{"id":9673,"date":"2014-11-10T21:55:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T21:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=9673"},"modified":"2014-11-10T21:55:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T21:55:50","slug":"the-strumbellas-from-small-town-to-big-time-and-back-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/11\/10\/the-strumbellas-from-small-town-to-big-time-and-back-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strumbellas :: From small town to big time and back again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2014\/11\/10\/the-strumbellas-from-small-town-to-big-time-and-back-again\/the-strumbellas-bubblegum-pic-photo-credit-heather-pollock-hi-res\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9674\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9674\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Strumbellas-bubblegum-pic-photo-credit-Heather-Pollock-hi-res-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"The Strumbellas - bubblegum pic - photo credit Heather Pollock hi res\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>by Martyna Turczynowicz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Strumbellas have won a Juno, Folk and Traditional Album of the Year, toured the U.S. and Canada and held residencies at the Cameron House and Dakota Tavern in Toronto. Not bad for a band from Lindsay, Ontario that got together over Craiglist.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Before playing two sold-out shows in Winnipeg, Stylus got to chat with Simon Ward who plays guitar and is the primary vocalist and songwriter in the band.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSix years ago or something I randomly decided to start a band, and I put an ad on Craigslist and that\u2019s basically how we formed. That\u2019s how it all came together,\u201d says Simon Ward who plays guitar and sings in the band.<\/p>\n<p>The Strumbella\u2019s latest release <em>We Still Move Dance Floors<\/em> was released in October 2013 and has exceeded the band\u2019s expectations, Ward says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s exceeded our expectations. We didn\u2019t really know what to expect and it\u2019s done well. It\u2019s been a crazy ride\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since the release of <em>We Still Move Dance Floors<\/em> the band has been touring, playing shows and festivals across North America. They\u2019ve made stops in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Iqaluit and Winnipeg\u2019s own Folk Fest in 2014. Winnipeg Folk Festival, Ward says, was the Strumbella\u2019s favourite stop this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWinnipeg folk fest was probably our biggest highlight of the summer. It was one of the most magical weekends we\u2019ve ever had as a band.. We got to see all these amazing bands, see all these cool people, go out to the campgrounds. The weekend<\/p>\n<p>was really, really special for our band\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As well as touring, the residencies the band has held in Toronto, at Cameron House and Dakota Tavern, Ward says, has have built their fanbase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToronto is a great place. It took us a while to build up an audience in Toronto, a huge part of that was residency. It\u2019s familiar to people and you buyild a community with people. I think it\u2019s pretty important for us to have built a name up in our hometown city.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Martyna Turczynowicz The Strumbellas have won a Juno, Folk and Traditional Album of the Year, toured the U.S. and Canada and held residencies at the Cameron House and Dakota Tavern in Toronto. Not bad for a band from Lindsay, Ontario that got together over Craiglist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}