THE DUHKS

The Winnipeg, Manitoba-based Duhks have always gravitated towards traditional roots-based song structures, but they've never stopped evolving since their inception five years ago.  Due in part to a collective musical worldview that knows no boundaries, that evolution led the band to their latest offering Fast-Paced World.  The French-Canadian born siblings have been immersed in music their whole lives, thanks in part to their musician parents.   It's that kind of musical DNA that makes the band's spot-on fusion of trad itional bluegrass, folk rock, Afro-Cuban jazz and soul so accessible and yet so hard to pigeonhole.  It's also earned them a Grammy Award nomination in the Best Country Vocal Performance category as well as a Juno award in their native Canada.

In addition to being great musicians, the members of this band also strive to be good citizens of the World Community.  Environmental issues are a passion for them, inspiring them to launch The Duhks Sustainability Project in October 2007. Spearheaded by Tania Elizabeth, the band's goal is to "tour on as sustainable a basis as possible; fueling our vehicle with Biodiesel, supporting local organic farmers wherever we go, wearing sustainable eco-conscious clothing, using earth-friendly shampoos, soaps and cosmetics and offsetting remaining CO2 emissions with carbon credits.  As a band, it's something we feel very strongly about," they say. "We just want to reduce our carbon footprint as much as humanly possible."

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