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About Last Birds

With haunting harmonies and intricate guitar work, Last Birds’ music is steeped in early country folk yet reflective of modern life.   Using their small Canadian prairie town as a backdrop, Mike Davis and Lindsay Arnold weave together rural legends and current day experiences to form a modern prairie gothic.  Their songs veer away from overly romanticized views of small town life to peer into the dark corners of the local bar, peek in the windows of the abandoned house down the street and pine for something or someone beyond the veil.  Their two voices, two guitars approach to live performances creates a storytelling experience sure to silence the room. 

The duo was nominated for multiple awards in 2021 and 2022, including a Saskatchewan Music Award for Roots/Folk Artist of the year as well as Saskatchewan Country Music Association’s Group and Alternative Country Album of the Year.  Their debut EP, released in April 2021, was well received and reached #1 on Kansas Public Radio while spending several weeks on the Roots Music Report charts for Top Folk Album and Top Canadian Folk Album. 

Mike and Lindsay will be releasing their first full length album, Endless Turn of Day into Night, in October 2023.  The recordings are simple and direct, featuring the couple’s mesmerizing vocal harmonies.   The lyrics are often sparse, leaving space for Davis’ compelling guitar solos.   The duo creates a dynamic sound listeners will be surprised to discover is the work of only two musicians.  

Last Birds live in the tiny village of North Portal, Saskatchewan with their young daughter in a house they built with their own hands.

About Lindsay Arnold

Over the span of her 20 year career, Lindsay has used painting, drawing, filmmaking, and songwriting to share stories from a female vantage point. Her work, which includes artist books, paintings, videos and songs, has been exhibited and performed throughout Canada and beyond.

She is member of the Saskatchewan folk group, Hook & Nail. Hook & Nail was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award in 2020 for their debut album Ghosts of Taylorton. 

Lindsay has exhibited her drawings and paintings in group and solo exhibitions throughout Canada and the US. Her work is in the SKArts permanent collection and private collections around the world.

Lindsay’s film work includes a stop motion film featuring over 100 dancing doilies. Her most recent stop motion project, The Messenger, was part of an augmented reality exhibition hosted by the Art Gallery of Regina.

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About Mike Davis

Mike has been working as a professional musician since the age of 16 when he toured the eastern United States and Bermuda with The Continentals.  With over 30 years of guitar playing behind him and a knack for finding the perfect vocal harmony, Mike fronted several rock bands until finding his groove in Americana music.   He is a member and co-producer of Hook & Nail and a proud member of the Board of Directors for SaskMusic.

Mike is also an avid metal detectorist.  He once returned a class ring to its owner 70 years after it was lost. 

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Press

“There’s an intimacy in the recording and an expressiveness in the acoustic guitar that works really well. In fact, they’re kind of a combination of the Civil Wars and a lot of the haunting chord work that makes the Milk Carton Kids so popular. This is an incredible band with an intriguing, intimate recording style.”

Greg Jones, Ear To The Ground, August 30, 2023, Three exciting new Americana tracks to show the vitality of the genre

 

(Half) An Evening at the Bluebird Cafe - A story by Lindsay Arnold, North Sask Music Zine, September 29, 2022   

 

"Last Birds, with their close harmonies and folksy vibe, were a clear highlight of the Chester Fest weekend." 

Scott Roos, Prince Albert Herald, July 13, 2022 Chester Fest didn't miss a beat upon return to Prince Albert 

  

  The Prairie Town Basement Sessions March 27,2022 

 

 "You walked into 2021 with an amazing live performance for the Saskatchewan Music Awards."

Pulse Music Journal: 033 It's Almost Second Nature for Last Birds First EP; April 13, 2021

 

  "There is a kind of genuineness that emerges in the Last Birds' songs, born of an authentic life on the prairie."

Americana Highways:  Song Premier of Meant To Be April 12, 2021   

Photography: Canadian James

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