Ruth Minnikin - vocals, guitars, bass, keys Gabriel Minnikin - vocals, guitars, mandolin, keys Dave Christensen - group vocals, bass clarinet, flute Brian Murray - group vocals, banjo, percussion, drums, theremin Anna Plaskett - group vocals, French horn Craig Buckley - bass, guitar, group vocals
DOWNLOAD Ruth Minnikin's albums from www.zunior.com
Ruth Minnikin and her Bandwagon - Depend on This - Autumn 2009
Ruth Minnikin - Folk Art 2006
Ruth Minnikin - Marooned and Blue 2004
Ruth Minnikin - Live EP 2003
Ruth collaborates with visual and sound artists Jesse Jacobs and Chuck Blazevic respectively. More to come on this!!
January through to June 2009, sees Ruth performing at festivals, showcasing at Folk Alliance, ECMA, CMW, NXNE, touring Canada, and getting set to release her new disc 'Depend on This'!
This summer The Minnikins (Ruth and her brother Gabe) will play festivals and art spaces throughout the UK.
“Ruth and her brother are from Nova Scotia and play an assortment of instruments (accordion, mandolin and guitar) and sing glorious harmonies. Ruth sounds a bit like Laura Cantrell and her brother has a deep gruff voice like Billy Bob Thorton. It’s acts like these that make this particular festival a treat for music lovers. By the time they left the stage after a 30 minute set, there was a queue of 11 people at the merch stall, to buy their CD.”
Maverick Sept 2008
Ruth's remarkable voice drifts through these quirky, cutely beautiful numbers..."My music and art is just something i've got to do."
Penguin Eggs, AB, Mary Beth Carty, Oct. 2007
"Canadian country gal Ruth Minnikin just gets better and better. Beautifully presented in a stamped canvas sleeve, third LP Folk Art (4 stars) finds her shifting further from the sweet country-folk of earlier work into the darker recesses of rural American tradition. A bony set of tunes veering from freakshow carnival nightmares ("Bad Dreams Pt.1") through N’awlins jazz ("Chicken Cooped Up In Country Music") to spare parlour folk ("Song Mill"). See www.ruthminnikin.ca for details."
Uncut, UK, Rob Hughes, May 2007
"Ruth Minnikin signed with EMI as part of The Booming Airplanes at the age of 17. Ten years and several albums with Nova Scotian Alternative Country band The Guthries later, she issues her third solo record, Folk Art, in a small cloth bag with stenciled artwork, accompanied by a handwritten track sheet. Recorded and mixed in three days, even fans of lo-fi singer songwriters like Jolie Holland or Freakwater might find Folk Art a little minimal, but Minnikin's cracked vocal skips over perfectly miniaturized songs featuring mandolin, banjo and French horn. Find Folk Art at www.ruthminnikin.ca. There's a hootenanny in the dolls’ house."
London Sunday Times, UK, Stewart Lee, Feb. 2007
"Play her when you have company and absolutely everyone will ask you who the singer is. Some will say she sounds like a female Leonard Cohen."
Monday Magazine, BC
"Ruth Minnikin has a voice that would harmonize happily with the McGarrigle sisters and writes songs of stark but simple emotion that are evocative of Natalie Merchant or Gillian Welch at their respective best."
Maverick Magazine, UK
Ruth's first band, Booming Airplanes signed with EMI she was just 17 years old. Now ten years later, she is a musician, visual artist and businesswoman with an impressive roster of national and international tours both as a member of such bands as Reels, The Guthries, The Heavy Blinkers, and as a solo artist. Her voice can be enjoyed on radio stations all over the world.
Some of the big-wigs that Ruth has been lucky enough to share a stage or CD space with are: Beth Orton (UK), David Byrne (UK), Gold Rush and KTB (UK), Orwell (France), The Handsome Family (US), Calexico (US), Kris Kristofferson (US), The Lemonheads (US) and Canadians Joel Plaskett and The Nova Scotia Symphony, The Super Friendz, Mike O'Neill, Wax Mannequin, Buck 65 and Blue Rodeo.
High demand for Ruth’s unique voice has found her featured on over 50 recordings!!
