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Great Lake Swimmers

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Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian band built around the melodic folk rock songs of singer and songwriter Tony Dekker. [1]

91 relations: A Forest of Arms, Acoustic guitar, Audiotransparent, Backing vocalist, Banjo, Barzin, Before They Make Me Run, Bodies and Minds, Borrowed Tunes II: A Tribute to Neil Young, Burlington's Sound of Music Festival, Cadence Weapon, Canadian Folk Music Awards, Canadian rock/alternative chart, Canadians, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Carefree Highway (song), CBC Music, Chad VanGaalen, Christine Fellows, Christmas, City Sonic, Daniela Gesundheit, Double bass, Drum, Electric guitar, Elvis Presley, Evening Chronicle, Exclaim!, Folk rock, Friends in Bellwoods II, Gordon Lightfoot, Gram Parsons, Great Lake Swimmers, Great Lake Swimmers (album), Hands in Dirty Ground, Hank Williams, Harmonica, Have Not Been the Same, Human Sexual Response (band), Independent music, Iron & Wine, Jennifer Castle, Jenny Omnichord, Julie Fader, Juno Award, Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Group, Keith Behrman, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, Lead vocalist, Lost Channels, ..., Martin Tielli, Matt Mays, Miranda Mulholland, National Parks Project, National Post, Neil Young, Nettwerk, New Wild Everywhere, Nick Drake, Northern Songs: Canada's Best and Brightest, Nova Scotia, Ohbijou, Old Man Luedecke, Ongiara, Ontario, Paste (magazine), Pump organ, Rae Spoon, Red House Painters, Sandro Perri, See You on the Moon!: Songs for Kids of All Ages, Siskiyou (band), Speak n Spell Music, Sufjan Stevens, The Globe and Mail, The Grapes of Wrath (band), The Guardian, The Legion Sessions, The Sound the Hare Heard, Thousand Islands, Tony Dekker, Toronto, United Steel Workers of Montreal, USB flash drive, Violin, Wainfleet, Ontario, Warehouse 13, Weewerk, Will Oldham, Zunior, 2009 Polaris Music Prize. Expand index (41 more) »

A Forest of Arms

A Forest of Arms is the sixth studio album by Canadian folk rock band Great Lake Swimmers, released April 21, 2015 on Nettwerk.

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Acoustic guitar

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that produces sound acoustically by transmitting the vibration of the strings to the air—as opposed to relying on electronic amplification (see electric guitar).

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Audiotransparent

Audiotransparent is a Dutch indie pop band, influenced from several genres, including american, pop and rock.

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Backing vocalist

Backing vocalists are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Banjo

The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.

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Barzin

Barzin is a Canadian singer-songwriter known for his slow and melancholic songs.

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Before They Make Me Run

"Before They Make Me Run" is a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones, featured on their 1978 album Some Girls.

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Bodies and Minds

Bodies and Minds is the second album by Canadian folk rock group Great Lake Swimmers, released in 2005.

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Borrowed Tunes II: A Tribute to Neil Young

Borrowed Tunes II is a tribute album to Neil Young, released October 16, 2007.

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Burlington's Sound of Music Festival

The Sound of Music Festival is an annual music festival in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.

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Cadence Weapon

Roland "Rollie" Pemberton, better known by his stage name Cadence Weapon, is a Canadian rapper.

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Canadian Folk Music Awards

The Canadian Folk Music Awards are an annual music awards ceremony, presenting awards in a variety of categories for achievements in both traditional and contemporary folk music, and other roots music genres, by Canadian musicians.

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Canadian rock/alternative chart

The Canadian rock/alternative chart was first published on June 11, 1995 by RPM magazine under the name Alternative 30.

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Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens / Canadiennes) are people identified with the country of Canada.

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Cape Breton Highlands National Park

Cape Breton Highlands National Park (official name: Cape Breton Highlands National Park of Canada) (Parc national du Canada des Hautes-Terres-du-Cap-Breton) is a Canadian national park located on northern Cape Breton Island in the province of Nova Scotia.

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Carefree Highway (song)

"Carefree Highway" is a song written by Gordon Lightfoot and was second single release from his 1974 album, Sundown.

