If you missed the soldout Parkland Summerfest gig in Calgary on June 22 but are willing to travel to or within Alberta, there are two more dates this summer to catch Wide Mouth Mason live and hear some of the new tracks coming to a new Wide Mouth Mason album near you! Joining the previously announced Rock Festival date this August in Edmonton is a Canada Day performance at Medicine Hat’s Sandfly Festival. Check out the city’s event page for further details!

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Thanks to recent photos tagging Wide Mouth Mason on social media and submissions to the site, we are delighted to update some of Wide Mouth Mason’s 2018 gigs with gig photos! Specifically, photos from Wide Mouth Mason’s recent summer gigs in Mattawa, Ontario and Edmonton, Alberta.

If you have a gig photos, scanned ticket stubs, gig posters, and other gig-related media that you would be interested in sharing with other Wide Mouth Mason fans via the Wide Mouth Mason Gigography that is always growing (please let us know if we are missing past dates as we are rebuilding our gig lists), contact the Chef de mission!

2019 Edmonton Rock Music Festival

This August, Wide Mouth Mason will be joining bands at the 2019 Edmonton Rock Music Festival! Tickets (and performance schedule details) for the two day festival are available at the event website, with tickets on sale as of April 29, 2019.

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Lyrics for Wide Mouth Mason’s 2011 album, No Bad Days, are now on the website. In the future, we may consider adding a fan component from the Wide Mouth Mason Fan Network that would allow fans to contribute and access guitar tabs for various Wide Mouth Mason songs. If this is something that would be of interest to you, let us know by commenting below! Got guitar tabs to contribute? Send it to our Chef de mission!

WMMq&a: How did Wide Mouth Mason become Wide Mouth Mason?

Recently, Shaun Verreault of Wide Mouth Mason talked about how the band’s name has led to the knowledge that a lot more people than he’d thought took vintage jars and preserving fairly seriously. Which caused us to realise that perhaps there are new fans to Wide Mouth Mason who may ponder this question: “How did Wide Mouth Mason become Wide Mouth Mason?”

Safwan’s answer:

“We were a cover band playing mostly small town gigs. Blues musicians began to dominate our hours of rural drives, & heavily influence our original music, which we’d increasingly sneak into our sets as we gained experience.

Our early agents had suggested (and booked us under) various antiquated names that we mostly hated – like “Some Kind Of Ruckus”.

One night, between sets at a particularly seedy bar, we were having drinks from mason jars (the bar’s preferred delivery receptacle). I looked down at the raised words “wide mouth mason” on the side of my jar, & mentioned to Shaun that it reminded me of Clarence “Gate-mouth” Brown. By the end of that night’s last set, we were Wide Mouth Mason.”

Got a question for Wide Mouth Mason? Send them to info@widemouthmason.com and you may see an answer to your question on Wide Mouth Mason’s website at http://www.WideMouthMason.com!

 

WMMq&a: Will all the Wide Mouth Mason videos ever be available on iTunes?

Masonite Ashley D. emailed Wide Mouth Mason with this question: “Will all the Wide Mouth Mason videos ever be available on iTunes?”

Safwan’s answer:

“All Wide Mouth Mason videos for songs released by Warner Music Canada (WMC), are owned and controlled by WMC. Last year WMC informed us they would be re-releasing some of our back catalogue digitally. There was no mention of the videos, but we will make further inquiries. You can also make the request to WMC:

twitter: @WarnerCanada

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/warnermusiccanada

website: http://www.warnermusic.ca/contact/

Thanks for your question and interest. We’re a band because of our fans.”

Got a question for Wide Mouth Mason? Send them to info@widemouthmason.com and you may see an answer to your question on Wide Mouth Mason’s website at http://www.WideMouthMason.com!