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Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian band built around the melodic folk rock songs of singer-songwriter Tony Dekker. Originally from Wainfleet, Ontario,〔Van Evra, Jennifer. "Songs to dive into", ''The Globe and Mail'', 2007-03-30, p. R4.〕 the band is currently based in Toronto. The current touring line-up includes Tony Dekker on lead vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica, Erik Arnesen on banjo, electric guitar and harmonium, Joshua Van Tassel on drums, Bret Higgins on upright bass and Miranda Mulholland on violin and backing vocals. Past members included Julie Fader on backing vocals, Sandro Perri on guitar, and Greg Millson and Colin Huebert on drums. The band's style has been compared to Red House Painters, Nick Drake, Iron & Wine and Neil Young,〔"Inspired by nature to pen songs", ''Evening Chronicle'', 2007-04-11, p. 2.〕 as well as Will Oldham〔Wilson, Carl. "Pop", ''The Globe and Mail'', 2003-01-18, p. R20.〕 (Bonnie "Prince" Billy) and Sufjan Stevens.〔Pidd, Helen. "Review: Pop: The Great Lake Swimmers", ''The Guardian'', 2007-05-04, p. 42.〕 Dekker has said his influences include Gram Parsons and Hank Williams.〔McDowell, Adam. "Still learning to swim", ''National Post'', 2005-04-02, p. TO4.〕 ==History== The band released two albums, ''Great Lake Swimmers'' in 2003 and ''Bodies and Minds'' in 2005, on the independent label (weewerk) before signing to the larger Nettwerk in 2007. The band released its third full-length album, ''Ongiara'', on March 27, 2007 in Canada and in May for the rest of the world. Although signing to Nettwerk early in 2007, Great Lake Swimmers continue to be managed by (weewerk). In September 2007, (weewerk) released a limited edition vinyl version of ''Ongiara''. It was available in Australia through native indie label Speak N Spell. Their fourth album, ''Lost Channels'', was released on March 31, 2009. It was shortlisted for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize,〔(Polaris Music Prize – The 2009 Short List )〕 and was nominated for a Juno Award, in the category of Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Group, and a Canadian Folk Music Award. In 2009 Great Lake Swimmers took part in an interactive documentary series called ''City Sonic''. The series, which featured 20 Toronto artists, had Tony Dekker talk about his daily underground commute along Toronto’s subway system.〔http://www.citysonic.tv/films/Tony-Dekker-Great-Lake-Swimmers-at-Spadina-Subway-Station.php〕 In 2011, Dekker participated in the documentary series ''National Parks Project'', visiting Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia with filmmaker Keith Behrman and musicians Daniela Gesundheit and Old Man Luedecke. The band's fifth studio album, ''New Wild Everywhere'', was released on April 3, 2012.〔(Great Lake Swimmers: "Easy Come Easy Go" ). ''Exclaim!'', January 9, 2012.〕 The band also composed an instrumental soundtrack for photographer Ian Coristine's ''One in a Thousand'', an e-book of photography from the Thousand Islands region of Ontario, also released in April 2012.〔("Great Lake Swimmers Pen Original Score for New E-Book" ). ''Exclaim!'', March 14, 2012.〕 Dekker released a solo album, ''Prayer of the Woods'', in October 2013.〔("Great Lake Swimmers Frontman Tony Dekker Goes Solo for 'Prayer of the Woods'" ). ''Exclaim!'', August 13, 2013.〕 The album includes eight original songs as well as covers of Gordon Lightfoot's "Carefree Highway" and Human Sexual Response's "Land of the Glass Pinecones".〔 In 2014 he followed up with ''Sings 10 Years of Zunior'', an album of covers of other Canadian artists — including Old Man Luedecke, Chad VanGaalen, Christine Fellows, Ohbijou, Rae Spoon, Matt Mays, Martin Tielli, Jennifer Castle and Cadence Weapon — released to mark the 10th anniversary of Canadian web music store Zunior.〔("First Play: Tony Dekker sings 10 years of Zunior" ). CBC Music, July 29, 2014.〕 The sixth studio album by the full band, ''A Forest of Arms'', was released on April 21, 2015.〔(Song Premiere: Great Lake Swimmers - "Zero In The City" ). ''Paste'', February 2, 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Great Lake Swimmers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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