By Stevie Connor.
As always Bruce Cockburn has his finger firmly on the pulse of global issues; climate change, human greed, wildfires, floods, and he eloquently talks to the issues on his latest single, To Keep The World We Know, featuring Susan Aglukark, taken from his latest album, O Sun O Moon.
As with so many Cockburn albums, the musicianship on O Sun O Moon is superb. Produced by Colin Linden the album features vocalists Shawn Colvin, Buddy Miller, Allison Russell, Sarah Jarosz, Susan Aglukark and Ann and Regina McCrary, with Janice Powers on keyboards, Gary Craig and Chris Brown on drums, Viktor Krauss on bass, accordionist Jeff Taylor, violinist Jenny Scheinman and multi-instrumentalist Jim Hoke.
Bruce Cockburn has enjoyed an illustrious career shaped by politics, spirituality, and musical diversity. His remarkable journey has seen him embrace folk, jazz, rock, and worldbeat styles while earning high praise as a prolific, inspired songwriter and accomplished guitarist. He remains deeply respected for his activism and humanist song lyrics that thread throughout his career. On all his albums Cockburn has deftly captured the joy, pain, fear, and faith of human experience in song.
O Sun O Moon is his first vocal album since 2017’s Bone on Bone, and his first full-length album of original music since 2019's instrumental Crowing Ignites. Bruce Cockburn has won 13 JUNO Awards, an induction into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, and has been made an Officer of the Order of Canada, among many other accolades. He has 22 gold and platinum records including a six-times platinum record for his Christmas album. Cockburn continues to tour internationally.
NORTH AMERICAN & UK TOUR DATES
August 10 - Olympic Plaza, Whistler, BC
August 24 - O2 Academy Oxford, Oxford, UK
August 25 - Shepherds Bush Empire, London, UK
August 26 - Greenbelt Festival, Kettering, UK
August 30 - E-town Hall Radio Taping, Boulder, CO
September 1 - Four Corners Folk Festival, Pagosa Springs, CO
October 11 - First Ontario Concert Hall, Hamilton, ON
October 12 - Gesù, Montreal, QC
October 14 - Imperial Bell, Quebec City, QC
October 16 - The Playhouse, Fredericton, NB
October 17 - Confederation Centre, Charlottetown, PEI
October 19 - Capitol Theatre, Moncton, NB
October 20 - Wellness Centre, New Glasgow, NS
October 21 - Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, Halifax, NS
October 23 - State Theatre, Portland, ME
October 24 - Katharine Hepburn Arts, Old Saybrook, CT
October 25 - Academy of Music, Northampton, MA
October 27 - Paramount Theatre, Rutland, VT
October 28 - Hangar Theatre, New York, NY
October 30 - Stuart's Opera House, Nelsonville, OH
November 1 - Tarkington Centre, Carmel, IN
November 2 - South Milwaukee PAC, Milwaukee, WI
November 3 - Old Town School, Chicago, IL
November 4 - Old Town School, Chicago, IL
November 16 - McCabes, Santa Monica, CA
November 17 - McCabes, Santa Monica, CA
November 18 - Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA
November 19 - Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz, CA
November 30 - Crest Theatre, Sacramento, CA
December 1 - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley, CA
December 2 - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley, CA
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