Steve Dawson with Fats Kaplin
An evening of songs, stories and extraordinary musicianship.
Juno Award-winning guitarist, producer and songwriter Steve Dawson will be making a quick swing through the West Coast in the spring and will have legendary sideman Fats Kaplin, from Nashville, in tow. Dawson’s unique voice on slide and lap steel guitar is front and centre, while the two musicians improvise and play off each other as they have done in their frequent work together.
Dawson’s original songs are the focus, along with the duo’s unique take on blues, Hawaiian, and ragtime music that both musicians love to play. While Dawson is well-known to Canadian audiences, Fats Kaplin may be an exciting new find to many. Kaplin has spent time on the road with artists like Jack White, John Prine, Mitski, Beck, Tom Russell, The Dead Reckoners, and Buddy Miller to name just a few. His facility on the fiddle, mandolin, banjo, oud, accordion, and whatever he can lay his hands on makes him one of the most in-demand side-players in modern music.
Over the past two decades, Steve Dawson has produced and/or played on more than 200 albums, seven of which have won Juno Awards. The Vancouver native is widely considered one of the hardest working and skilled musicians this country has ever produced.
The is show is co-presented with The Cultch.
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