Xavier Rudd, everyone's favourite Australian didge-jam singer/songwriter, is making his long anticipated return to Canada! It's been a few years for Xavier, who has been taking it easy and touring extensively through Australia (i assume those things can be simultaneously - it's Australia, for cryin' out loud), in support of his latest album, Spirit Bird.
On a personal note, I have fond memories of watching (more listening) to Xavier, way back in 2007, while clinging to a wrought-iron fence outside Ottawa City Hall. This was back before they moved Bluesfest to its new location, and before security would bear-mace me for coming within 10 feet of the festival grounds without a fancy bracelet. I was a poor college student and couldnt afford the cover, so i did what i had to do! Heck, that was almost as much fun (and sounded slightly better), than the time my buddies and I climbed onto the roof of the Algonquin College gym and watched Treble Charger perform through a skylight. Good times. But I digress.
Rudd will be in Canada this coming winter, starting November 14 in Victoria, then on to Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, London, Toronto, Kitchener, Hamilton, Guelph, Ottawa, Quebec City, and Sherbrooke, before closing out the tour December 7 in Montreal. Rudd will presumably head back home to Australia after that, since it will be summer there, as opposed to the brutally cold winters of Canada. Heck, even our summers probably seem brutally cold to the Aussie. He should probably talk to his manager about that tour arrangement...
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