Wide Mouth Mason
  • Wide Mouth Mason will be part of the Guitar Strings and Kidney Things fundraiser in Hamilton, Ontario on October 21, 2023. Check out the venue, Bridgeworks, for further details!

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  • With Wide Mouth Mason in the midst of preparing new music, we’ve taken the time to update our Gigography section with past and future tour dates for 2023 and adding a “to be updated” page for Wide Mouth Mason’s new album LATE NIGHT WALKING, out on September 8, 2023.

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  • This fall, Wide Mouth Mason will be performing at a number of different venues in support of their new music on the new album, Late Night Walking (out on September 8, 2023 but available for pre-order while supplies last).

    • 2023.09.16: Harvest Music Festival @ TD Mojo Tent (Fredericton, New Brunswick)
    • 2023.11.01: Aeolian Hall (London, Ontario)
    • 2023.11.02: Dominion Telegraph (Paris, Ontario)
    • 2023.11.03: Horseshoe Tavern (Toronto, Ontario)
    • 2023.11.04: Neat Cafe (Burnstown, Ontario)
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  • Our new record, Late Night Walking will be released September 8th on vinyl (via We Are Busy Bodies) and wherever you stream songs.

    The first taste, a stompy, chonky blues rocker called You Pushed Me, is out now.
    Go take ‘er for a spin, yeah?

    We made this with Ryan Dahle at his beautiful studio on Mayne Island BC.
    Our big brother Gordie Johnson rode like hell on that bass.

    But wait, there’s more:
    In response to your requests, September 8th we are also reissuing our self titled debut and second record Where I Started on vinyl.

    To pre-order the album, check out our Bandcamp page.

    We are forever grateful for your years of ears.
    We couldn’t be a band without you.
    We’re so excited for you to hear this.
    Turn it up!

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  • About Wide Mouth Mason
  • Contact
  • Discography & Lyrics
    • 1996 – The Nazarene
    • 1997 – Wide Mouth Mason
      • Wide Mouth Mason – My Old Self
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Midnight Rain
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Tom Robinson
      • Wide Mouth Mason – The River Song
      • Wide Mouth Mason – This Mourning
      • Wide Mouth Mason – The Preacherman’s Song
      • Wide Mouth Mason – The Game
      • Wide Mouth Mason – All It Amounts To
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Corn Rows
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Sister Sally
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Tell Me
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Mary Mary
    • 1999 – Where I Started
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Why
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Alone
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Burn
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Companion (Lay Me Down)
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Half A Chance
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Empty Seat
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Crystal Ball
      • Wide Mouth Mason – King of Poison
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Sugarcane
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Where I Started
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Old
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Falling Down
    • 2000 – Stew
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Who’s There
      • Wide Mouth Mason – She’s Alone
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Once You Got It
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Smile
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Bushi Su
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Change
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Watchewan
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Mad Doctor
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Exquisite (It’s Late)
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Sleepwalker
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Breathe Out
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Ease Your Mind
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Fa Na Na
    • 2002 – Rained Out Parade
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Bootleggin’
      • Wide Mouth Mason – My New Self
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Lagavulin
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Rained Out Parade
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Reconsider
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Puppet in a Clown Show
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Come Out To Go
      • Wide Mouth Mason – O.
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Dry You Up
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Alright, Alright
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Always, Never, Only
      • Wide Mouth Mason – My Imagination
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Scratch
      • Wide Mouth Mason – 40 Watt Moon
    • 2005 – Shot Down Satellites
      • Wide Mouth Mason – I Love Not Loving You
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Unfolding
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Everybody’s Right
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Really Wrong
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Phantom Limb
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Shot Down Satellites
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Worse Than Before
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Rust
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Moment That You Came
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Wide Eyed
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Eleven
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Please Go Home
      • Wide Mouth Mason – It’s So Bad
    • 2009 – Live! Montreux, Switzerland
    • 2011 – No Bad Days
      • Wide Mouth Mason – More Of It
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Get A Hold Of You
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Go Tell It To The Waterfall
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Only A Secret If You Keep It
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Drive
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Shut Up And Kiss Me
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Sweet Little Thing
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Only The Young Die Good
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Burn It Down
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Listen Sister
      • Wide Mouth Mason – What’d I Do
      • Wide Mouth Mason – The Night Fell
      • Wide Mouth Mason – When I Fell For You
    • 2019 – I Wanna Go With You
    • 2023 – Late Night Walking
  • Gigography
    • Gigography – 1995
    • Gigography – 1996
    • Gigography – 1997
      • 1997.06.24: Clydes Restaurant and Bar, Pointe-Claire
    • Gigography – 1998
      • 1998.06.23: Barcade, Buffalo
    • Gigography – 2010
    • Gigography – 2011
    • Gigography – 2012
    • Gigography – 2013
    • Gigography – 2014
      • 2014.07.05: Musicfest, Peterborough
      • 2014.07.27: Festival of Beer, Toronto
    • Gigography – 2015
    • Gigography – 2016
    • Gigography – 2017
      • 2017.02.17: Shell Theatre’s Performance Series, Fort Saskatchewan
      • 2017.07.09: Thunder Bay Blues Festival, Thunder Bay
    • Gigography – 2018
      • 2018.07.28: Voyageur Days, Mattawa.
      • 2018.08.15: Station on Jasper, Edmonton
    • Gigography – 2019
      • 2019.06.22: Parkland Summerfest (Calgary, AB)
    • Gigography – 2020
    • Gigography – 2021
    • Gigography – 2022
    • Gigography – 2023
  • Tour Dates
  • WMMedia Kit
  • WMMq&a

