Montreal's Folk on the Canal Festival

Make sure to catch Plants and Animals and Daniel Isaiah at the Folk on the Canal Festival in Montreal!

DANIEL ISAIAH
OPENING ACT FOR JIM KWESKIN
CENTRE CULTUREL GEORGES VANIER -2450 WORKMAN STREET
FRIDAY JUNE 15 - 8PM
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PLANTS AND ANIMALS
MARCHÉ ATWATER - ILÔT CHARLEVOIX (LACHINE CANAL)
SATURDAY JUNE 16 - 7:30PM
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Making of video for Into Giants

Patrick Watson just released this behind the scene video shot during the filming of the music video Into Giants. The new album was released in the US yesterday while the band is starting the tour with Andrew Bird tomorrow!

05/03/12 Philadelphia, PA || Union Transfer * [ Sold-out ]
05/04/12 New York, NY || Beacon Theatre *
05/06/12 Boston, MA || House of Blues *
05/08/12 Washington, DC || The 930 Club * [ Sold-out ]
05/09/12 Baltimore, MD || Ramshead Live *
* with Andrew Bird

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New Quebec tour dates for Patrick Watson + new music video for Into Giants!

Patrick Watson today premieres the official music video for “Into Giants", the first single off of his acclaimed new album Adventures in Your Own Backyard, which was released in Canada by Secret City on April 17th. The all-singing, all-dancing clip was directed by longtime collaborator Brigitte Henry.

Watson has also just announced a new tour dates in his native Quebec, including a performance in Quebec City at the Festival D’été on July 10th, and a string of shows throughout the province in the fall.

07/04/12 Montreal, QC || Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier (Festival de Jazz) &
07/10/12 Quebec City, QC || Le Pigeonnier (Festival d’été de QC)&*
09/20/12 New Richmond, QC || Salle New Richmond *
09/21/12 Rimouski, QC || Salle Desjardins-Telus *
09/22/12 Baie-Comeau, QC || Théâtre de Baie-Comeau *
09/23/12 Sept-Iles, QC || Salle Jean-Marc Dion *
09/26/12 Drummondville, QC || Salle Léo-Paul Therrien *
09/27/12 Sherbrooke, QC || Théâtre Granada *
09/28/12 Gatineau, QC || Théâtre du Musée Canadien des Civilisations *
09/29/12 Gatineau, QC || Théâtre du Musée Canadien des Civilisations *

& with Loney Dear
* with Thus:Owls

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Plants and Animals announce additional tour dates with Bombay Bicycle Club

Hell-bent on conquering the US, the never road-weary Plants and Animals have added more dates to an already busy tour schedule in support of their new album, The End of That. The band will support Bombay Bicycle Club for a week on the East Coast in late July prior to their hometown performance at Montreal’s Osheaga Festival. Their US tour kicked off in March with a whirlwind, successful week at SXSW, where the band commanded several packed houses, from dive bars on 6th street to the quiet confines of St. David’s Historic Sanctuary, proving Plants and Animals have the chops to win over any audience, no matter what the setting. The band plays sold-out shows in New York tonight at Mercury Lounge, and in Toronto on Saturday at Lee’s Palace.

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"Adventures in Your Own Backyard" is out now!

The wait is over! Yesterday marked the Canadian release of Patrick Watson’s new album, Adventures in Your Own Backyard. It’s already tearing up the charts and has critics raving. The album is available on CD and LP in fine record stores across the country, digitally on iTunes, via mail order from Amazon.ca and as always, directly from us.

To mark the occasion of the new release, Watson has unveiled a video that embodies the spirit of the album, a mini-documentary shot on location in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec last year at the Festival de musique émergente. The first of a series of ‘Backyard’ vignettes, it features Watson conversing in French with a local of the region, playing piano in his livingroom before an outdoor neighbourhood concert.

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The Barr Brothers release music video for "Old Mythologies"

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Patrick Watson Hour cover story

Patrick Watson is on the cover of the Hour Community this week to highlight the release of his brand new album Adventures in Your Own Backyard.

Read the story by Sean Michaels.

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Patrick Watson Voir cover story

Patrick Watson is on the cover of the Voir Montreal, Gatineau/Ottawa and Estrie this week to highlight the release of his brand new album Adventures in Your Own Backyard.

Read the story by Olivier Robillard-Laveaux.

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Patrick Watson's new album available to order now

Patrick Watson's new album, Adventures in Your Own Backyard, is available to order now from Secret City Records for Canadian customers. The new album, which already has critics raving, is out on April 17th in Canada, and is available directly from Secret City as of now on CD and LP. It's also available to pre-order now via iTunes Canada. And as previously mentioned, due to popular demand, we've also finally re-issued the LP of Patrick Watson's breakthrough 2006 album, Close to Paradise, winner of the 2007 Polaris Prize. It's a deluxe edition, pressed on 180 gram vinyl, with a gatefold sleeve.

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Secret City re-issues classic Patrick Watson and Plants and Animals albums on 180 gram vinyl.

Two of Secret City's most-loved releases, Patrick Watson's 2006 breakthrough album, Close to Paradise, and Plants and Animals debut Parc Avenue have just been re-issued on 180 gram vinyl. Parc Avenue is a 2LP. Both are packaged in gatefold sleeves. The albums are available directly from us via mail-order, but we'll also be sending a limited number of these out to participating Canadian stores in time for Record Store Day on April 21st, including Phonopolis, Cheap Thrills and Aux 33tours in Montreal, and Sonic Boom in Toronto, where Plants and Animals will also be performing live as part of their Record Store Day festivities.

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