View Points: Inside the Musicians Studio is a one-of-a-kind occasion allowing audience members to experience what motivates a musician's body of creative work, from inspiration to collaboration and production. In this episode of Inside the Musician's Studio View Points shines a light on Rolf Klausener of The Acorn and Slim Twig. These Paper Bag Records artists reveal the thought processes behind their songwriting, music compositions and live performances. Artist on-stage interviews will be facilitated by prominent Toronto journalist and DJ, Denise Benson, with the audience invited to ask the artist questions afterwards.

Tickets for View Points: Inside the Musicians Studio are $5 at the door, and also available in advance online. The event begins at 7 p.m. View Points is Harbourfront Centre's contemporary culture discussion series focusing on cultural issues and local, national and international current affairs. For public information call 416-973-4000 or visit www.harbourfrontcentre.com.
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View Points' Artist Biographies:

The Acorn is the on-going musical project of Rolf Klausener, Jeff Debutte, Keiko Devaux, T.Jeffrey Malecki and Howie Tsui. Anchored by vivid songwriting and eclectic instrumentation, The Acorn produce an original brand of experimental, popular folk music that effortlessly marries modern and traditional forms. The project began as the solo electro-acoustic work of Rolf in late 2002. By 2005, when they released the Blankets! EP; the band was garnering considerable praise from CBC and campus radio stations across the country. After a year of touring, the band signed to Toronto's Paper Bag Records who released their six-song Tin Fist EP in early 2007 to glowing reviews. Their latest recording, Glory Hope Mountain, is a sprawling, biographical album based on the life of Rolf's mother - Gloria Esperanza Montoya. Armed with heart-drums, gut-strings, ukuleles, marimbas and Klausener's best songwriting to date, The Acorn has created a moving musical document of a miraculous life. Since the release of Glory Hope Mountain, The Acorn have graced the cover of national music magazine, Exclaim!, and garnered rave reviews across Canada and the United States. They are currently completing a North American tour. More artist info at www.myspace.com/theacorn

Slim Twig is a chameleon artist in the tradition of Bowie or Beck, who is a performer and song sculptor based out of Toronto. Twig has pursued his artistic vision since 2003, inspired by pillars of music and film avant-garde like Scott Walker, Brian Eno, Nick Cave, Thurston Moore, Jean-Luc Godard, David Lynch and David Cronenberg. Naturally, following such artistic luminaries, his sound has morphed several times from an early apocalyptic folk incarnation to a fuller art-pop sound and, more recently, the self-coined genre of Concrete Rockabilly with a gritty, sample-based aesthetic. So far, Twig's musical imagination has wrought a handful of self-releases and the Derelict Dialect and Vernacular Violence EPs released on Paper Bag Records. His memorable live performances made him a much talked about highlight of 2008's Canadian Music Week festival and has seen him share stages with Man Man, Born Ruffians and Miracle Fortress. He recently headlined Pop Montreal's Pop Off Tour and can also be seen on screen opposite Ellen Page in Bruce McDonald's The Tracey Fragments as Billy Zero, and has composed music for the award-winning short film Letters From R..
More artist info at www.myspace.com/slimtwig