The quirky and eclectic West Coast-based folk group Fish & Bird is making a lone stop in Central Alberta to perform on Friday night at Tracks Pub in Olds.
Fish & Bird is becoming known for a disarmingly irreverent take on traditional folk and country music, which garnered the group a Young Performer of the Year nomination from the Canadian Folk Music Awards.
The core of the band is the partnership between fiddler Adam Iredale-Gray of Victoria and Winnipeg native Taylor Ashton, a banjo-playing singer/songwriter, who mixes Irish influences with jazz, pop, garage rock, and even musical theatre.
With two critically acclaimed records and seven Canadian tours since 2007 — the latest being done in a right-hand drive veggie-oil fuelled Delica van — the group also includes guitarist Ryan Boeur of Vancouver, and up-right bassist Zoe Guigueno of Toronto.
Olds is the only Alberta stop on this latest Fish & Bird cross-country tour, besides Edmonton and Calgary.
There’s no cover charge for the 9 p.m. concert at 1, 4919 49th Ave. in Olds.