Name: Stephen Stanley & NoElectric, Piner @ Hotel Wolfe Island - May 23, 2025
Start: 2025-05-23T20:30:00-04:00
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Location: Hotel Wolfe Island

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Stephen Stanley & NoElectric, Piner

Featuring acoustic renditions and new music.

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Music Folk / Celtic / Latin / World Pop / Rock / Indie

Fri. May 23rd + Add to Calendar

Hotel Wolfe Island (No Minors)

8:30pm - 11:00pm

$20 (+ HST & service charge) in advance; $25 at the door

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NoElectric

Piner

Alt-folk from Kingston Ontario

Available for Shows/Gigs

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Stephen Stanley & NoElectric + Piner
Friday, May 23rd, 8:30pm
ADVANCE TICKETS: $20 (+ HST & service charge)
$25 at the door

“Jason Mercer and I have spent the last year dancing around the idea of how we might play some music together. Jason is one of my favourite players on the planet. I first knew him as a bassist, but he’ll be bringing his banjo to this project as well… In recent times, Jason had all but put down the electric bass, so we knew this wasn’t going to be a rock/guitar endeavour…

After a booking at The St. Alban’s Hall in Adolphustown, Ontario was followed by an interesting request to make the show all-acoustic, Stephen Stanley & NoElectric was born. It was a no-brainer that my closest collaborator for the past 15 years, Chris Bennett, would join in on 6 and 12 string guitars…

I then felt we needed one more person to bring this all-acoustic band together. Over a decade ago, one of the jewels of the Toronto music scene was a bar in the Junction called The Troubadour. It was there that I first met Michael O’Grady – and not long after he became the focus of the third verse of a song I wrote called “The Troubadour’s Song”. Michael is a brilliant live performer and brings both the accordion and the tin whistle to the NoElectric fold…

And everyone sings…! Add in me on acoustic guitar and NoElectric lives!

The music will be a walk through my entire catalogue from the early days right up to the present including songs from Lowest of the Low, Too Many Sisters and The Stephen Stanley Band, along with some new ones that have yet to be heard. For this tour we’ll be joined by our special guest Piner, namely their lead singer and guitarist, Claya Way Brackenbury. Claya will kick off every night of this tour with her beautiful socially conscious music and as a bonus, she’ll join NoElectric for a few songs. We honestly can’t wait. See you soon Ontario!”

— Stephen Stanley

STEPHEN STANLEY
Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist Stephen Stanley is best known from his many years as a founding member, lead guitarist and vocalist with alternative rock band The Lowest of the Low. After years of touring and sharing the stage with the likes of Billy Bragg, The Violent Femmes, The Jayhawks and Lloyd Cole, a gold record for their “genuinely timeless album” (Exclaim!) Shakespeare My Butt, Stanley now leads his own band, The Stephen Stanley Band and has logged other monumental shows with 54•40, Bob Mould, Cracker, Jake Clemons and Willie Nile. The band also played at the 2018 Static Roots Festival in Germany and then went on to tour the UK and Ireland. He has also branched into radio, hosting the show Northern Wish on The Bay 88.7 FM in Muskoka, Ontario.`

PINER
Piner (aka Claya Way Brackenbury) is a Singer-Songwriter based in Katarokwi (Kingston, ON, Canada) who steps into the stories of others and connects listeners with all the complexities of the greater human experience.

Her critically acclaimed 2018 debut album “The Breaking Point” showed “a display of pure confidence and vulnerability” said Mac Cameron, Dominionated. Her full-band EP “Root Bound” recorded at North Of Princess Studios in Kingston, ON was released in June 2019. Piner’s latest album, “A Netherworld”, recorded at Joel Plaskett’s Studio in Dartmouth, NS, is a project of hope and yearning, during fractured, challenging times. Piner creates a world of connection, care, and change through her songwriting and direct action for charitable initiatives. “In A Netherworld”, Piner continues to dream of a way forward, to see a new world built from compassion, contemplation and collective care. Piner brought attention and organized events to create care and community for healthcare professionals, raised donations for the Mi’kma’ki Water Walk in NS, worked with the Mutual Aid Garden Network in Kingston to address food insecurity, and raised awareness about the current national housing crisis. After the release of “A Netherworld” Piner toured opening for and sharing festivals/show bills with: Georgia Harmer, Terra Lightfoot, Charlotte Cornfield, Crash Test Dummies, Skye Wallace, Mo Kenney and more.

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