Calgary’s Boreal Sons set to play the Sault

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EARS AND EYES

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Ears and Eyes are proud to present Boreal Sons in Northern Ontario.

The four-piece band will perform both in Sault Ste. Marie and Thunder Bay as they drive across the country to perform at Canadian Music Week.

Boreal Sons are recommended for fans of Midlake, Fleet Foxes, Sigur Ros, Andrew Bird, Patrick Watson, Bon Iver, Radiohead, and Simon and Garfunkel.

Sault Ste. Marie­ based bedroom neo pop artist Aldous aka Nick Luck will be opening the May 16 concert with a solo performance.

Ottawa­-based but Sault­-born nostalgic indie rock duo Great Chamberlain will also be performing. This band is Chris West and Anthony Marcello.

The show will take place at 180 Projects on Monday, May 16. Cover is $12, doors at 7:30, show at 9 p.m.

Boreal Sons are an art­rock band whose imaginative compositions are as emotive as they are intelligent, pairing sweeping instrumental arrangements with vivid lyrical imagery and pop-­inspired melodies.

Woven together by the dynamic voice of singer Evan Wesley Acheson, whose vocal style reimagines old jazz crooners with a darker edge, Boreal Sons’ music ebbs and flows—both overwhelming in its grandeur and captivating in its intimacy.

The latest collection of songs from Boreal Sons is cinematic, poetic, and represents the rapid growth the band has experienced in the last two years.

Whereas the band’s earlier music told stories, complex narrative fictions meant to excite the imagination, the lyricism of their new work looks inwards, desperately searching for respite from the overwhelming
pressures that come with adulthood.

The title of their most recent release, Threadbare, evokes a weary vulnerability but never confirms whether it was borne of love or abuse.

Acheson’s lyrics here are more personal as the bold honesty of Threadbare’s content address themes of grief, intimacy, faith, and self-­identity.

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