Lorne Warr and The Streels

Streels News

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Lorne Warr and The Streels to play at the 8th Annual Vancouver Celtic Festival. The Streels will be bringing their East Coast/Celtic influenced original and traditional music to this annual festival that paints downtown Vancouver with many shades of green! You can catch them at the Pre Festival revue on March 10th in False Creek and on the music stage on March 18th. Lorne will also be hosting a button accordion workshop on March 18th as well. For full details on these events and to find out where you can see Lorne and The Streels live performances visit our Upcoming Shows page. Slainte!

The intention for 2011 was to play more festival's bringing our original song's mixed with our East Coast/Celtic standards to many stages for our new and old fans to enjoy. We graced the stages of Celtic Fest Vancouver, Ladysmith Maritime Fest, Canada Day on the Shore 104 Stage at Canada Place, Desert Daze Fest in Spences Bridge, The Spirit of the Sea Fest, White Rock, Mission Arts Council Folk Series and The Dylan Thomas Society Spring Fest ~"(Lorne Warr) made an outstanding contribution to the festivals attempt to highlight poetry and song writing as equally valid and intricately beautiful art forms".

Getting out on the road is part of the musicians life and we got to visit Vancouver Island for the "Tsunami Tour 2011". With a show for the Port Alberni community concert series and the Cowichan Folk Guilds monthly folk performance we brought our East Coast charm to the people of the island ~"Your warmth and enthusiastic rapport with the audience created an evening of superb enjoyment".

With many other highlights including performing at Celtic Pubs in the lower mainland, our weekly Celtic/East coast music session and adding our special touch to weddings, corporate events and private parties it has definitely been a busy year for Lorne Warr and The Streels.

With a few dates booked into the schedule already for 2012 including an encore performance for the White Rock Elks club monthly folk concert series in February and an all day performance for St Patrick's day out in the valley at The Duke of Dublin in Abbotsford we are already gearing up for another busy and successful year of music for Lorne Warr and The Streels.

For more on Lorne Warr and The Streels, to book or inquire about our customized services for your event contact Genevieve McCorquodale at lornewarr at gmail dot com or phone 604-947-2044.

Bio Newfoundland Singer Songwriter Lorne Warr

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Island's Folk Festival, Duncan BC

Born and bred in Lewisporte, Newfoundland, singer/songwriter Lorne Warr transposes the traditional music of his youth, along with the exploration of new genres. His songs are "sung in a rich baritone voice and are a cry from the heart that stand against the winds of change that buffet all of us". Coupled with his intricate guitar playing, his songs tell stories that travel from one side of Canada to the other and is an example of what modern folk is all about. Lorne "is rapidly evolving into a tour de force on the Canadian folk scene" and currently resides on Bowen Island, BC ~ from one Rock to another ~ where a majority of his songs have been composed including his award winning "Back to the Island Again". He grew up surrounded by Newfoundland music and folklore ~ listening to his Granny's button accordion and his father's stories of ghost ships and pirates. Over the years he has explored many musical genres ~ from rock bands, solo classical guitar & folk music, to obscure, esoteric jazz. It wasn't until a friend , Ed Kavanagh, lent him a mandolin and taught him a jig by Newfoundland fiddler Emile Beniot, that his musical soul found its way back home ~ back to the Folk music he had loved as a child. Inspired by traditional music & influenced by contemporary songwriter's like Gordon Lightfoot, Stan Rogers & Richard Thompson, Lorne began writing his own songs & writing arrangements for traditional music that were fresh and energetic "his grasp of multifaceted folk idioms give his work a colour and texture that defines the fabric of our our own common experience and his heartfelt, exquisitely crafted lyrics and puts his songs on par with some of the greats of Canadian folk history." Lorne has been a professional musician for more than a decade gracing many stages as a solo act and with his band The Streels at festivals, community folk events and has been active in the Celtic Folk music scene all around the Vancouver area. Now embarking on a solo career his latest Cd “Come Down to Paris” is due for release in 2011. For more on Lorne Warr email lornewarr at gmail dot com.

About The Streels

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A 'streel' is a slovenly person in Newfie-speak, but there's nothing shabby about this east-coast-on-the-west-coast of virtuoso musicians, who sing and play an eclectic repertoire of original, Maritime, and Celtic tunes. Their arrangements are fresh and innovative with a high energy performance that will make you want to dance, sing along and celebrate East Coast style "The Streels flew through the jigs and reels that had the crowd dancing down the midnight hour and the walls of the old pub bulging with good will and whiskey." Lorne Warr, the front man of The Streels, originally hales from Lewisporte, Newfoundland. He has made music his career for more than a decade and is backed by multi-talented musicians. With guitars, mandolins, accordions, fiddles, and songs that will make you kick up your feet or want to hold your loved ones close, there is something in their music for everyone. The Streels have performed in festivals, for corporate events and various radio shows including the CBC program North by Northwest with Sheryl McKay "The first time I heard The Streels, I was struck by their energy, their great sound, their love of the music and the fun they were having playing together." More reviews of The Streels include "Your warmth and enthusiastic rapport with the audience created an evening of superb enjoyment", "Thanks again for what was clearly a wonderful show on Saturday. The fact that the audience shouted for "more" even after your encore speaks to how well you were received"
Comfortable on any type of stage and venue, The Streels always bring their East Coast charm to any event "it was a grand kitchen party Newfie style." With an album, A Night on the Marge, under their recording belts, The Streels continue to write, arrange, perform, and to follow the most important part of the Newfoundland musical tradition -- to have fun! "Sociable!!!!!!!!!!!"

For booking or inquiries contact Genevieve McCorquodale at lornewarr at gmail dot com.