Mother Country Returns to the Linsmore Tavern!

Wednesday November 18th, the Linsmore Tavern (1298 Danforth Ave) is excited to welcome back an amazing original roots folk band, Mother Country! Music fans, you are going to love this band, as they truly are an incredible band who know how to write great songs! They blew everyone in attendance away back in 2025 when they performed at the Linsmore, so we can’t wait for Toronto music fans to see this band! The show starts at 7:30pm, don’t miss out on this great opportunity to see this band! Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door.

Mother Country is a modern roots band founded by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Benton Roark, whose songs have been described as “backwoods-choir elegance” (The Georgia Straight), “dirty-southern-gothic rock-country-folk” (Discorder Magazine), and “an experience of deep and darkling beauty” (The Austin Chronicle).

Since leaving his hometown of Atlanta, GA (where early efforts dubbed him “a crafty folk-experimentalist,” Creative Loafing), Roark has called Ohio, New York, Vancouver, St. John’s, and Toronto home, and has been a bandleader for a number of groups: the Benton Roark Band (“magisterial” The Vancouver Sun), Arkora, whose Songs from the Rainshadow’s Edge earned him a Western Canadian Music Awards nomination for composition of the year, and Rollaway, whose last two records – Modern Epic and The Return of the Lonesome Coyote Patchwork Pulpit (“tone poems in the style of My Morning Jacket,” Maverick Magazine) in many ways set the scene for Mother Country’s inception.