EMMA WORLEY REVEALS NEW VIDEO FOR “WEEKEND BABY” FROM UPCOMING LP, ANNOUNCES TOUR DATES

EMMA WORLEY’S NEW ALBUM, FOREVER BEGINNER, OUT SEPTEMBER 18, 2026 VIA ACRONYM RECORDS

CANADIAN TOUR DATES BEGIN SEPTEMBER 15

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On her sophomore album, Forever Beginner, Emma Worley tucks grief, joy, humour, and pain into the same fold. Emerging during a transformative period in her life, one shaped by chronic illness, treatment, healing, and resilience, Forever Beginner is an open-hearted, self-reckoning body of work.

In her new single, “Weekend Baby”, Worley abandons self-seriousness and embraces existential optimism as the song leans into the absurdity (and possible meaninglessness) of it all. “Weekend Baby” is a windows-down indie folk anthem about friendship, love, and the weirdness of being alive.Its playful swagger is driven by stacked banjos and Worley’s laid-back vocal delivery. It’s a track for Sunday scaries, any day of the week.

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MORE ABOUT FOREVER BEGINNER
Blending alternative folk and Americana, the album was crafted over two years with producer, multi-instrumentalist, and longtime collaborator Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station, Joan Shelley). The arrangements are a textural delight, with Worley’s tender voice and poignant songwriting at the centre. Featuring the talents of Julian Psihogios, Jasper Smith, Matt Kelly, Kendel Carson, Dylan Burchell, Will Kidman, Wyatt C. Louis, Lia Pappas Kemps, Tamara Lindeman, Ken Whiteley, Georgia Harmer, and more, Forever Beginner is both a shining emblem of Toronto’s remarkable music community.

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MORE ABOUT EMMA WORLEY
Hailing from Guelph, Ontario, and now residing in Toronto, Worley spent many years dedicated to a career as an emerging visual artist. Upon graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Design University, Worley garnered attention for her sculpture/installation work through exhibitions, installations, and residencies at various high-profile institutions. However, despite her burgeoning success in the visual-arts world, Worley found herself compulsively drawn towards creating the material that would become her debut album, Sentimentalist. Pulling from lived experience, triumph, heartbreak, and everything in between, the wisdom and grace of this collection is telling of Worley's dedication to relatable storytelling and emotional finesse.

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EMMA WORLEY PERFORMANCE DATES
Sept 15 - Quai des Brumes, Montreal, QC  *
Sept 17 - Charlotte Arts Centre, Fredericton, NB *
Sept 18 - Harvest Moon Festival, Bridgewater, NS * 
Sept 19 - Babas Lounge, Charlottetown, PEI *
Sept 20 - House Show, Halifax, NS * 
Sept 22 - Commune, Truro, NS - *
Sept 23 - Greenslades, Sackville, NB *

* with Talel McBriar and Claire Hunter

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FOREVER BEGINNER TRACKLIST
01 Weekend Baby
02 Comedy Club
03 Hardware Store in Heaven
04 All For Nothing
05 Buddy
06 Forever Beginner
07 the song in my heart is a hard one to play
08 Cupid The Vandal
09 Known

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JEAN-MICHEL BLAIS SHARES “CARNAVALITO” FROM UPCOMING LP

THE MONTREAL PIANIST AND COMPOSER SHARES “CARNAVALITO” FROM FOURTH ALBUM, MIRADOR, OUT SEPTEMBER 25 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

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CANADA, EUROPE AND UK TOUR DATES BEGIN THIS FALL

"A piece that opens with the full range of a 12-person baroque choir before Blais' piano takes the lead, guiding us through a vibrant dreamscape in just three minutes. ...with Ulysse, Blais is letting us into his inner world."  CBC Music, Songs You Need To Hear on “ulysse”

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Today, Montreal pianist and composer Jean-Michel Blais shares his new single, “carnavalito”, the latest track to be taken from his forthcoming fourth album mirador, released September 25, 2026 on Arts & Crafts. Following previous single “ulysse”, “carnavalito” offers another glimpse into an album that finds Blais turning his gaze onto a wide, wondrous world, exchanging contemporary minimalism for a light and generous maximalism. It is an odyssey that spans choirs, strings and the music of the Andes, from Spanish caves to Estonian forests and all the way back to the basement in Nicolet, Québec, where Blais first imagined adventures.

