NEWS

The 20th Anniversary reissue of Everything I Long For was released today. For those who missed the opportunity to preorder before those copies sold out, a limited number of the double vinyl will be available at select retailers and on the Hardwood online shop as well as digital outlets.

We appreciate the support of these local stores for bringing Hardwood Records and EILF20 into their shops:

Ditch Records, Victoria BC
Blackbyrd, Edmonton BC
Listen Records, Edmonton BC
June Records, Toronto ON
Rotate This, Toronto ON
Sonic Boom, Toronto ON
Soundscapes, Toronto ON
Tiny Record Shop, Toronto ON
Taz Records, Halifax NS
Fingerprints, Long Beach California

The sold out 20th Anniversary Everything I Long For tour begins this weekend and we will be bringing along a stash of these albums for purchase, along with a limited edition set of silk screened posters and t-shirts including designs that were originally seen back in 1996. If you’re interested in any of these but can’t make it out to a show, you can also grab these items on the online shop at http://hardwoodrecords.bigcartel.com/.

The response to this Anniversary release has been an incredible thing — your support, your notes, the sharing of your own old stories and memories around the record and time in your lives have all been such a key part to what we hoped to see around this project. Thank you.

The Second Annual Dream Serenade Benefit Concert has come and gone. It was a spectacular celebration of the community of children with developmental and / or physical disabilities and their teachers, parents and caregivers.

If you joined us, thanks again for your support. If you missed it, please consider it next year and read NOW’s perfect score review of the show here: https://nowtoronto.com/music/concert-reviews/dream-serenade/

It’s also not too late to donate to this wonderful cause. Here’s the link: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/pages/dream-serenade/

Special guest Serena Ryder has joined this year’s Dream Serenade line up.

Tickets available now starting at $35 at www.masseyhall.com.

We’re pleased to announce today that this year’s Dream Serenade concert has the exciting additions of performances by Bahamas, Kevin Hearn & Thin Buckle and Choir! Choir! Choir!. They join the previously announced line up of Hayden, Joel Plaskett, The Weather Station and TUNS (Chris Murphy, Mike O’Neill and Matt Murphy).

More information can be found at www.dreamserenade.ca.

You already know that Hayden and Joel Plaskett will be performing at this year’s annual Dream Serenade. This week, we add to the line up a new project from a group of Canadian Indie Scene powerhouses alongside one of the brightest and buzziest up and comers in the Scene this year: TUNS and The Weather Station.

The Weather Station is Tamara Linderman, whose intimate, elegant, understated yet intense folk music has won over critics and crowds: Hearing her 2015 album Loyalty, a collaboration with Bahamas, Pitchfork called her voice “unmistakable” and Rolling Stone used the words “rare beauty” to describe the music. TUNS is something of an East-Coast supergroup; the trio is comprised of members of three of Halifax’s most important rock and roll sons: Mike O’Neill (The Inbreds), Matt Murphy (Super Friendz) and Chris Murphy.

Dream Serenade is an annual concert organized by Toronto musician Hayden and his wife, Christie Greyerbiehl, that brings together a curated mix of musicians for unique performances to benefit special-needs children and their families. This year’s event at Massey Hall is on October 17, 2015. Line-up announcements roll out over the coming weeks, but in the meantime, check out Exclaim! Magazine’s 10/10 review of last year’s event, which raised over $100,000 for Beverley Street School and the creation of a Family Relief Fund, and this video from last year, when a few of the Dream Serenade gang – Sarah Harmer, The Barenaked Ladies, Lou Canon and Hayden – visited the Beverley Street School.

More information can be found at www.dreamserenade.ca.