Exclaim! readers' favourite roots band of 2008, Elliot Brood, are planning a string of live dates in their home province of Ontario and west. It all starts on July 1 at Victoria's huge Canada Day celebrations and continues on through October.
During the trek, the self-proclaimed Toronto "blackgrass" band will play some summer festivals, as well as bill a chunk of the dates "The Future Ghosts Tour," starting September 19. The same jaunt will also take the group down to the States to coincide with the early October U.S. release of their most recent album, Mountain Meadows, on Six Shooter Records.
And, leaping into the latest technological craze and sweetening the ol' pot, you can now read Elliot Brood's tweets on their new Twitter page.
Elliot Brood's Canadian tour dates:
7/1 Victoria, BC - Legislative Lawns, Belleville Street (Canada Day Celebrations)
7/5 Sudbury, ON - Northern Lights Festival Boreal
7/18 London, ON - Aeolian Hall (Home County Folk Festival)
8/7 Kitchener, ON - King & Frederick Street (Kitchener Blues Fest)
8/9 Toronto, ON - Toronto's Festival Of Beer
8/14-16 Salmon Arm, BC - Salmon Arm Roots And Blues Festival
9/19 Orono, ON - Orono Town Hall
9/26 Sudbury, ON - The Townehouse
9/27 Sault Ste. Marie, ON - Lop Lops
9/28 Thunder Bay, ON - TBA
9/30 Winnipeg, MB - West End Cultural Center
10/1 Regina, SK - The Exchange
10/2 Saskatoon, SK - Amigo's
10/3 Edmonton, AB - Starlite Room
10/4 Calgary, AB - Dicket's Pub
10/5 Lethbridge, AB - The Slice
10/6 Nelson, BC - The Spirit Bar
10/7 Vancouver, BC - The Biltmore
10/8 Victoria, BC - Alix Goolden Hall
During the trek, the self-proclaimed Toronto "blackgrass" band will play some summer festivals, as well as bill a chunk of the dates "The Future Ghosts Tour," starting September 19. The same jaunt will also take the group down to the States to coincide with the early October U.S. release of their most recent album, Mountain Meadows, on Six Shooter Records.
And, leaping into the latest technological craze and sweetening the ol' pot, you can now read Elliot Brood's tweets on their new Twitter page.
Elliot Brood's Canadian tour dates:
7/1 Victoria, BC - Legislative Lawns, Belleville Street (Canada Day Celebrations)
7/5 Sudbury, ON - Northern Lights Festival Boreal
7/18 London, ON - Aeolian Hall (Home County Folk Festival)
8/7 Kitchener, ON - King & Frederick Street (Kitchener Blues Fest)
8/9 Toronto, ON - Toronto's Festival Of Beer
8/14-16 Salmon Arm, BC - Salmon Arm Roots And Blues Festival
9/19 Orono, ON - Orono Town Hall
9/26 Sudbury, ON - The Townehouse
9/27 Sault Ste. Marie, ON - Lop Lops
9/28 Thunder Bay, ON - TBA
9/30 Winnipeg, MB - West End Cultural Center
10/1 Regina, SK - The Exchange
10/2 Saskatoon, SK - Amigo's
10/3 Edmonton, AB - Starlite Room
10/4 Calgary, AB - Dicket's Pub
10/5 Lethbridge, AB - The Slice
10/6 Nelson, BC - The Spirit Bar
10/7 Vancouver, BC - The Biltmore
10/8 Victoria, BC - Alix Goolden Hall
