Often the best place to search for inspiration can be found right at your feet. And if what you were expecting to find at your feet isn’t there either odds are you’ll find something else that’s all the more inspiring. Halifax’s Rudy & the Pacé Family Orchestra’s second single, “Greyhound,” is all about home and the difference it can make when you discover it’s slowly slipping away.
Written by Rudy Pacé and Connor Booth (Quiet Parade, The Blue Lane) it’s a song that most of Atlantic Canada can relate to, with our generous helping of small towns and the perpetual exodus for someplace bigger. Being from small Nova Scotia communities (Sydney and Lunenburg, respectively) Pacé and Booth have experienced the slow process of estrangement from their hatching grounds.
“It’s about being from a smaller area,” says Pacé. “Maybe there is something you left behind. Maybe there is something you messed up.”
Pacé says that much of his inspiration comes from key figures in the Cape Breton music scene: namely his grandfather Rudy Pacé , and great-grandfather Emilio Pacé . Both were awarded Stompin’ Tom Awards from the East Coast Music Association for their contributions to Cape Breton’s musical history.
“If one thing is for sure,” says Pacé, “this band would never exist without them!”
While Cape Breton may be widely recognized for its wealth of culture now, it’s all due to people like the Pacé family for cultivating and preserving that culture. Without that sense of vibrancy it’s just another place that people tend to drift away from…
Rudy & the Pacé Family Orchestra will be releasing their debut EP, Vanguard, on November 1st, 2019 with an event at The Carleton in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The EP will include “Greyhound’, along with their previously released debut single “Sudden Changes,” and more.
Tour Dates:
11.01.19 – Halifax, NS @ The Carleton EP Release
11.02.19 – Moncton, NB @ Tide & Boar
11.16.19 – Sydney, NS @ Governor’s Pub