BIO

Victoria based singer-songwriter Allen Dobb is performing shows in support of Alone Together, a new full-length album released in February 2024. The album, his fourth solo release, is a skilfully crafted collection of Americana-style songs inspired by different stories, landscapes, and characters Dobb has encountered working as a range management specialist in the BC Interior.  Alone Together was produced by brother and long-time collaborator Cameron Dobb, who also heads up the talented live band playing keyboards, accordion, lap steel and guitars, along with Scott White on upright bass, and Katrina Kadoski on acoustic guitar, banjo, and vocals. Building on a successful run of release concerts earlier this year, the band captures the spacious, acoustic, and sonic richness of the new album, and more. Allen will also be performing solo, and with Cameron and Katrina for some shows.

Steeped in their own rural roots growing up on a farm in northwestern Alberta near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, the Dobb brothers bring a depth and maturity to the songs and the performance.  Allen’s narratives explore complexities of the heart on tracks like “All Costs”, “Here and Now” and “Alone Together” and look back at the country’s colonial past in “Black and White 1912,” “Crooked River,” and “Frontier Justice.”  The melodies are carried by acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, lap steel, piano and other instruments in tasteful arrangements that always create just the right sonic space for his soulful baritone vocal. 

Allen Dobb’s musical journey has taken him to Austin, Texas, Nashville, TN, Lesotho, Southern Africa, and places in between. He has performed at the Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Mariposa folk festivals and the legendary Bumbershoot festival in the U.S. He has toured the U.K. and shared the stage with a diverse group of artists including Shawn Colvin, Jann Arden, Jesse Winchester, Peter Case, Darden Smith, Stephen Fearing, Roy Forbes, and Ziggy Marley.

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