As a musical kid and, even if he wasn’t fully aware of these things yet, as a queer person, with Tourette’s, Blais’ hideaway was his imaginary lookout, his “mirador,” from which he could dream the world.

Speaking about “carnavalito”, Blais says:
“Fiesta de la quebrada, humahuaqueña para cantar (andean trad.). My crossing of the Andes leads me to Quito, where an elderly instrument seller finally reveals what I had been seeking for months: my three favourite bands are playing at the same festival, Inti Raymi, The Festival of the Sun. Suddenly I find myself overlooking Otavalo, high in the cordillera, searching for tickets to see Charijayak, Los Kjarkas and Bonnie Alberto Terán, the only white face among a mocking crowd. My search leads me backstage, helping the technical crew with the setup. One of the most beautiful days of my life, dancing the carnavalito.”

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With more than 375 million streams globally to his name, mirador began with Blais reflecting on childhood memories of building imaginary worlds in his parents’ basement. The album’s title references those early “lookout” spaces, places of refuge, invention and possibility. Working with composer and arranger William Brittelle (LA Philharmonic, The National), he assembled a choir of 12 baroque singers before adding a string quartet of friends. Blais also enlisted Tulio Velazco Villagra, a master of Andean instruments, while residencies at the Arvo Pärt Centre informed the album’s meditative atmosphere. The result is Blais’ most adventurous and transportive work yet, moving fluidly between folk traditions, contemporary composition and cinematic storytelling while holding onto a sense of intimacy throughout.

MORE ABOUT JEAN-MICHEL BLAIS
Jean-Michel Blais is a Montreal based pianist, composer and performer signed to Arts & Crafts and Mercury KX (Decca). In the first decade since the release of his landmark 2016 debut album, II, the classically trained Blais has defined his music through the reverent intimacy he shares with his instrument, the piano. Named in TIME’s Top 10 Best Albums of the Year, the magazine described his improvisation inspired debut as “music that breathes, invites one to take a moment, and acknowledges that there is still much beauty in the world.”

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Through this connection with the piano, the multiple Polaris Music Prize shortlisted and two time JUNO Award nominated artist has reached audiences around the world. He has performed one of the largest neoclassical concerts in history to nearly 40,000 people at the Montreal Jazz Festival, collaborated with the Orchestre de l’Agora and the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, and amassed more than 397 million streams across a catalogue that includes the ambient and new age inspired Dans ma main (2018), which drew influence from the music that soothed his Tourette syndrome as a child, the Félix Award winning aubades (2022), his first exploration of composition for chamber orchestra, and désert (2025), a collaborative album with American harpist Lara Somogyi.

His diverse résumé also encompasses the Cannes Award winning Matthias & Maxime (2019) soundtrack, the twilight inspired serenades EP (2023), and Cascades (2017), created with producer CFCF. Together, these works continue Pitchfork’s observation of the “thrilling synchronization of piano and electronics” that has become a defining thread throughout his catalogue.

On mirador, his fourth studio album, Blais embarks on an expansive, beneath the surface odyssey spanning choirs, strings and the music of the Andes. Travelling from Spanish caves to Estonian forests before returning home to tiny Nicolet, Québec, mirador opens listeners’ eyes onto Blais’ wide, wondrous and deeply personal world. It is an aspirational journey that exchanges contemporary minimalism for a light, generous maximalism.

Throughout his discography, Blais has used instrumentation and composition as tools of personal expression, subtly revealing different facets of his identity as a queer artist, perpetual traveller, student and caregiver, often through the lens of his upbringing. Four albums into his career, Jean-Michel Blais is no longer simply charting the map of his grown up heart. On mirador, he offers a new perspective on childhood: a vivid and vicarious invitation to listen again, gazing ahead into the imaginary.

