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You’ll always find me in the kitchen at parties

Come On In My Kitchen and feast your hungry ears with a rich meal of roots. Tantalize your taste for blues. Warm yourself up with folk remedies. Inspired by the age-old tradition of congregating in the kitchen, or on the porch, and swapping stories and songs, this show brings intimate and raucous jamming to the Arts Station March 28.

Since beginning in 1999, the show and its host, Edmonton-based guitarist and singer Mark Sterling, boast impressive musical alumni, including Big Dave MacLean, Donnie “Mr. Downchild” Walsh, Bill Bourne and Harry Manx. With cups of Delta, Chicago and Piedmont blues and dashes of swing, country and vintage folk, Come In My Kitchen cooks up old-style comfort food and dazzling original recipes.

“It’s like the best ingredients of a folk festival workshop, but with musicians who have a telepathic thing going on and a fearlessness that allows everyone to jump in and take a song to a place it’s never gone before,” Sterling says. The musician cut his teeth recording and touring with Toronto ’s award-winning folk-rock trio Hemmingway Corner, before he returned to Edmonton in the late ’90s, leapt back into the blues and knocked off two fine solo albums.

FDAC Member tickets: $20/adult; $12/youth. Non-member tickets: $25/adult; $15/youth.

Tickets are available at the Blue Toque, Carosella's, Freshies, the Good Earth and The Arts Station.

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