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Fresh off the July release of his album Domestic Eccentric, Old Man Luedecke returns to Halifax for a performance at St. Matthew's United Church on Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 8 p.m.

Old Man Luedecke is the real thing, a modern-day people’s poet and traveling bard and balladeer. He’s played around the world to a loving and increasing fan base and won two JUNO Awards in the process. Tim O’Brien is a multiple grammy-winning roots multi-instrumentalist whose solo work and collaborations have made him one of the most respected American players working today. The two last worked together on Luedecke’s 2012 release, Tender is the Night, which was nominated for a JUNO Award, long-listed for the Polaris Music Prize and won Album of the Year at the East Coast Music Awards.

Calling to mind the powerful force at the heart of other musical vocal pairings: The Milk Carton Kids, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Tony Rice and Ricky Skaggs, or even Tim O’Brien and his work with Darrell Scott, the combination of Old Man Luedecke’s highly personal songs and infectious old-time banjo and guitar, and Tim O’Brien’s mastery of bluegrass harmony, guitars, mandolin, bouzouki, and fiddle adds up to much more than a simple sum of parts.

This marks the third time that Old Man Luedecke and Tim O’Brien have collaborated on a record, and their increasing comfort in each other’s musical presence has yielded spectacular results, a collaboration that will beautifully translate to live performance.

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