By Will McGuirk

Congrats to our old pals in Winnipeg’s Mahogany Frog on their 2022 Western Canadian Music Award, handed out this evening in Calgary. The ‘Frog won Visual Media Composer of the Year for ‘Faust’, an original score set to the eponymous 1926 German silent film from director F. W. Murnau.

Mahogany Frog are Graham Epp (guitar/keyboards/electronics/trumpet), Jesse Warkentin (guitar/keyboards/electronics), Scott Ellenberger (bass/keyboards/electronics/trumpet) and Andy Rudolph (drums/keyboards/electronics). The Frog played a few times in Oshawa back in the days, most notably at the Velvet Elvis where the four piece squeezed a half dozen synthesizers, and a gong into the space between the bar and the couch, which isn’t much space at all. Amazing show, amazing band, nice folks.

The album ‘Faust’ was released this past March and the PR has this to say, “Mahogany Frog brings together their collective experience in composition, experimentation, electronics, intense rock & roll, and searing fuzz guitar. Together they weave a dark and diverse score around Faust’s brooding tale of corruption, devastation and redemption.”

The Western Canadian Music Alliance is a pan western organization created by the Alliance Member Music Industry Associations (MIAs) of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, The Northwest Territories, the Yukon Territory, and in partnership with Nunavut, to promote and celebrate western Canadian music.