P.E.I. band beats out Leonard Cohen for magazine's top honour

Days after The East Pointers won Best Ensemble at the Canadian Folk Music Awards, another P.E.I. band has received top honours by a leading Canadian folk roots and world music magazine.

Ten Strings and a Goat Skin's album Auprs du Pole has been named the critics choice by Penguin Eggs.

"There's something in the tea out in P.E.I. these days. There's all these bands coming out there and doing so well," said the magazine's editor, Roddy Campbell.

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Based on input from more than 40 music experts from across Canada, Auprs du Pole beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen's You Want It Darker and David Francey's Empty Train.

"It is a fabulous record," Campbell told CBC P.E.I.'s Mainstreet. "They've done a really nice job not only on the record itself but the marketing of it, a beautiful cover."

There's something in the tea out in P.E.I. these days. Penguin Eggs editor Roddy Campbell

The band, based inRustico, is made up of the bilingual trio ofJesse Priard, Caleb Gallant and Rowen Gallant.

Leonard Podolak, who worked with Grammy-winning band The Duhks, produced the album

"They all said Leonard was a real guiding hand," Campbell said.

Ten Strings and a Goat Skin came up empty after being nominated for four Canadian Folk Music Awards. But Campbell said the magazine's critics media, festival directors and "people with a good knowledge of what's been released in 2016" picked Ten Strings and a Goat Skin by a fairly wide margin.

"The boys have been out and about and they're a fabulous live band," he said.

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