Tim Hus and his travelin’ band are making their way to the Fifth Avenue Seniors Activity Centre Friday April 29 in a Salmon Arm firefighters fundraiser for local charities.
Local firefighters will run a cash bar with proceeds going to the women’s emergency shelter.
Local singer/songwriter Sasha Lewis will open for the band who will perform an evening of Canadian country and cowboy songs.
Hus has been described as being blessed with “a voice sweeter than a Husqvarna chainsaw, a wit that is sharper than rusty barbed wire and a list of songs longer than a Saskatchewan fence line.”
Hot off the trail from 12 weeks of touring with Canadian icon Stompin’ Tom Connors, in a show where he was heralded as the best opening act Connors has had in his 45-plus-year career.
Hus recently released his fifth CD, joining Corb Lund and the legendary Ian Tyson on the Stony Plain Records label for the second time.
Nominated for Roots Artist of the Year in the 2011 Canadian Music Awards, Hus is said to “come at his audience like a runaway rig, while firing off image-laden lyrics with the intensity of a western gunslinger.”
Hus’ Travelin’ Band features Billy MacInnis on fiddle and lead guitar and Riley Tubbs on upright bass.
MacInnis has been billed as one of the most accomplished fiddle players from the Maritime provinces. He has appeared with Prairie Oyster and John Allan Cameron, and has been playing fiddle with Stompin’ Tom for the past seven years.
Tubbs, from Mountain House, Alta. lays down the finest rhythm in the West.
Advance tickets are $12 and $18 at the door and are available at the Barley Station Brew Pub, Acorn Music and the Canoe Village Market.
