This Weekend - Keller Williams, The Unsettlers, and more!

-The Unsettlers

If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, there are two really big shows at Cafe Campus. Tonight, Keller Williams brings his amazing guitar skills and humour to the stage at Petit Campus, blending bluegrass, folk and reggae into writing songs about being a contestant on The Price is Right and a certain combustible in his pocket; a good time should be had by all.

While he will be performing solo Friday night, he often collaborates with String Cheese Incident under the moniker Keller Williams Incident and was also part of the Rhythm Devils with Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann.

This Saturday, March 24th, one of Montreal’s hardest working bands, The Unsettlers, will be back on stage  at Petit Cafe Campus. Starting up in 2007, the band has plaed over 200 shows including POP Montreal and Osheaga. This is the band’s first chance to woo the hometown fans since a long remembered show at Theatre Rialto last November. The audience was treated to an evening of circus mayhem provided by the Blue Mushroom Sirkus Psyshow, the powerful gospel tunes of Li'l Andy and the vintage sounds of Montreal's Johnny Griffin.

Led by vocalist B.W. Brandes and featuring contortionist Andreanne LeClerc, they filled the hall with sounds and sights not often witnessed outside of a 1930‘s carnival. With the show going way into the early morning, the band had plenty of time to showcase their latest double CD, Oil And Blood. Blending many forms of music from polkas to spoken word, The Unsettlers have a distinct sound resembling gypsy zydeco. The accordion playing of Santosh Lalonde and the trombone playing of Eli Richards propel the listeners to a simpler time of late nights around the snake charmers tent learning the subtleties of Three-card Monte while a cool spring breeze blows a discarded flyer advertising a traveling circus.

Sheesham and Lotus will be starting off the evening with their own take on old time music. From the pre-jazz sounds of Memphis jug bands to the Appalachian Mountains and blue strains from the Mississippi flatlands.

-Clifton Hanger hosts Brave New Jams every Tuesday from 9-10pm