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Brady Dyck and Evan St. Cyr perform this summer at Heaps of Dreeps Dale Plett

Nashville, Tennessee is nicknamed Music City. It’s the home of the Grand Ole Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame. And recently, local musicians Evan St. Cyr and Brady Dyck travelled there to take their songs to the next level. Accompanying them on the trip was Gerry St. Cyr, part-owner of Arcade Studios.

“Almost anywhere you turn, especially downtown, there’s live music,” says Dyck. “Basically every single bar has either a band or a player.”

Dyck’s latest album, Backroads, is on iTunes and his fans rave over the fact that he plays all the instruments on the tracks himself. This multitalented solo act may seem like a lone wolf, but nothing could be further from the truth. Evan, besides being Brady’s friend, is also his producer, guitar player, and co-writer.

Brady, Evan, and Gerry went to Nashville to meet with Clay Mills, a Grammy-nominated writer with songs cut from bands like Little Big Town, Lady Antebellum, and Reba McEntire. “We brought some of our new songs to him and he gave us professional insight on our writing,” says Dyck, “[and he] helped us rewrite some of it.”

The point of all this is to help the duo in the writing/recording of a brand new Brady Dyck album. “What we learned [from Clay and Nashville] was a big step to get this ball rolling,” says Dyck.

These types of creative collaborations are essential in any art form. “We learned a lot,” says Dyck. “We’re very excited to record and get these new songs out to everybody.” 

The album will be recorded by Arcade Studios in Niverville. An EP is rumoured to be released some time in the spring of 2016.

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