Back Ground Info
This site will keep an updated record off all performers, events and news surrounding the series.
Here’s some back ground info.
Maxim had just returned from six months of adventure across the country. It began last February with a two month, thirty five concert, musical tour with “Miles Howe and Maxim”. The plan was to be in BC without and plan, and it worked splendidly. Some time was spent living and travelling as a member of the notorious Vancouver Island hillbilly band ”Kin Fo”. Maxim was the 39th member of the four piece, ten year old band. Upon returning home, he found out his friend and local musician John Carol had been a member of the band eight years earlier.
After the hillbilly band came a submersion into many of the peaceful arts and practices that are maintained on Vancouver Island. Long boarding, dumpster diving, yoga, oyster roasting and hitch hiking being some of the most prevalent activities.
Living in the city of Vancouver proper, things started to turn wet as they do in the late summer. Maxim decided to take the bus home, 73 hours straight, back to Ottawa. Carleton University was calling with the last two classes of a lingering English degree. Some highlights of the first half the school year include the recording and release of Maxim’s first EP, a two week stint performing with the Hintonburg Community Theatre Company putting on the Mechanicsville Monologues, weekly performances and hosting the open mike at the Rainbow and Cajun Attic, respectively. Maxim also recorded version of “solidarity forever” that was sung along by three hundred members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada at a conference in Montreal and finally there was evolution from personal blog writing into the fields of musical and literary journalism.
Now performing weekly at the Cajun Attic on Sunday nights as well as hosting on Tuesdays, Maxim is shifting his gaze. The weekly saturday afternoon slot at the rainbow is now a microcosm for Ottawa’s best acoustic musicians, unknown and otherwise.
Each artist on this stage is a musician and performer for life, the passion flows to the point where they have no other choice but to strum a guitar or banjo and sing out loud. When the world is finished crashing down as the dust settles and there’s silence all around, you’ll hear a faint wail and recognize it’s an accordion. Those same musicians are still singing and strumming away, singing tunes about life, death and everything in between.
Welcome to the Acoustic Afternoon Concert Series.
