Nineteen James is Graham Ketcheson, Jeff
Tough, Dave Bartlett, Katrine Voegel Martin.. Our line-up is basically
drums, bass and banjo and accordion but we do use a guitar at times and
have included keyboard. We could probably be best described as Alternative Folk
because of our love of the full drum kit and the edge that lends to the
music, but we have tunes heavily influenced by country, reggae, jazz,
pop, and even the Oktoberfest sound.
We started in 1998. We have always played
original material. Dave Bartlett, Jeff Tough write all the tunes the band
plays. (Actually, we cover a tune by Leonard Cohen, one by Fred Eaglesmith,
and one by Si Kahn. We have also on occasion covered a Lou Reed tune.)
We have produced three CDs so far. In
1999, we won recording time at an audition for Northern Lights Festival
Boreal and we recorded a CD of five demo tunes. In 2002, we released our
first full length CD, Hope You're Not Lonely.
We
got radio play for it on Derek Armstrong's Northern Lights radio
program, from Laurie-Ann Copple, Joel Wortzman, Steve Fruitman and
others. We were played on Rock 95 in Barrie and thanks to Nick Davis,
Avril Benoit and Andy Barry played cuts of our music on their
respective CBC programs. Rez 91.3 from Wasauksing/Parry Island has had
our song "Moose" in regular rotation for over two years. Radio response
has been positive, if not generally sustained.
Our 2005 CD is called "A Bottle of Wine on Tuesday Nights..." co-produced with Craig Harley. Our latest CD "Critters and Landscapes" was produced and recorded by Nineteen James with special guests Steve McDowall on bass and Chris Hess on saxaphone and features the every popular live version of Moose - "Live Moose" along with "Rattlesnake" (dance like track), "Ravens and Chickadees"a re-release of "Turtle".
We
have opened shows for an incredible roster of performers including Fred
Eaglesmith (three times), Cedric Smith, James Keelaghan, Katherine
Wheatley, Erin Benjamin, Aengus Finnan. We have performed on John
Island in the North Channel; at Science North in Sudbury as well as
Northern Lights Festival Boreal; at Café Chicago and the Whitewater
Gallery in North Bay; at Renee's in South River; at the Heritage River
Festival (three times) at the Village Pub in Burk's Falls, at the
Corner Café in Newmarket, at the amphitheatre in Killbear Provincial
Park and at a variety of venues in Parry Sound including Wellington's
Pub and Grill, the Station Gallery, the Jolly Roger, on the waterfront
stage, and at the new concert hall, the Charles W. Stockey Centre.