Welder's Daughter on the road
Beloved band returns to the Deh Cho
April Hudson
Northern News Services
Thursday, September 3, 2015
LIIDLII KUE/FORT SIMPSON
Welder's Daughter is booked to play a gig in Fort Simpson for the first time in more than a year, next week. The popular band is scheduled to perform at the recreation centre at 10 p.m. on Sept. 12 as part of an adult dance being organized by the Open Sky Creative Society.
Yellowknife-based band Welder's Daughter is coming to Fort Simpson. The musicians include Attila Novak, left, wife Karen Novak and bandmates Tom Benke and Csaba Mezofi. - photo courtesy of Welder's Daughter
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Welder's Daughter is a house band based out of Yellowknife that often makes appearances in Inuvik but has only come to Fort Simpson twice. Lead singer Karen Novak said her band, made up of her husband Attila Novak and bass player Tom Benke along with guest drummer Mike Hoffman, will be road-tripping from Yellowknife to Fort Simpson for the show, something they have not done in a long time.
"We don't do too much road work any more. This is a rare opportunity for us, to be driving this far and doing a road trip like we used to be," Novak said. "It's so much nicer when there's no snow on the ground."
This will be their first visit to the village in summer or fall. The band had originally planned to arrive two days before their performance so they could enjoy the community in fall, but Novak said she is going to be arriving the day of the performance due to scheduling conflicts.
"We're really excited to see everyone again, and we are looking forward to seeing what Fort Simpson looks like with greenery. We've heard so many stories and even when we went there in the wintertime, it has this nice little feel to it," she said. "It's an 'ahh' feeling. I can't explain it, but it's there."
Back on stage
Welder's Daughter was the band to initially break in the stage and the lead singer said the musicians look forward to playing it again.
"We were the first ones to play the new stage. Everybody treated us really well, like royalty," she said.
In-between shows, the artists are working on a new country album. There is no scheduled release date yet.
They released one song from the album, The Words Go Unspoken, which they will likely be performing in Fort Simpson, she said, adding the song has become one of their more popular tunes and has been played on the radio.
"It kind of has a George Jones-Tammy Wynette sort of country feel to it. A lot of people really like it and call it 'their song,' " she said.
