The music and brief history of Down With The Butterfly is intense, beautiful, and insightful. The band formed in early 2005 in Halifax, Nova Scotia when Dave Scholten, Kris Pope, Jason Burns, and Ian Sherwood began practicing new songs in a small house on a hill. These rehearsals quickly expanded and the group began playing shows around Halifax; by the end of the summer they had toured all the way to Ontario and back. Throughout the fall and winter the band recorded songs for an album while continuing to maintain their busy touring schedule. In May 2006 the group embarked on a string of successful "cd release" shows, despite the fact their cd was unable to be released due to problems at the USA/Canada border. Eventually, their ECMA award nominated debut album, RISE, was released in June of 2006 and the band toured from Newfoundland to Ontario in support of it. For the next year and a half the band continued to tour, using the opportunity to arrange, write, and refine new songs live in front of audiences. By April 2008 the group was playing almost all unreleased material during live shows, but by this time they had already abandoned two vans due to seized engines and so they decided to call it quits with touring. Since then they have parted ways in order to focus on individual musical projects. In early 2008 Down With The Butterfly recorded material for a sophomore album, but to date the recordings remain unreleased. The members of Down With The Butterfly are currently creating music with other bands so keep your ears, eyes, minds, and hearts open.
As for the band's current activities, Jason Burns plays drums for the indie power-pop group Mardeen; and he manages hey rosetta! as well as Brent Randall & his Pinecones. Dave Scholten and Kris Pope have combined their songwriting talents to write socially conscious folk-rock songs as Acres And Acres. Kris is also the lead guitarist for Halifax indie band, Caledonia. As for Ian Sherwood, he has to compete with a similarly named songwriter, so he has taken on the pseudonym Outspoken Invoice in order to create his own brand of psychedelic folk songs.
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