Canadian singer-songwriter Matt Epp will perform in an intimate concert at the Black Box Theater on November 22nd, where his music and lyrics will be mixed with paintings by Kelowna artist Sabine Jaspert.
Epp’s 2013 album Learning To Lose Control featured Juno-winning Songwriter of the Year, When You Know, who also debuted in the CBC Radio 2 Top 20 charts last year and stayed in the top 5 for the next 12 weeks.
When You Know was written with multiple Juno Award winner Serena Ryder, who also sang with Epp on the song.
Epp said a Kelowna singer will join him on stage for the Juno winning song.
“Matt Epp’s poetry, music, voice and intention – or all of them together – led to these images,” explains Jaspert, who has been opening her studio to both artists and musicians for many years.
“Some of them have become close friends – and that’s how I met Matt,” she added.
Some of the paintings that reflect Epp’s work will be exhibited in concert.
“I saw people laughing and crying at his performances,” added Jaspert. “For me as an artist it is only natural that this connection leads to paintings.”
Epp toured Europe and North America extensively since 2005, releasing a number of critically acclaimed albums before releasing Learning to Lose Control in 2013.
Some critics place him in a special circle.
“The main thing is that Matt Epp is simply one of the best of a generation of good songwriters who have sprung up in this country over the past decade or so, carrying on the torch of Canadian songwriting that has led to Lightfoot, Mitchell, Young, Cohen and . Cockburn is going back, ”said Gary Cristall of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival.
Epp has been in constant change since his youth, lives everywhere from the lonely prairies to the hustle and bustle of the big cities and hitchhikes all over Canada in between.
In 2010, Epp was nominated for Singer-Songwriter Discovery of the Year on Sirius Radio’s popular show The Coffee House, for which he performed at their New York studios. He was the artist in May 2011 for Sirius’ Backstage Pass series. A short interview and clip segment about him ran before every Cineplex screening in Canada that month.
In April 2011, Epp also worked for the first time with his backing band The Amorian Assembly. Together they recorded and released their debut At Dawn. In 2012 they temporarily moved to Spain, where they worked on their follow-up album Learning To Lose Control.
The concert on November 22nd starts at 7:30 p.m., doors open at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets are $ 20 and are available at the Minstrel Cafe, 4638 Lakeshore Rd., Mosaic Books, 411 Bernard Ave. or, if available, available at the box office. The seating capacity is 90.
Tickets are also available by calling 250-764 2740 or by email abbi@putlitz.net.
