Artist of the Day | THE RURAL ROUTES
ARTIST OF THE DAY
21.07.2020
THE RURAL ROUTES
LOCATION
Leduc, AB
GENRE
Country / Rock / Pop
CURRENT MEMBERS
Alesha Bondy
Brendon Bondy
With the current pandemic, the state of the music and touring industry has dramatically changed. Where were you when everything was brought to a halt?
We were home in the Edmonton area & we were about to get ready for a full week of big shows that all got canceled one after the other.
How has that affected your plans for the coming months? Did you have a tour planned, upcoming album release?
We usually have bookings a year and a half in advance, but we lost all of them for the forceable future. We had a few festivals in Alberta we were booked for and and two international festivals that we were scheduled to play, one in Manchester, England at the end of June and one in Chengdu, China at the end of July. We planned on releasing new music in the fall after we got back.
What have you been doing to fill/make the most of your new-found free time at home?
We took the opportunity to focus on the release of our single Sweet Spot to Country Radio. There’s a lot of planning for something like that so it helped that we had the time and it’s been a great decision for us.
We’ve been performing Live shows online from our home and since things have started to open up we’ve been performing at private outside events, following social distancing guidelines of course.
We’re also still scheduled to perform at the Chengdu International Sister Cities Music Festival virtually. Our performance will be broadcasted to over a million viewers.
We’ll continue to promote our new single and look forward to new music in the near future.
What was the first thing you did/place you went to now the country is starting to slowly re-open?
We were excited to help Brett Kissel with his Drive In Concerts at the River Cree. We’ve also had the time to go camping with friends which is something we’ve never had the time to do before, so that’s been great.
Favourite Starlite Room Moment?
Our favourite moment was probably seeing our friends Big Wreck when they came through last year. We were fortunate to open for them a couple of years ago. They’re a favourite of ours.
Do you have a message for everyone at home reading this?
Our single Sweet Spot is something we’re very proud of. You can get it anywhere you listen to music and we’d love it if you had a listen. Add it to you playlists and give us a follow on our socials!!
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