BNL Announce New Year's Show

12/08/08 2:27pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Barenaked Ladies will play a New Year's Eve show in Detroit and have a number of television appearances coming up.

Singer/guitarists Steven Page and Ed Robertson, bassist Jim Creeggan, keyboardist Kevin Hearn and drummer Tyler Stewart will ring in the new year at Detroit's Fox Theatre. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster and are "going fast," according to the band's website.

Hearn will perform with Elvis Costello and Lou Reed on Wednesday's episode of Spectacle: Elvis Costello With..., which airs at 9 p.m. on the Sundance channel in the U.S. CTV will air the episode at a later date.

Robertson will perform the Barenaked Ladies' version of "Green Christmas," which was originally on The Grinch soundtrack, on Bravo!'s Christmas At The Concert Hall. He'll also perform The Andrews Sisters' "Jing-A-Ling, Jing-A-Ling" with Mary Margaret O'Hara and Holly Cole on the show, which will also include Hawksley Workman crooning “Merry Christmas, I Love You” and Serena Ryder covering "Blue Christmas." All five singers will close the show with a rendition of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town."

Christmas At The Concert Hall will air on Tuesday at 10 p.m. EST on Bravo!. You can catch it again on Saturday at 7 p.m., Dec. 22 at 8 p.m., Dec. 24 at 10 p.m. and Dec. 25 at 4 p.m. EST.

BNL participated on CBC Radio One's Sounds Of The Season broadcast on Saturday at Toronto's Glenn Gould Studio. They joined Divine Brown, Sarah Slean and others at the event, which raised more than $160,000 for Toronto's Daily Bread Food Bank. Admission was free, but fans were encouraged to bring a non-perishable food or cash donation.

The band were in New York City to take part in a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony on Live With Regis And Kelly on Dec. 2. They performed shows for both kids and adults at Toronto's Massey Hall on the weekend.

Barenaked Ladies will set sail with lots of musical friends on their fifth annual Ships And Dip cruise on Feb. 1. Page will do his best to keep away from all the on-board buffets since he recently blogged about losing 40 pounds after seeing a nutritionist and committing to taking better care of himself.

Page admitted in the blog that his drug bust has made 2008 a terrible year for him, but he also has "many things to be happy and grateful for: Falling in love, a renewed sense of peace, the best health of my adult life, some amazing creative and artistic opportunities, and the chance for a renewed and fruitful relationship with my band, friends and loved ones."

You can see the Barenaked Ladies here:

Dec. 13 Ottawa, ON @ National Arts Centre (matinee show)
Dec. 13 Ottawa, ON @ National Arts Centre (evening show)
Dec. 31 Detroit, MI @ Fox Theatre
Feb. 1-6 Ships And Dip V cruise (Miami, Fla. to Cozumel, Mexico)