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Red Moon Road

Red Moon Road Radio

General Info

  • Genre: Acoustic / Pop / Roots Music

    Location Winnipeg, Ca

    Profile Views: 46653

    Last Login: 11/12/2012

    Member Since 5/11/2010

    Website www.redmoonroad.com

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    Inspired by the lake, campfires, outdoor living and kitchen party jams, Red Moon Road is a down-home, acoustic folk and roots band with the right mix of East Coast and Country charm. Red Moon Road is a Winnipeg-based, touring songwriters' collective. The band is driven by the reckless abandon and soulful beauty of vocalist Sheena Rattai, the songwriting of power-house multi-instrumentalist Daniel Jordan and the sweet harmonies and banjo/mandolin playing of Daniel Peloquin-Hopfner. These musicians deliver songs that tell stories; songs you want to hear again; songs "frankly filled with images which evoke the life of the land, and its connection to the heart" (Rev. Bill Cliff). With a powerful and honest live delivery, the band has been winning hearts and fans at festivals (Trout Forest, Fire N' Water, Harvest Moon, Festival Du Voyageur), house concerts, and venues (Times Change(d) High and Lonesome Club, West End Cultural Centre) throughout Manitoba and Ontario since its 2010 inception. With more songs to be written, shows to be played, kitchens to jam in and campfires to trade songs around, the band continues to grow its library of adventures. > > "Red Moon Road is comprised of a very talented group of musicians that have emerged from Winnipeg's remarkable roots music scene. They are sure to find success both at home and on the road throughout Canada. Highly recommended". - John Scoles, President/Janitor of the Times Change(D) High and Lonesome Club, Winnipeg Manitoba.

  • Members

    Red Moon Road is Sheena Rattai - Lead Vocals and guitar, Daniel Jordan - Vocals and Guitar and Bass Drum, Daniel Peloquin-Hopfner - Vocals and Mandolin and Banjo and Guitar

  • Influences

    Campfires and Kitchen parties

  • Sounds Like

    Kitchens on fire!

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Bio:

There are storms that stalk the water and storms that darken the heart, and from them come calms, and certain smallness too: so it was that time in 2009, when the wind hurled a sailboat beneath a churning lake and sent its two sailors plunging towards the shore.
So music flows from storms too, because after those two sailors climbed out of the water, they knew they had met to make something sing. And so Red Moon Road was born from a storm, and the bond that the two string-plucking Daniels – Daniel Jordan and Daniel Peloquin-Hopfner – forged inside one.
If you close your eyes and listen to Red Moon Road’s self-titled debut album, you can hear this.
It’s in what churns just below the surface, you see, the storms of head and heart and history that pull the Winnipeg band’s songs into shape. It’s in the strings – banjo, mandolin, guitar and fiddle -- that swell and sway beneath Sheena Rattai’s twilight voice, and the harmonies that fill out the musical space.
Most of all, you can hear it in the flourishes of wilderness that flow through the trio’s throats and fingers: the sparkling melody of as-yet-unrecorded live favourite “Mighty Glad You Came,” borrowed with thanks from the white-throated sparrow. The swollen chords of “Do Or Die,” crashing over delicate riffs like a sunrise breaking on water.
This is music made equally for fireplaces, festival stages and the luminous blue of a Canadian night.
Still, for all the singular focus of this vision, inside Red Moon Road are three musicians come together from very different directions: Peloquin-Hopfner got his start as a progressive metal guy. Jordan trained as a big-band jazz drummer. And Rattai, who fronted a funk band before this, grew up singing in church choirs, where she learned the mysteries of singing for the sacred and sublime.
So it isn't so surprising when, in the middle of their acoustic set, the trio busts out a delay pedal, or a loop track to lock the rhythm down: after all, they had this stuff lying around. And though the trappings of the band may speak of backwoods – they’ve been known to take the stage with pinecones in their hair – there’s still a grace that flows from pop, and jazz, and the pleasures of the modern day.
This is what drives the band, then, what sends their music echoing down the roads that join coast and coast: at a house concert in the northern woods of British Columbia, with the sled dogs howling along outside. At a prairie bar deep inside Saskatchewan, where lyrics about Old World wars resonate in the history of farmers, come here from across the sea. Or on dim-lit stages in the steel forests of cities, where those rattling strings call us back to the lakes, the seas and the storm.
And there is music in that storm, and it flows and it rolls, and it goes by the name of Red Moon Road.
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"...a breadth of style and a confidence that has you wanting to hear so much more from the band." - Snob's Music
“Frankly filled with images which evoke the life of the land, and its connection to the heart” - Rev. Bill Cliff.
"Red Moon Road are the epitome of consummate professionals, a personable and talented trio that delighted every set they played at Trout Forest Music Festival. An amazing closing day workshop with Red Moon Road, Alex Cuba, Fred Penner, Dan Frechette and The Magnificent Sevens has had everybody connected with the festival buzzing for months. Likewise, The Lions Den [The Children's Act Daniel and Daniel of RMR put on] never failed to entertain at their sets, and even though I know the group were quite busy at the festival, their willingness to jump up and support other entertainers was remarkable and made for an even better festival experience for all."
-Devin Latimer, A.D., Trout Forest Music Festival
"Red Moon Road left a wake of excitement behind them, and as they travelled from town to town, the Home Routes office received numerous phone calls from hosts saying how much fun they had with this dynamic trio. From Prince George to Fort St. John, to Prince Rupert, the group [...] had many requests for them to return on their own and follow up another tour with this successful run. They entertained 328 enthusiastic music lovers in 13 different communities."
- Home Routes Concert Series Website

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