Bennie Allain performs his songs, with Jared Klok at a concert with 2 - 5 people in the audience. He sings songs about coyotes who steal Toyotas in the middle of the night (toyota coyotes); a hermit who falls in love but is ashamed of his lack of luxuries (tarp roof): the hesitation of going out in public during a pandemic (everybody’s dirty mouth); the sputtering relationship of two small-town rink rats depending on a good card at the bingo or a good run at the scratch tickets (rink rats); someone succumbing to cabin fever reflects longingly his once true love ( time flies houseflies) and the beginnings of that (a headlock); playing hopscotch by midnight sunlight (uninvited); the power of a pot of soup on a cold day (how to make a pot of soup).

As part of CFYT 106.9fm Online Couch Concert series, highlighting Yukon musicians via live-stream performances.

Recorded at the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture by Matt Sarty and Alex Halbom.

Special thanks to CFYT and KIAC.

We gratefully acknowledge that all of these songs were written, performed and recorded on Tr’ondek Hwech’in territory.

Video of the performance can be found here