Like many people who travel to the West to take in the sights, explore a little and see what the area has to offer, Dustin Jones has headed west for the first time.
Jones, along with the Rising Tide, rolls into Olds to play Tracks Pub on June 19. Jones (vocals, guitar) will be joined by the brothers Jaaskelainen: Sheldon (fiddle) and Marshall (upright bass) and Andrew McMullen (drums), who's filling in for Mikey Hawdon.
The group hails from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. and offers a Celtic-infused blend of… well, Jones likes to let people figure things out for themselves, genre-wise.
“It sounds a little twisted,” Jones said. “But the best thing is, we kind of cross genres with our sound. I don't know what to call it. But the whole reason we're heading west is because we got the gig in Dauphin and I figured while we're out there we might as well take a couple of weeks and go further west.
“I'm looking forward to it. The brothers have been out there with The Wild Turkeys a couple of times and they said they love it and I hear it's beautiful. I've been touring for 15 years and I've never been out west, it's too far to drive, so this is a first for me.”
Along with touring mostly in Ontario, but also to the Maritimes and the U.S. East Coast, Dustin Jones and the Rising Tide have crafted three albums, 2009's self-titled effort, 2011's Whiskey Will Be Our Sun, and last year's Dancing Our Demons Away.
