The Wardens, The Rocky Mountain-based band, share with their viewers tales, songs and majestic photographs rising from the very land they’ve protected as Canadian nationwide park wardens.

With haunting three-part harmonies and chilling tales, the band’s mountain music – mixing folks, roots and western kinds – displays Canada’s protected wilderness areas. Celebrating the return of untamed buffalo, wrangling grizzly bears, lonely nights on the pack path and reflecting on an surroundings in disaster, a efficiency by the Wardens has been dubbed “the quintessential mountain-cultural concert experience”.

The band has carried out broadly throughout western Canada and within the US from Alaska to California. The group contains:

Scott Ward, songwriter and fingerstyle guitarist, has been a nationwide park warden for over 30 years in Banff National Park. Scott’s music stems from a life lived within the deep wilderness of the Canadian Rockies as a horseman, search-and-rescue canine handler and technical alpine specialist. He is ready to deliver a contemporary tackle a timeless musical custom. Evoking the haunting fingerstyle guitar of Gordon Lightfoot with the mystique and presence of Ian Tyson, Scott’s music embodies Canadian authenticity.

Ray Schmidt, songwriter, upright bass, mandolin and guitarist, based The Wardens in 2009 with Scott Ward throughout the nationwide park warden centennial after discovering the wealthy depth of music and tales inside this area of Canada.

Translating the excessive lonesome sound of the Kentucky hills to these of the Rocky Mountains, Ray’s vocals amplify the spirit of The Wardens’ Mountain music. Posted in Jasper National Park, Ray has labored in numerous parks together with Banff, Glacier and Mount Revelstoke. He is at the moment working with grizzly bears and the abundance of wildlife that abounds in Jasper.

Deputy Warden Scott Duncan has performed fiddle on stage since 2017. His abilities are evident, and it is potential his pedigree has one thing to do with it. His grandfather – Herb Duncan – performed fiddle for over 100 years in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan.

Tickets can be found on-line at clatskaniearts.org, by calling Elsa at 503.728.3403, or if out there, on the door the night time of the efficiency.

Tickets: $25 for adults; $23 for seniors (60+) and college students; $20 kids 12 and beneath