It was a busy year, and looking back on it now, I’m not sure how we survived it. brought us up to a string of summer festival dates. And following that, a whirlwind month-long tour of the U.S. Days later, we were en route to Europe for a month of tightly scheduled tour dates there. It was the first time that the new songs were performed in front of a hometown, Toronto audience, and it capped off a tour of Ontario, Quebec, and Western Canada. What you hear on this record is the official release show for our album Ongiara, recorded for radio broadcast by the CBC on April 14, 2007. That has led to, in this down time, the opportunity to go through the archives of Great Lake Swimmers live recordings from over the years, and a few things were found that I think are worth sharing.
“It has been devastating on many levels, but there are silver linings for me, it’s been a chance to press pause and reflect, with part of that being a look back, and taking stock. “As I write this, we are very near to the year mark of a pandemic that has put much of the world into holding patterns of lockdown, isolation, and closures,” says Dekker.
Live At The Redeemer 2007 will be available on Bandcamp beginning May 7. The live set is comprised of songs from the first three Great Lake Swimmers albums Self-titled (2003), Bodies And Minds (2005), and Ongiara (2007). The album is notable not only for the grand acoustics of the church, but for the raw first impressions of songs that would become fan favourites, as well as notable guest appearances by Basia Bulat (backing vocals), Owen Pallett (violin), and Bob Egan (pedal steel) in addition to the band’s core lineup. It was recorded for CBC Radio broadcast by producer and engineer Ron Skinner, with live sound mixed by Andy Magoffin, who also re-mixed and mastered the recording for this release. The concert capped off the band’s Canadian spring tour of 2007, just days before the group continued on to embark on a full European tour to support the newly released album Ongiara.
On May 14, Great Lake Swimmers will release the recording of their performance at Toronto’s Church Of The Redeemer on vinyl and digital platforms via (weewerk) Records.
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