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Event Description

Monday, January 14th: Rachael Cardiello and the Warm Electric Winter, with The Ruffled Feathers
Doors: 8:00 pm. $7
http://www.facebook.com/events/410306792372093/
Singer/songwriter Rachael Cardiello was raised between mountains outside of Helena, MT. Though trained as a classical violist at theUniversity of Victoria in British Columbia, her music invites comparisons to many innovative female songwriters--including Kate Bush, PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsom and Regina Spektor--and is rooted in a strong drive to mess with the boundaries between genres as diverse as pop, alternative folk, rock, country and soul. Cardiello’s powerful, poetic storytelling generates surreal landscapes that are both ethereal and earthy, weaving through fragments of sandcrusted memories, laments about love, poetic and deftly hidden commentary about popes and politics, and challenging accounts of fortnights in mental hospitals.
Currently based out of Toronto, Ontario, Cardiello has been touring Canada and the states for over five years as a solo artist. With the release of her new album, Warm Electric Winter, Cardiello presents her songs with a full band and an electric sound. Recorded in the Spring of 2012 in The Galaxy Smith Recording Studios of Brooklyn, New York, this album stretches Cardiello's songwriting across a four piece horn section and an old, 1960's pop group sound.
http://rachaelcardiello.bandcamp.com/
Vancouver band The Ruffled Feathers are known for their combination of haunting female vocals, carefully crafted harmonies, multi-instrumentation, and brazen horns. Taking inspiration from the likes of Beirut, The Arcade Fire, and Belle and Sebastian, the band weaves fables of revolution, love stories, and cities away from home. Listeners expecting conventional guitar-driven indie-pop will find themselves swept into complex arrangements of trumpets and mandolins instead.
http://www.theruffledfeathers.com/