| Written by Sara Loftson, The Catholic Register,
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 WINNIPEG - Tuesday Bloom, a Catholic rock band from Winnipeg, is making big strides in getting its message out.
The band will soon get to play its biggest stage to date. Tuesday Bloom is slated to play the mainstage June 21 at the International Eucharistic Congress in Quebec City.
Tuesday Bloom formed two years ago.
“We didn’t necessarily want to be a praise and worship band, we wanted to be a Christian rock band,” said lead guitarist Adrian Besaw.
Besaw is the only anglophone in the five-piece francophone band that hails from the bilingual archdiocese of St. Boniface. “We perform in three languages: English, French, Spanish... which is kind of unique.”
This made Tuesday Bloom prime candidates to play in Quebec last spring at the bilingual Youth Summit, a lead up to the International Eucharistic Congress. It was the band’s largest gig to date.
“It was really an honour to play there,” said Besaw. “We had a lot of fun and the crowd was so much fun to play for.”
The band got such rave reviews that the organizers asked Tuesday Bloom to come back and play at the International Eucharistic Congress which runs June 15-22.
“Sharing this passion and gift of music with people is just such a blessing. It’s even beyond music, it’s sharing ourselves with people.”
Tuesday Bloom has tried playing at secular venues without success.
“We are definitely not a bar scene band,” said Besaw. However, he said finding venues can be difficult as most bands make a name for themselves playing in clubs.
“But that’s where these festivals are great and I think that’s where we are really going to shine,” he said.
“There is a lot of music out there that shares a message of death, or fear, or anger. We play music that shares joy and peace and hope,” Besaw said. “I think young people are looking for truth, they are starving for truth and music can be a big part of that.”
Besaw said he hopes Tuesday Bloom can offer the Catholic community good music that appeals to young people.
“We want our music to have meaning and change lives, but at the same time it needs to sounds good.”
That is why the production quality on its first self-titled album is so important to the band. To do this the band teamed up with Adrian Bradford, a former member of the Christian band Starfield, to produce the album.
“This is something we want to do and do it well, so for Adrian to come along and work with us and take us to a new level, it really feels like God is doing this. It feels like a miracle.”
The 11-track album — eight in English, three in French — includes original material including “Show Me the Way.” Besaw said it’s a song that cries out to God asking Him to show you the way to the place you want to be.
The group went out on a limb to produce the album despite the high costs.
“Doors have opened for us, we’ve met all the right people and we feel we can trust this and it will be fine. We are not out to make money, that’s the furthest thing from our minds, we really just want to do this music and share this joy with people.”
Tuesday Bloom will also headline Rock the Mount, one of western Canada’s largest annual Christian festivals, to be held Aug. 23 at Humboldt, Sask.
For information or to hear a sample of the band’s music, visit myspace.com/tuesdaybloom or Tuesday Bloom on Facebook.
(Loftson is a freelance writer in Calgary.)
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