BASIA BULAT ANNOUNCES FIRST QUEBEC-WIDE TOUR THIS FALL
THE GARDEN NOMINATED FOR 2023 JUNO AWARD
One year following the release of her album, The Garden, Montreal’s Basia Bulat is pleased to embark on her first-ever Quebec-wide tour this Fall that will kick off on October 19 in Brossard, followed by stops in Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières, Quebec City, Joliette, and Richmond, among others. The full list of shows and onsale dates can be found below. To purchase your tickets, click here.
Having lived in Montreal for nearly a decade, Basia is thrilled to finally be touring the province that she now calls home. I’m so excited to be bringing my music across Quebec for the first time, she says. I’ve written songs through heartbreak, falling in love, grief, and starting a family, and created a show that sings from each of these eras as a garden does through its seasons. This is going to be a really special show of music from across all of my albums: early and later songs transformed and evolved, with arrangements from the newest two albums that have been waiting for years to blossom on stage with a live band.
Basia was also included amongst this year’s JUNO nominees for Adult Alternative Album of the Year. Recipients will be announced next week on Monday, March 13 at 8pm ET.
The Garden was released last year to praise and support from NPR Music’s All Songs Considered, The AV Club, Brooklyn Vegan (Influences feature), Consequence, Under the Radar, MOJO, and more. Basia was also invited to perform Fables (The Garden Version) for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s #LateShowMeMusic series. Watch it here.
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While she has been known to play live with small chamber ensembles and full orchestras–including the Ottawa National Arts Centre Orchestra and Symphony Nova Scotia–The Garden marks Bulat’s first recording to capture this spellbinding configuration. Across the 16 songs, produced by herself and Mark Lawson (Arcade Fire, Beirut), she gives a new life to beloved originals alongside a handpicked group of string players (violinists John Corban and Tomo Newton, violist Jen Thiessen, harpist Sarah Page, along with Robidoux on cello), as well as bandmates Andrew Woods and Ben Whiteley on guitar and bass, respectively.
The Garden fits within a storied history of artists revisiting their songs over time and for Bulat, the album was a chance to record anew select songs whose meanings have shifted from when she originally composed them. Distance teaches, and reveals: I sing the songs differently now, she says. It's the gift of time. While creating The Garden, Bulat had just found out she was expecting her first child, which she revealed to her collaborators in the midst of recording, down a wire from the vocal booth. A song can change shape, turning new leaves and growing new blooms, in life’s unexpected seasons.
Additional Praise For The Garden:
...the quartet of players performing orchestral reimaginings of Bulat’s music create a different tenor and take on her normally folk-oriented sound, while giving the musician’s voice a chance to evolve and shine in a new light. – The AV Club (Albums We Can’t Wait to Hear in February)
The songs are at times delicate and pressing, at times soaring and urgent… a beautiful record of reworkings. – Thank Folk For That
Rather than pit the renditions against one another, they should be judged on their own merits. As with any garden, the endeavor requires patience, but the rewards are delectable. – PopMatters, 8/10
This collection of reimaginings transforms what was once a collection of tender, self-contained folk songs into vast, cinematic landscapes. – Loud & Quiet
The title track has the pastoral lushness and wonder of Cat Stevens’ Morning Has Broken while Bulat’s vocal is as gritty and wise as Natalie Merchant. – MOJO
The graceful arrangements of Owen Pallett and the pristine production of Mark Lawson ensure that the results are lovely, while the gorgeous purity of Bulat’s voice glides elegantly above it all. – Uncut

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