The Silver Hearts

Peterborough, Ontario, Canada band formed in early 2000. Ensconced as the house band at the ancient, ramshackle tavern The Montreal House, the band attracted old friends and grew from a duo, to a quintet, to an anarchic horde of over a dozen players and singers, bringing a dark, absurdist edge to their reworkings of blues, country and tin-pan-alley music, and tore into originals, standards and contemporary covers with equal ferocity and grim glee.