Time: Doors at 4 p.m., show at 5 p.m.

Tickets: Advance $37.50

Kinsmen barbecue proceeds to YWCA Harbour house

The Geomatic Atic’s fourth annual outdoor summer party in their parking lot features Hayes Carll, Steve Coffey and the Lokels, Jane Hawley, Steve Pineo and many more.

Hayes Carll http://www.hayescarll.com/

Hayes Carll is an odd mix.  Wildly literate, utterly slackerly, impossibly romantic, absolutely a slave to the music, the 35-year old Texan is completely committed to the truth and unafraid to skewer pomposity, hypocrisy and small-minded thinking.

In a world of shallow and shallower, where it’s all groove and gloss, that might seem a hopeless proposition. Last year, “Another Like You,” Carll’s stereotype’s attract duet of polar opposites, was American Songwriter’s #1 Song of 2011 – and KMAG YOYO was the Americana Music Association’s #1 Album, as well as making Best of Lists for Rolling Stone, SPIN and a New York Times Critics Choice.

But more importantly than the critical acclaim is the way Carll connects with music lovers across genres lines. Playing rock clubs and honkytonks, Bonnaroo, Stones Fest, SXSW and NXNE, he and his band the Gulf Coast Orchestra merge a truculent singer/songwriter take that combines Ray Wylie Hubband’s lean freewheeling squalor with Todd Snider’s brazen Gen Y reality and a healthy dose of love amongst unhealthy people.

“I guess you could say I write degenerate love songs,” Carll says. “That, and songs about people who’re wedged between not much and even less; people who see how hopeless it is and somehow make it work anyway.

“And the best kind of irony, sometimes, is applying no irony and letting reality do the work.”

Steve Coffey and the Lokels http://www.steve-coffey.com/

"Steve Coffey is one of those artists who wears the world he sees upon his sleeve, an artistic output poignant and striking, filtered through his own personal interpretations and emotions." -BRmag

Born in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba,
Steve was raised on Traditional Country music, much of which was unwillingly pounded into his head through the walls between his bedroom and his father's rehearsal space (his dad was a honky-tonkin', beer swillin' steel guitar player). When he was eight his mother decided that this life just wasn't suited for raising kids and up and hauled him and his four siblings off West on a train to a small town in Alberta. For a few years Steve flourished (likely due to more sleep- filled nights) but eventually began to pine for his dad, or more precisely, what drove him musically. Living directly across from the railroad tracks (which became a catalyst for Steve's future) He kept imagining jumping an East bound boxcar but settled on a Greyhound and headed back to Manitoba. He went on the road with his dad's band at fourteen discovering a life both celebratory and lonely and decided then and there that he needed to write and play music but with a different set of rules, one that would leave room for family. At sixteen he headed back West...on a train. To this day the prairie train plays an important role in his muse; as a symbol, as a nomadic entity that passes through many towns with many stories, some tragic, some beautiful and uplifting. It passes through our heads and our souls in Canada and connects us, both physically & romantically today as much as it did in the past just like a song. Unless he can hear it's late night whistle sleep comes hard.
Bands & songwriters Steve listened to growing up: Cream, Creedence, Lightfoot, Buffalo Springfield & The Band, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Leonard Cohen & Bob Dylan. One note-able influence of all combined: Their immediacy and 'off the floor' expression.
Some Thirty years later Steve's catalogue consists of over Two Hundred original songs many of which have been recorded and released and heard on many an airwave. Steve was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Innisfail, Alberta but now makes his home South of Calgary. 

Steve Pineo http://stevepineo.com/

I was born in Ontario (O.K. Toronto) to Nova Scotian parents and moved to Calgary in 1978. I was tough “Stairway to Heaven” at summer camp when I was nine and got my first guitar at age ten. I wrote my first song when I was eleven (it was terrible). When I was in Junior High I was in a garage band with Whitey Kirst who went on to play with Iggy Pop. We were called “The Tomatoes”. In high school, punk and new wave came to Calgary and my friends stopped talking to me. Soon came the preppy thing, electro-pop and the A.I.D.S scare. What a terrible time to grow up. My heart was in the 60’s and I loved Bob Dylan, the Beatles and the Stones. I discovered B.B. King and then Howlin’ Wolf and then Stevie Ray Vaughn came along, which gave me a glimmer of hope amidst all the crap I was hearing on the radio.

I spent three misguided years at U. Vic. Trying to get a degree while playing at every  house party and jam session I could find and then dropped out, dejected and heartbroken. So I moved back to Calgary and joined a country-rock band (while hitting all the blues jams I could). At a house party at Tim Leacock’s house, Neil MacGonigill heard me playing some Hank Williams tunes and decided to take me on. I worked with Neil for about ten years and got many breaks, including tours with Jann Arden, having my song “Canadian Man” covered by  Paul Brandt, and a trip to Nashville to try to get a publishing deal. Neil also introduced me to Russell DeCarle and Keith Glass of Prairie Oyster, who have become lifelong friends as well as honouring me by recording “Too Bad For Me”. So, thanks Neil!

  In the mid 90’s, I was in a band with compadres Tim Leacock and Ross Watson from legendary rock band “The Burners” as well as Danny Patton who was in a great band called “The Unusuals” and owned the recording studio we used to record in and hang out at. Also in the band was a quirky singer songwriter who had just come off the road with “Junior Gone Wild” named Jane Hawley. Together we were called “Beautiful Joe” and we were pretty good on a good night! We had the honour of appearing on the last episode of “Rita and Friends”Every once in a while we would back up another Neil MacGonigill protégé named Billy Cowsill. When Billy moved to Calgary to clean up, he eventually started playing the odd gig with his old friend Tim Leacock, whom he taught to play the bass. I sat in on one of their shows and soon I was in the band. About six months later we added Ross Watson on the drums and the Co-Dependents were born. The co-Dependents was the best band I’ve ever been in and it was really because of Billy. Great leaders and performers like him are indeed a rarity and I’ve worked with a few (especially Willy MacCalder).We were in situation that we knew wouldn’t last and then Billy’s health took a turn for the worse and the Mecca burnt down. The surviving members of the Co-Dependents still play as the Joe-Defendents (which is a nod to Beautiful Joe and the Co-Dependents)

  Through all these years I always worked as a solo act as well as having the Steve Pineo Band which has ranged from a three piece to a nine piece. I play every Monday night with Kelly Kruse and Kit Johnson at Mikey’s which has been a godsend.Considering all of the bands I’ve played with and all the styles, it’s nice to know you can go to the same place every week wityh the same guys and work on you stuff in a friendly environment.So music has been pretty good to me so far.

  On a more personal note, I have been married since 2000 to my high school sweetheart and have two beautiful kids. I like skiing, golfing cooking, poker, cheering for the Flames and the great outdoors. 

 Jane Hawley http://www.janehawley.com/