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Music Festivals!
We've got some great festival slots coming up in July and August!
We are playing lots of other great shows. Check out our Shows page for a full listing. And Puzzleroot made the charts again on CHLY! Thanks for your support CHLY 101.9FM!
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Happy Summer Solstice & Puzzleroot on the charts!
Many thanks to everyone who helped out at the Rosedale Ridge Mini Music Festival! We had over 200 folks attend, many campers, and so much fabulous music! Thanks to everyone!
In radio news, Puzzleroot made the charts again! Puzzleroot is in the top 25 on Toronto's, CIUT 89.5FM. Puzzleroot has hit the charts on CIUT (Toronto), CJSF (Vancouver), CFUV (Victoria) and CHLY (Nanaimo) this year! Thanks for all the support!
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On Saturday, June 19 Gary & Marian (of Puzzleroot) are opening their home for the Rosedale Ridge Mini Music Festival, in Cowichan Station
Live music from 12noon until the wee hours of the morning!
Many genres of music will be represented, starting with roots in the afternoon, moving to funk & groove into the early evening, and into rock & punk rock into the late evening.
Kids welcome, dogs welcome, camping is strongly encouraged! We have loads of room and a gorgeous location!
Confirmed bands, in order of appearance, on stage:
There will be an open acoustic jam circle in a separate location.
Bring your own food (we'll have bbq's available), bring your own drink, bring your own camping gear (room for tents, trailers, campers, etc). We have lots of room. Stay over in tents, vans, campers. Enjoy!
This is a community event, and thus is free - feel free to bring good energy friends along.
If anyone would like to help our in any way, please let us know. We would love this!
Directions to Rosedale Ridge!
The Facebook Event Page!
Come on out for good times!
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Live Puzzleroot show on CICV 98.7FM Lake Cowichan!
Puzzleroot's live show (from Lake Cowichan's, Music in the Lake, Thursday, March 25) is being rebroadcast on Cowichan Lake's CICV 98.7FM at 1pm, Sunday, March 28!
Stream it online: CICV 98.7FM Lake Cowichan. Many thanks to all the hard working volunteers for making the show and the recording happen!
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We've got some great gigs & festivals shaping up for this spring & summer! Ahhh, spring is in the air...
For a full listing of gigs, see our Shows page!
- March 21 @ House Concert, Rosedale Ridge in Cowichan Station. We will be opening for Annabelle Chvostek. Doors at 2.30pm, show at 3pm, $15-20 sliding scale. Rosedale Ridge, 3768 Rosedale Rd in Cowichan Station.
- March 25 @ Music In The Lake, Lake Cowichan Folk Guild, 7.30pm at Lower Centennial Hall, 309 South Shore Road in Lake Cowichan.
- April 17 @ Chemainus Ethnic Music Festival, Chemainus, 12.20pm. With many more! Live music from 11am - 4.30pm
- April 24 @ Red Martini Grill 8pm, in Nanaimo
- April 28 @ The Dancing Bean, Chemainus, 7pm. With Miles Howe & more! A fundraiser for CHLY 101.7FM
- June 19 @ Rosedale Ridge Mini Music Festival, in Cowichan Station. Full line-up is coming soon!
- July 9 @ House Concert, Rosedale Ridge in Cowichan Station. We will be opening for Linda McRae. Show at 8pm, $15. Rosedale Ridge, 3768 Rosedale Rd in Cowichan Station.
- July 10 @ Red Martini Grill 8pm, in Nanaimo
- July 23-25 @ Islands Folk Festival, Providence Farm, Duncan. Show times TBA
- August 2 @ Coaltown Music Festival Diana Krall Plaza, Nanaimo at 3.15pm
- October 6 @ The Port Theatre in Nanaimo at 12.15pm
We'd love to see you out!
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Airplay on CFUV 101.9FM!
Puzzleroot's new CD is #7 on the roots/folk list for CFUV 101.9FM Victoria.
Two weeks in a row! Yeehaw!
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Welcome to our new site!
We're still tweaking, and would love to know what you think! Drop us a line...
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Photo by Cory Wolchyn
Thanks to everyone who came out to our CD release parties at Hermann's Jazz Club (Victoria) and Rosedale Ridge (House Concert, Duncan) earlier this month! A special thanks to Kate Steele (Hermann's) and The Old Time Vocal Choir (House Concert) for opening up the shows. Our new CD, Farewell to Gerald Fitzella, is now available for purchase via CD Baby, iTunes, or you can hear samples on our Myspace page.
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Times Colonist Pick of the Week:
"The coming-out party for local roots act Puzzleroot will be distinguished by expert, exciting musicianship and its stellar cover of the Pixies' Where Is My Mind?, which should become a staple of the band's repertoire for years to come. Puzzleroot is celebrating the release of its debut, Farewell to Gerald Fitzella, with a CD release party tomorrow at Hermann's." - Mike Devlin, Times Colonist |
 
We're on the radio!
Puzzleroot's new CD, Farewell to Gerald Fitzella, is getting played on
Village 900 (CKMO, 900AM, Victoria),
CHLY 101.7FM (Nanaimo),
CJSF 90.1 FM Melodies in Mind (Vancouver) and
CFUV 101.9FM (Victoria)! |
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Some initial reviews for the CD! "It’s not puzzling to understand the appeal of Puzzleroot. Instrumentally perfect, fabulous vocals and an eclectic sound for any format," is Puzzleroot’s Farewell to Gerald Fitzella, says Victoria’s CKMO, Village 900. Annabelle Chvostek describes the tunes, "Ghosts in a West Virginia coalmine kidnap the acoustic love children of The Pixies. Haunting, spirited and fun, Puzzleroot's Farewell to Gerald Fitzella, is a weird and wonderful melding of crunchy metallic sounds, string and song: dark and metaphysical in one moment, burning the barn in the next." |
Our new CD is out! Yeeehaw! Puzzleroot releases their first full length CD, Farewell to Gerald Fitzella, with 13 original tracks, and one Pixies cover, "Where Is My Mind?" Their new CD encompasses adept vocal harmonies and professional musicianship, with poetic and yet, often humourous and insightful lyrics. It all melds together to bring a highly original and beautiful new album. Recorded at The Woodshop Recording Studio in Duncan and produced by Gary Eugene, Marian van der Zon, and Zak Cohen.
- Gary Eugene: guitar, vocals
- Marian van der Zon: banjo, slide guitar & banjo, vocals
- Dan Fehr: upright bass
- Andy Graffiti: drums, percussion
- with guest musicians, Patrick M'Gonigle (fiddle), J. Douglas Dodd (keyboards) and Zak Cohen (electric guitar).
Check out some sample tunes on our Myspace page!
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Puzzleroot is an eclectic, genre-bending and blending band from Vancouver Island. They have been labeled roots, altfolk, altcountry, bluegrass, and punkgrass. |
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