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Thursday, November 29th, 2018

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About Ruth

Ruth’s childhood rambled the prairie highways between urban and country homes. Her mother, a cultured English teacher, lived in the city, and her father and stepmother operated an antique woolen mill in Rural Alberta. This paradox is apparent in Ruth’s music. While the stories may appear to be simple, traditional country, they are supported by a sound that pulls influence from the city: complicated, restless and sometimes loud. The story of Ruth’s career is no different.

Having charted on CKUA's Yearly Top 100, garnered licensing to MTV, and gathered all rave reviews Internationally, Ruth Purves Smith is a gem of Central Alberta's Original Music Scene. She released her second full length album in 2015, and is in full stride performing, writing, recording, & promoting her diverse brand of Alberta Music. Ruth will wander you through places & tales of darkness and light, as did the Bards of old.

About Brian

Texan Brian Kalinec has been called "a combination of Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck, James Taylor, and Rodney Crowell in the stories he tells" in a review in music magazine Rootsy. He has also been described by Robert Bartosh of Roots Music Report "one of the most creative songwriters from the Texas music scene". Those comments perfectly sum up Brian's drive to write songs with purpose. When he returned to performing after a twenty year absence, songwriting became his primary focus. As a result of his efforts, Brian has received a considerable recognition here and abroad, in events such as a winner of the Songwriter Serenade Competition and the Big Top Chautauqua Song Contest, and second place in the Woody Guthrie Song Contest and a finalist in the UK Songwriting Contest, to name a few.

Brian is known not only for his songwriting but as a guitarist as well, having garnered nominations for both Songwriter of the Year and Musician of the Year in the Texas Music Awards in the recent past. He has appeared at the Kerrville Folk Festival, and venues such as Uncle Calvin's in Dallas, The Bugle Boy in La Grange, and as a featured guest on Rich Warren's Folkstage on WFMT in Chicago. Brian and his wife Pam own Berkalin Records, a label which is home to a number of well-respected folk and Americana artists.