In Concert at the Wright Auditorium, Tuesday, March 22 —

Roots powerhouse duo The Small Glories are Cara Luft & JD Edwards, a musical tour-de-force partnership planted on the Canadian Prairies.  Thrown together purely by accident for an anniversary show at Winnipeg’s venerable West End Cultural Centre, The Small Glories could almost make you believe in fate. 

With a stage banter striking a unique balance between slapstick and sermon, these veteran singer-songwriters have a way of making time disappear, rooms shrink, and audiences feel as they are right there on the stage with the band — writing the songs, living the songs, performing the songs. It’s not uncommon for listeners to find themselves laughing, dancing, crying, or caught up in a good ol’ fashioned sing-along.  “We’re folk singers, we try to write stuff that people can relate to,” says Edwards, whose looming stage presence and penetrating eyes find him the yin to Luft’s petite, snort-laughing yang. The material of a Small Glories concert is welcoming in terms of subject, folk-pop melody and instrumentation — songs of love, loss, and environment, delivered with soaring, interwoven vocals on various combinations of stomping clawhammer banjo, guitar and harmonica. However, a Small Glories performance is really about what happens in-between the songs. “The feedback we get from a lot of audiences is that it’s not just about the music for them,” Luft says. “It’s the whole package.”

Artist Website: The Small Glories

Tickets

General Admission $20
Youth/Senior $15

Advance tickets available for purchase at FireLight Gallery & Framing.
Admission also available at the door.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Purchase of ticket constitutes acknowledgment and agreement with any terms and conditions imposed by the venue, the presenter, and artist, including all health and safety policies.

Health and Safety

We ask that anyone experiencing COVID-19 symptoms to refrain from attending.

With recent guidance changes from the CDC and changes in policy around the community, we are also re-evaluating our mitigation protocols and guest requirements. At this present time the risk level indicated for Petersburg by the CDC is LOW. The PMC and school dashboards also show very low daily case rates. We are proceeding with a recommendation for masking encouraged but not required, and social distancing encouraged for our upcoming indoor events. Note that if artists and/or venue requires a stricter protocol, those will be followed and announced. The Petersburg Arts Council reserves the right to move to stricter requirements if the pandemic conditions change. Full refunds for any advance tickets will be available for those guests who are unable to attend due to this policy or changes to it.

Event Sponsors

Petersburg Rotary Club