Posted on21 April 2009. Tags: great lake swimmers, johnny brenda's, Tony Dekker
To me, the music of Toronto-based Great Lake Swimmers was love at first listen. I stumbled upon them when a friend took me to a random show at World Cafe Live! for my birthday back in 2007. Almost 2 whole years later, they once again brought their amazing and beautiful music to our Philly ears. Mixing a healthy mixture of older and new material, front man Tony Dekker serenaded the crowd with his spacious melodies while his talented, ever changing backing band pulled in the reinforcements. All in all a great show, I just hope I don’t have to wait another 2 years to see them again.
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I found GLS through Pandora a few years ago. I looked up their website and saw they were in KC the next night! At a tiny venue…
I went to that show (also with Centro-Matic) and saw Tony for the first time. There were maybe 25 people at the show.
I can’t wait until he gets back here.