Max Cann has a reputation as one of the finest singer_songwriters in the south_west of England, making music based on 35 years of rich experience, and writing entertaining songs that resonate with listeners, an extensive repertoire of original folk_rock tunes, from topical songs to hilarious novelty tunes. There’s humour and thoughtfulness in Max Cann’s live presentations, and, most of all, variety.

This is his first Canadian tour.

Artist Bio: You start performing when you’re 16. You form a folk band with your brothers. Then you front rock bands. Play bass and guitar. Feel the energy of Celtic music and riff off that, too. Add blues. Go off to Germany with your brothers and entertain the burghers in small towns. Come home, write more songs. You play weddings, parties, anything. Big bands, duos, solo. Perform regularly on Glastonbury’s acoustic stage. Work, work, work – sometimes as much as five or six nights a week.

In short, you sing for your supper. And you get pretty damn good at it.

That’s Max Cann’s story, in a nutshell.

Now the man, who has a reputation as one of the finest singer-songwriters in the south-west of England, is set for his first Canadian tour.

What Max Cann’s story doesn’t tell is what he learned along the way. About making music based on 35 years of rich experience. About entertaining, and about writing songs that resonate with listeners.

As a solo artist, Max Cann still draws on his former sibling band’s extensive repertoire of original folk-rock tunes, from topical songs to hilarious novelty tunes.

Oh, and there are always a few pertinent covers thrown in – for fun, and to help make a set’s point. (Covers? Think Neil Young, Lightfoot, The Band, and even Joni Mitchell – this man’s a closet Canadian, and he’s never been to this country before).

There’s humour in Max Cann’s live presentations, as well as thoughtfulness, and sentiment (not much sentimentality, though).

Most of all, there’s variety – and Cann is proof that if you’re still doing music after 35 years, you’re pretty damned good at it.

All he has to do now is cross the Atlantic, entertain audiences and meet his peers in Ontario and Quebec, and warm up a Canadian winter.

An unknown artist in Canada? Yes, right now. But not for long.