Red Door, Second Floor

by Freeman Dre & the Kitchen Party

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SHOWS YOU SHOULD COME TO

-THUR MAY 17th @ Cameron House, Toronto, 10pm

-FRI JUN 10th @ Cadillac Lounge, Toronto, 1am (4am last call)

-SAT JUNE 30th @ Fedora Upside Down "NEW TRADITIONS" fest, Toronto Island

-THUR JULY 12th @ Cameron House, Toronto, 10pm

-SAT JULY 14th @ Peak 2 Shore Music Festival, Blue Mountain, 5pm

-THUR JULY 19th - CD RELEASE PARTY!!!
@ The Horseshoe Tavern,
New album "Old Town", Toronto 9pm

-THUR AUG 2nd @ The Dakota, Toronto, 10pm

-SAT AUG 18th @ StereoTerra Music Festival, Beaverton, Michigan

-SAT AUG 25th @ Grumpy's, Montreal, 10pm


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the youtube (WATCH IT!)
www.youtube.com/user/KitchenPartyJams

the facebook (JOIN THAT!)
www.facebook.com/FreemanDre

www.facebook.com#!/groups/192024430776?ap=1

the CD (BUY IT!)
www.cdbaby.com/cd/freemandre

the email (HOLLER!)
freemandreandthekitchenparty@gmail.com

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“Fantastic stuff”
~ Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2

“few are able to cover this much lyrical ground with any success”
~ Ben Conoley, Canadian Musician

“Highly entertaining live.”
~ Kerry Doole, Exclaim Magazine

“the neighbourhood boys are ready to take the show on the road.”
~ Sarah Greene, NOW magazine

"This is my album of the year, without a doubt!”
~ Jeff Gilbert, No Depression

"Nice"
~ someone at a show once

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credits

released 02 January 2011
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Freeman Dre likes to spin a tale. A true lyricist, voted best songwriter in NOW magazine’s 2010 reader’s poll, his musical narratives are “full of vivid wordplay and rhapsodic rhyme schemes that immediately command attention” featuring characters sometimes more alive and real than their living, breathing counterparts.

Backed by a killer band, The Kitchen Party sound can be anything from “sensitive folk rock with a European flair” to “highly entertaining folk punk.”

The band’s 2011 debut ‘Red Door Second Floor’ won accolades from the likes of BBC, CBC, No Depression, and fans in their home Toronto, as well as Montreal, New York, and as far afield as Poland, Austria, and the UK.

The soon-to-be-released follow up, 'Old Town,' a more refined and self produced 10-song concept album, recorded at Dale Morningstar’s Gas Station studio on Toronto Island, follows a loose conceptual arc, an immigration story: the telling a multi-generational family history through song, will drop before the apocalypse in summer 2012.


Whether appearing as a stripped down ensemble on the lucrative house gig circuit, ripping up the stage in Toronto (Dakota Tavern, Cameron House), New York City (The Living Room), or throwing down for growing crowds as part of Fedora Upside Down collective, these Parkdale boys deliver a heartfelt good time, and set the perfect harmonic backdrop for Freeman Dre’s charming vocal adventures.

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All songs written by Freeman Dre

Kitchen Party is
Freeman Dre: Lead Vocal, Guitar
Lonny Knapp: Mandolin, Guitars, Harmonica
Marlon Chaplin: Piano, Drums, Bass
Also sometimes,
Terry Wilkins: Bass
Mookie Komatsu: Drums, Percission
Michael Costantini: Guitar
Tangi Ropars: Accordion
Michael Louis Johnson: Trumpet
Mark Marczyk: Violin
Ada Dahli: Vocals
Jaash: percussion
Blazej Pawlina: Dobro
Laura Bates: Violin
Mick Mahar: Drums
Sintia Baba: Vocals
Derek Downham: Drums
Darcy Yates: Bass

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Winner of NOW magazine's reader's poll for best songwriter in 2010, Freeman Dre likes to spin a tale. Whether it’s a ... more politically charged protest song or a ballad that imparts a true life story, his musical narratives take listeners on a trip and feature characters that are at times more alive than their living and breathing counterparts.
Backed by a killer band, The Kitchen Party can be anything less

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