GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN SPRING TOUR

Canadian indie darlings Great Lake Swimmers are thrilled to announce new tour dates on the heels of a very busy 2016 and their latest EP, Swimming Away. After successful tours in Europe and Western Canada last year as a trio, the band will be taking their ‘Floating Through The Forest’ show to the East Coast of Canada and the Midwestern US this spring. The band will be revisiting the quiet side of their fourteen-year, seven-album catalogue, and have shows planned in Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. The U.S. leg will begin on April 12th in Pittsburgh and will take the band through Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois before wrapping up in Fort Wayne, Indiana on April 23rd. A full list of North American dates can be found below.

Their latest full-length record, A Forest Of Arms, was released via Nettwerk in 2015 and they also released an EP, Swimming Away, in March of 2016, which included two covers, a Tom Waits classic, “Innocent When You Dream” and the aching PJ Harvey song “The Desperate Kingdom Of Love.” It also featured two new songs, the starkly beautiful “Condition White,” which was commissioned for the series Torn From The Pages and is based on the novel Sleep by Nino Ricci, and finally the hypnotic title track “Swimming Away,” which is an unreleased outtake from A Forest Of Arms.

Great Lake Swimmers (Trio) North American Spring Tour 2017:
March 22 – Montreal PQ @ La Sala Rossa
March 23 – Quebec City PQ @ L’Anti
March 24 – Fredericton NB @ The Capital
March 25 – Saint John NB @ Peppers Pub
March 26 – Parkindale NB @ Parkindale Hall
March 27  – Miramichi NB @ Home Concert
March 28 – Charlottetown PE @ Baba’s
March 30 – Riverport NS @ The Old Confidence Lodge
March 31 – Margaretsville NS @ Evergreen Theatre
April 1     – Halifax NS @ The Seahorse

*Support for Canadian dates – Megan Bonnell

April 12 – Pittsburgh PA @ Club Cafe
April 13 – Cleveland OH @ Beachland Tavern
April 14 – Ann Arbor MI @ The Ark
April 15 – Boyne City MI @ Freshwater Arts Gallery
April 17 – Grand Rapids MI @ Founders Brewing
April 18 – Marquette MI @ Ore Dock Brewing Co
April 19 – Hancock MI @ The Orpheum Theatre
April 21 – Milwaukee WI @ Colectivo Coffee – Prospect Café
April 22 – Chicago IL @ Hideout
April 23 – Fort Wayne IN @ The Brass Rail

*U.S. dates will feature local support