Great Lake Swimmers ft. Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter (duo)

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$22 advance // $27 day of show (if available) // 4 pack - $75 ( only available online )

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Opening Support: Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter (duo)

Great Lake Swimmers — Caught Light Tour 2026

Featuring a blend of acoustic instruments, rural soundscapes, and wistful vocals, Great Lake Swimmers are a critically acclaimed indie-folk group led by Tony Dekker. Based in Southern Ontario, the group emerged in the early 2000s with a succession of heavily atmospheric albums recorded in old silos and rural country churches. The music developed in that pastoral warmth, performed and recorded in acoustically resonant and historical locales with a revolving cast of personnel. They are renowned for homespun folk and lush, intimate Americana in their live shows.

Their newest album, Caught Light , released in October 2025, is their most immediate and instinctive album to date. Recorded in just five days in Ontario’s Ganaraska Forest with producer Darcy Yates (Bahamas) and engineer Jimmy Bowskill (Blue Rodeo), it draws warmth from early ’70s folk-pop while embracing a new spontaneity and directness in Dekker’s songwriting.

Great Lake Swimmers have been shortlisted for the prestigious Polaris Music Prize and nominated twice for Canada’s Juno Awards, with the CBC calling them “a national treasure.”

Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter (duo) was born of, and is the result of, an enduring musical alchemy between singer-songwriter Jesse Sykes and guitarist Phil Wandscher, which began in Seattle, Washington in 2001.

Blending dark folk, blues, traditional country, orchestral pop, and various psychedelic stylings, their sound culminates in what Jon Pareles from the New York Times once described as, “spellbound music, rapt in fatalism and sorrow.”

Known for her dusky, otherworldly vocals and lyrics that touch on the metaphysical, Sykes is also known for her diverse collaborations, most notably for co -writing, singing and performing with avant-garde doom purveyors, Sunn O))) and Boris (Japan), on their collaborative, monolithic album “Altar.” The song, “The Sinking Belle,” became a cult classic and was called, “the album’s centerpiece and masterpiece” by Pitchfork. Sykes claims the lyrics were inspired by Joan Didion’s book, The Year of Magical Thinking , which she had been reading at the time of the writing process.

That particular musical convergence of doom metal and spooky Americana, was seen as an odd pairing back in the day, but it flourished into deep friendship, becoming a central part of The Sweet Hereafter’s creative journey, inspiring the band to move out of the perceived confines of Americana/Alt -Country and explore heavier musical terrain, leading to their 2011 release, Marble Son , which SPIN Magazine called, “a sprawling psyche rock vision.”

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Concert will be held inside at the Lewis & Clark Tap Room (standing room only).

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