Introducing … the Dearhearts

Justin Seward
Times Reporter

 

The Rosebud-based band “The Dearhearts”, consisting of Alix Cowman, Lauren Degraaf and Lauren Hamm will be having an album release party concert on Nov. 9 in Rosebud.
“We met four years ago at the Rosebud School of the Arts. We were all in musical and loved different kinds of music, but about six months ago we decided to get together to be an official band,” said Hamm.
“We actually did it kind of backwards, we got two (band members) together to record the CD because Alix Cowman had won a recording scholarship through the school. So we were originally going to record these three songs that were recorded by her in her scholarship, so we just decided to expand to eight instead.”
The album was created by a combination of Cowman writing the songs and the three of them coming up with eight original songs, but they had to raise funds to complete the album.
“This (past) summer we needed some extra money to do some songs that weren’t included with my scholarship, so we spent the summer going around Alberta and playing house concerts for a lot of people that we know, but also for ones that we don’t know,” said Cowman.”There were a few songs that we had learned but for whatever reason we didn’t want them on the album or they sounded too similar to other songs. All those concerts helped ease the selection process.”
The house concert really was of benefit in that it made the recording of the album go smoother.
“It was so much easier to do the house concerts because it was nice to go into recording and not take as much time up. It was pretty cool learning how to sing with these girls as organically as I can and live off of the first situation,” said Degraaf.
The people who are planning to attend the album release concert will be ble to listen to a mix that was created on tiny instruments.
“Our little tag line that we like to say is ‘we’re three girls playing tiny instruments’, it’s a little bluegrass, folk and jazz, the type of music we like to create is all those things,” said Cowman.
If you are a music expert, you might pick up on why the trio agree that their new album is humourous and cheeky.
“I think there is a lot of humour in our album, even in more of the serious songs there’s sort of a humorous energy,” said Cowman.
” I think that’s especially what we like to bring into our live performances, and people thinking of coming to our concerts, it’s just fun.”
The concert will be on Nov. 9 at the Rosebud Mercantile in the Harvest room at 8 p.m.
Admission is $10 for advance tickets, $15 at the door and a $5 student ticket price. You can book through their email or Facebook page.
If you’re interested you can get a $20 advanced ticket – CD combo.