Great Aunt Ida Playing Across Canada Through May

Vancouver's Great Aunt Ida are set to embark on their first coast to coast tour in support of their second album, How They Fly.

The Ida Nilsen-fronted group have toured Canada before, but this will be the first that touches both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The routing will go from west to east and back again. Nilsen recently finished playing several Ontario shows with The Violet Archers, former Rheostatic Tim Vesely's current project.

Nilsen co-wrote "Sustain" with Mike Scott for the new Waterboys album, Book Of Lightning. Scott flew to Vancouver last June to record the song with Nilsen and bandmates Barry Mirochnick (drums) and Annie Wilkinson (bass).

Here are Great Aunt Ida's tour dates:

April 30 Kelowna, BC @ Habitat w/The Cipes Brothers, Keith Grief and Lynn Kelman
May 1 Penticton, BC @ Art Gallery Of The South Okanagan
May 2 Fernie, BC @ Freshies w/Big Bubba Tres
May 3 Calgary, AB @ Broken City w/Team Building and Brittle Siren
May 4 Edmonton, AB @ Velvet Underground w/Toy Singers
May 5 Saskatoon, SK @ Red Shift Gallery w/Shuyler Jansen and Slow Down Molasses
May 6 Winnipeg, MB @ Collective Cabaret w/Jay Churko
May 7 Thunder Bay, ON @ The Apollo w/Coco Love Acorn
May 9 Toronto, ON @ The Press Club w/Samir Khan
May 10 Wakefield, QC @ The Black Sheep Inn w/Kim Barlow
May 11 Montreal, QC @ Club Lambi w/Henri Faberge And The Adorables
May 15 Charlottetown, PEI @ Baba's
May 16 Sydney, NS @ Upstairs w/Ruth Minnikin
May 17 Halifax, NS @ Gus' Pub w/The Bicycles and Old Seed
May 18 Sackville, NB @ Struts Gallery w/Jenn Grant
May 19 Quebec City, QC @ L'Agitee w/Reilly
May 20 Ottawa, ON @ Irene's Pub w/Sarah Hallman
May 21 Toronto, ON @ Cameron House w/Royal Wood
May 25 Medicine Hat, AB @ Cafe Caprice w/Jesse Dolliment
May 26 Calgary, AB @ Marquee Room