Acoustic Honkytonk from Southwestern Ontario

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Thanks Aeolian, Plus A Nomination!

Wow! Well after a year of keeping our heads down, digging into our work in education, us Heartaches are feeling pretty darn busy!

Thank you to everyone who has reached out to tell us you enjoyed our performance at in Aeolian Hall’s Phoenix Sessions. It was a very special experience for us, to record a set of music in that gem of a building. We are so grateful to everyone who subscribed to their series. The series has more amazing shows coming up this month, and really, anything you can do to help artists right now is so important. Here’s a shot we took of our video playing in our living room.

Yesterday we were surprised to hear that Martin & Amanda Lynn have been jointly nominated in the FOLK category for a Forest City London Music Award! We are thrilled and honoured to be named at all, and of course very grateful to our bandmates James and Dan who we have spent so many hours playing with!

We are also awed to be considered in the same category as some good friends and stellar musicians. Paul Mills, legendary producer, Shane Cook, nationally celebrated fiddler, stellar acts The Pairs and Carly Thomas, and the beloved Rant Maggie Rant round out the nominees in the Folk category. We really are pinching ourselves to be on a list with these folks. Whoever you chose to support, we hope you will vote in the awards. Voting is daily at https://voting.fclma.ca/ until April 30th.

For a number of years Amanda Lynn worked to help plan the awards education day, and we know it is truly a labour of love for those who pull these community recognition events together! Thank you to those from the Forest City London Music Awards who are working so hard to pull together this celebration of arts when we so badly need it.

Here’s another screenshot from our Aeolian video! You can still stream the video until April 16th at Aeolian if you become a subscriber (link above).

Thanks CBC! Next up: Matinee at The Richmond!

It’s Junos week here in London, and we’re loving it. Everywhere you look, it seems there’s live music happening! We got in on the action today with CBC London’s lunchtime concert series “Nooners,” at One London Place. Thanks to London Morning ‘s Rebecca Zandbergen for hosting us today, and to the London Music Office and Home County Music and Art Festival for setting it up.

Next weekend, come shake off the Music-Award blues with us at. We’re thrilled to tell you that we’re back at The Richmond Tavern on Sunday, March 24th from 4-7pm. You can find details here. It’s quite awhile since we’ve played at this venerable establishment, and we’d love to see you. No matter where you are, we hope you get out and enjoy some live music soon, in this fair city of ours!

Here’s what we looked like when we played The Richmond last summer to kick off Home County last summer. Thanks to our friend Mike Bourgeault for capturing it.

The Heartaches Stringband open The Home County Music & Art Festival at the Richmond Tavern July 2018. Photo by Mike Bourgeault.
At the Home County Music & Art Festival launch party, July 2018. Photo by Mike Bourgeault

Cuckoo’s Nest Folk Club – Feb. 10th!

Hello friends! It’s been some time, and we’re trying to lay a little lower over this winter to recharge our batteries. But Martin and Amanda Lynn are really excited to tell you about a show this weekend. On Sunday February 10th, we’re thrilled to be playing London’s Cuckoo’s Nest Folk Club, in Chaucer’s Pub at 122 Carling St. in downtown London. opening for Teilhard Frost.

Teilhard Frost is a member of the renowned Sheesham, Lotus and Son. Teilhard is a true master of oldtime styles of fiddle and banjo, as well as being a highly esteemed banjo builder. See his dynamic performing style here .

Poster for Teilhard Frost & Amanda Lynn Stubley and Martin Horak at the Cuckoo's Nest Folk Club 10 Feb. 2019

Tickets: Tickets are $20 in advance / $25 at the door, and available at Centennial Hall, the north London Long and McQuade music store at 725 Fanshawe Park W., The Village Idiot in Wortley Village, and Chaucer’s Pub / Marienbad Restaurant at 122 Carling St. You can find some more details here on Facebook.

Banjo workshop:  If you know anyone that wants to learn the banjo, Teilhard is giving a short introductory / intermediate workshop on oldtime style banjo Sunday afternoon. Details are here for that.

Music starts at 7:30pm sharp, and we’d love to see you.