Music runs in the family for Winnipeg twins Madeline and Lucas Roger, whose dad Lloyd Peterson produced their brand new debut CD “Fairweather,” which was released, Jan. 15. The folk/ roots duo Roger Roger visit the Slice on Monday Feb.1.
Though they grew up together, The duo started playing together after Madeline’s brother Lucas heard her playing some songs she wrote.
“We started playing together by accident. I was playing songs around our home and didn’t think anybody was listening, then all of the sudden my brother poked his head around the corner and asked whose songs I was playing. When I told him they were mine, he asked me to teach them to him. Then he brought a whole bunch of songs he’d been writing,” said Madeline Roger, from her Winnipeg home, noting they got their first gig playing together a couple of weeks later.
That went so well that it lead to others.
“And fans started coming up to us and asking if we had an album. So we made one,” she continued.
Choosing their dad, Lloyd Peterson to produce it was a natural decision. NHe has worked with talented artists like The Crash Test Dummies, Cara Luft,the Wyrd Sisters, Luke Doucet, James Keelaghan and Los Lobos.
They are looking forward to playing Lethbridge for the first time.
“It will be our first time there. It will just be the two of us playing acoustic guitars that actually my brother built,” she said.
“ We’ll be playing all originals and no covers. Unless it’s a John Prine song,” she said.
They released their new CD on Jan. 17 at a CD release party at Winnipeg’s West End Cultural Centre , then tour around Saskatchewan before coming to Alberta. this will be their first big tour together, though they did a quick tour out to Northern Ontario before.
“We took the train, VIA Rail has a program for performers where you play for a a couple of time in exchange for your passage,” she said adding the duo are very pleased with how their debut CD turned out.
“Every time I listen to it, I find something else that I love about it. We had a Winnipeg all-star band playing on it and what they did on it was just amazing,” she enthused praising bassist Julian Bradford, drummer Damon Mitchell , organist Alex Campbell and their dad Lloyd Peterson on electric guitar for their work on the CD.
Roger Roger play the Slice, Monday , Feb. 1