Sean Pinchin @ Elora Brewing Co.

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Sean Pinchin will be performing at the Elora Brewing Co. as a part of our ongoing free music weekends! Come experience wonderful music, all in the setting of a beautiful brewery in the heart of Elora!

Juno nominee slide-guitar-hero Sean Pinchin is back with eight-song blues tour-de-force: Bad Things.

His 2016 breakthrough album Monkey Brain nabbed him a 2017 Juno Nomination for Blues Album of the Year and cemented his reputation as a guitar player’s guitar player. The album took his singing to a new level and turned heads his with his best songs yet. One reviewer's description summed up many people's reaction to Sean's killer brand of modern blues: "track after track built from masterfully infectious riffs with lyrics as smart as one might hear from a top-notch pop songsmith … power, drive and gobs of style.” (Duane Verh, Roots Music Report)

Bad Things continues where Monkey Brain left off: BIG riffs, heartfelt gritty singing and songs that will be earworms for weeks after only a couple of listens. Sean puts the history of blues guitar music into a blender and it comes out all dirty and grimy, sounding at once like something you’ve never quite heard before, while remaining true to the lineage that Sean so clearly reveres. The opening track If You’re Gonna Leave Me is a straight up breakup song delivered as an almost celebratory stompin’ slide guitar extravaganza. What could be a down-on-your-luck affair feels more like a provocation: "You need some space. Do what you gotta do. If you’re gonna leave me, then GO". In the breakdown of the uptempo Hands To Yourself Sean relates a conversation he’s having with a good friend after a bad breakup in a whisky-soaked drawl: "Man, I’m just looking for a woman to treat me the best she can”. His buddy deadpans: “Brother, I've never met ANY woman truly happy with ANY man.” Bad Things, the album's title track, kicks off with a signature Pinchin searing resonator riff before the band Mary-Jane Luvite (drums) & Rob Szabo (bass) launch into a thumpin’ groove. Sean pays homage to his heroes with a trio of covers on the record. Devil Got My Woman is an ambient chill and moody version of the Skip James classic. It builds slowly with Sean’s restrained resonator slide playing and goes over the top with arguably on of Sean’s best solos on record as he shreds with fuzzed out abandon on his Gibson 339. The album takes a turn with a stripped down lapstyle version Blind Willie Johnson’s Nobody’s Fault But Mine and closes with Sean’s take on Canadian blues veteran Steve Strongman’s River.

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• Website seanpinchin.ca

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Elora Brewing Co.

How it came to be...

Back in spring of 2013, word got around Elora that two different beer lovin’n groups of friends wanted to open a brewery: Matt and Jim were home brew buddies, and business colleagues Jon and Don eventually met up with brewer Alex and the two groups met. Many beers were drank. Many slurred conversations were had, and eventually the wheels were put in motion to open a brewery. Fast forward and the doors were opened a year later after a massive transformation of a beautiful, 150+ year-old limestone building. Since then, Elora Brewing Company has brewed hundreds of beers (we’re talking millions of litres of people) and become Elora’s number one late-night hot-spot and day-time hangout. And we make kick-ass beer too.

Before it came to be...

Our beautiful, historic building was originally owned by a grocer who specialized in tea, who constructed the first store on our site in 1868. It was destroyed in a brutal fire that ravaged the entire town in 1883, and the following year the row-buildings were rebuilt. This limestone building has seen various incarnations over the years, including a longstanding hardware store.

What it came to be

Gastro pub. Brewery. Bottle shop. Music venue. Party central.

What’s the deal with Elora anyways?...

Elora is this awesome blend of agricultural heritage and artistry. Scattered throughout town you’ll find musicians, actors, sculptors, architects, painters, farmers, poets, authors, carpenters, choir singers and everything in between. There are music and food scenes that other towns only wish they had, and we’re a quick drive from downtown Guelph and KW, and we’re about a 1.5hr drive west of Toronto. “Hippies,” artists, actors and other like-minded individuals starting moving here in the 1970s and meshed with the blue-collar crowd to build Elora into what it is today. And oh yeah, the abso-fucking-lutely mind-blowing Elora gorge is in our back yard.

Remember, Elora beer is best served with friends, and we hope you enjoy our beer as much as we enjoyed making it.