Posted On: Oct. 27, 2021
Back To Live: Saskatoon
BreakOut West is thrilled to be Back To Live! After more than a year off-stage, musicians are finally returning to live performances and BreakOut West is celebrating with a five-week series of concerts, speaking engagements, and digital content from some of the best the western Canadian music industry has to offer.
Join us in Saskatoon at Amigos for this free event featuring performances by Slow Down Molasses, W3APONS and The Garrys! Also, arrive early for a discussion about the return to live music in Winnipeg!
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Schedule
5:30 PM - Doors
6:00 PM - Back to Live Conference
8:30 PM - Slow Down Molasses
Performers
The Garrys
The Garrys are a trio of sisters from the coldest part of the landlocked Canadian prairies, and they make surf music. Formed in the spring of 2015, The Garrys use layered 3-part blood harmonies, hazy sun-bleached melodies, classic lo-fi guitar tones, and syncopated surf beats to create a unique “doom-wop” sound, dripping with dark nostalgia and touched by psychedelic dread. Their music is likely to leave you with an urge to do the Watusi, bittersweet thoughts about slow-dancing with your middle school crush, or a nagging feeling that it’s not quite safe to go back into the water.
Slown Down Molasses
Confronting bristling anxious energy with highly-pronounced pop edges, Slow Down Molasses of Saskatoon, Sask. Canada has never been shy about traversing shifting sonic territories. In their latest iteration, the four-piece plunge deep into delay trails and feedback decay with a sound steeped in existential dread and simmering guitar rock post-punk sunshine. While their 2016 album, 100% Sunshine, forged new sounds within a group already known for constant evolution, it also saw the band develop an increasingly euphoric live performance, which saw them playing on stages worldwide. Retreating to their Saskatoon studio, ruminating on the sonic afterburn left in their wake, Slow Down Molasses are ready to emerge with a new LP - easily their most concise and devastating work yet. Slated for an October, 2021 release, Minor Deaths is a suite of eight songs that make controlled swerves into melodic indie rock landscapes while paying homage to the tightly-wound nervousness of post-punk unease. Having shared the stage with like-minded groups such as Deerhoof, Animal Collective, Swervedriver and Built to Spill, Slow Down Molasses are once again gearing up to take their explosive live show to audiences worldwide. Expect to see performances coinciding with festivals across Canada, the United Kingdom and Europe throughout 2021 and 2022.
W3APONS
W3APONS is a Canadian Rock trio from Saskatoon, SK. The band’s debut single “Off the Top of My Heart” reached #11 on the Canadian Active Rock Charts completely independently in 2019, and has received over 700,000 streams on Spotify. This pattern would continue for the band’s next five releases, all of which independently went Top 40 in Canada, including their first Top 10 “Bye Baby Gone”. W3APONS’s independent charting successes and relentless touring in 2019 resulted in them being handpicked by Theory of a Deadman to accompany Theory for all 21 Canadian dates of their Say Nothing 2020 World Tour. Drummer/vocalist Tallus Scott, bassist/vocalist Myk Ulan-Hohol, and guitarist/vocalist Jordan Welbourne are the elements in the perfect storm that is W3APONS - Energetic, Hard-hitting, and unmistakably Rock & Roll. W3APONS has shared the stage with Theory of a Deadman, The Trews, Monster Truck, Propagandi, The Lazys and The Wild.
Speakers
Lenore Maier - The Garrys / Grey Records
Lenore Maier plays drums and sings in Saskatoon surf pop band The Garrys where she has performed alongside notable acts such as The Sadies, Elliott Brood and La Luz. She also produces ambient electronic works as Ursa and has worked in the realms of film score and documentary sound composition and live theatre sound design. She is the co-founder of Grey Records, a small cassette label based in Saskatoon. She has toured across Canada and the UK and has booked several tours for her own bands and others on Grey Records. She has worked as an organizer with Girls Rock Saskatoon and is the founder of FEMFEST! (2017-2019) and is the Festival Director of The Manitou Boogaloo and the Saskatoon One Take Super 8 Event. She has juried several music festivals and has been a FACTOR juror since 2014. Lenore holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and is currently pursuing a Master of Public Health at the University of Saskatchewan.
