The Howling Gales

I suppose The Howling Gales started years ago, when a young folksinger with the ability to see sound met a prairie girl whose violin - after immemorial years of practice - had organically intertwined with her left arm. Together, James and Amy played coffeehouses, cafe's and the like until one day they met a man who lived in a small apartment near the lower east corner of his upright bass. After the addition of a 7 foot tall bespectacled drummer and J.R.R. Tolkein's vocally gifted grand-neice, the group stopped twidling their thumbs and started making music.
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Today Hannah Tolkin, Afolabi Fapojuwo, Robin Warner, Amy Hillis and James Hugh Keenan Campbell make up The Howling Gales - McGill's finest purveyors of alternative folk.

Influences: The Arcade Fire, Wilco, Stan Rogers, Tom Waits, Feist, Tanglefoot, Metric, Spirit of the West, Mumford and Sons, Tamarack