.

NEW HERMITAGE
https://newhermitage.ca/
New Hermitage is an ambient improvisational ensemble featuring Andrew MacKelvie, woodwinds; India Gailey, cello; Ross Burns, guitar; and Ellen Gibling, harp. All highly accomplished musicians in their own right, the quartet birthed in 2017 in Halifax, Nova Scotia out of their shared connection to Jerry Granelli and the Creative Music Workshop. Since then, New Hermitage has shared bills with artists such as revelatory composer/improviser Angel Bat Dawid, jaw harp innovator chik white, pi’pa virtuoso Liu Fang, and prolific noise explorer i d m theft able. Among their six live recordings are two performances with renowned bass clarinettist Jeff Reilly, one of which won Music Nova Scotia’s “Classical Recording of the Year” award. New Hermitage’s first studio album, Unearth, was released in 2020 to much critical acclaim.