{"id":10208,"date":"2015-02-04T06:37:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T14:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=10208"},"modified":"2015-02-02T12:40:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T20:40:26","slug":"ange-hehr-makes-her-mark-on-local-music-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/02\/04\/ange-hehr-makes-her-mark-on-local-music-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Ange Hehr makes her mark on local music scene"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ange Hehr learned to play the drums at age six, the guitar at age 15, and she made it into the top 100 for Canadian Idol<\/i> at the age of 23. In two years, she has become a staple in the Victoria music scene, playing weekly at pub gigs at the Irish Times, Swans, and Bard & Banker (catch her there playing solo every Monday at 8:30). Her musical talent and charm with the audience is refreshing and undeniably unique.<\/p>\n

Hehr grew up in the small northern town of Fort Nelson, BC, playing varsity basketball and working in the local mill. She often played in bands with her father, who is a drummer and her biggest musical influence. While living in Quesnel, BC, Hehr played in bars and also worked in the mill there. But, eventually, she made her way to Victoria.<\/p>\n

\u201cI promised myself I would only spend a year in Quesnel and then move forward,\u201d says Hehr. \u201cIt\u2019s very easy to become comfortable living in a small town, working at the mill, and making good money. However, it was one of those things I put up with, but didn\u2019t love it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Local musician Ange Hehr playing a gig at the Irish Times (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Hehr performs with her band, the Ange Hehr Band, weekly; they play an array of cover tunes. She also does solo acoustic sets, where she takes requests from the audience. Hehr says she will attempt just about any song given to her, even far-out requests like, say, the Spice Girls.<\/p>\n

Hehr says she has chosen to sing cover songs for a few different reasons. \u201cSomebody has done something so well,\u201d she says, \u201cand I just love singing the songs. I love it so much; it\u2019s fun and it\u2019s easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hehr has always written her own music and is inspired by her past experiences. However, writing songs is scary and vulnerable for her, and because of that, sometimes writing gets put aside. To remedy that, she\u2019s planning to start collaborating with fellow songwriter Sean Baker.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel I need to collaborate with someone, in order to force me out of me out of my box,\u201d says Hehr.<\/p>\n

Due to the rapidly changing music industry, Hehr knows the obstacles that a new musician faces in producing original music.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really hard to make money performing original music,\u201d she explains. \u201cYou struggle, you tour, and you might break even, but probably not, and you definitely need to come through. Today\u2019s listener is wise, and you need to be different. But writing and performing my original music is definitely the end game.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of her pet peeves, she says, is musicians who don\u2019t take the time to engage with their fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t understand how you could be who you are, or be doing what you are doing, if you don\u2019t share with other humans. Why would they follow you, or love what you do?\u201d asks Hehr.<\/p>\n

Hehr is playing solo shows at 8 pm on February 4 at Breakwater Bistro and at 7:30 pm on February 5 at the Penny Farthing. At 9 pm on February 6 and 7 she plays with the Ange Hehr Band at Bard & Banker.<\/p>\n

There is no cover charge to get in to any of the performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ange Hehr learned to play the drums at age six, the guitar at age 15, and she made it into the top 100 for Canadian Idol at the age of 23. In two years, she has become a staple in the Victoria music scene, playing weekly at pub gigs at the Irish Times, Swans, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-february-4-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10210,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208\/revisions\/10210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}