Tuesday June 18

IMAGINARY CITIES

DJ JOSIAH (Sirius XMU)

DJ CANDICE

$10 Backstage / Doors at 8:00

It was Marti Sarbit's voice that immediately captured multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Rusty Matyas's attention at the Cavern, a Winnipeg bar where Sarbit was fronting a Motown cover band and Matyas had come to mix the sound. Matyas, a major label veteran via his band The Waking Eyes and a touring member of Canadian indie rock stalwarts The Weakerthans, immediately knew he wanted to write something with the young singer. The instantly compelling "Say You" was the song they soon whipped up, and one quick listen demonstrates what caught Matyas's ear - and what subsequently propelled the duo to the top of Canada's college charts and year-end best-of lists and onto the Black Cat stage.