Husband and wife band hitting small towns around Saskatchewan

“I grew up in a small town, about this far actually outside of Calgary as far as North Battleford is outside of Saskatoon,” Jille said. “We never had live music. It was just the worst thing, because we were so close but nobody ever came out there. I think it’s important to me like make it out to some rural communities.”

She described their sound as a mix of bluegrass, old time and folk.

“We do some original song-writing, and we play banjo, mandolin and guitar. It’s really sort of roots-based music,” she said. “That’s what we love. We met up at a music festival up at the Ness Creek site and sort of centered around that kind of music and jamming around campfires.”

The couple met up at the music festival in Ness Creek two years ago, started dating a few months after, got engaged on the same stage and this summer rented out the entire site to get married at the place where it all began.

Last year the pair played 13 music festivals, mainly in the province. They will be working on a new album this fall, and hope to tour more across Canada and the prairies.

Rugged Little Thing will be playing a small workshop show back at home in Saskatoon Feb. 6, before marking their way up to La Ronge for another house show Feb. 11.

Katherine.svenkeson@jpbg.ca

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by Katherine Svenkeson

Husband and wife band hitting small towns around Saskatchewan

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