If you like skiing , snowboarding, music, dancing, driving cars, riding bikes or living life to it's fullest, you'll love Snow Report. Singer song writer David Hollingworth is backed by some of Vancouver's finest bluegrass and old time musicians to bring you Snow Report. Inspired by deep powder days and a loathing for global warming, Dave has written songs that celebrate winter amongst other things using a distinct blend of bluegrass, old time, jam band, folk and subtly political surf rock. The story of Snow Report begins in the summer of 2003. David Hollingworth met Christopher Suen as a fellow busker at the lively UBC farmer's market that runs every Saturday through the summer at the student-run UBC Farm. Discovering in each other a mutual love of good music, good food, and good times, the two decided to busk together along with Dave's friend Geoff Van Hassel who had also come that fateful day. Hours later the group decided to form a band 'collective', incorporating Chris' long time friend Edward Porter on upright bass, and at times two other Van Hassel brothers Steve and Andrew on mandolin, and Matthew Filipiak on harmonica. They became the 'de facto' house band for the UBC Faculty of Agricultural Sciences (now the Faculty of Land and Food Systems), and played beer gardens, BBQs, parties, and the annual UBC AgSci Students' Harvest Banquet. 'Agora' is the name of the AgSci student lounge, so the band became known as the Agora String Band, playing a mix of alt country, rock and roll, bluegrass and old time. As news of their rocking and rollicking good tunes played solely on acoustic instruments spread with the dissemination of the AgSci community, they started playing for more community garden and local farm festivals, weddings, and house parties, bars and clubs, and local community events around Vancouver. In 2006, Chris and Edward formed another band with friend Mike Zinger in the dark hollers and glades of Vancouver's Main Street, and they called themselves Whiskey Jar. After one of their first shows, Mike Zinger felt the need to apologise to Dave for "stealing his band", but the truth could not have been further from that, and everyone was excited to be a part of the growing local interest and support for acoustic, home-grown music, particularly bluegrass, old time, old time, and old country. Agora continued to gig, and Mike and monstrous mandolinist Mark Vaughan joined Dave for shows of his own as well. Whiskey Jar sadly had to disband as key members moved to Ontario in 2009. But this left Mark, Chris and Edward to team up for a new project focused on Dave's original material: songs of mountains, snow, skiing, family, and trusted automobiles. Thus was born Snow Report, and it's taking its music and newly recorded EP to venues throughout Western Canada this year.