The Fugitives, established in 2007, have released four records, which have been nominated for multiple Canadian Folk Music Awards and a Western Canadian Music Award. Their previous album, Everything Will Happen, spent ten weeks on the top ten Canadian folk charts, and earned them a support slot across Western Canada with Buffy Sainte-Marie and an appearance at UK’s Glastonbury Festival. Their follow-up, The Promise of Strangers, is set for release on January 26th on Borealis Records.

New Live Video for WW1-era Song, "Take Me Back to Old Ontario"

November 11, 2019 / fugitives

Branching off of themes from our very own Brendan McLeod’s new solo show ‘Ridge’, The Fugitives have been re-imagining WW1-era soldier songs; updating melodies and music to wartime lyrics so that they might resonate in a new way with a modern audience. In honour of Remembrance Day, here’s the first one, recorded live in a SaltSpring Island cabin. It’s called Take Me Back to Old Ontario with lyrics written in 1915 by Frank E. Balson.

(Directed by Piet Suess).

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