Mercury Lounge presents: The Fugitives & Tanya Davis Doors 7 pm Show at 8pm About The Fugitives: www.fugitives.ca .....

The Fugitives are the combined talents of Vancouver artists Adrian Glynn, Barbara Adler, and Brendan McLeod. A group of multi-instrumentalists, songwriters, poets and novelists, each with their own burgeoning solo career, they've won individual accolades as diverse as the Canadian SLAM poetry championship, CBC poet laureate, and a place in the Peak performance songwriting series. But their primary focus lies in banding together to integrate their sensibilities into a dynamic mix of modern folk. Formed five years ago on Vancouver's East Side, The Fugitives have trod their instruments and words numerous times through Canada and Europe Performances that began in abandoned bank vaults and small vegetarian restaurants in England have turned into mainstage appearances on the Canadian folk festival circuit and sold out headlining shows at venues as diverse as the Vienna Literary Festival, the Winnipeg Fringe Festival, the Vancouver Jazz Festival, and the Chutzpah Dance Festival. As the CBC has it, "whether you go for the poetry, the music, or both, this show is simply brilliant." "A hypnotic and swirling mix of voice and music that straddles the line between traditional songwriting and poetry" - Vue Weekly (Edmonton) "Wildly talented" - Georgia Straight (Vancouver) "The Fugitives are capable of achieving dizzying, Arcade Fire-ish crescendos, replete with parallel melodies, complex harmonies and brimming torrents of emotion." - Uptown Magazine (Winnipeg) "One of the best events we've ever had...right up there with Allen Ginsberg and Ken Kesey" - Executive Director, Dylan Thomas Festival (UK)

About Tanya Davis: www.tanyadavis.ca Tanya Davis is a poet. She is a storyteller. She is a musician and a singer-songwriter and she fuses these elements together in a refreshing matrimony of language and sound, side-stepping genre and captivating audiences in the process. With the release of her third album, Clocks and Hearts Keep Going, in November 2010, she affirms her well-earned place in the ranks of thoughtful and hard-working Canadian Artists.

$9 at door - doors at 7pm