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  • woodland telegraph

    • Vancouver
    • V5Z1R4
  • Contact: western operator Matthew Lovegrove
  • Phone: 604-731-0715
  • Email: asleepyetagain@yahoo.com
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  • Genre: Acoustic
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Woodland Telegraph perform Canadiana Landscape music and are busy mapping out this country in a trilogy of recordings marking different regional/historical geography. Their debut album on Northern Folklore Records, entitled "Woodland Telegraph sings Revival Hymns" was #1. on both the national !Earshot Folk/Roots charts last December as well as on CBC Galaxie's Folk/Roots Charts this past February. They would like to perform either with you, against you in a battle-royal, or perhaps in your bar if you have a fence around the stage like in blues brothers. here are some things that folks have said about us: "...fresh and startling. Imagine dark-grass band Elliott Brood being kidnapped and brainwashed to join forces with The Polyphonic Spree, and you get an idea of the vibe: earthy and mournfull merges with the passionate, ecstatic, almost orchestral." Roch Parisien, CBC Folk/Roots "Vancouver’s Matthew Lovegrove writes songs that are Canadian in the way that, say, Blue Rodeo’s “5 Days in May” or The Tragically Hip’s “Locked in the Trunk of a Car” are Canadian, which is to say you’ll twig to a certain something in the music long before you get to the lyric about the Kananaskis River. On either level, this is a particularly potent exploration of forging connection out of isolation." - John Sakomoto, Toronto Star "Not as religious as the album title implies but as serenely bucolic. It is like a view of the great outdoors from a forest ranger tower, there is that much scope and fresh air in writer Matthew Lovegrove’s evocation of understated folk”." -Tom Harrison, BC Province "woodland telegraph have a very interesting approach to getting their songs across [live]-extremely entertaining..." Longevity John,CBC's Top 20 Canadian Venue The Duncan Garage "Woodland Telegraph opts to let the picked banjo and strings roam (and soar) and you quickly settle into the listen and want it to repeat over and over. It’s the feeling you get when you get out on the open road. It’s a pensive, inspired gaze across the vast openness that is the Midwest of Canada. Most importantly though, it’s fantastic music." -www.herohill.com, Best of 2009

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