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CBC Music

CBC Music (formerly known as CBC FM, CBC Stereo and CBC Radio 2) is a Canadian FM radio network operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Chad VanGaalen

Chad VanGaalen (born 1977) is a Canadian musician and artist from Calgary, Alberta.

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Christine Fellows

Christine Fellows (born 1968) is a Canadian folk-pop singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,Martindale, Cyril Charles.

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City Sonic

City Sonic is a documentary series about Toronto-based musicians and the places that influenced their music.

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Daniela Gesundheit

Daniela Gesundheit (born 15 April 1982) is a singer, songwriter, musician, composer, lyricist, and Cantor living between Los Angeles, California and Toronto, Ontario.

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Double bass

The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Evening Chronicle

The Evening Chronicle is a daily, evening newspaper produced in Newcastle upon Tyne, covering Tyne and Wear, southern Northumberland and northern County Durham.

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Exclaim!

Exclaim! is a monthly Canadian music magazine that features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and cutting-edge artists.

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s.

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Friends in Bellwoods II

Friends in Bellwoods is a compilation album, released in 2009 by Out of This Spark as a benefit for Toronto's Daily Bread Food Bank.

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Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music.

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Gram Parsons

Ingram Cecil Connor III (November 5, 1946 – September 19, 1973), known professionally as Gram Parsons, was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and pianist.

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Great Lake Swimmers

Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian band built around the melodic folk rock songs of singer and songwriter Tony Dekker.

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Great Lake Swimmers (album)

Great Lake Swimmers is the eponymous debut album by the Canadian folk rock band Great Lake Swimmers.

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Hands in Dirty Ground

Hands in Dirty Ground is a limited edition EP by Canadian folk rock group Great Lake Swimmers, released in 2006.

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Hank Williams

Hiram "Hank" Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American singer-songwriter.

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Harmonica

The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.

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Have Not Been the Same

Have Not Been the Same: The Can-Rock Renaissance 1985–1995 is a book by Canadian music journalists Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack, and Jason Schneider, which chronicles the development of alternative rock in Canada between 1985 and 1995.

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Human Sexual Response (band)

Human Sexual Response was an American new wave band formed in Boston, MA in 1978.

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Independent music

Independent music (often referred to as indie music or indie) is music produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing.

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Iron & Wine

Samuel "Sam" Ervin Beam (born July 26, 1974), better known by his stage and recording name Iron & Wine, is an American singer-songwriter.

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Jennifer Castle

Jennifer Castle is a Canadian singer-songwriter, based in Toronto, Ontario.

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Jenny Omnichord

Jenny Mitchell, better known by the stage name Jenny Omnichord, is a Canadian indie rock musician.

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Julie Fader

Julie Fader is a Canadian musician, songwriter and visual artist, best known as a keyboard player and backing vocalist for Sarah Harmer, Chad VanGaalen and Great Lake Swimmers.

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Juno Award

The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music.

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Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Group

The Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Group was presented annually at Canada's Juno Awards to honour the best album of the year in the roots and/or traditional music genres.

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Keith Behrman

Keith Behrman (born April 1, 1963 in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian film and television director and writer.

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Lake Ontario Waterkeeper

Lake Ontario Waterkeeper is a Toronto-based environmental justice advocacy group founded in 2001, with Lake Ontario, the Great Lakes Basin, and allied waterways at heart.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist (or main vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer) in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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Lost Channels

Lost Channels is the fourth studio album by Canadian folk rock band Great Lake Swimmers, released on March 31, 2009.

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Martin Tielli

Martin Tielli (born 28 February 1967, Italy) is a Canadian singer-songwriter.

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Matt Mays

Matt Mays (born August 10, 1979) is a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter and was the lead singer of Matt Mays & El Torpedo, a rock music group based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and New York City.

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Miranda Mulholland

Miranda Mulholland is Canadian fiddle player and singer.

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National Parks Project

The National Parks Project is a Canadian music and film project.

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National Post

The National Post is a conservative Canadian English-language newspaper.

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Neil Young

Neil Percival Young, (born November 12, 1945), is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, producer, director and screenwriter.

