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.
We’re very excited to announce our Vancouver CD Release show!
Friday, October 20th at the St. James Hall. Presented by The Rogue Folk Club.
Advance tickets are significantly cheaper and have no service charge. So please grab ‘em while you can and we will see you there to play some new songs from No Help Coming, and some old ones as well.
The Fugitives newest album, No Help Coming, is due this fall from Fallen Tree Records. It re-unites them with Vancouver producer Tom Dobrzanski, with whom they worked on their last release, the JUNO and CFMA-nominated Trench Songs. The first single ‘Story of Our Times’ is out now.
Finally, we are able to perform our theatre show, “Ridge”, live in person! We are coming to theatres across BC in November, as well as some very special performances in Guelph at the John McCrae memorial in early December. Check out our Shows page for details and see below for a show trailer as well as more info on the piece. See you soon!
Often called the "battle that made Canada," Vimy Ridge resulted in over 10,000 Canadian casualties. Through storytelling and live music, The Fugitives examine misconceptions and varying perspectives around the battle, while drawing parallels to other formative events in our nation’s past. The songs from Ridge, which are inventive musical interpretations of WWI soldier songs, were nominated for the 2022 JUNO for Best Traditional Roots Album. The script, written by Fugitive member Brendan McLeod, probes difficult yet necessary questions about how and why we grieve. A vivid, kinetic ride through history, as well as an intimate, personal examination of our connection to the past, Ridge is a visceral work that passionately argues against the exploitation of young lives.