Sloan isn’t just a band. They’re a living, breathing collaboration — an enduring Canadian indie rock institution.
And that institution will thrill fans in the Okanagan in November.
Sloan brings A Tour de Force to Lake Country's Creekside Theatre Sunday, Nov. 16, and to Vernon's Performing Arts Centre Monday, Nov. 17.
Both venues have issued pre-sale invitations to Ticket Seller’s e-newsletter subscribers until 10 p.m., Thursday, June 19, for the first choice of favourite seats.
Tickets go on-sale to the public at 10 a.m., Friday, June 20.
The Vernon stop is part of the Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre's Signature Concert Series.
“We will continue to feature our iconic Canadian artists from our country’s wide range of music genres with our Signature Concert Series,” said VDPAC’s executive director Jim Harding. “With the support of these long-established, successful artists, we can provide unique opportunities when we can, for emerging local and area artists as opening acts and the chance to perform for and engage new audiences. We are thrilled to add Sloan: A Tour de Force to our Signature Concert Series.”
VDPAC was part of SLOAN’s nationally announced tour and launch of the band’s brand-new album Based on the Best Seller on June 16.
Sloan is that rare band that has character that accompanies its discography.
From those early gigs in the basement of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design to the present day, the band has eschewed the typical star-making machinery that puts one member as the driving creative force, with the rest of the band serving as trusted accomplices.
Sloan boasts four singing, songwriting multi-instrumentalists, all of whom contribute to the final fabric woven into each album. 2001’s Pretty Together balances ornate chamber pop with fist-pumping rockers, while later efforts such as Never Hear the End of It and 12 contain multitudes in their track listings, ranging from Dylanesque streams of consciousness to short, sharp shocks of hardcore.
But somehow, it all remains quintessentially Sloan.
“It’s not a challenge to make a 14th album,” said rhythm guitar/vocalist Jay Ferguson. “The challenge is finding a theme. But with four songwriters, even if things don’t always hang together under one umbrella, that is our style. And that style continues here.”
Formed in January 1991, Sloan has amassed an outstanding discography of more than 250 songs and more than 30 singles with frequent airplay on Canadian rock radio spanning three decades. The Juno- and East Coast Music Awards-winning band is also credited as being a main instigator for the Canadian East Coast “alternative” scene of the early-'90s, garnering comparisons to the Seattle Grunge movement on the opposite West Coast.
Sloan is Toronto-based, originally from Halifax, and comprised of all original members: bassist and vocalist Chris Murphy; lead guitar/vocalist Patrick Pentland; Ferguson; and drummer/vocalist Andrew Scott. The quartet possessed a rare chemistry from the very start, and have remained together since 1991.
All four members write and sing their own songs; when they play live, they switch instruments accordingly, while multi-instrumentalist Gregory Macdonald has handled all keyboard duties live and in-studio since 2006.
Producing a multitude of hits such as Coax Me; If It Feels Good Do It; Money City Maniacs; The Other Man; Everything You’ve Done Wrong; and The Rest of My Life to name just a few, Sloan has received nine JUNO Award nominations, (seven times for Best Album), reflecting the band’s impressive, critical reputation for consistently strong albums, and winning Best Alternative Album in 1997 for One Chord or Another.
Tickets for Sloan in Lake Country and Vernon are available through ticketseller.ca or by phoning 250-549-SHOW (7469).
