The Elwins are a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band from Newmarket, Ontario

Newmarket, Ontario

Newmarket is a town in Southern Ontario located approximately 50 km north of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Greater Toronto Area and is connected to Toronto by freeway, and is served by three interchanges along Highway 404. It is also connected to Highway 400 via Highway 9...

, consisting of singer and guitarist

Guitarist

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 Matthew Sweeney, drummer

Drummer

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 Travis Stokl, guitarist

Guitarist

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/keyboardist

Keyboardist

A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...

 Feurd and bassist

Bassist

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 Christopher Shannon.

Biography

The Elwins started out as a duo playing original music in High School at Huron Heights Secondary School

Huron Heights Secondary School

This article is about the school in Newmarket. For the school in Kitchener, see Huron Heights Secondary School .Huron Heights Secondary School is a public high school in the York Region District School Board which opened in 1962. Additions were added in 1965 and 1969...

. They recorded their self titled debut EP in 2008 at Chemical Sound Studios

Chemical Sound Studios

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. After playing as a duo for a while they made the decision to expand their sound and added Feurd, on guitar and keyboard and Christopher Shannon on bass. They are in the middle of planning to record their first full length album to be released in 2011.