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Great Lake Swimmers — Lost Channels

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By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) April 3, 2009 2:02 pm
What the hell happened to Tony Dekker? It's like he and his Great Lake Swimmers have finally woken up after years of peaceful, acoustic slumber. The band's fourth album is noticeably more upbeat and alive. Dekker's heart-melting vocals and poetics remain intact and the warm, autumnal sound that always seems to follow the ensemble is still...
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Tony Dekker/Great Lake Swimmers — Song Sung Blue

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By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) January 8, 2009 3:57 pm
Song Sung Blue is a multiple award-winning documentary about a Milwaukee couple who spend their entire lives paying tribute to Neil Diamond, live, in music. This EP is the soundtrack to the film and features a wonderfully warm instrumental collection of songs (with the exception of the title track and 57 seconds of hoo-ing on "Awake")...
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Great Lake Swimmers @ NXNE 2008

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By Zack Vitiello (CHARTattack) June 13, 2008 12:30 pm
BACKGROUND/COMPOSITION: Great Lake Swimmers are a textbook definition of ambient folk music. Their melodies are slightly morose yet strangely charming, composed of finger picked guitars that plod along as banjos and harmonicas fill in the gaps. Frontman Tony Dekker’s haunting voice seeps deep into your bones, but you want it to live there...
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Great Lake Swimmers (Photo by Zack Vitiello)

In The Dead Of Winter Festival Warms Up Halifax

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By Shannon Webb-Campbell (CHARTattack) February 4, 2008 2:00 pm
With the corporate season behind us, the longing for spring thickens. But there's one final occasion worth noting before the ground thaws, the leaves start budding and a sense of renewal fills the air — the inaugural In The Dead Of Winter Festival. Posters of the fest's emblematic snowy owl clinging to lampposts via packing tape and staples...
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Jenn Grant (Photo by Karyn Haag)

Great Lake Swimmers — Ongiara

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By Shannon Whibbs (CHARTattack) March 20, 2007 7:44 pm
This third full-length release from Great Lake Swimmers falls into that rare category of albums that defy certain natural laws. Just when it seems like it can't possibly get more beautiful, the next song sets the bar even higher and it becomes an overload of pure awesome. Ongiara is slow and spare, yet amazingly rich and varied. Tony Dekker's...
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Great Lake Swimmers @ CMW 2006

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By Matt Semansky (CHARTattack) March 4, 2006 2:30 pm
Hometown: Toronto, Ontario Background/Composition: Four-piece plays mellow, melancholy folk with a touch of twang. Grade: 82 Comment: Tony Dekker's voice is an arresting instrument and it quickly grabbed the crowd's attention once it began wafting out of the speakers. His band doesn't do anything flashy, but the songs are strong...
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Great Lake Swimmers — Bodies And Minds

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By Marc Boudignon (CHARTattack) March 15, 2005 1:22 pm
The notion of mind/body duality has been debated in philosophy circles since Descartes, and now London, Ontario’s Great Lake Swimmers have joined the fray, but with a strictly musical discourse. To say they’re happier than Sartre is a given, but GLS straddle the line between half-empty and half-full, with songs of longing ("To Leave It Behind...
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LISTEN: Great Lake Swimmers new track "Easy Come, Easy Go"

