The Root Cellar

✨✨Bry Webb & Cots, March 28!✨✨ Bry first played a hometown show here at The Root Cellar nearly 10 years ago, and now he's back -- this time, with Steph Yates' mesmerizing solo project, Cots. Whether you've been a Bry fan since The Constantines days, or you've been following his and Steph's recent community-building events in Guelph, please join us for this incredible evening of beautiful music in the .

About Bry Webb:
About six years ago, Bry Webb (The Constantines) stopped playing and releasing music entirely, sold instruments and recording equipment, and convinced himself that he was done.

In early 2023 his personal life exploded. In the process of dealing with that, he started writing music again and recording at home. His therapist said he needed to figure out how to ask for, and accept, help from others. He sent early recordings of songs to friends made across twenty-five years of music-making - many folks he hadn’t connected with in years - and asked if they’d contribute anything to the songs. People came through in ways that overwhelmed him. He felt incredibly cared for.

Now, surrounding the release of a new record that came out later that year, Run With Me (Idée Fixe), Webb has been performing live again, often accompanied by multi-instrumentalist Steph Yates, with shows as far flung as Haida Gwaii, Halifax, Dawson City, Mexico City, and Brittany, France. The album, and these performances, are all about death, transition, asking for help, and finding hope.


About Cots:
Cots is the solo project of Canadian composer, singer, and guitarist Steph Yates. Blending elements of bossa nova, folk, jazz, and classical against a modern art backdrop, Cots’s subtly unconventional compositions and poetics permeate her debut record Disturbing Body, produced by Sandro Perri. During the pandemic, Yates teamed up with producer Olivier Fairfield to create the otherworldly and off-kilter follow-up EP Moonlit Building. Yates tours regularly with accompaniment from multi-instrumentalist Bry Webb.


Friday March 28
Doors at 7
Music at 7.30
Venue @ 623 Dundas Street, upstairs.
Please note The Root Cellar is a second-floor venue with a staircase.
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bry-webb-and-cots-live-the-root-cellar-tickets-1255782311699?aff=oddtdtcreator

TONIGHT! $10 ADVANCE! Come listen to in the 👏

🎶Taillon is known for conjuring an atmosphere of raw emotion as he takes the audience on a journey through the highest highs and lowest lows. Expect an evening of haunted lyrics and breathtaking vocals in The Root Cellar's beautiful second-floor listening room.

🍂This concert is the second of our Fall Folk Fridays concert series! Make sure you catch the last show as well on the 29th!

🗓️ November 22, 7 p.m. | Music at 7.30pm.
📍 623 Dundas Street, upstairs (look for the purple door just east of Dough EV)
🎟️ $10 advance, $15 at doors

Support local venues and get your tickets now at:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/rory-taillon-the-root-cellar-tickets-948006712597?aff=oddtdtcreator

This event is proudly sponsored by the ❤

Next Friday!

🍂FALL FOLK FRIDAYS: a cozy concert series @ The Root Cellar!🌙
Cozy up with us this November for Fall Folk Fridays - a mini concert series with some of our favourite Ontario musicians. If you've caught a show in our upstairs space before, you know you're in for good music & good company in the Old East Village!

🌙 Friday Nov 8 - Tragedy Ann with Hillary Watson ($25)
🌙 Friday Nov 22 - Rory Taillon ($10 advance, $15 at the door)
🌙 Friday Nov 29 - Zachary Lucky ($20)

Bring a friend, bring your date, bring your kid, bring your neighbour! Come to one show or all three :)
Tickets for each show available via our website ✌️
https://the-root-cellar.square.site/

FRI NOV 22: Catch Ottawa-based alternative folk singer-songwriter live at The Root Cellar! Taillon is known for conjuring an atmosphere of raw emotion as he takes the audience on a journey through the highest highs and lowest lows. Expect an evening of haunted lyrics and breathtaking vocals in The Root Cellar's beautiful second-floor listening room.

Friday Nov 22
Doors at 7pm | Music at 7.30pm.
Venue @ 623 Dundas Street, upstairs.
Generously supported by the Old East Village BIA's Special Event Grant.

Tickets at the link below.

Part of our FALL FOLK FRIDAYS: a cozy concert series. Check out our other concerts on Friday Nov 8 (Tragedy Ann & Hillary Watson) & Friday Nov 29 (Zachary Lucky) ;)

"Alternative indie folk singer Rory Taillon has a voice that needs to be heard. Since 2012, Rory has released three albums and two EPs with his fourth full-length album, Now It’s Quiet, out August 20th.

Trained as a classical singer from a young age, his years of study are evident in the power and control that he has over his voice. He uses his warm guitar tone, haunting lyrics, dynamic voice, layers of looping, and the thumping of his kick drum to take the audience on a journey through his set from exhilarating highs to emotional lows.

'Wish You Would Stay' is the second single from his [newest] LP. Not one to shy away from difficult subjects, his music confronts loss, grief, and the struggles of mental health issues."

- Jenna Melanson, Canadian Beats

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