** Note: As of 8/21, this show has SOLD OUT. Please update your RSVPs accordingly **

Hey everyone! I know we've done the RAA as a meetup before (last year's free show @ Jay Pritzker) but it's been over a year, and they're coming to Schubas again! They've gotten relatively popular, so I'd suggest buying your ticket sooner rather than later. Tickets are $14 + fees an can be purchased online here.

Where: In the Schubas front bar. Look for me at one of the tables the blue and white CIRF sign.

When: Saturday August 28th, starting at 8:30 PM. Show starts at 9, a TBD opening act and The Wooden Sky will precede RAA.

Band descriptions from last.fm:

Toronto-based trio The Rural Alberta Advantage (Nils Edenloff, Amy Cole, and Paul Banwatt) play indie-rock songs about hometowns and heartbreak, born out of images from growing up in Central and Northern Alberta. They sing about summers in the Rockies and winters on the farm, ice breakups in the spring time and the oil boom’s charm, the mine workers on compressed, the equally depressed, the city’s slow growth and the country’s wild rose, but mostly the songs just try to embrace the advantage of growing up in Alberta.

The Wooden Sky traces its roots back through the winter of 2003, when with a collection of songs under his arm, Gavin Gardiner began to seek out musical collaborators to help bring his sketches out from the bedroom and onto the stage. It was soon after the first snow fall that Andrew Wyatt and Chris Cocca joined Gardiner and began to flush out ideas that would become their first EP. It was only after they had finished this record that they realized it possible to put their newfound interests on display. Moving from a makeshift studio and into Gardiner’s garage in downtown Toronto, a place the three had come to call home only the year before, they began the plot to share their amateurish themes with others.
Certainly much has changed since those formative years huddled around space heaters and dodging noise complaints. Gone are the songs they began as teenagers and gone even is the name, Friday Morning’s Regret, with which they had branded themselves. In its place stands the Wooden Sky, with new fulltime and moonlighting members Simon Walker, Anissa Heart and Andrew Kekewich. When Lost at Sea, the Wooden Sky’s debut LP, was originally released in February 2007 to a sold-out Horseshoe Tavern and reveals the band arranging fragile folk songs in a context that has drawn comparison to such modern acts as the Great Lake Swimmers, Neutral Milk Hotel and Okkervil River.