The Ragged Flowers celebrate a quarter century in bloom with June Cedar Hill concerts and a limited-edition double vinyl album release
The Ragged Flowers are marking 25 years since their debut album with a run of shows at the Cedar Hill School House June 20, 21, 22, and an ambitious vinyl compilation project. Concert tickets are $35, or $80 including a reserve copy of the band’s upcoming limited run double album, and available now at Ticketsplease.ca.
The band’s line-up includes George Birchall (guitar, piano, harmonica, melodica and vocals) Ian Douglas (piano, drums, percussion and vocals) Steve Reside (guitar, percussion, vocals), Rob Riendeau (bass guitar, percussion, vocals) and Nathan Sloniowski (guitar, ukulele, vocals). Their folklectic sound features dense harmonies, multi-layered percussion, and guitar sounds that reflect a time when folk, rock and world music genres were blurred in the name of anything-goes experimentation.
Stage veterans at the Blue Skies Music Festival, Stewart Park Festival and the Ottawa Folk Festival, The Ragged Flowers will be presenting a bouquet of their classics at their June shows as well as some fresh new songs and spiced-up cover tunes from their vast garden of musical influences.
The band is getting in the groove literally as well as figuratively this summer. They’re in the final stages of production for a limited-edition double vinyl album to celebrate their 25 years of music making that includes two studio albums, a live album and an EP. The project is a career retrospective of new and old songs carefully hand-picked and re-mastered.
Side one kicks off with Flying Machine, the band’s 2024 EP release of six songs that speak of love taking flight, mountain caves, human frailty, desert cremation, and a tea party in bed! Then listeners can hop into the Time Machine for a rollicking three-side ride through what the band believes is the best of their quarter century catalogue.
