The Fugitives

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).

Branching off of themes from 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.

 

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