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Lonesome Town Painters

  • December 11, 2026 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

  • FROG CITY CAFE

    315 Linden Avenue
    Kaleden, 0 V0H 1K0
Ticket Price (CAD) $38.15 Buy Tickets
Description

The Lonesome Town Painters are a high energy, traditional bluegrass band hailing from Vancouver, British Columbia.  These fellas have a look, style and sound that harkens back to the raw and ragged edge of the genre, drawing deeply from the masters of the golden era. Their act features songs from classic artists as well as original songs that are grounded in tradition, anchored by the soaring harmonies as well as driving and spirited instrumentation.

​“The Lonesome Town Painters excel at combining skill and sentiment. Unlike some of their contemporaries, they make no attempt to veer from the template or add any unexpected elements to the mix. Rather, they do the opposite by simply adhering to a familiar formula. It works to their advantage; every offering sounds like a standard, one that’s practically indistinguishable from any of the music made by the masters. The result is an album that already stands the test of time, courtesy of the fact that every offering keeps to that singular spirit of classic bluegrass through its emphasis, execution, and articulation. Simply stated, nominations for the IBMA Bluegrass Awards ought not be out of the question.” 
- Lee Zimmerman, Bluegrass Today   
https://bluegrasstoday.com/our-blue-grass-favorites-the-lonesome-town-painters/

"The Lonesome Town Painters have presented us with another album of their hardcore traditional bluegrass stylings. Their third release, Go Out & Paint The Town, is arguably the most original of their recordings thus far. The Lonesome Town Painters are continuing to keep tradition tradition alive while also bringing their own original ideas to the forefront in their best work to date." 
- Braeden Paul, Bluegrass Today

"The Lonesome Town Painters certainly meet, and even surpass, expectations. Their picking, lead singing and harmonies are impeccable. And their original songs (bandmembers wrote nearly all these 13 tracks) are starkly original and emotionally and thematically varied, even as they hew to strict early bluegrass conventions." 
-Bob Allen, Bluegrass Unlimited

Date & Time

Fri, Dec 11, 2026 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Venue Details

FROG CITY CAFE

315 Linden Avenue
Kaleden, 0 V0H 1K0 FROG CITY CAFE
Frog City Cafe

Like all good stories, this is a story rooted in love.

The seeds of this story were planted way back in the 1970's, when I, Lalita, moved to Kaleden and met the Hayter family. As a youth I would love, laugh, dance, sing, and play on these lands with the Hayter cousins Kris and Myron, eating Grandma Hayters cinnamon toast after school. This family would take over my heart.

Life would happen and we would lose the Hayter cousins at a young age. Grief would move my feet to travel, but eventually these feet would bring me back home to raise my own family.

To return a lifetime later to these lands and these beautiful people completes a circle in my life, full bloom.

It is my honor to be given the opportunity to operate Frog City Cafe with my husband and hold space for love, laughter, dancing, singing, and playing.

This is a love story. This is Frog City Cafe.


 


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