The Coniferous Gallery Showcase
Featuring performance by Summersets and Special Guests TBA!
Touring their brand new album ‘Pine Trees In A Perfect Row’, Summersets headline ‘The Coniferous Gallery Showcase’ at Medium Effort on Saturday November 21st!
Medium Effort’s art workshop transforms into an intimate listening room style venue, becomes a stage for emerging and established talent to share their stories , and the perfect place for you to discover your next favourite music artist!
Summersets
Like many of their financially pinched generation, Kalle Mattson and Andrew Sowka of summersets might have to “Move Back Home.” That song, from the harmony-rich Ottawa duo’s second album, Pine Trees in a Perfect Row, is of the timeliest singles of 2026, by acknowledging the affordability crisis in North American cities. As any headline will tell you —but not many songs will — millennials are reckoning with the fact that they’ll be unlikely to afford a home in major urban centres, and are moving back to the small towns they were eager to escape in their youth. (In the case of summersets, that’s the Great Lakes city of Sault Ste.Marie, in northern Ontario.)
As a solo artist in the 2010s, Mattson won or was nominated for every major prize in Canada. During pandemic lockdowns in 2020, he formed summersets with Sowka, his childhood friend, to explore Everly Brothers harmonies and to alleviate the weight of being a solo artist. Pine Trees is a stripped-down acoustic record that sounds like what it is: recorded live off the floor with keyboardist/producer Jim Bryson (Kathleen Edwards, Weakerthans) and Peter Von Althen (Skydiggers) on drums. Only additional guitarist Christine Bougie (Bahamas) and a string section were overdubbed later. That immediacy and intimacy comes through in every note.
Summersets embarked on ‘The Home Town Run’ hitting Sudbury Theatre Centre, and Ottawa Bluesfest this summer with album release concerts planned for Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, The Loft in Sault St. Marie, and Burdock Music Hall in Toronto this October.
We are beyond excited to welcome Summersets as they share their songs and stories from the road with us at Medium Effort in Downtown Brockville on Saturday November, 21 2026!
Saturday November 21, 2026
Medium Effort Fine Art Supplies
162 King Street West, Brockville, ON
Doors 7:30PM / Show 8:00PM
Special Guests TBA!
Tickets $25 available online & at Medium Effort
Made Possible by: Pau Hana Coffee, Sweet Ofelia Cafe & Market, Galop & Dundas Co. , Long & McQuade Cornwall