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Nettwerk

Nettwerk Music Group is the umbrella company for Nettwerk Records, Nettwerk Management, and Nettwerk One Publishing.

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New Wild Everywhere

New Wild Everywhere is the fifth studio album by Canadian folk rock band Great Lake Swimmers, released April 3, 2012 on Nettwerk.

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Nick Drake

Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician, known for his acoustic guitar-based songs.

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Northern Songs: Canada's Best and Brightest

Northern Songs: Canada's Best and Brightest is a compilation album of songs performed by some of Canada's "best and brightest" musicians, released in September 2008 under Rhino Records and sold exclusively at Starbucks locations through their Hear Music label.

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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia (Latin for "New Scotland"; Nouvelle-Écosse; Scottish Gaelic: Alba Nuadh) is one of Canada's three maritime provinces, and one of the four provinces that form Atlantic Canada.

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Ohbijou

Ohbijou was a Canadian indie pop band that formed in 2004 in Toronto.

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Old Man Luedecke

Old Man Luedecke is the recording name of two-time Juno Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter and banjo player Chris Luedecke of Chester, Nova Scotia.

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Ongiara

Ongiara is an album by Canadian folk rock band Great Lake Swimmers, released on March 27, 2007.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Paste (magazine)

Paste is a monthly music and entertainment digital magazine published in the United States by Wolfgang's Vault.

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Pump organ

The pump organ, reed organ, harmonium, or melodeon is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame.

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Rae Spoon

Rae Spoon is a Canadian musician and writer.

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Red House Painters

Red House Painters were an American rock band, formed in San Francisco, California in 1988.

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Sandro Perri

Sandro Perri is a musician and producer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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See You on the Moon!: Songs for Kids of All Ages

See You on the Moon!: Songs for Kids of All Ages is a compilation album, released in 2006 on Paper Bag Records.

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Siskiyou (band)

Siskiyou is a Canadian indie folk band formed in Vancouver, consisting of singer-songwriter Colin Huebert and guitarist Erik Arnesen.

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Speak n Spell Music

Speak n Spell Music (or Speak n Spell Music Publishing Pty Ltd) was an Australia and New Zealand based Record Label, Artist Management, International Touring Company and music licensing company.

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Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens (born July 1, 1975) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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The Grapes of Wrath (band)

The Grapes of Wrath are a Canadian rock band.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Legion Sessions

The Legion Sessions is a live EP by Canadian folk rock band Great Lake Swimmers, released in September 2009.

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The Sound the Hare Heard

The Sound the Hare Heard is a 2006 compilation of mostly acoustic arrangements by a number of singer-songwriters, both well-known and relatively obscure.

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Thousand Islands

The Thousand Islands constitute an archipelago of 1,864 islands that straddles the Canada–US border in the Saint Lawrence River as it emerges from the northeast corner of Lake Ontario.

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Tony Dekker

Tony Dekker is a Canadian singer and songwriter.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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United Steel Workers of Montreal

United Steel Workers of Montreal (or USWM) were a six-piece alternative country ensemble based in downtown Montreal, Quebec.

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USB flash drive

A USB flash drive, also variously known as a thumb drive, pen drive, gig stick, flash stick, jump drive, disk key, disk on key (after the original M-Systems DiskOnKey drive from 2000), flash-drive, memory stick (not to be confused with the Sony Memory Stick), USB stick or USB memory, is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB interface.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Wainfleet, Ontario

Wainfleet is a rural township in southern Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.

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Warehouse 13

Warehouse 13 is an American science fiction television series that premiered on July 7, 2009, on the Syfy network.

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Weewerk

Weewerk, stylized as (weewerk), is an independent folk, roots, bluegrass, country record label and artist-management company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Will Oldham

Will Oldham (born December 24, 1970), better known by the stage name Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, is an American singer-songwriter and actor.

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Zunior

Zunior.com is a Canadian online independent record label and music store founded in 2004 by Dave Ullrich, formerly of The Inbreds.

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2009 Polaris Music Prize

The 2009 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 21, 2009 in Toronto.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lake_Swimmers

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