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  • Ghosts of the Highway

    • P.O. Box 8501
    • Victoria
    • V8W 3S1
  • Contact: shayne avec i grec
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  • Genre: Acoustic
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From Dawson City to the Baja Peninsula, from Haida Gwaii to the Cape Breton Highlands, Jeff Andrew and shayne avec i grec have trekked tens of thousands of miles by thumb, rail, bus & foot, chasing minstrels, miscreants and mysteries along the way. Now these ragged wanderers have joined forces as Ghosts of the Highway and are hitchhiking from Victoria, BC to St. John’s, NFLD, bringing instruments, voices and epic stories of adventure on the open road. Both Jeff and shayne are dynamic performers who’ve played seperately and together in bars, cafes, streetcorners and festival stages from one end of Canada to the other. With a voice like rusted steel creaking in the wind, Jeff performs on a pawnshop’s worth of instruments (though limited to guitar, fiddle and harmonica for this tour) and sings road-worn fantasies like a hard-traveling vagabond caught somewhere between a logging camp and the faerie underworld. His songs echo the drama and dust of the old folksingers, filled with characters and stories like the women who’ve disappeared hitchhiking from the Highway of Tears in northern BC and the life-or-death labour battles fought by the I.W.W. in the early 20th century. Taking the term rambler to heart, shayne is often seen traveling thru the physical realms of highways and truck stops while rambling his way thru myriad stories of past, present and future. He is prone to outbursts of glee and his poems range from visionary tales to hyperkinetic bursts of abstract wordplay, mixing politics, metaphysics and love. As a performer his booming voice and energetic delivery owes a debt of gratitude to the beats, slam poetry and the open road. Whether speaking softly over the strains of mellow musical accompaniment or bellowing off-mic from the edge of the stage, shayne’s voice holds a commanding presence that draws any within earshot into the worlds of his words. As Ghosts of the Highway, Jeff and shayne bring a show like an old-style revue: a mix of music, storytelling and audience participation. They frequently perform straight from the floor, stomping their boots and belting like born-again carnival barkers. Whenever possible the stage is opened to anyone in the room with a story or song of their own, creating an inclusive, inspiring atmosphere that breaks down the walls between audience and performer.

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