TEDx Entertainers Set to Take the Stage!

As if the 2013 TEDx Red Deer line-up of speakers wasn't enough reason to get your tickets, we've just confirmed four great entertainers for the evening!

CorryBoys Music - Jackson and Samuel Corry

 

Jackson and Samuel Corry love making music and sharing it with others. These bluegrass brothers are passionate about fiddling and also play guitar, mandolin, banjo and keyboard. They enjoy being active and outside so old time fiddle and bluegrass camps are their favourite places to be. These up-and-coming performers are pleased to kick off TEDx Red Deer 2013!

Ruth Purves-Smith

Leaving the comforts of country living alone with two children to chart out a path in the music scene was bound to be a challenge. This wouldn't stop Ruth. Having charted at #69 on CKUA's Top 100, garnered licensing to MTV, and gathered all rave reviews Internationally, Ruth Purves-Smith is a gem of Central Alberta's Original Music Scene. Ruth will wander you through places & tales of darkness and light, as did the Bards of old. Set to release her second full length album in Fall 2013, she is in full stride performing, writing, recording, and promoting her diverse brand of Alberta Music.

Shiv Shanks

Where does one start to describe this unpretentious outsider artist you’ve likely never heard of? He’s created his own unique blues by the ‘scenic route,’ teaching himself to play after digesting old ‘20s thru ‘50s blues cats, prior to discovering Zappa and Beefheart in junior high, and then was influenced by a recording of Indian snake charmer music. His job history provides enlightening life stories and song fodder galore. His moniker came from pro wrestling prior to working as a janitor at a strip club, then making sausages, being an adult video store clerk and then support worker. He spent time as a mixed martial arts cage fighter ‘back before it was cool or popular’ (he knocked out a pro kick boxer in 32 seconds in his first fight and got beat up in front of 6000 people his second). All the while, he wrote lyrics (‘like taking notes beamed into his brain’) on bits of napkin and his own skin, forming the duo Old Busted Bones - who he says ‘were as popular as a flying saucer cult and more elusive than the Lock Ness monster’ - in 2008 as a creative outlet. His one-man guitar and percussion format eliminates band squabbling and is the happy result of 20 years of penning songs, many in a tiny cabin in the woods.