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.

 

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Listen to the full album HERE

Listen to the single “Edge of the Sea”

Listen to the single “It Might Just Rain Like This for Days”

Listen to the single “Story of Our Times”

Trench Songs

Released 2020

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Nominated for a JUNO for Best Traditional Roots Album, and “Ensemble of the Year” and “Vocal Group of the Year” at the Canadian Folk Music Awards.

 
 

 

The Promise of Strangers

Released 2018

The Fugitives – The Promise of Strangers

Winner of Best Folk Record from the German Record Critics Association; Nominated for Western Canadian Music Awards and Canadian Folk Music Awards (including Best Songwriter for the elegy to Leonard Cohen, “No Words”).

 
 

 

Everything Will Happen

Released October 22, 2013

The Fugitives – Everything Will Happen

Nominated for Best Vocal Group at the 2014 Canadian Folk Music Awards and Best Roots Album at the Western Canadian Music Awards.

 

Tracks

  1. Love Affairs

  2. Old Mistakes

  3. Wilderness Years

  4. Sturdy

  5. Bigger than Luck

  6. Everything That's Going to Happen

  7. Ring

  8. Windows

  9. Dinner with Clara Haber

  10. My, My

  11. If This is It

 

 

Bigger Than Luck

Released July 16, 2013

The Fugitives – Bigger Than Luck

Spent ten weeks on the top ten Canadian earshot folk charts.

 

Tracks

  1. Bigger Than luck

  2. Old Mistakes

  3. Slowly Undone

  4. The City

 

 

Eccentrically We Love

Released March 30, 2010

The Fugitives – Eccentrically We Love

Praised as “eclectic and exciting” (See), “poignant” (Uptown), and “infectious” (CBC).

 

Tracks

  1. Snail Shell

  2. Pickled

  3. Start a War

  4. City of Rain

  5. All this Trouble

  6. Breaking Promises

  7. Sober

  8. Eccentrically We Love

  9. Fool's Gold

  10. Funeral

  11. Everytime

 

 

Find Me - EP

Released October 27, 2009

The Fugitives – Find Me
 

Tracks

  1. Breaking Promises

  2. To the man found in his apartment seven years after his death

  3. Music (Live)

  4. Blue Belle Lament

  5. Find Me

 

 

In Streetlight Communion

Released March 22, 2007

The Fugitives – In Streetlight Communion
 

Nominated for a 2007 Canadian Folk Music Award for pushing the boundaries of contemporary folk music.

Tracks

  1. Greyhound

  2. Headlines

  3. Highway Three

  4. Haunted

  5. Shiny Plastic Bags

  6. French Tattoo

  7. Graffiti Sex

  8. The Police Live in My Basement

  9. Prairie Eyes

  10. Microphone

  11. The Night She Stole the Moon



 

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