SURPRISE! It’s a POP UP SHOW! The Once are playing twice this month with 2 more coming in June. SOLD OUT is the show at Inn of Olde Show in Quidi Vidi Village Friday May 13 TICKETS still available for The Rocket Room May 14. All tickets are $25 (cash only) at O’Brien’s Music.

You didn’t think we’d leave for three months of touring without saying goodbye did you? Details in the tour/show section.

Check out the video of The Once winning their ECMA and an interview with Sea & Be Scene!

Click here for full story.

New video of The Once in Memphis at The Sweet Beaver Suite WITH a new original song. Check out the link here to our friends at The Sweet Beaver Suite.

The website: http://www.sweetbeaver.com features videos of all the artists that performed this year including friends The Dardanelles and Duane Andrews/Dwayne Cote. www.sweetbeaver.com

The Once may have been happier but they can’t remember when. Since the birth of their debut self-titled album in 2009, they have received 4 Music NL Awards, 2 Canadian Folk Music Awards and now a 2011 ECMA for Group Recording of the Year!

Now with both Ireland AND UK agents onside and some huge international touring announcements coming down the pipe, they are ready to live the Canadian Dream: emptying the bank account as they record their sophomore album and travel across the country to some major folk festivals including Winnipeg, Edmonton, Canmore and Calgary!

Yes that is right. As we speak Geri, Phil and Andrew are back in St. John’s recording. The new CD will be released on their label Borealis and details will be announced in the coming months.

Count on a few surprises before then tho!

Keep your eyes, ears and hearts open…

We are thrilled to announce a great deal of our summer tour schedule. From Alberta to Europe, we will be embarking on our largest tour yet (hopefully Newfoundland will recognize us in the fall!).
Yup! That’s right. We head out on July 5th and we won’t be back in Newfoundland until late September.
Please visit our Tour section to learn more. Our Canadian dates are posted and our busy little office will soon announce our Denmark, Germany, England and Ireland dates (anybody want us to bring back souvenirs??).
Happy Spring!
The Once
(Geri, Phil and Andrew)

Related show

• Artist: The Once
• Date: Thursday, July 7th 2011 - Saturday, July 9th 2011
• Time: 12:00pm
• City: The Once in Winnipeg, MB
• Venue: Winnipeg Folk Festival
• Country: Canada
• Age restrictions: All Ages
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Well how lovely! Thanks very much to the East Coast Music Association for the nomination. Congrats to all our friends and peers also nominated including our management and booking agency Garrison Hill Entertainment…Bob and Shell.
For complete nominations please check out www.ecma.ca

We shall see you all in beautiful Charlottetown in April for the awards and conference (check out our tour section as well for some theatre show dates in Nova Scotia that month).

Spring is just around the corner!

This came across our inbox today – thanks boston.com!

“Among connoisseurs of Canadian folk music, Newfoundland tends to be a blind spot — if it registers on radars at all. Cape Breton has its high-stepping fiddlers, but what about its neighbor? Two new albums on Toronto’s Borealis Records suggest there’s a lot to admire about Newfoundland’s vibrant, contemporary roots scene.”

“Singer-songwriter Ron Hynes found his muse for his new album, “Stealing Genius,’’ while on sabbatical in Woody Point on the western coast of Newfoundland. The austere landscape seeps into his songs, many of which were inspired by some of his favorite Canadian poets and authors, including Stan Dragland (“House’’) and fellow Newfoundlanders Donna Morrissey (“Blood and Bones’’) and Al Pittman (“30 for 60’’).”

“Meanwhile, everything old is new again on the self-titled debut from the Once, a young folk trio (below) that puts a contemporary spin on the province’s Irish and Scottish influences. Beneath its buzzing electric guitar, “Maid on the Shore’’ is a thoroughly modern sea shanty, while the ballad “Marguerite’’ salutes the majesty of the hills of Newfoundland and the nostalgia they induce. Close harmonies turn Tom Waits’s “The Briar and the Rose’’ into an elegy. The real stunner, though, is an a cappella cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You’’ that conjures the beauty and simplicity of the late Kate Wolf.”

Click here to read the article at boston.com

Our hearts are full with joy heading into 2011 for the amazing gift you have given us. To be able to play our music and see so much of the world this year is beyond our wildest dreams. We love the fact that our album is under so many trees this Christmas…it’s really hard to get our heads around it all actually. Thank you. Thank you.
 
While our shows are over for 2010, rest assured right after Christmas we are back in studio and yes…there is a new album coming. We hope it will find a special spot in your homes in spring.
 
For now though, we wish all of you a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and safe travels. Enjoy your time with loved ones and keep a song in your hearts.
 
Geri, Andrew & Phil

There are limited tickets left for Thursday, December 2nd and Friday, December 3rd for The Once (and for all) Christmas Time at The Gower Street United Church.  Head to O’Brien’s soon so you don’t miss out on a very special evening with The Once, Kim Stockwood and Jonny Harris! 
We are so excited!  See you there.
Cheers,
Team Once