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The song and dance man is coming back to town - this time with the whole gang.
Sean Burns, from Winnipeg, performs his country hits at the Whistle Stop a couple of times a year.
He returns this Sunday (March 17) with a five-piece band ready for a loud night of foot-stomping honky tonk.
How are you today? Are you on tour at the moment?
I鈥檓 great. We are leaving next week, we are just doing a ten days with the five-piece band.
Have you been working together for a long time?
As the five-piece not a super long time, a little over a year. I do a lot of solo and duo but it鈥檚 been a while we鈥檝e been as the full band. We did the full run last year, we put the record out and we鈥檙e doing another.
What鈥檚 the record?
It came out a year ago, it鈥檚 called Music for Taverns, Bars and Honky Tonks. We toured that a lot last year.
What can we expect from the show?
I love playing at the Whistle Stop there. I play probably three times a year. I did Jasper in January, just a solo show, but this is the full show. We鈥檒l be playing songs from the album and about 35 per cent classic country music.
It seems to go down well in Jasper. It seems a more locals kind of bar at the Whistle Stop. The staff have been really good to me over the years. It seems to work all the time there.
Five people this time, it鈥檚 going to be a loud one?
Oh we will be crammed in the corner there, it should be a little rowdier than the last couple. It ties in nicely with the weather warming up - and it鈥檚 St Patrick鈥檚 Day!
What鈥檚 the line-up looking like?
Chris Dunn is lead guitar, Joanna Miller on drums - she鈥檚 on the record. I don鈥檛 like to leave home without Joanna in the band, she鈥檚 awesome. Tom Fodey is the bass player. He鈥檚 a Winnipeg guy who has played with just about everybody. We recently got back together after playing together in the early 2000s. Our pedal steel man Ryan Dyck is from Lethbridge, he comes out and joins us quite often.
You鈥檙e from Manitoba, what keeps bringing you back?
I grew up in southern Ontario and started touring out west in 2010 - I鈥檝e been in Winnipeg for almost six years. It make sense geographically to go out east but I always seem to be more successful here - especially in Alberta.
You can expect country music - traditional country music for dancing and drinking to.
That鈥檚 what we like in Jasper!
Jasper has always been really good to me and I always look forward to playing there. It seems to always be a good night in Jasper.
