SYNTHESIS, our annual gala fundraising event, embodies the spirit of the Queen West Art Crawl by celebrating collaboration, creativity, and diversity. We bring together 20 of the city’s most talented, adventurous artists and performers to create 10 original collaborations which will premiere at Pia Bouman School For Ballet and Creative Movement on Friday March 25th, 2011.

I was asked to compose a song in reaction to a visual artist’s painting and The Outlanders are going to perform it.  Tickets and more info at http://www.parkdaleliberty.com/synthesis/

UPDATE: A huge thank you to everyone who came to see us.  It was an amazing night of artistic collaborations and a great concert for The Outlanders.

All good things must end, and our regular Monday night at the Orbit Room is sadly coming to a close.  The last scheduled performance is Monday, March 28.  First set starts at 9:30PM, so come a little earlier to get settled in.  We have had an awesome couple years playing for you at the Orbit every Monday, and I can’t say we wont miss it.  Our last show should be a total party, so come on out!

All proceeds from this Monday’s door and collected donations going to support the Japanese Red Cross Society.

http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html

UPDATE: We raised 105.50 CDN or 8 384 YEN.  Thank you!!

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Track 1: Untitled #1
Track 2: Biggity Higgity
Track 3: Someone Sang
Track 4: Spat
Track 5: Until Dawn
Track 6: Inn where no man rests
Track 7: Untitled #2
Track 8: Sebastien’s Bells

If you have ever been unable to make an Outlanders Orbit Room show, but wanted to hear what you missed, I will be posting live recordings of some of the highlights.

To start us off, here is Monday, January 24, 2011 at the Orbit Room in Toronto.

Set 1:

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Track 1: Only the Righteous
Track 2: Untitled #1
Track 3: Untitled #2
Track 4: Inn where no man rests (debut performance)
Track 5: Rainboots

The Outlanders have been asked to extend our residency at the Orbit Room! The August gigs exceeded all our expectations and featured a number of great musicians. Besides the regular core of Joel, Bret and Josh, we featured Robbie Grunwald on B3, Davide D’irenzo on drums and Carly Blasutti on vocals. Check the gig listings for event details.

Here’s some clips from August 30th at the Orbit

Rainboots

Until Dawn

Here Today Gone Tomorrow

The Outlanders will be back at the Orbit Room every Mondays in August. Shows start at 10PM!

“Petite Mort” and “Who Can Know What Love Will Bring?”

The Outlanders are excited to announce later summer hours at The Orbit Room.

The Monday night residency (every other Monday) will now be from 10PM – 1AM starting June 8, 2009. See performance schedule

The usual group, legendary super-group Kevin Breit and Sisters Euclid, who have held the Monday night post for almost thirteen years are taking the summer off (at least).  The Outlanders have been asked to take their place indefinitely.

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The Outlanders have been selected to play the opening night of this year’s Luminato Festival on June 5th.

“Luminato is an annual celebration of the arts where Toronto’s stages, streets, and public spaces are infused with theatre, dance, classical and contemporary music, film, literature, visual arts, and design. Now in its third year, Luminato brings a world of creativity to the city for ten days June 5-14, 2009…Luminato brings Toronto’s light to the world, and the world’s light to Toronto.” [Luminato website]

We’ll update with more details as they come up. For now, we’re just excited to take part.

Tags: arts, creative, festival, Luminato, music

…and this is how his story goes is getting play on CBC Radio!  So far Fresh Air (Weekends, 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m in Ontario) and Saskatchwan Weekend (Weekends, 6:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. in Saskatchewan) are the early adopters.

If you’re able to help, email the programs mentioning you’d like to hear more from The Outlanders.  Send comments to Fresh Air and Saskatchewan Weekend or to your favourite CBC Radio show.

UPDATE April 01: The disc in being picked up in several more Canadian cities including Regina, Winnipeg and Ottawa!

Radio host Jaymz Bee will be interviewing me about The Outlanders and spinning some tracks from our album.  Airing between 6pm and 8pm on Saturday, March 14 online or 91.1FM in the Toronto area.