The Minnikins – Photo by Craig Buckley

Nova Scotian, brother and sister, Gabriel and Ruth Minnikin sing and play again, as The Minnikins.

The Minnikins are multi-instrumentalists and visual artists with impressive rosters of national and international tours as members of bands The Guthries, The Heavy Blinkers, The Earlies and as solo artists.

Demand for their unique voices has found them featured on over 70 recordings.

“Ruth and her brother play an assortment of instruments (accordion, mandolin and guitar) and sing glorious harmonies. It’s acts like these that make a treat for music lovers.” Maverick Magazine, UK

*FRIDAY NOV 8 – Cape Breton Fudge Co. – 9:45-10:15pm
Sydney, Cape Breton, NS – NSMW Showcase

http://www.capebretonfudgeco.com/

* SATURDAY NOV 23 – The Dunk House Concert
Breadalbane, PEI – Please get in touch for tickets!

info@ruthminnikin.ca

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Dunk/112674482082364

* SATURDAY NOV 30 – Halifax House Concert
Halifax, NS – Please get in touch for tickets!

info@ruthminnikin.ca

* SATURDAY DEC 7 – Thunder & Lightning

Sackville, NB

https://www.facebook.com/events/564837453588089/

* SATURDAY JAN 11 – The Townhouse
Antigonish, NS

https://www.facebook.com/AntigonishTownhouse

* SATURDAY JAN 18 – The Bus Stop Theatre
Halifax, NS

https://www.facebook.com/events/549082395171938/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

Friday November 8th – Cape Breton Fudge Co. – 9:45-10:15pm

Ruth Minnikin – The Minnikins’ Photo Album

Female Artist Recording of the Year

Alternative Recording of the Year

SHOWCASE – Cape Breton Fudge Co. – Fri. Nov. 8, 9:45 – 10:15pm

It takes a lot of hands & creative minds to make a vision into a reality!

Love to you & you & you… Gabe Minnikin, Amy Minnikin, Charles Austin, Anna Plaskett, David Christensen, Serge Samson, Brian Murray, Dale Murray, Chris Hillman, Graeme Campbell, Paul Mortlock, Jonny Wright…

SHOWCASE – Cape Breton Fudge Co. – Fri. Nov. 8, 9:45 – 10:15pm

Sat Sept 28 – Milpaso – Jeju Island – 1st set 8:30pm – 15 000 won

Sat Oct 5 – Blue Hill – Jeju Island – 2nd set 10pm – 10 000 won

Saturday October 12 – Zandari Festa, Auteur Club – Seoul

Sat Oct 26 – Milpaso – Jeju Island – 2nd set 9pm – 15 000 won

http://www.zfesta.com/

Saturday June 22 – 6-8:30pm – Jeju Summer Festival – FREE!!

Friday June 28 – 8-11pm – Blue Hill Summer Music Festival

Saturday June 8 – Radio Festival – Jeju Island East Coast

Saturday June 1 – Blue Hill – Jeju City

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/ruth-minnikins-new-album-invites-you-into-her-heart-and-hearth/article5364317/

http://www.herohill.com/2012/11/reviews-ruth-minnikin-the-minnikins-photo-album.htm

http://www.cbc.ca/nb/mt/east-coast-music/2012/09/music-review-ruth-minnikin—the-minnikins-photo-album.html

http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/ruth-minnikins-family-history/Content?oid=3242509

I release ‘The Minnikins’ Photo Album’ to my family, music lovers, writers, DJs, artists and concept builders.

The first inkling of The Photo Album was born back in twenty-ten, when I made the decision to initiate an ancestral archive of stories taken from photographs, letters and songs. For a year of Thursdays I visited with my Nana (her mother is on the album cover) and we reminisced and sang hymns at her piano.

Keeping with familiarity and tradition, I summonsed my brother Gabriel and sister Amy to share their talents alongside my closest friends and musical family (The Guthries, The Heavy Blinkers and The Echo Chamber).

Undeniably my heart was swollen as I wrote, but I daydream that my next bout of inspiration comes from love, salt water and the children I will teach on Jeju Island over the next year. Or, the waves on The East China Sea may swell into sounds of longing and heartache for Canada, the Atlantic Ocean and it’s folks (just like the time I moved to England). But that’s a different bio entirely.

‘The Minnikins’ Photo Album’, recorded and assembled, will magically appear just in time to mouth the words “goodbye for now”.

Experts that were privy to the pre-release of The Minnikins’ Photo Album said –

“With her slightly off-kilter delivery, soft vocals and minor key melodies, we’re never quite in the present. The feeling is more like looking at an old snapshot of mysterious people with a story we only get a bit of. But it’s compelling, fascinating, like these interrupted dreams you can’t quite remember, but wish so much you could.”

Bob Mersereau, CBC NB

“Minnikin’s rustic lilt wraps itself around the songs like a beloved old afghan knit by your grandmother.”

Stephen Cooke, The Chronicle Herald, NS

#2 on CKDU Chart Halifax NS, Sept 2012

info@ruthminnikin.ca

www.ruthminnikin.ca

mp3 down load links and handmade EPs are now available for purchase, review and airplay

History fueled music, wrapped in denim. It’s in the genes.