2007 JUNO AWARD WINNER; Instrumental Album of the Year, "Run Neil Run" by Sisters Euclid.
The Toronto Blues Society’s MAPLE BLUES AWARDS 2007 have awarded Acoustic Act of the Year to Harry Manx and Kevin Breit.
Kevin Breit and Harry Manx were nominated for a 2008 Juno "In Good We Trust"; Roots & Traditional Album of the Year; Group category.
2007 GEMINI AWARD WINNER; Best Performance or Host in a Variety Program or Series; "Words to Music: The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame" with Measha Brueggergosman, Kevin Breit, Lou Pomanti. An evening of celebration featuring the induction of Joni Mitchell into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Kevin was born in a small town in Northern Ontario. He is the youngest of seven children born to musical parents. Breit, self-taught, grew up listening and loving the music of the Beatles, Bill Monroe, Hank Williams, Rashaan Roland Kirk, Miles Davis, Johnny Winter and many others.
By the age of eleven he was already so proficient that his older brother brought home a Telecaster, handed it to him and said, "Here, you deserve to play on something good." Kevin has played that guitar and anything else with frets ever since.
At age seventeen, he moved to Toronto to follow his dream of being a musician. Kevin began working in and out of studios and concert settings. He has recorded with, to list only a few, the likes of Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson, Rosanne Cash, Jane Bunnett, k. d. Lang, Holly Cole, Janis Ian, Lisa Dal Bello, Patti Scialfa, Marc Jordan, Quartette, Natalie McMaster, Molly Johnson, Sass Jordan, Serena Ryder, Carlos del Junco, Bill Frisell, Michael Kaeshammer, Cyro Baptista and Harry Manx.
When Kevin is not in session or touring he performs with Sisters Euclid, FolkAlarm and the Tallboys.
Here is some great copy written by Vancouver Folk Festival organizer, Dugg Simpson;"There are a lot of bars in Toronto. I’m not talking bistros or anywhere featuring ferns, spritzers, tablecloths or wine lists. I mean bars, where you can have a drink, shoot the breeze and hear a live band. For over a decade, the Sisters Euclid have been appearing most Monday nights in a bar called the Orbit Room. You can hear the bar bone-deep in their music and you can see it when they are making music together. They play the instruments that were heard first and mostly in bars: classic bass, Hammond organ, a few guitars. There’s no double kick drums, no Marshall stacks, headset mics, dry ice or lasers. The music’s loud enough but no louder than it needs to be for you to hear what the musicians are really doing-the over, under and inter-tones humans both hear and feel.
This regular Monday night house gig, a great way for some musicians playing music together to turn into a band. It can bring the bread to the butter for musicians and it’s a place to take chances, try things out and try them again. It institutionalizes learning new things, because the set can’t be the same every week. Every once in a very blue moon in such a setting, a band finds a new level of connection, and together they enter a musical state of grace. That’s how I hear the Sisters Euclid: their music is part blue sky, part single malt and part junkyard dog, an aural gumbo that’s been simmering on the stove for years. It feels good between your thighs and between your ears.
All kinds of musical ideas that slap you up-side the head on first listen. It’s smart and juicy, it’s rough and it’s gorgeous, and when you turn it up, it can sweeten a lot of sour."
UPCOMING NEW RELEASE: (Title; TBA) Kevin Breit with Cyro Baptista and Ian deSouza.
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