While the cold, northern Alberta city of Grande Prairie might be one of the last places you would expect to find a reggae band, Tasman Jude are happy to call it home.
“ When we first started, people were like ‘what? a reggae band?’ But when they saw we were all about spreading joy and peace through music, people started getting on board,” said Tasman Jude frontman Caleb Hart.
Tasman Jude are all about bringing peace and love so they are excited to bring truckloads of that to the Owl Acoustic Lounge, Nov. 12 — one stop in the middle of a cross-Canada tour.
“ Its been fantastic,” said Hart from a taco place in Tofino, B.C.
“ It’s taken us from Montreal to Tofino,” he said.
“ Green goes back to the roots. Peace and love — that's what it’s all about,” he said.
“‘Gold’ is the island. It is more of that style of music and ‘Red’ will be explore the more aggressive side of reggae and ska music,” he said adding only Green has been recorded and released.
“Red will explore what reggae is like in 2015,” he said.
“ We want to expand people’s minds with it,” he continued.
This will be their first official Lethbridge show.
“ We played a fundraiser there once,” Hart recalled.
The band is heading to warmer climates after this Canadian tour is completed.
“We’re going to Trinidad and Tobago and we’re going to Australia to tour for three months in January. And that’s going to be awesome,” he enthused.
There is no cover for the show, which begins at 9 p.m., Nov. 12.
