WINNIPEG, MB

Local indie rock sensations Royal Canoe, who are currently touring North America in support of their upcoming album have drawn the attention of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. In particular the monarch cited their last album as a “psychedelic kaleidoscope of sounds and textures that remind me of mid-period Brian Eno.”

Three Royal Canoe band members – Matt Peters, Bucky Driedger, and Matt Schellenberg – hail from the small Mennonite town of Steinbach, and this fact did not go unnoticed by the Queen.

“I remember visiting that place in the 70s,” she said. “Back then the only music allowed were a cappella hymns sung in nasal tones. But, now, it seems, the town has produced music that any hipster, like me, could enjoy.”

Like many a cool and talented person before them, Sir Pet

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