CANADIAN FOLK ROCK FAVORITES ANNOUNCE SPRING TOUR
BRAND NEW ALBUM LOST CHANNELS WILL BE RELEASED MARCH 31ST
VANCOUVER – With their fourth album LOST CHANNELS set for release on March 31st, Toronto’s GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS are taking to the road to showcase their outstanding new batch of songs. The Canadian tour will kick off in the Maritimes and include marquee appearances at the Regina and Calgary Folk Festival series and at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto.
Their live show has won them ever-expanding audiences in the United States and Europe, and of course their native Canada. In 2008 Great Lake Swimmers shared the stage with an impressive list of artists, including Feist, Bela Fleck & The Sparrow Quartet, Hayden, Goldfrapp, Bill Callahan of Smog, and Robert Plant & Alison Krauss. And, with select opening dates for Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy later this month, the list continues to grow.
The anticipation for the full-length follow up to the highly praised 2007 album ONGIARA has already started to accumulate. Feature album previews have already popped up from south of the border indie tastemaker websites Pitchfork and Paste Magazine to home country cornerstones Exclaim!, Chart and Montreal’s The Hour.
LOST CHANNELS, their fourth album, finds them once again recording at historic locations, this time in Thousand Islands region of Ontario and New York state, telling tales of hidden histories, still “mining for light in the dark wells,” still “tuned to an instrument of greater and unknown design.”
The instrument in question is the singular voice of Tony Dekker, a voice that summons ghosts from times past. It’s a voice that is capable of conveying heartache and comfort all in the space of a single phrase. Though his supporting cast has changed over the years—with the exception of longtime right-hand man Erik Arnesen—Dekker has always encircled himself with sympathetic players who value spacious arrangements that frame his vocals. Over time, the band has evolved from a sparse, delicate and hushed unit into a well-rounded folk rock band, sacrificing none of their original intimacy while upping both the volume and tempos when necessary.
LOST CHANNELS also features the talents of Julie Fader (flute/backing vocals), Greg Millson (drums), Darcy Yates (bass), along with special guests / Swimmers collaborators Serena Ryder with vocals on “Everything Is Moving So Fast” and Bob Egan on pedal steel.
LOST CHANNELS Canadian tour dates with special support guest KATE MAKI as follows:
March 21 – Thunder Bay – The Study
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