City & Colour Head All Canuck Line-up July 2nd

City and Colour and Dine Alone Records have curated a very special all Canadian line-up in celebration of Canada’s 150th Birthday in 2017. City and Colour along with Blue Rodeo, The Strumbellas, Stars and Dear Rouge will take over The Commons at Butler’s Barracks National Historic Site in Niagara-On-The-Lake on Sunday, July 2, 2017. The event will be hosted by Wayne & Daryl from critically-acclaimed Canadian sitcom Letterkenny and marks a “Coming Home” for Dallas Green, a native of St. Catharines who last performed at the national historic site in 2013.

Tickets and VIP packages for this all ages event go on sale Friday, December 16 at 10am ET at ticketmaster.ca. General admission tickets are $69.50 + service fees. A limited number of VIP tickets will be available as of December 16 for $99.50 + service fees. VIP tickets include access to a VIP area with optimal main stage viewing, VIP bar with premium beverage service, shaded area, premium food vendors, VIP washrooms, and fastpass VIP entry. All tickets will be available at all Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.ca or ph. 1-855-985-5000. Gates will open at 2:00pm.

The event artwork was illustrated by Jud Haynes, a long time City and Colour collaborator. This will mark his 20th design for City and Colour shows to date. The Canadian themed design features a Canada Goose with feathers representing all provinces & territories with Ontario front & centre, to further commemorate the Canada Day long weekend and highlight the all Canadian line-up.

For updates and more information about this event, please visit: www.dinealonerecords.com/NOTL2017.

City and Colour, the moniker of St. Catharines, ON native, singer-songwriter Dallas Green, is undeniably one of the biggest groundswell stories to emerge from Canada. His achievements include 3 JUNO Awards — including two SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR awards (2009, 2012), 7 Platinum-certified albums and 3 Gold-certified albums in Canada (City and Colour, Alexisonfire, and You+Me). Green’s latest and 5th City and Colour studio release, If I Should Go Before You debuted #1 on the Top 200 Soundscan, City and Colour’s third consecutive chart-topper in Canada. The LP also made serious waves internationally debuting at #16 on the U.S. Billboard 200 Chart and #5 in Australia where Green’s LP Little Hell went GOLD. In 2014, Green collaborated with international superstar Alecia Moore (aka P!nk) on a new project titled You+Me. The duo’s acclaimed debut, rose ave., debuted at #4 on the U.S. Top 200 Chart, #1 in Canada, #2 in Australia culminating in memorable performances on Ellen and Jimmy Kimmel Live. Having performed to countless sold-out crowds around the world, City and Colour recently headlined his first arena tour across Canada, including 2 sold out, consecutive nights at Molson Canadian Amphitheatre in Toronto.

Blue Rodeo – For close to thirty years now, Blue Rodeo has taken the road less travelled – and succeeded far beyond anyone’s expectations. The band emerged in the early 80’s as a countrified rock band in the era of hair metal and glossy pop. Their single “Try” became omni-present on radio across Canada and set in motion a three decade long career of headlining every club, theatre and arena in Canada. In 1993, when grunge rock was squeezing commercial rock off the radio, they recorded their most acoustic album, Five Days In July, and scored their biggest hit selling over a half million copies of that one record alone. Now, with their 14th Warner Music Canada studio album – 1000 Arms, Blue Rodeo’s successes are measured in terms that include induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame (2012), receiving a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award (2014) and acknowledgement that the band has steadfastly defined itself by its own terms, and in the years that ensued, sold in excess of four million records.

The Strumbellas have trail blazed their way through 2016 since their critically acclaimed, chart topping single, Spirits, hit the airwaves in January. Not only did Spirits reach #1 on the Alternative Radio Chart in Canada and America, and the US Billboard Alternative Songs Chart, the track also went double platinum in Italy, platinum in Canada, and gold in America and Germany, and is one of the top 10 most streamed Rock songs of 2016 worldwide. Their epic second single, “We Don’t Know”, is burning up radio waves. Both tracks hail from the band’s new album, Hope. The Strumbellas have spent the year touring the world, playing sold out shows, and filled-to-the-rafters festival spots at the likes of Newport Folk Festival, ACL, British Summer Time, Rock En Seine, Lollapalooza and Osheaga.

Stars – Montreal band Stars debuted with an album of intimate synth-pop titled Nightsongs in 2001. Stars’ albums have always served as barometers of their makers’ emotional well-being; be it the romantic upheaval of 2003’s Heart and 2004’s Set Yourself On Fire, the newsticker-triggered discontent of 2007’s In Our Bedroom After the War, the downcast elegies of The Five Ghosts (2010) or the rejuvenation of 2012’s The North. Their 7th album No One Is Lost is both a celebration and a rallying cry to live for the night. The band is back at it and in studio writing more songs to break your heart for next year.

Dear Rouge is a JUNO award winning Vancouver-based electronic rock band formed in 2012 by Drew and Danielle McTaggart. Their debut full-length album Black To Gold (featuring the top 10 alternative radio singles “I Heard I Had”, “Tongues”, and “Black to Gold”) garnered critical acclaim and commercial success, with the duo receiving the 2015 SOCAN Songwriting Prize. Dear Rouge has toured the world and shared stages with the likes of Phantogram, Arkells and Mother Mother, including the highly praised and rocking performances at Osheaga, Squamish, Field Trip, Festival d’éte and WayHome. Dear Rouge is set to release their follow-up record in 2017.

Letterkenny is a Canadian television sitcom created in February 2016 and has since been confirmed for a 3rd season. The show depicts two friends living in the small town of Letterkenny, Ontario, a fictional community loosely based on the star/creator’s (Jared Keeso) hometown. Wayne, the main character, is a good-ol’ country boy in Letterkenny, trying to protect his homegrown way of life on the farm with his sidekick Daryl (Nathan Dales), against a world that is constantly evolving around him. Filled with Canadian slang, jokes and original story lines.

About Goldenvoice Established in 1985, Goldenvoice is a full service local concert promoter based in Los Angeles producing over 400 shows per year throughout North America. Goldenvoice and its parent company AEG Live host the most critically acclaimed music festivals in the U.S. Goldenvoice created and operates the award winning annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival as well as Stagecoach: California’s Country Music Festival. In addition, AEG Live, co-produces both the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Bumbershoot: Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival.

About Dine Alone Records Established in 2005, Dine Alone Records is a Canadian based record label boasting a roster of over 90 national and international artists, ranging from Grammy and JUNO Award-winners, to some of today’s most buzzed-about up-andcomers. One of the top independent labels around, Dine Alone Records has gone on to win major industry awards at CMW 2016 and the 2nd Annual CIMA Celebration and Awards Gala, as well as being named the Top Indie label at both alternative and active rock radio formats. The honours come on the heels of a great year of releases including albums from City and Colour, The Dandy Warhols, Monster Truck, The Lumineers, The Cult, Vanessa Carlton, Wintersleep and The Dirty Nil.