Winnipeg Folk punk Greg Rekus is ready for his annual January pilgrimage to the Owl Acoustic lounge, Monday Jan. 7 when he will be hosting the open mic.
The Lethbridge show is part of a tour which winds up in Hawaii on Feb. 5.
“ I played there in 2015. This time I have three shows there,” Rekus said from Woolsley , Saskatchewan en route to Regina.
“January is a good time of the year to be away from Winnipeg,” he said.
He is touring in support of the vinyl re-release of his second album “Punkoustic.”
He always looks forward to returning to the Owl Acoustic Lounge.
“ I wish every town had an Owl. It is such a great venue and Steve is great guy to work with, he is always so supportive of bands. I think the reason it works is because it is also a restaurant rather than trying to make it just with music. We‘ve got a new venue in Winnipeg called Bulldog Pizza, which is a pizza restaurant. They do deliveries and everything, but they also really welcome live music,” he enthused.
“ So I usually plan to be in Lethbridge in January and again in September,” he continued.
Since his last Lethbridge visit, he has toured all over the United States in support of “Punkoustic” which he re-released on a small independent record label based out of Sioux Falls South Dakota called Loud Broke and Dumb.
“ It may be the last record they released, so they threw some money my way to do it. I wanted to do vinyl originally because the artwork on it is so amazing, but it wasn’t feasible. I’ve actually played with one of the guys. We did three shows together in Minneapolis, Fargo and Sioux Falls,” he said.