Discography
1996 Booming Airplanes – Yarn - singer/songwriter
1998 The Heavy Blinkers – Hooray For everything - singer
2000 The Heavy Blinkers – Self Titled - singer
2000 The Guthries – Off Windmill - singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist
2001 Joel Plaskett – Down at the Khyber - guest singer
2001 Hopeful Monster – Self Titled - guest singer
2001 The Heavy Blinkers – Better Weather - singer
2002 The Havenots (UK) – EP - guest singer, accordion, mandolin
2002 Paul Bellini – We Love Disco - guest singer
2002 The Guthries – Self Titled - singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist
2003 Ruth Minnikin – Live EP - singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist
2003 Heavy Blinkers – Papa Nez – Tribute to Michael Nesmith
2003 Heavy Blinkers – Split Single with Orwell (FR)
2004 The Heavy Blinkers – The Night And I Are Still So Young - singer
2004 Gabriel Minnikin – Hard Feelings - guest singer, accordion, mandolin
2004 Jason Haywood – Nothing Stays the Same - guest singer, accordion
2004 Reels - EP - guest singer
2004 The Hurtin' Unit - accordion
2004 Ruth Minnikin – Marooned and Blue - singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist
2005 The Hylozoists - guest singer
2005 Dale Murray – Brighter Lives, Darker Side - guest singer/songwriter
2005 Kate Maki – The Sun Will Find Us - guest singer, accordion
2005 Soundtrack to film – The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico - singer
2005 KTB (UK) – Bluebird - guest singer
2005 James Lyons Compilation (UK) - guest singer/songwriter
2005 Mid-Winter Night's Dream – singer/songwriter
2005 Jonathan Andrews – Halifax Indie Rock - guest singer
2005 Norma Macdonald - guest singer, accordion
2005 Old Man Luedecke - Hinderland - guest singer
2005 Mid-Autumn Night's Dream - singer/songwriter
2006 The Divorcees - guest singer
2006 Ruth Minnikin – Folk Art - singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist
2006 The Hylozoists - guest singer
2006 Johnny Stevens - guest singer, accordion
2007 Orwell (FR) - guest singer
2007 Gabriel Minnikin (UK) - guest singer, keys
2007 Reels – Autumn Country - bass, singer, keys, percussion
2007 The Inbreds Tribute Album – contributed song
2007 Adam Puddington - organ, accordion, singer
2008 Thrush Hermit Tribute Album - contributed song
2008 The Russian Futurists - guest singer
2009 Kelly Sloan - accordion
2009 Rich Aucoin - guest singer
2009 Eric's Trip Tribute - contributed song
2009 Helen Creighton tribute album
2009 Savoury - accordion, singer
2009 Jason Haywood - accordion, singer
2009 Atlantic Voices - Rhino - contributed song
2009 Sloan Tribute - contributed song
2009 Ruth Minnikin and her bandwagon - Depend on This - Autumn 2009
DOWNLOAD Ruth Minnikin's albums from www.zunior.com
Ruth Minnikin and her Bandwagon - Depend on This - Autumn 2009
Ruth Minnikin - Folk Art - 2006
Ruth Minnikin - Marooned and Blue - 2004
Ruth Minnikin - Live EP - 2003
Stream from - www.radio3.cbc.ca/bands/Ruth-Minnikin
+Playing alongside ASH / SUPERGRASS /DAMO SUZUKI (CAN) / VIEUX FARKA TOURE / THE CANDYSKINS /RED LIGHT COMPANY / WINTERSLEEP / FANFARLO / HJALTALIN / ERRORS / YACHT / DJ FOOD & DK / TOTAL SCIENCE / T.E.E.D./WILD BEASTS / A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS / GRAMMATICS /THE JOY FORMIDABLE / THE XCERTS / PULLED APART BY HORSES/ BROKEN RECORDS / MARK OLSON & GARY LOURIS / PETE MOLINARI
plus...
and so i watch you from afar/ calories/ chew lips/ colour/ danny and the champions of the world/ data select party / detroit social club/ dive dive/ dusty & the dreaming spires/ house of brothers/ skylarkin/ sportsday megaphone / the candyskins/ the elysian quartet/ the ghost of a thousand / the relationships/ the xx/ this town needs guns/ thomas truax/ treetop flyers/ truckers of husk/ we were promised jet packs/white belt yellow tag
Hello, we're back again with great new tracks on our page. This month we have some rural bleakness from The Roe Family Singers, the dark intensity of Eamon Dowd, a new song from roots legend Neal Casal and frenetic but compelling from Novillero on the delightfulyl titled but not-at-all-smelly Paco Rabanne. Hope you like them all.
TIMBRE OBSCURA #6 - 1 Hour of great music to warm the cockles on these cold winter nights!
Feat. Melvis & The Papercuts + Orwell + The Soft Disaster & more inc. great new tracks from Jess Bryant, Pulco & Jon Little
1. Ain't No Pleasing You - Melvis & The Papercuts 2. Septembre - Orwell feat. Ruth Minnikin 3. Dusk - Jess Bryant 4. Camino de Vuelta - Pleasant Dreams 5. Stop Imagining - Mike Futcher/Yogic Dread 6. Necessarily - Jon Forrest Little 7. Hearts Like Gunwounds - Melvis & The Papercuts 8. Arcadia - The Soft Disaster 9. Shoo-Ba-Di-Doo Dancing Song - The Low Fi Terrorist 10. Railway Car - Old Lost John 11. Dove - Terry Emm 12. The Tale Of Billy D. Horsey - Pulco 13. Picket Line - Panic Attract 14. Sun Holiday - Orwell 15. Summer - The Soft Disaster 16. They're Calling - Setting Sun 17. A Song For us - Captain Kidd The Pirate 18. Robin - Soy Un Caballo 19. Wearing Down Well - Pulco
Hello. For our final update of 2008 we have a track from the wonderful Todd Snider, classic sounds from The Snakes, the spellbinding voice of Kate Campbell, the atmospheric Iguanas and some leftfield rock'n'roll from Slithering Beast. Merry Christmas/Solstice/whatever and a Happy New Year!
Ah, it's a good day when I can listen to your voice on the player. I really enjoy the progression of the tunes you have on there too - soft and lyrical at the beginning and warming up to some louder foot tapping and perhaps a bit of thigh thumping.
Yes, it's that time of the month again when your listening pleasure can be enhanced by heading off to the AUK Myspace site where you will find folk whimsy from The Travelling Band, poignant thoughfulness from Waylon Jennings, The Butless Chaps (don't you just want to know what they sound like?) and the sweetly swinging (and singing) Tish Hinojosa.
What the heck Ruth? Can you please record a song that sucks!! Its been a long time coming. In fact i don't think it has happened yet ;-) Superb-ulous! you folkin rock.
If you aren't too worn out from Music Week, come down to Celtic Corner tonight - I finally talked them into an all original(locals) show...(and we're releasing our record)
