Skip to main content

Maverick Ad

Home

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Cover Stories
  • Features
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Cashbox Legacy Awards
  • Past Covers
  • Weekly Archive
Single Lands Ahead of Forthcoming Sophomore Release The Keen & The Kind The Things We Don’t Know

Breadcrumb

  • Home
  • Single Lands Ahead of Forthcoming Sophomore Release The Keen & The Kind The Things We Don’t Know
Joseph The Keen and the Kind
Fri Dec 18, 2020
Cashbox Canada

Canadian folk-pop jazz artists The Keen & The Kind have mindfully mined family archives, unearthing the makings of a compelling new single, “Joseph” — available now.

The Winnipeg-based five-piece that is Violet Vopni, Clinton Giesbrecht, Kevin Cote, Alana Giesbrecht, and Stephen Chubaty released their critically acclaimed debut album, Unacknowledged, earlier this year under their former moniker, Nineteen, and were featured on CBC’s Up to Speed, the Indigenous Music Countdown, and Manitoba Music’s Song of the Week.

Now, the band increasingly known for their expansive range in easy-going upbeat pop to groovy smooth jazz to thought-provoking emotive folk is putting the finishing touches on a forthcoming deluxe LP, The Things We Don’t Know, set for release this June 2021.

This sophomore offering’s first preview, “Joseph,” attentively ushers audiences into the fractured legacy and aftermath of Vopni’s lineage, and the story of the song’s namesake, her great grandfather Joseph Huppe.

Watch and listen to “Joseph”  here:

“Joseph was born in 1900, fought in WWI in 1916, and married my great grandmother, Jenny, in 1923,” Vopni says, setting the scene. “They had four children, Harold, Allan, Doris, and my grandmother Beatrice.

“Joseph was Métis but, being born 15 years after the Northwest Rebellion, he was forced to keep his identity a secret,” she explains. “I think he kept his secret to avoid being sent to a residential school; Métis people were known in those days as being in between because of their combined French and Indigenous lineage so Joseph’s story is one that’s common to Métis people born in the last 135 years.”

Vopni, who serves as The Keen & The Kind’s lead vocalist and songwriter, penned the sonic portrait to shed light on how moments in history can ultimately affect us as people hundreds of years later. “Joseph struggled through alcoholism, he struggled to find where he belonged and, ultimately, he left the family; we do not know what happened to him,” Vopni shares. “What we do know is that he left a woman to raise four children on her own in the 1920s and 30s, and those children subsequently went through traumas of their own — Allan died in WWII, Doris was murdered, and Beatrice became an alcoholic and was married to an abusive man.

“Beatrice passed that trauma to her only child, my mother Kim, who in turn passed that trauma down to me,” she reflects. “So we know a lot about the people Joseph left behind in the world — his wife, his children, his grandchildren, and his great-grandchildren — but we don’t know a lot about him. This song is about how his life affected the lives of so many others; it’s about who he left behind, and the wounds that cut so deep.”

“Joseph” is available now. The Things We Don’t Know is available June 2021.

For more visit:
instagram.com/thekeenandthekind/
facebook.com/thekeenandthekind
thekeenandthekind.bandcamp.com/
open.spotify.com/album/5IBt0Aws07M0D2Z3n93hJQ?highlight=spotify:track:56jW8xJvhxFzJa65pf0HyT

Reviews
Album
The Keen & The Kind
Month: Nov 2023
Maggie's Wake London, ON’s Folk Roots Collective Maggie's Wake Release New Holiday Song…
Ron Kalmakoff After Fan Requests, Canadian Singer-Songwriter Ron Kalmakoff Releases His First…
Ryan Shane Owen Ryan Shane Owen Invites You On An Electro-Classical-Folk Odyssey With His…
Blumarelo Tropical Rock Band Blumarelo's Decade-Long Musical Journey Culminates…
Alan Tuck Alan Tuck Unleashes Powerful Fusion with 'By Any Means (Warriors)…
Arturo Rojas Arturo Rojas Ignites Passion with His Latest Single 'Entre Mi Fuego y Sangre…
11th Annual Jammin’ For Joy Charity Concert To Be Held December 14th in Support of SickKids Foundation Featuring Gavin McLeod, Zach Oliver and JIN 11th Annual Jammin’ For Joy Charity Concert To Be Held December 14th in Support of…
Redhead Mack Band's "Pick It Up" Reveals the Complex Balance of Doing What You Love for a Living in Their Latest Album Redhead Mack Band's "Pick It Up" Reveals the Complex Balance…
Rockers Cigar Club Rockers Cigar Club Offer Two Interpretations – Swaggering and Sensual – of the…
Toronto Musician Richard Todd Joins Forces with WoodGreen Community Services to Tackle 'The Forgotten Homelessnes Toronto Musician Richard Todd Joins Forces with WoodGreen Community Services to…
Kitchener's Fog Blues and Brass Band Unleashes Powerful 'Who's Gonna Suffer' Kitchener's Fog Blues and Brass Band Unleashes Powerful 'Who's…
Month: Dec 2023
Francine Honey Francine Honey Prepares For Liftoff On New Record Rockets In My Boots, Volume 1
Chin Injeti GRAMMY & JUNO Award-Winning Chin Injeti Collaborates with daysormay on…
iLLAH iLLAH Unleashes Powerful Lyricism in New Single 'Desire' from…
Jamie Ruben Musical Maverick Jamie Ruben Unveils 'Instrumental Obscenity' … And Gets…

Pagination

  • First page « First
  • Previous page ‹ Previous
  • …
  • Page 111
  • Page 112
  • Page 113
  • Page 114
  • Current page 115
  • Page 116
  • Page 117
  • Page 118
  • Page 119
  • …
  • Next page Next ›
  • Last page Last »

CEO/PUBLISHER/EDITOR IN CHIEF
SANDY GRAHAM

email:sandygrahamemg@gmail.com 

Canadian Journalists:

Contributing Journalist - Canada and Global
Don Graham
email: dongrahamwriter@gmail.com

Contributing Journalist - Canada and Global
Lisa Hartt
email: lisahartt87@hotmail.com

Contributing Journalist - Canada 
Michael Williams
email: greydread@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

International Journalists:

Contributing Journalist - Sweden
Malin Osth
email: malin@musicdays.se

Contributing Journalist - Sweden
Jonas Tancred
email: jonas@musicdays.se

Contributing Journalist - USA
Rob Durkee 
email: rockster2746@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

Web Developer/Technical Support
Chris Wardman

email: info@chriswardman.com
website: chriswardman.com

Cashbox Cover Design and Graphic Artist
Jain McMillan

email: jainmcmillan@gmail.com

Contributing Photographer 
Tracey Savein - South Paw Productions
southpawproductions@rogers.com

 

 

 

Footer menu

  • Home
  • Features
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Cashbox Archive
  • Issue Archive
  • Past Covers