Waterton, Alta

I woke up in a daze this morning to a call from CBC Daybreak North. Sensing they had called a little early, they kindly offered to call back to do the interview in a couple hours. I threw on my running shoes and shorts and walked out the backdoor of Fireside Lounge in Waterton, AB in an attempt to clear the fog of a late night jam the day before.

On the shore of a glacial river/lake that comes snaking out of the mountains just across of it, I was just in time to watch the sun escape from the tall craggy peaks that had hidden it till mid morning. It was in exactly the same place as the "super moon", whose light we had walked home by the night before.

Waterton is an international park that crosses the Canada/US border in southern Alberta. A quaint little tourist town surrounded by mountains on almost all sides, its peak season begins in June, so we had the place to ourselves, along with a rowdy staff, at the beginning of their summer jobs, and a few intrepid visitors.

Walking along the path that follows the shoreline, one has to lean forward in order to combat the fierce wind that comes funneling down out of the mountains over the water it relentlessly fans. It blows so consistently and briskly, that the lake is constantly rolling with uniform waves always on the verge of cresting in foamy whitecaps. The water is a deep majestic blue in the middle of the lake, dramatically shifting about ten meters off shore to a dazzling turquoise-aquamarine, and then to a pristine clear as it breaks upon the well worn and perfectly smooth rainbow of pebbles and stones on the shore. The mountain tops still retain some of the winter snow that adorn the craigs and fissures, until the tree-line creates a prickly green and brown contrast and manages to find precarious purchase in the bold and turning cliff side. Not yet in bloom, the various aspen, fir and cottonwood are still mostly grey skeletons, interspersed with the dark and thick growth of the evergreens. All of the trees seem to lean slightly away from the rushing wind they still manage to stand in defiance of.

Looking around me, my reverie was broken by the approaching "gang" of big horned sheep that wander the town with impunity, often surrounding the small houses in a seeming blockade of grazing, or simply standing mid road daring you too a clearly one sided head-butting contest. The sandy soil just beyond the rocky beach is haven for a subterranean city of prairie dogs, who come out of their apartments to stare inquisitively at the strange intruder you are, and then dive back into their burrows with surprisingly loud squeaks.

The walk back proves joyously easy, as the wind at my back practically carries me to the lounge just in time to order breakfast, and wax poetic for CBC Daybreak North, who are very excited to see us in a weeks time.

Alberta, you have outdone yourself. See you in week BC.

-DJ

12.05.01

Spring Western Tour

Hey Folks

So excited to be hitting the road tomorrow!

Have some old friends to visit, new friends to make, new instruments, toys, songs, both new and old, and some great places to do them in.

Would love to see you along the way...look over there --> for dates and email us for info: info@redmoonroad.com

You can download our tour poster below too!

Time to head west,

RMR

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12.03.24

CD Release

Hey Everybody,
Thanks to everyone who made our CD release party last Saturday so amazing!

We had a wonderful and enthusiastic SOLD OUT audience and two great opening acts, Bog River and Neon Donkey; we are so grateful to all of them.

Highlights included the wonderful light up tree triumvirate on stage, the amazing string orchestra and a house full of most of our favourite people.

Check out photos from the show on our Facebook Page

Special thanks to Emily, Kristian and Kristoff, Carolyn, the WECC (especially Jason, Kelly and Andrew) and everyone else who helped us pull the show off.

Don't worry if you missed it... the talented Mr Kristian Jordan is, as we speak, editing a concert DVD of the evening and parts of that will be available soon.

In the meantime, please enjoy some pics and the bran' new album. We worked so hard on it and hope you like hearing it as much as we liked making it.

Here in Manitoba you can find the CD at: The Folk Festival Music Store, Into the Music, Music Trader, McNally Robinson, Two Rivers and the Craft Cupboard at the Forks and Falcon Trails Resort.

And we are available on iTunes.

Thanks for checkin' in folks and, making this folk trio blush

RMR

12.03.13

Brand new Prairie City Sound video shot on river trail!

Don't forget- our debut album will be released March 17 at the WECC. To coincide with the album release we are really excited to launch this brand new video filmed by the talented folks at Prairie City Sound. The video has also just been feauted on CBC's Manitoba Scene today. We hope you enjoy!