Gabrielle Giroux - Pretty In Punk Fest
Gabrielle Giroux is a proud member of Hatchet Lake Denesųłiné First Nation (Treaty 10) and the owner of Encore Graphic Design & Marketing in Saskatoon, SK. As lead guitarist and band leader for The Wolfe, she has toured across Canada, played many festivals including the final Vans Warped Tour in 2018, and was a Top 4 finalist in CBC’s Searchlight in 2017, all while continuing studies and managing many aspects of the band's career. In 2019, Giroux founded the Pretty In Punk Fest in Saskatoon, which celebrates punk ideologies and alternative music. With monthly showcases as well as an annual festival, Pretty In Punk will strive to host an inclusive, safe, and diverse stage for both local and internationally renowned artists. Gabrielle lives in Saskatoon, where she is working towards her Bachelor of Commerce.
Lindsay “Eekwol” Knight is an nehiyaw award-winning hip hop performing artist and activist living in Saskatoon, originally from Muskoday First Nation in Treaty Six Territory. She has dedicated years to the culture and craft of hip hop to create something unique and astounding to give back to the community. Eekwol uses her music and words to spread messages of resistance, revolution and keeping the language, land and culture alive for the next generations. Through her original sound she displays her activist roots by living and creating as a supporter of both Hip Hop and Indigenous culture and rights.
Tyson McShane - Slow Down Molasses
Tyson McShane (band leader/chief songwriter for Slow Down Molasses) grew up in Prince Albert, a town where there was precisely one all-ages punk rock concert a year (and it usually ended in a mini-riot). After moving to the ‘big city’ of Saskatoon for University, McShane became immersed in the city’s thriving music and art scene, playing in bands, promoting shows, and hyping the local scene every step of the way. With his band Slow Down Molasses, Tyson has released five albums and two EPs, toured Canada, the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Czech Republic, Germany and the Netherlands, playing shows at some of the most exciting new music festivals happening (End of the Road, Sled Island, Reeperbahn, Incubate, SXSW, CMJ, NXNE, Nouvelle Prague, The Great Escape, Liverpool SoundCity etc.) Outside of his time with Slow Down Molasses, Tyson has played and recorded with sludge-pop fuzz merchants Jeans Boots and weirdo noise-niks The Eyebats, co-curated Saskatoon’s newest music festival MoSoFest, and secretly/not-so-secretly holds down day job as a city planner.
TEFRONDON - Trifecta Sound Co.
SASKATOON-BASED ARTIST RON BALDOZA (TEFRONDON) IS A DJ AND MULTI-HYPENATED CREATIVE. Growing up interested in the arts at a young age, music, fashion, photography, and graphic design have always been a part of his life. Primarily known in Saskatoon for DJing, he also works as a freelance graphic designer and content curator while associated with the music collective, Trifecta. Around 2013, after countless nights of surfing music blogs and downloading music, Ron was encouraged by DJ friends to eventually start spinning. At the same time, he has been creating mixes and uploading them online. In 2015, he earned his diploma in Graphic Design/New Media Production. His freelance work includes creating logos, flyers, web design, photography and video editing. TEFRONDON is also principal DJ for Canadian hip-hop/R&B group, Samurai Champs. With the band, he has performed internationally at festivals such as SXSW (Austin, TX), Upstream Music Fest (Seattle, WA), Reeperbahn Festival (Hamburg, Germany), and Music Matters (Singapore). TEFRONDON has opened for numerous prominent recording artists, most notably Russ, Roy Woods and Lil Mosey. To date, TEFRONDON has performed consistently between Saskatoon and Toronto. Catch him seamlessly spin an eclectic range of sounds from new modern rap, classic hip-hop, R&B, dancehall, afrobeats, house, rock, funk, soul and more.