Recent WMM news…

  • Wide Mouth Mason in Hamilton, October 21, 2023
  • Site Updates: Gigography and Discography
  • Gig Update: Wide Mouth Mason in New Brunswick and Ontario
  • Late Night Walking out on September 8, 2023; two more albums coming on vinyl!
  • WMMpress via Tinnitist: “Classic Album Review: Wide Mouth Mason | Rained Out Parade”

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Gig Update: November 1 at Edmonton’s Blues on Whyte

  • October 13, 2019
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Gigs
Wide Mouth Mason performs at Blues on Whyte's 35th Anniversary this November 1, 2019!

As announced recently on social media, Wide Mouth Mason will be part of the 35th Anniversary celebrations at Edmonton’s Blues on Whyte on November 1, 2019. Tickets are now on sale via ShowPass.

Gig Update: Wide Mouth Mason on Canada Day and then some

  • June 24, 2019
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Gigs · News
Wide Mouth Mason. (left to right): Shaun Verreault. Safwan Javed.

If you missed the soldout Parkland Summerfest gig in Calgary on June 22 but are willing to travel to or within Alberta, there are two more dates this summer to catch Wide Mouth Mason live and hear some of the new tracks coming to a new Wide Mouth Mason album near you! Joining the previously announced Rock Festival date this August in Edmonton is a Canada Day performance at Medicine Hat’s Sandfly Festival. Check out the city’s event page for further details!

Gig Update: Rockin’ the Summer

  • April 24, 2019
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Gigs · News
Wide Mouth Mason. (left to right): Shaun Verreault. Safwan Javed.
2019 Edmonton Rock Music Festival

This August, Wide Mouth Mason will be joining bands at the 2019 Edmonton Rock Music Festival! Tickets (and performance schedule details) for the two day festival are available at the event website, with tickets on sale as of April 29, 2019.

Gig Update: Winter & Wide Mouth Mason

  • September 27, 2018
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Gigs · News
Wide Mouth Mason. (left to right): Shaun Verreault. Safwan Javed.

With the official announcement out, Wide Mouth Mason is excited to announce that they will be joining the 52° North Music and Cultural Festival at the 2019 Canada Winter Games! Experience Wide Mouth Mason performing live along with a number of other fantastic Canadian musicians while the Canada Winter Games are underway. Wide Mouth Mason comes to Red Deer on February 21, 2019, taking the stage for an evening set.

Summertime with Wide Mouth Mason

  • June 23, 2015
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Gigs · News
Wide Mouth Mason. (left to right): Safwan Javed. Shaun Verreault. Gordie Johnson.

Just confirmed are two additional dates for Wide Mouth Mason in Gravenhurst, Ontario on July 30 and Edson, Alberta on August 2. Details to the shows will be added as confirmed. Please check with venue as to confirmed ticket prices and set times.

Rockin’ in the summer…

  • June 9, 2015
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Gigs · News

Wide Mouth Mason is pleased to announce two gigs in Summer 2015. In July, Wide Mouth Mason and Big Sugar put on a 2015 version of Big & Wide in Red Deer, Alberta. Come August, find Wide Mouth Mason rocking the fields near Lake Minnedosa, Manitoba! Details on tour dates will be posted in the next little while once known and confirmed.

