EVIL FARM CHILDREN + MISSISSIPPI GROVER @ Elmdale House Tavern (Ottawa) November 17, 2008

Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 9:00pm

Elmdale House Tavern
1084 Wellington St. W.

19+ $6

Hope to see ya there!

Evil Farm Children
EVIL FARM CHILDREN........ The name may sound like a B-grade drive-in horror flick, but……… …they are a raw and raunchy trio from Canada’s capital with a a growing legion of fans, and reputation for intense stage shows. Their sound is real rock’n’roll, with a roots-rock flavour. The band can easily do a rocking surf instrumental with the fervor of Dick Dale, and, in a heartbeat, shift gears to roll right into a rockin’ rockabilly rave up, or a Stooges influenced, feedback infused, pounding rock’n’roll song. Since forming in the summer of 2005, this trio has been regularly playing many of Ottawa’s live music venues, as well as shows in Toronto and Montreal. This past summer, they performed at the 2008 Ottawa Blues Festival, one of the most popular music festivals in North America. Their original material, as captured in their recordings (see below) matters most, but for their live shows, the band likes to have fun by whipping out some heavily “Evil-ized” versions of songs by the likes of Dick Dale, Black Sabbath, Tom Waits, Deke Dickerson, Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn, Link Wray, and, even Alice Cooper. Evil Farm Children are: Dave Kerr - guitar and lead vocals former bands: DeadBeatDads, WizzleTeeth. Jeb Bond - drums, background vocals former bands: The Restless Virgins, Screaming Bamboo, Fenton Brothers, Purple, Evil Kneivel, Tall (Baton Rouge, LA), Freudhammer. Janice Fitzsimmons - bass, lead and backing vocals

Mississippi Grover
Mississippi Grover is NOT from Mississippi, though he did ride a train through there once. Sometime during the late 1990s in Ottawa (Canada), local garage punk duo The Desecrators asked their friend Greg Watson to play some blues harp for a couple of songs. Since every blues harp player needs an appropriate name, “Mississippi Grover” was born. Grover eventually became the full-time organist for The Desecrators, in addition to playing harp, guitar and accordion.
Fast forward to early 2005: The Desecrators have long disbanded, Greg has moved to rural Ontario with his family and Mississippi Grover has been born again as a one-man band, playing swampy garage and primitive blues punk stuff, also known as rock 'n' roll. He has been driving around Ontario and western Quebec since then, playing for audiences of all sorts and dazzling them with his moonshiny gumbo of sound. That's right, he's a one-man travelling-medicine-show, and his tonic is SONIC, baby!