Update (Mar 25): Thank you to everyone that came out to Caplansky’s on March 24. Unfortunately, a case of the flu has caused the remainder of the diner shows to be postponed. The Lady Marmalade show will now be April 1 and the Aunties & Uncles show will now be April 2. All guest list names will be honored for the same shows. Thank you for your understanding.

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Let’s ask for the cheque, and leave this place before we’re wrecked
Let’s spill our drinks onto this map, and where the ice melts we will unpack

Hayden invites you to celebrate the release of his eighth LP, Hey Love, as he takes over some beloved greasy spoons in the city with a series of diner shows throughout the week of release. Each night will feature a unique set list of songs from Hayden’s catalogue, old and new, as ordered up by the audience from the “menu” at each show.

Limited guest list spots to join us for these evenings will be accessible to fans through contesting on social media pages for Hayden and Arts & Crafts, as well as giveaways through select media partners, local record shops and the diners themselves. Links to those pages can be found below.

Hayden’s Diner
March 24 9pm at Caplansky’s, 356 College St. (Full band)
March 25 7pm at Lady Marmalade, 898 Queen St. East (Hayden solo)
March 26 7pm at Aunties & Uncles, 74 Lippincott St. (Hayden solo)

For your chance to be added to the guest list for one of the Diner shows, follow Hayden on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter; and follow Arts & Crafts on Facebook and Twitter.

To help celebrate love’s big day, Hayden shares another song from the upcoming release, Hey Love, due out March 24. The title track is the perfect tonic from overpriced chocolates and flowers that will just die in a few days. Ask others to be your valentine by sharing the song and get a link to download it in return.

Listen and share ‘Hey Love’ here to receive an instant MP3 download.

Storied Toronto songwriter to release eighth full length record on March 24 via Arts & Crafts. Pre-order Hey Love to unlock a personal advance stream of the album today. Listen to album single “Nowhere We Cannot Go” now. Canadian tour dates with Dan Mangan + Blacksmith begin February 19.

On Hey Love, perennial Toronto musician and songwriter Hayden writes the most intimate passage yet in his decades-deep story. The follow-up to 2013’s Us Alone, his sonically warm and emotive debut record on Arts & Crafts, is a heartrending love letter of hope and disarray. Hey Love addresses the widest spectrum of love as its muse, the album’s thirteen songs among Hayden Desser’s most affective, tactile, rousing yet restrained work to date.

Listen to “Nowhere We Cannot Go” here!
Pre-order Hey Love to unlock a personal advance stream of the album here!

Hey Love
Track List:

Hearts Just Beat
Troubled Times
No Happy Birthday
Nothing Easy Feels This Good
Time Ain’t Slowing Down For Us
Orange Curtain Light
Come Back To Life
Nowhere We Cannot Go
Hey Love
If More Things Go Wrong
Five Seasons
Just Come Out Tonight
Shelter

Hayden will join labelmates Dan Mangan + Blacksmith for a tour across Canada next year. Presale tickets will be onsale tomorrow at noon through the Arts & Crafts Gallery website at http://www.galleryac.com/

February 18 Halifax, NS Rebecca Cohen Theatre ^
February 19 Fredericton, NB The Fredericton Playhouse ^
February 20 Quebec City, QC Imperial #
February 21 Montreal, QC Corona Theatre ^
February 24 Kingston, ON Grand Theatre ^
February 26 London, ON London Music Hall ^
February 27 Ottawa, ON Theatre at NAC ^
February 28 Toronto, ON Massey Hall #
March 1 Guelph, ON River Run Centre ^
March 5 Winnipeg, MB The Garrick ^
March 6 Saskatoon, SK O’Brians Event Centre ^
March 7 Regina, SK Darke Hall ^
March 9 Banff, AB Eric Harvie Theatre ^
March 10 Calgary, AB Jack Singer Concert Hall ^
March 11 Edmonton, AB Francis Winspear Centre for Music ^
March 13 Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre ^
March 14 Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre ^

^ – w/ Dan Mangan + Blacksmith and Astral Swans
# – w/ Dan Mangan + Blacksmith