More Canadian dates announced
Summer festivals and a botanical garden with Joel Plaskett. More to come.
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Hello love,
Behold the glory of promotional tour images, uniformly adjusted to a 500 pixel width. The below are all shows that have been announced in the last few weeks. Rather than spamming you each time, I’ve collected them into one spiffy little blast. Some are with the band, some are on my own. I’ve got some more announcements up my sleeve for the coming weeks/months.
Please forward this on to pals living near these parts!
In other news, after not really paying attention to sports for at least two decades, it has consumed my life. Over the past couple of years, I’ve assumed the role of “Coach Dan”. My boys play soccer and, more recently, baseball. Turns out, I love sports.
The Vancouver Canucks are so bad that it hurts. I have high hopes for the Montreal Canadiens, but it’s hard to believe The Cup won’t end up in the hands of the Avalanche or the Hurricanes.
SERIOUS QUESTION:
Is it alarming that I have essentially no memory of my childhood hockey teams being champs in two different years in different cities? What’s going on there? I have weird gaps in my memories. I heard Julia Louis-Dreyfus once say she can barely remember making a single episode of Seinfeld.
I played hockey as a kid for 4 or 5 years, in rural Ontario and in Toronto. Going through a storage closet, I found these old trophies and cannot conjure much recollection of these truly historic moments in world history. I have glimpses of the rinks. Of trudging through the snow with my hockey bag. Of the one and only penalty I ever earned. I remember kindness from coaches even though I was a supremely mid left winger (or sometimes defenseman). I remember I loved it.
What’s interesting is that, though I have a hard time recalling much of anything in particular about my own experience on the ice, my sense of the game is rock solid. Of positioning. Of flow. The rules. I barely remember learning to skate but can do it with ease as an adult. It’s in the muscle memory.
All my love. Thank you for your eyes and your ears,
x
Dan
UPCOMING SHOWS
May 23. Saint John, NB - Area 506 Waterfront # ^ ANNOUNCED
Jun 11. Uxbridge, ON - Springtide Music Festival ! SOLD OUT
Jul 2. Burlington, ON - Royal Botanical Gardens # $ ANNOUNCED
Jul 3-5. Orillia, ON - Mariposa Folk Festival & ANNOUNCED
Jul 10-12. Sudbury, ON - Northern Lights Festival Boréal * ANNOUNCED
Aug 21-23. Owen Sound, ON - Summerfolk # @ ANNOUNCED
Sep 5. Pender Island, BC - Pender Island Community Hall SOLD OUT
Sep 12. Prince George, BC - Knox Performance Centre LOW
Sep 17. Courtenay, BC - Native Sons Hall
Sep 18. Nanaimo, BC - The Port Theatre
Sep 19. Tofino, BC - Tofino Legion
Sep 25. Bowen Island, BC - Bowen Theatre SOLD OUT
Oct 2. Saskatoon, SK - Broadway Theatre
Nov 13. Montreal, QC - Church of the Gesu
Nov 14. Quebec City, QC - L’Anti Bar & Spectacles
Nov 16. Kingston, ON - The Spire
Nov 17. London, ON - Aeolian Hall SOLD OUT
# full band show
^ with Marc McLaughlin
! with Young Novelists, Hollowsage & The Three Mile Islanders
$ with Joel Plaskett
& with Steve Earle, Father John Misty, The Barr Brothers, Foxwarren & more
* with Sarah Harmer, Begonia, Foxwarren, Terra Lightfoot, Charlotte Cornfield & more
@ with Jane Siberry & more