STEWART GUNN and his band will appear Saturday at Rebekah Sushi on Armstrong Street. Tickets are $10 and available, in advance, at Aardvark on Broadway. Photo/DAN PELTON Having come through with his own win at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, Orangeville keyboardist and guitarist Stewart Gunn is ready to take his brand of psychedelic/ progressive rock to the stage of the Westminster Room at Rebekah Sushi this Saturday.

The 33-year-old music teacher – who also plays keyboards for the innovative local band Grande Fir – saw a cut from his album “Winter of our Discontent” featured on Inside Track, a CBC radio sports show.

The instrumental, “Silent Sea,” was featured throughout the show, which focused on the winter Olympics, as intro, extro and segue music.

“It was pretty exciting,” says Mr. Gunn, “especially since I grew up in a house where the radio was constantly on and tuned to the CBC.”

His growing-up years included his initial foray into performing in Guelph, where he played in a band that included Tim Kingsbury, who later went on to hit it big with Arcade Fire, and well-known commercial jingle artist Jim Guthrie. In Orangeville, he played with the Haymakers before joining Grande Fir. While that band is still together, its members also have their own individual projects that tend to concentrate more on member’s individual tastes.

The Stew Gunn band performs a mixture of music styles that seems to be an underlying characteristics of several Orangeville bands.

Grande Fir’s music often comes across as something that might happen if the Band spent a month jamming with The Clash. If George Benson pooled his jazz resources with the folk artistry of Peter, Paul and Mary, the resulting songs could be similar to those of the Houseplants.

There’s a pleasant melodic to Stew Gunn’s music, but it’s not without its earthy lyrics and the classical, psychedelic rock blend Gunn is striving for.

He’s also thankful for the Westminster Room, a venue which is helping bring an end to the reluctantly kept secret that is Orangeville’s original music scene.

“It’s a good thing,” figures Mr. Gunn. “Until these shows at Rebekah Sushi started, there really wasn’t a venue for local music. Orangeville had a wealthy music scene underground, but it was staying underground.”

While tickets for the Stew Gunn Band show will be available for $10 at the door on Saturday, it should be mentioned that the last two shows – the Jason Wilson and Riddum Forward gig and rapper DSisive – sold out.

You might want to consider dropping into Aardvark Music and Culture on Broadway and getting your tickets, same price, in advance.