JACOB BRODOVSKY’S NEW ALBUM, TELL THE KIDS WE TRIED,
DUE OUT JULY 10, 2026
WATCH / SHARE “COLORADO LOW” HERE
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PERFORMING AT WINNIPEG FOLK FESTIVAL
“Jacob Brodovsky spins mundane observations with imaginative insights, using lyrical richness and splashes of humour to paint in pensive musings and quirky, comforting colour” — Exclaim!
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Jacob Brodovsky, the award-winning indie-folk songwriter, based in Treaty 1 Territory, is sharing another new song from his upcoming record, Tell The Kids We Tried, produced by Gavin Gardiner and Champagne James Robinson (MOONRIIVR). “Colorado Low” is the “oldest song on the record,” explains Brodovsky. “I wrote it in early 2016 when I had just moved back to Winnipeg from Toronto. I remember feeling underwhelmed by the Winnipeg winter and missing the snow drifts that I remembered from childhood. On the radio they kept referencing this impending ‘Colorado Low’ that would bring in the winter and I wrote this song about hypothetical characters waiting for winter, while also pondering my own decisions about coming back home and trying to settle back into life in Winnipeg after half a decade away.
“I recorded this song 3 times in various bands over the last ten years and never really felt like I nailed it. I abandoned it many times, but for whatever reason every time I set out to make a record this song always crept back into the track listing. I re-wrote a few lyrics to make it a bit more applicable to my life now, and knew as soon as James pulled out the 12-string to track this song that we would be keeping it this time.”
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MORE ABOUT JACOB BRODOVSKY & TELL THE KIDS WE TRIED
In some cases, songwriters discover their writing is premonition only after living through the experiences their past-self penned. In 2025, Jacob Brodovsky lived through a loss of community that, at the time, he didn’t realize he’d foretold while writing his upcoming sophomore LP, Tell The Kids We Tried.
He began recording with a group of trusted friends and heroes. He brought a batch of songs to producers Gavin Gardiner and Champagne James Robinson, only to quickly discard many of them in favour of brand new songs stemming from a ‘Song Every Week’ songwriting challenge that the Winnipeg music community takes part in every Winter.
Without time to edit or really even think about them, these eleven songs revealed themselves to be more vulnerable and personal than previous work. With the help of John Mark Baron (Begonia, William Prince), Jason Tait (The Weakerthans, Bahamas), Keiran Placetka (Leith Ross, William Prince, Bros. Landreth), Charlotte Cornfield, Dominique Adams (Leith Ross, Madeleine Roger), and Taylor Jackson, they recorded live to an 8-track tape machine, quickly capturing the true expression of each song and being forced to commit to creative decisions in the moment.
WATCH / SHARE “PAST MISTAKES” HERE
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After spending the vast majority of his life in the Jewish Summer Camp world, including becoming Co-Executive Director with his wife of the popular local community camp they met at over 25 years ago, political tensions forced him to walk away from both what he thought was his life’s work, and the community he grew up in just days after the birth of their second son. Many tracks like “Kids”, “Beneath It All”, “It’s Alright”, “Lack Thereof”, and “Older, Too” foreshadowed the upcoming loss of community that Jacob would experience while his child was being born.
The political and personal impacts live in each song, sharing the sense of loss and confusion Brodovsky felt through the process. At the same time, the collection of songs shares more hope than disappointment. With a close listen, many songs show the importance of finding true community, seeing good in tough situations, and learning to feel less allergic to growing up and getting older.
On one level, the album is a clear message to Jacob’s former campers and staff. On another level, telling the kids we tried is directed at his own two children, hoping for understanding as to why he’s raising them in a world that’s getting harder and harder to believe in.
Finally, it’s a reminder for all of us as we try to carve space for kindness and community in an increasingly bleak time. Please, tell them we tried.
PRE-SAVE TELL THE KIDS WE TRIED HERE
TOUR DATES
May 28-31 - Ymir, BC - Tiny Lights Festival
Jul 09-12 - Winnipeg, MB - Winnipeg Folk Festival
Aug 14-17 - Ear Falls, ON - Trout Forest Music Festival
TELL THE KIDS WE TRIED TRACKLIST
01 Past Mistakes
02 Colorado Low
03 Kids
04 Restaurant
05 Older Too
06 Intermission
07 Lack Thereof (with Dominique Adams)
08 Downer
09 Beneath It All (with Charlotte Cornfield)
10 Winters (with MOONRIIVR)
11 It's Alright (with Dominique Adams and Taylor Jackson)
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