THE FIRST offering in the 2020 Tanks Arts Centre World Music Series officially is officially on sale with Canadian contemporary folk group, The East Pointers, making their return to Cairns as part of the worldwide Yours To Break album tour.
In the short time between their 2015 JUNO Award-winning debut Secret Victory and the upcoming Yours To Break, the band has performed over 450 shows in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the UK, Europe, Mexico, the USA, and Canada.
Set for release on 25 October 2019, Yours To Break will see the award-winning trio embark on a national Canadian tour this November, followed by a worldwide tour in 2020.
Comprised of Tim Chaisson (vocals/fiddle/percussion), Koady Chaisson (banjo/tenor guitar/moog) and Jake Charron (guitar/keyboards), The East Pointers have always been musically complex and technically brilliant.
The trio’s core is traditional Celtic, but on the new album, fiddle tunes are grounded in complex rumbling bass lines and a dirty Americana exploration turns on a dime into a light-hearted guitar feature with flamenco reference Palmas.
“I feel like this album is the best expression to date of the band’s appreciation for so many different types of music and the fact that we as a band are comfortable enough in our own musical voice to start expressing those influences and loves,” Koady says.
The album was written across the globe, with Koady in Australia, Jake in England and Tim in Costa Rica while they were working on the album.
Produced by Nova Scotia-born, multiple Grammy and JUNO Award winning songwriter and producer, Gordie Sampson (LeAnn Rimes, Carrie Underwood, Rascal Flatts), Yours To Break finds the band drawing on their historical Canadian Celtic roots and looking forward in equal measure.
“We’ve always had a hard time putting our music in a specific genre,” Jake says.
“So with this album we stopped thinking about that and just made music that felt fun to play.”
The East Pointers play Tanks Arts Centre on Saturday 21 March 2019. Tickets available through Ticketlink
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