• Thursday, May 10, 2018
• 8:00pm – 11:00pm
• Le Garage Cafe

Farmer The Band are mul­ti task­ing, mul­ti instru­men­tal­ist, indie folk­sters based in south­ern BC. Their Amer­i­cana, sor­ry — Cana­di­ana – song­writ­ing and sto­ry­telling has tak­en the new band twice across Cana­da. The duo’s folk roots music fills the stage with vocal har­monies, gui­tar, bass, har­mon­i­ca, drums, per­cus­sion, and any­thing else that’s in arm’s (or foot’s) reach.

Like their songs, their stage set up will draw you in. It may look gim­micky but the ​“two-per­son-one-man-band” deliv­ers a full ensem­ble sound live off the floor with no loop­ing, just hon­est musi­cal­i­ty and love for what they do. One half of the band, Lourine Koide is a har­vester of metaphors and hope, inspired by the social con­scious poet­ry of her South African roots and new home­land of Cana­da. The oth­er half of the band, Glen Koide, a BC boy, born and raised, is a flat pickin’, fin­ger pluckin’ strum­mer equal­ly at home on the acoustic or elec­tric guitar.

The singer song­writ­ing team start­ed off per­form­ing with two gui­tars in local cof­fee shops and farm­ers mar­kets as a folk duo. Now they per­form with a van full of instru­ments in venues coast to coast as hus­band and wife.