The Quesnel Live Arts Committee sure knows how to pick fantastic entertainment.
If you weren’t able to attend the Silver Screen Scoundrels performance you missed a great show.
Brandon Isaak and Keith Picot had the audience rolling with laughter with their candid humour and interaction.
They projected a selection of homemade, slap-stick silent films accompanied with an arrangement of story-telling melodies.
The show alternated between the cinematic experience and pulling the spotlight back to themselves, where they mesmerized their audience with breathtaking skills on their instruments.
Isaak, considered the best acoustic blues performer in Canada at the Maple Blues Awards in 2014, worked drums, guitar and a bluesy-harmonica simultaneously while delivering buttery low-notes and growly scats.
Picot’s mastery of his time-worn, stand-up bass was nothing short of incredible. Known as one of the finest bass players in the country, his performance was fluid, plucking and gliding the neck of the instrument with passionate finesse.
When he wasn’t doing that, he was sharing hilarious stories of the road while sipping water from a teacup.
The two have a contagious dynamic, and together they perform with a captivating effortlessness. It’s a show that shouldn’t be missed next time.