Basia Bulat on tour in support of new album

Canada's Basia Bulat is set to have a busy few months! She's performing at the Central Park Summerstage with St. Vincent on August 1st, a trip to Europe including a show with Owen Pallett, a co-headlining East coast tour with The Acorn, a stop at the Austin City Limits Festival, a trip to Iceland and a Canadian tour with Josh Ritter are all set for the next few months.

For a preview of what Basia is capable of in intimate settings, please watch this beautiful performance she filmed on the beach for What We See Is What You Get... that voice!

Heart Of My Own, Basia Bulat's newest album made this year's list for Canada's esteemed Polaris Prize (her second time). It was written on the road: traveling between cities, crossing the Canadian prairies, searching for a place to stop in the Nevada desert, trailing through the Smoky Mountains, standing in the bright dusk of a summer night in the Yukon. The instrumentation on Heart Of My Own is a lot more varied than Oh, My Darling, notes Basia.

"I think it is at times extremely sparse and, well, spacious, with big choirs singing, and then it gets really dense with really spirited and rolling drums, and I think I even managed to pull off a Johnny Cash–inspired country song."

She plays autoharp, guitar, piano, organ, pianoette, banjo, ukulele, bass and of course, sings; her brother and many dear friends, old and new, play everything else. The strings chase after each other as though coming down a mountain. The autoharp's versatility is explored, fitting just as well in a soul song as a folk song, its sound by turns charming and warm, then icy cold and precise. But most important to Basia is the spirit that has been captured here. There is a determination in these songs. They are at times about a broken heart, a careless heart, a faithful heart, and a hopeful heart—but above all, a wandering heart.

Tour Dates:
07.23.10 - 07.25.10 - Guelph, ON @ the Hillside Festival
08.01.10 - Manhattan, NY @ Central Park Summerstage w/ St. Vincent & TuneYards
08.06.10 - 08.08.10 - Edmonton, AB @ the Edmonton Folk Festival
08.10.10 - Innsbruck, Austria @ Bierstindl
08.11.10 - Vienna, Austria @ Haus der Musik
08.12.10 - Oslo, Norway @ The Oya Festival!
08.13.10 - Gothenburg, Sweden @ Way Out West
08.14.10 - Varberg, Sweden @ Majas Strand Cafe
08.18.10 - Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso
09.21.10 - Cambridge, MA @ TT The Bear's Place #
09.23.10 - Manhattan, NY @ the Mercury Lounge #
09.24.10 - Brooklyn, NY @ Littlefield #
09.25.10 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kungfu Necktie #
09.26.10 - Washington, DC @ DC9 #
09.28.10 - Pontiac, MI @ the Pike Room #
09.29.10 - Cleveland, OH @ the Beachland Tavern #
09.30.10 - Chicago, IL @ Schuba's #
10.02.10 - San Francisco, CA @ TBD
10.04.10 - La Jolla, CA @ the Loft
10.07.10 - Los Angeles, CA @ Old Style Guitar Shop
10.09.10 - Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Fesival
10.15.10 - 10.17.10 Reyjavik, Iceland @ Iceland Airwaves
10.22.10 - Halifax, NS @ Halifax Pop Explosion
10.25.10 - Ottawa, ON @ Capital Music Hall ^
10.28.10 - Winnipeg, MB @ West End Cultural Center ^
10.29.10 - Saskatoon, SK @ Broadway Theatre ^
10.30.10 - Edmonton, AB @ MacDougall United Church ^
11.01.10 - Calgary, AB @ Knox United Church ^
11.02.10 - Nelson, BC @ The Hume Hotel ^
11.04.10 - Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom ^

! with Owen Pallett
# with The Acorn& with Halifax Symphony Orchestra
^ with Josh Ritter