The Rural Alberta Advantage at First Ave

From Toronto, Canada

First Twin Cities show since since October 30, 2012 • First Mainroom show since September 24, 2011 • First Mainroom headlining show since September 24, 2011 • Seventh Twin Cities show on MN Live's calendar since June 22, 2009

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From last.fm:

Toronto-based trio The Rural Alberta Advantage (Nils Edenloff, Amy Cole, and Paul Banwatt) play indie-rock songs about hometowns and heartbreak, born out of images from growing up in Central and Northern Alberta. They sing about summers in the Rockies and winters on the farm, ice breakups in the spring time and the oil boom’s charm, the mine workers on compressed, the equally depressed, the city’s slow growth and the country’s wild rose, but mostly the songs just try to embrace the advantage of growing up in Alberta. The Rural Alberta Advantage on Last.fm.

From Toronto, Canada

First Twin Cities show on MN Live's calendar

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From last.fm:

Upon returning to his hometown of Toronto, Canada, from a final European tour with his band, Peter Dreimanis sat sweaty and half-drunk in a candlelit basement bar, nursing a drink, debating his next musical pursuit. Lulled in lethargy, he paid little attention to the beat-up acoustic guitar being passed from patron to patron around him; that was until it found its home in the hands of Leah Fay. It took only seconds of strumming and dreamy, dulcet singing for Dreimanis to realize he’d met his muse. Read more about July Talk on Last.fm.