12.03.05

Album Release Show!

Mark your calendars friends...March 17th is the day! Red Moon Road releases their first album at the WECC! W/ Special Guests: Bog River and Daniel Roa/ Murray Pulver preforming duo as "Neon Donkey". Gonna be great! Click here for more info!

Check out our "Listen" page to hear a couple tracks off the album!

12.02.21

Back from tour- it was a whirlwind jam packed with dates throughout Alberta and BC. Now that we're home, there's no slowing down- we jump right back into things with the Festival du Voyageur all week!

Learn all about the fun we had, the places we visited and the people we met on the road in our tour diary- click here!

12.02.19

Western Tour Photos- January/ February 2012

Watson Arts Centre, Dauphin, MB- Jan 2012

Daniel looking pretty beardy in Nanton, AB

Breakfast in Nanton, AB

Chestermere, AB

The Local Hero- our venu in Golden, BC

Frolicking in the snow on the way from Mackenzie to Hudson's Hope

12.02.07

Frolicking in the snow on the way from Mackenzie, BC to Hudson's Hope, BC. Sheena is falling....as usual.

12.02.02

New Album, New Website, and Western Tour!

Howdy all you Red Moon Road checker-outers,

Been a super exciting couple months for us...

Good friends have helped put this beautiful website together and we hope you'll check back from time to time for some cool updates

Our biggest news though is that...

WE FINISHED RECORDING OUR FIRST ALBUM!

Big-time-music-dudes-Juno-award-winners-and-all-around-nice-guys Murray Pulver (Crash Test Dummies, Doc Walker) and Don Benedictson (Valdi, Wyrd Sisters, Fred Penner) produced it for us, and generally made the whole experience a really great one. We recorded in a plethora of settings ranging from a beautiful St Boniface Studio to the upstairs of the Franco-Manitoba-Cultural-Center to Murray's bedroom to Daniel's Living room in a home made "isolation booth" consisting of the mattresses and the matching bedding. At least it would be matching bedding if it wasn't Daniel's.

By far the highlight was over-dubbing and mixing out at Don's beautiful STRAW BAIL house in lovely Roseisle in Southwest Manitoba. His partner Danielle (yes ANOTHER one) fed us some amazing things and Donny proved that the human capacity for tedious attention to miniscule details is astronomically high.

In the end we feel like the 10 original songs on the album were "born" with all the proverbial fingers and toes every proud parents hopes for, and we cant wait to see what they will do with the rest of their lives.

Worth noting is that you can meet this herculean effort on MARCH 17th at the West End Cultural Center for our CD RELEASE PARTY!
The night will open with our good friends Bog River and newly christened super duo NEON DONKEY who consists of Winnipeg's Daniel Roa and Murray Pulver.
Details/Ticket info and some really flattering stuff can be found at here.

In the meantime, RMR is ready to begin our Home Routes Concert Series tour up here in Northern BC. Its been an amazingly fun tour so far playing our way through Saskatchewan, Albert and now BC, and were as amazed as anyone to how many warm receptions and merch sales we've had!
Just kidding... were not amazed so much as really really grateful ... what IS amazing is that our 1992 Volvo Station Wagon (The Aluminum Falcon) has somehow made it this far.
They dont make 'em like they used too...

Stay tuned for some tour highlights and pictures from the bands brand new digital camera...which Daniel PH is currently fiddling with right now.

Thanks for caring enough to read this
Your favorite musical trio on tour in Northern BC,
Red Moon Road

12.01.18

Hypothetical Girl

We had the place to ourselves, some amateur equipment, a cheesy idea and a kitchy song....this is what we did with them:

12.01.11

Sunday, January 15

All day free music festival at the Falcon Ridge Ski Chalet

Come on down and check out this great little Manitoba ski hill, and take in some great live music and atmosphere while you are at it! We'll be playing in gospel and banjo workshps and be performing a concert at 5:00. Click for more info!

11.11.09

New Video!

Some footage from our show at the Winnipeg Art Gallery roof top from this past summer

Crooked Brothers

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