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By Maxim Morin (CHARTattack) January 9, 2012 12:11 pm
The Toronto folk-rockers known as the Great Lake Swimmers seem to have shed their unconventional recording style as they announced the release of their fifth “studio” album, New Wild Everywhere, on April 3rd via Nettwerk Records. The band infamously known for recording in silos, boats, castles, islands and just about every...
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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 28, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 28, 2010 11:47 am
Revealed (by The Onion): Justin Bieber is a "well concealed 51-year-old pedophile." —The OnionAnother day, another Pete Doherty drug arrest. This time it's for cocaine possession, and it's linked to a filmmaker's death. —NME Rufus Wainwright has announced some dates in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. and Europe to take place during October...
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Song Of The Day: Great Lake Swimmers' "Ballad Of A Fisherman's Wife"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 7, 2010 12:42 pm
Given their name, it's only appropriate Great Lake Swimmers wrote "Ballad Of A Fisherman's Wife." They composed it in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil rig oil spill in the Gulf Of Mexico, which happened in April. The tune is about farmers and fishers who depend on waterbodies for their livelihood, which is incredibly...
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I Read The News Today... For July 17, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff July 16, 2010 4:10 pm
Weezer's new album is out Sept. 13. It's apparently full of "raw rock energy." —Spin Amy Adams will play Janis Joplin in an upcoming biopic about the troubled '60s rocker. —CBS News Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry was hospitalized after getting into a motorcycle accident on Thursday (July 16). —Rolling...
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Great Lake Swimmers — "River's Edge"

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 22, 2010 4:51 pm
Here's Great Lake Swimmers' beautiful new video for Lost Channels' "River's Edge," an animated clip that simultaneously looks like it's been created entirely out of wood. Check out these other Great Lake Swimmers videos on CHARTattack: "Stealing Tomorrow" "Pulling On A Line" "...
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I Read The News Today... For June 15, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff June 15, 2010 11:37 am
The full lineup for this year's SappyFest, which takes place July 30 to Aug. 1 in Sackville, N.B., has been announced. —sappyfest.com The Weakerthans and Jim Bryson will perform songs from their upcoming collaborative record at the Winnipeg Folk Festival this July. —jimbryson.org CBGB Holdings LLC, which bought New York's legendary CBGB punk...
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Great Lake Swimmers — "Stealing Tomorrow"

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By CHARTattack Staff April 23, 2010 4:09 pm
Great Lake Swimmers frontman Tony Dekker wanders across a desolate field, looking a bit like a lost mountain man in the video for the Polaris Music Prize short listed Lost Channels' "Stealing Tomorrow." The treatment suits the track's lonely feeling. Check out these other Great Lake Swimmers on CHARTattack: "Palmistry" "...
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Meet The Juno Nominees: Great Lake Swimmers

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By Liisa Ladouceur (CHARTattack) March 3, 2010 3:20 pm
Toronto's Great Lake Swimmers are one of the 94 first-time 2010 Juno Awards nominees. The band's fourth album, Lost Channels, a haunting sonic love letter to Ontario's 1,000 Islands region, was previously short listed for the Polaris Music Prize and will now vie for the honour of group roots and traditional album of the year. Singer Tony...
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Great Lake Swimmers' Greg Millson and Tony Dekker (Photo by John Papamarko)

Juno Award 2010 Nominee Press Conference

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Photographer: 
John Papamarko
Venue: 
Fairmont Royal York Hotel
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
March 3, 2010
Juno Nominations (Photo by John Papamarko)

Library Voices Present: How I Spent My Olympic Vacation

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By CHARTattack Staff February 26, 2010 4:55 pm
Regina rockers Library Voices went to Vancouver to perform during the Olympics. They wrote us a diary about their adventures: The road to the Vancouver for an Olympic athlete is paved with years of training, a God-given physical prowess and most likely overbearing parents. For a rock 'n' roll band, however, that road is paved with Pilsner-...
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Great Lake Swimmers — "Pulling On A Line"

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 30, 2009 10:56 am
Great Lake Swimmers' video for "Pulling On A Line," from the Polaris Music Prize short listed Lost Channels was shot in Lake Ontario's Thousand Islands, near where the band recorded the album. Sean Michael Turrell (Tegan And Sara, MSTRKRFT) directed the clip, which features a tall ship and... books on palm reading, appropriately...
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Great Lake Swimmers (Photo by Ilia Horsburgh)

Great Lake Swimmers At Polaris Music Prize Gala 2009

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Photographer: 
John Papamarko
Venue: 
Masonic Temple
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
September 21, 2009
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Great Lake Swimmers At Polaris Music Prize Gala 2009

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Photographer: 
John Papamarko
Venue: 
Masonic Temple
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
September 21, 2009
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