Get a shot of sultry, hot rockabilly and country music with Ginger St. James and her partner in crime Snowheel Slim , when they come to the Slice, April 23.
Ginger St. James has been hit all around Southern Ontario and around her hometown of Hamilton as a dancer, model actress and frontwoman of the Steeltown Sirens burlesque group but is excited to make their first extensive tour out to eastern Canada in support of their first full length CD “Diesel and Peas.”
She was named Hamilton’s best female artist 2008-13 by Hamilton’s View Magazine, won the 2104 Hamilton Spectator's Reader’s Choice Diamond Award in 2014, had songs in HBO's TV series “ Call Me Fritz” and has shared stages with Johnny Reed, the Blasters, The Reverend Horton Heat to name a few.
The tour has gone really well.
“ We need a few days to recover. So it will be nice to go and hang out and play a few songs around the campfire, ” she said on the road from a show in Nanton on the way to take a much need rest at her friend’s sister’s trailer park in Sundre.
“ It’s been exciting. We’ve had a lot of fun, met a lot of new people and the scenery is breathtaking,” she enthused addign this tour will take them the furthest out west they have ever been.
This is the first time they have done a road trip out west.
She is looking forward to the show.
“We play rockabilly and blues and of course country, all mushed together,” she described.
She is excited about the new CD.
“ It’s our first full length CD. It’s taken a while to get together. We’ve recorded two EPS , but never a full length. We’ve been playing for seven years. We’ve been hopping around Southern Ontario and made quite a few fans there and only released two EPS, so quite a few people have been asking us for a full length album. And we’re making a few fans over here too,” she said.
“ We’ve had some good crowds here. So far so good,” she said adding she is excited to make her Lethbridge debut.
“We’re at the Slice and it’s going to be great. We’ll be playing all night long. I’m excited about it. We’ll be playing three big sets,” said St. James, who draws a lot of inspiration for the likes of Wanda Jackson, June Carter Cash, Patsy Cline and more modern sassy outlaw country songwriters like Elizabeth Cook.
“We’re playing Lethbridge as a duo with my partner in crime, SnowHeel Slim who is doing double duty, though we’ll have the full band in Red Deer because our former bass player unfortunately moved to Edmonton.
The show begins at 9 p.m., Thursday, April 23. Admission is $10
