The Duhks
Part of
The Upper North Side Canadian Music Series

Show Description

The Duhks, a band of five skilled, high-energy, tattooed twenty-somethings from Winnipeg, Manitoba, has been riveting audiences and winning staunch fans across North America and around the world with the kind of music that acknowledges its predecessors and lives in the here and now. Since the release of their self-titled, Bela Fleck-produced album in 2005, as well as the consequent re-release of their Canadian debut, Your Daughters and Your Sons, they've won admirers as diverse as David Crosby, Dolly Parton, and Doc Watson. This is not surprising, given their Duhks-alone blend of soul, gospel, North American folk, Brazilian samba, old time country string band, zydeco, and Irish dance music, and the attack they bring to these interwoven acoustic styles-which might as well be called sheer rock and roll. Their unique sound has also earned them a Juno Award, two Folk Alliance awards, and an Americana Music Association nomination for Best Emerging Artists. Their sophomore Sugar Hill release, Migrations, produced in Nashville by bluegrass and folk veteran Tim O'Brien and co-produced, as was their last disc, by Grammy award winning engineer and producer Gary Paczosa contains strong evidence of this band's growing sense of what a "Duhks' song" sounds like. "The Duhks… offer an inventive bridge of folk music styles capped by Latin percussion and an overall virtuosity that could make them stars." – The Boston Globe