Garnet Rogers at Amazing Things This Weekend

Garnet Rogers headlines, with Chris Pahud opening, on Saturday at the Amazing Things Arts Center.

Playing the flute, violin and guitar, Rogers is a master storyteller and singer-songwriter.

From the website: Hailed by the Boston Globe as a “charismatic performer and singer”, Garnet is a man with a powerful physical presence - close to six and a half feet tall - with a voice to match. With his “smooth, dark baritone” (Washington Post) his incredible range, and thoughtful, dramatic phrasing, Garnet is widely considered by fans and critics alike to be one of the finest singers anywhere. His music, like the man himself, is literate, passionate, highly sensitive, and deeply purposeful. Cinematic in detail, his songs “give expression to the unspoken vocabulary of the heart” (Kitchener Waterloo Record). An optimist at heart, Garnet sings extraordinary songs about people who are not obvious heroes and of the small victories of the everyday. As memorable as his songs, his over-the-top humour and lightning-quick wit moves his audience from tears to laughter and back again.

“Chris Pahud sings with all his heart, and his heart is huge. His voice and songs come from such a beautiful place, I smile every time I hear him sing... and witness him doing what comes so natural to him... “
Mary Gauthier - Lost Highway recording artist