It was a pleasant night of music over at the Owl Acoustic Lounge, June 3.
 Eva Montgomery showed a lot of potential during her opening set of appealing covers  including Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon,” and even the Beatles’ “ While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”

She also played one really slow original.

She had a good sized crowd cheering her on as well as Greg Gomola, who was adding his usual tasteful, blues solos as well as sang one of his own.

The main attraction was eclectic Victoria duo Dirty Grace or Betty Supple (Beth Stupple) and Marley Daemon (Marley Iredale) who ran the gamut from jazz, pop, bluegrass and a lot more.

 They switched between an array of instruments including mandolin, accordion, guitar and piano as well as adding some beat boxing and sexy vocal harmonies, which to borrow a line from one of their songs, sounded “so nice,” together.

They grinned and sang together and were having a really good time.

I couldn't resist hearing Bragg Creek teen Sarah Troy playing to a surprisingly full house at the Mocha Cabana, June 3.

I got there in time to hear ‘“Possibly Maybe,” one of my favourite tracks of their latest CD “ A Dozen Hearts”

 She sang appealing melodies, and showed  excellent dynamics and range in her pleasing Sarah McLachlan meets Chantal Kreviazuk voice and played some pretty  and mostly laid back piano. Her set included several tracks from her latest CD  as well as some surprising covers of the ilk of Death Cab For Cutie and Radiohead.

 She chatted with the crowd like a pro, though she admitted she forgot the lyrics for one of her songs.

Her soft-spoken patter was tough to hear at the back of the room. She was going to call it quits around 8:30, but her mother, in the audience, told her to keep going.

So she played a few more superb tracks off the CD including “In A Dream,” and “Foolish,” plus another mellow ballad which didn’t make it onto the CD.

The Tongue N Groove had an excellent country-folk show on Thursday, June 2 with Calgary’s Cam Penner and his hot band.

His raspy, affable voice sounded like a more country Chris Colepaugh and the Cosmic Crew with a touch of Rodney DeCroo. He told stories and sang sedate songs about Texas gates in Montana and working late.

 While most of the set I heard was pretty laid back , he picked up the tempo in a Fred Eaglemsith style train song which was very cool.

A good sized Wednesday night crowd sent Jesse and the Dandelions, Church  and the New Weather Machine on their June tour with a great show at the Slice, June 1.

 The New Weather Machine, featuring Clayton Smith on drums, Jon martin on guitar and Jesse Northey on bass  continue to get better and better as they started the evening off with a solid set of more straight ahead rock.

Usually they are more progressive and experimental along  the David Bowie and Mott the Hoople side of the ’70s spectrum, but for this show they brought the rock with a variety of uptempo originals, some obscure Clash and a lot more.

Church including Leigh Doerksen on guitar and vocals and Dan Puurveen on drums, also brought the rock with a  solid set of Neil Young and Crazy Horse-ish originals.