NEWS: Evening Hymns bring Spectral Dusk to Halifax - Canadian tour dates announced


Currently on an extensive European tour which sees them play twenty-five cities in six European countries including festival dates at Berlin Music Week and Reeperbahn, Toronto's Evening Hymns are pleased to announce their upcoming Canadian tour this October and November in support of their much-lauded full-length album Spectral Dusk.  

Live, Spectral Dusk plays out with visceral raw emotion the feelings that were captured on disk. The album is an intensely personal album that finds songwriter Jonas Bonnetta dealing, through music, with the loss of his father who passed away in 2009. Recorded with musical friends in a cabin in northern Ontario, it takes on new form in its live incarnation, channeling new feelings of hope into the mix, and hitting home with the honesty of Bonnetta's powerful lyrics.

Aesthetic Magazine described their live performance as "a celebratory piece weaving through the motions of life and death and life again" while BlogTO compared singer Jonas Bonnetta to "a pastorally-inclined Mark Kozelek..." The band is currently on tour across Europe and the UK with friends and bandmates The Wooden Sky.

About Spectral Dusk
"Each song is perfect, in a sense that the message and meaning are delivered as complete thoughts and as Jonas intended. It's hard to conceptualize a series of questions that have no real answer and a pain that will never relent in a finite form, but Jonas put everything he has into each moment and it creates a full and fulfilling listen." - Herohill.com 

"brilliantly captures the transformative confusion of grief." - 9/10 The Grid 

"A 56-minute meditation on loss, pain, memory and responsibility, the new album is a heavy, patient, thematically rich snapshot of Bonnetta's upbringing in tiny Orono, Ontario, and his journey into adulthood, all told through his relationship with his father, who passed away in 2009" - Now Magazine 

Upcoming Tour Dates
10/03 - Cardiff, UK - Buffalo Bar
10/04 - London, UK - The Windmill
10/05 - Preston, UK - Mad Ferret
10/09 - London, UK - The Slaughtered Lamb
10/10 - Glasgow, UK - Captain's Rest
10/11 - Teeside, UK - The Studio
10/12 - Sunderland, UK - The Independent
10/13 - Oxford, UK - OxJam  
10/24 - Sault Ste Marie ON - Lop Lops (w/ Liam Titcomb)
10/25 - Thunder Bay ON - Apollo 
10/26 - Winnipeg MB - The HUB (presented by UMFM) 
10/29 - Redcliff AB - Redcliff Youth Centre 
10/30 - Nelson BC - The Royal on Baker  (w/ Deep Dark Woods)
11/02 - Mission BC - House Show  
11/03 - Kelowna BC - Streaming Cafe  (w/ Andy Shauf)
11/05 - Edmonton AB - Wunderbar  (w/ Andy Shauf)
11/06 - Calgary AB - National Music Centre  (w/ Andy Shauf)
11/08 - Saskatoon SK - Vangelis  (w/ Andy Shauf)
11/11 - Regina SK - The Artful Dodger (w/ Andy Shauf)
11/15 - Ottawa ON - Maverick's
11/17 - Kingston ON - Grad Club 
11/18 - Montreal QC - Il Motore 
11/20 - Halifax NS - The Bus Stop Theatre 
11/21 - Sackville NB - Struts (w/ Jon McKiel)
11/22 - Charlottetown PEI - Baba's Lounge 
11/23 - Fredericton NB - Cedar Tree Cafe 
11/27 - St Catharines ON - The Mansion House 
11/30 - Windsor ON - Phog Lounge 
12/06 - Guelph ON - Ebar 
12/07 - Oshawa ON - Robert McLaughlin Gallery 


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