WMMpress: More Rainmaker coverage

  • April 30, 2014
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Press

WMMpress via St. Albert Gazette

Big Sugar and Wide Mouth Mason headline Rainmaker Rodeo

 BY ANNA BOROWIECKI, ST. ALBERT GAZETTE APRIL 30, 2014

On the second last weekend of every May, the Rainmaker Rodeo blasts off for three days to remember.

The action starts on Friday, May 23 with a much anticipated rock concert featuring headline rockers Big Sugar and Wide Mouth Mason.

Pat Dower, the rodeo concert chair of the sponsoring St. Albert Kinsmen, is the man behind the scenes who spends hours emailing agents, negotiating contracts and gauging a budget.

And he is pumped for this year’s rock line-up.

Big Sugar just released Yardstyle on April 15 and it’s a slight departure from past albums. The 13-track of percussion-heavy acoustic reggae definitely rocks, but the band shows a different side of their sound.

The collection blends new material with overhauled versions of past cuts in a stripped down acoustic form. Many of the arrangements were inspired by spontaneous jam sessions held on tour buses and backstage.

As vocalist Gordie Johnson said, “This is what we sound like when people aren’t watching. We never rehearse our songs the way they’ll sound at a show. Instead we’ll grab a banjo, a guitar, and just play. This is how we get our groove on.”

Dower, who was privileged to see them perform at an Ontario festival noted, “They’re a pretty active band and they put on a great show. You want to get up off your seat and dance. They’re great to hear and easy to listen to.”

In contrast the Canadian blues-rock band Wide Mouth Mason is in the process of producing their eighth CD. The last one was No Bad Days released in 2011.

Going strong since the 1990s, the rock-blues-soul power trio has opened for heavyweights such as The Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, AC/DC and The Guess Who.

“I’ve never seen them play, but some of our senior members recommended them. They’re a very energetic bunch of guys and we’re excited to have them.”

On the local front, the Morinville-based Canyon Rose Outfit is all fired up to perform their full-throttle combo of rock and roll, psychedelic and blues.

The concert is an 18-plus show. Gates open at 6 p.m. Advance ticket prices are $39.99 plus GST. Gate admission is $59.99 plus GST.

Tickets are available on line at ticketmaster.ca. Fans can save the cost of service fees (about $12) by buying tickets at St. Albert’s Crown & Tower Pub or The Beer Hunter locations.

For additional information visit http://stalbertkinsmen.ca

WMMpress: Rainmaker coverage

  • April 30, 2014
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Press

WMMpress via St. Albert Leader

Big Sugar brings sweet sounds to Rainmaker

 BY GLENN COOK, ST. ALBERT LEADER APRIL 25, 2014

Organizers of this year’s Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition to hear some sweet sounds from their rock lineup.

The St. Albert Kinsmen announced earlier this week that the annual festival’s rock concert will be headlined by Canadian reggae-blues-rock veterans Big Sugar on Friday, May 23, under the big tent at their rodeo grounds on Riel Drive.

They’ll be joined on the bill by fellow Canadian rockers Wide Mouth Mason.

Big Sugar has had a number of members rotate through their lineup since they released their first album in 1991, but the core of the band has remained lead singer/guitarist Gordie Johnson, bassist Garry Lowe and harmonica/saxophone player Kelly “Mr. Chill” Hoppe. Together, they have gained a reputation for being an outstanding live band.

Their breakthrough came in 1995 when they released their album Hemi-Vision, which included such hits as “Diggin’ A Hole,” “Open Up Baby,” and “If I Had My Way.” They followed that up with 1996’s Heated, which included “Better Get Used to It,” “The Scene,” and “Turn the Lights On.”

In 2001, the band released Brothers and Sisters, Are You Ready?, which included “Nicotina,” “All Hell for a Basement,” and a blistering guitar version of “O Canada.” The band also recorded a track-for-track French version of the album for sale in Quebec.

Big Sugar decided to split up and played their last show at the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton on New Year’s Eve 2003. But they reunited in 2010, and released a new studio album, Revolution Per Minute, in 2011. Currently, they are promoting an acoustic album, YardStyle.

Meanwhile, Wide Mouth Mason is a blues-rock band that started in Saskatoon, Sask., in 1995. They are best known for sings like “Midnight Rain,” “Sugarcane,” and “Smile.” Big Sugar’s Johnson started pulling double duty as Wide Mouth Mason’s full-time bassist in March 2011, and also produced their last album, No Bad Days, which was released in July 2011.

The Kinsmen also announced about a week ago that the country concert on Saturday, May 24, will feature Tim Hicks and Michelle Wright.

Tickets for the 18-plus rock show are $39.99 each plus fees and taxes, and are available through Ticketmaster.

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