OFS House Concert at Michael's. Please book your tickets ($20) & get directions before 4pm, via 705-238-2231 or mmartyn@city.orillia.on.ca.

Spirit of the West's frontman returns to his alt-folk roots as a solo performer.

Mister Mann is the solo project of Spirit of the West’s front man and songwriter John Mann. After 11 albums and countless tours of the UK, Europe and North America with SotW, his new solo CD December Looms is a return to Mann’s stripped down Alt Folk roots.

Mann pens beautiful melodies with emotionally honest lyrics that capture the intimate moments of his hometown of Vancouver, its occupants, the fragile details of their dysfunctional love and the loss of a city’s innocence. If Damien Rice was Jeff Tweedy and Jeff Tweedy was Josh Ritter, you’d come away with something kindred to December Looms.

John Mann is also an actor of stage, film and television and currently can be seen on the CBC TV drama Intelligence, as CSIS Director, James Mallaby.

Mann has stripped everything right down to bare bones, boiling his musical sensibility down to the concentrated strumming of a single acoustic guitar behind his acerbic lyrics and warmly familiar vocals. ...gripping ...heart-rending lyrical skill [Exclaim!]