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The first house concert of the year at The Gog will feature all home-grown talent and promises to be a full house.

The eclectic group Backroads will entertain along with Kjelti Katherine Saturday.

Backroads is made up of Laird Brittin, Linda Mushka, Garth Harrison and Vistara Sidebottom.

"We are having a great time practicing and looking forward to bringing you our best show," says Brittin. "We play primarily covers, but many of them aren’t the hits that you will recognize and be able to sing along with.  They’re the ‘B sides and rarities,’ so to speak, and we hope you will enjoy listening to them as much as we like performing them."

He adds, "We’ll bring a couple of originals as well."

Born from kitchen sessions in the dead of many a prairie winter's night of song and camaraderie over the past couple of years, Backroads is a truly eclectic group, says Brittin. 

"Wearing different hats by day, at night music is as much a part of each member's daily sustenance as eating and sleeping. You might say the therapy that washes away a tough day’s cares!"

Collectively the quartet shares a back catalogue of covers from roots, blues, folk and country genres that many will recognize as loved favourites or come to appreciate more obscure gems, with a sprinkling of contemporary songs and original tunes thrown in to spice things up. 

According to Brittin, "Our good friend Kjelti Katherine (Anderson) will be opening the show. Kjelti has an ever growing body of her own work that she continues to refine and also mixes in some classic folk covers."

Backroads sees Kjelti Katherine as a talented singer/songwriter/guitar player who trades silence for thoughtful gestures in melody and blushing lyrics that betray her prairie secrets.

The Gog is located at 1391-105th St., North Battleford. Contact Kelly Waters at 306-445-6766 or by email at [email protected] to see if there are any seats left. The concert is expected to sell out.

Doors open at 7 p.m. and the performance starts at 7:30 p.m.

Admission is $20 with Waters’ famous nibbles and wine by donation.