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TOUR DATES

2026
09.24 — WATERLOO, QC — Maison de la culture de Waterloo
09.27 — STE-GENEVIÈVE, QC — Salle Pauline Julien
10.03 — VAL-MORIN, QC — Théâtre du Marais
10.23 — BERLIN, DE — Felt Room
10.26 — LONDON, UK — World Heart Beat
10.27 — UTRECHT, NL — TivoliVredenburg
10.28 — PARIS, FR — La Piccola Scala
11.28 — TORONTO, ON — Koerner Hall

2027
01.23 — NOMININGUE, QC — Espace Saint-Ignace
01.28 — SAINTE-THÉRÈSE, QC — Théâtre Lionel Groulx
01.29 — ST-HYACINTHE, QC — Centre des arts Juliette Lassonde
01.30 — BAIE-DU-FEBVRE, QC — Théâtre Belcourt
01.31 — VICTORIAVILLE, QC — Le Carré 150
02.05 — SHAWINIGAN, QC — Centre des Arts
02.06 — SHERBROOKE, QC — Théâtre Granada
02.07 — SALABERRY-DE-VALLEYFIELD, QC — Salle Albert Dumouchel
02.10 — DRUMMONDVILLE, QC — Maison des arts Desjardins Drummondville
02.12 — JOLIETTE, QC — Centre Culturel Desjardins
02.13 — MONTMAGNY, QC — Salle Edwin-Bélanger
02.14 — QUÉBEC, QC — Grand Théâtre de Québec
02.17 — BROSSARD, QC — Théâtre Manuvie
02.18 — L'ASSOMPTION, QC — Théâtre Hector Charland
02.19 — ST-MARIE-DE-BEAUCE, QC — Salle Méchatigan
02.20 — THETFORD MINES, QC — Salle Dussault
02.21 — TERREBONNE, QC — Théâtre du Vieux-Terrebonne
02.25 — LONGUEUIL, QC — Théâtre de la Ville
02.26 — LAVAL, QC — Salle André-Mathieu
02.27 — ST-EUSTACHE, QC — Le Zénith
03.05 — OTTAWA, ON — National Arts Centre
04.30 — VANCOUVER, BC — Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
05.20 — EDMUNDSTON, NB — Salle Léo-Poulin
05.21 — CARAQUET, NB — Centre Culturel de Caraquet
05.22 — MONCTON, NB — Capitol Theatre
05.23 — FREDERICTON, NB - Playhouse
10.02 — CHÂTEAUGUAY, QC — Château Scènes
10.03 — LÉVIS, QC — L’Anglicane
10.07 — ST-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, QC — Théâtre des Deux-Rives
10.08 — MONTRÉAL (LASALLE), QC — Théâtre Desjardins
10.10 — GATINEAU, QC — Salle Odyssée
10.12 — ST-JÉRÔME, QC — Théâtre Gilles Vigneault
10.13 — VAL-D'OR, QC — Théâtre Télébec
10.14 — ROUYN-NORANDA, QC — Théâtre du Cuivre
10.15 — AMOS, QC — Théâtre des Eskers
10.20 — SAGUENAY, QC — Théâtre C
10.21 — RIMOUSKI, QC — Salle de Spectacles Desjardins
10.22 — CARLETON-SUR-MER, QC — Studio du Quai des Arts

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mirador TRACKLIST
1. muses
2. ulysse
3. pavane
4. carnavalito
5. mirador
6. quwi
7. granada
8. kyrie
9. laulasmaa
10. silhouettes
11. querelle
12. a chambre des possibles

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THE DEEP DARK WOODS ANNOUNCE FALL TOUR DATES, SHARE NEW SINGLE / VIDEO

THE DEEP DARK WOODS SHARE THE NEW SINGLE / VIDEO FOR “EAST OF THE SUN”

FALL TOUR DATES BEGIN SEPTEMBER 3, 2026 - FULL DATES BELOW

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This fall, The Deep Dark Woods will embark on a tour that keeps them north of the 49th parallel on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, with stops throughout Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia. Tour dates begin this September, full tour listings can be found below. Today, they are prepping for the road trip with the new single, “East Of The Sun”. a song originally by Roy Harper. “Roy Harper is one of the most underrated songwriters of the 1960s,” explains frontman Ryan Boldt. “His influence was felt across British folk and rock and roll, influencing bands like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.

“He straddled the line between traditional folk and psychedelic rock. Much like Nick Drake, his music was difficult to categorize, which I believe negatively affected his career. It takes the music industry sometimes decades to catch up to what true artists are creating. His songs will be sung through the centuries ahead.

“I recorded ‘East of the Sun’ in a rumba style with my old Roland TR-77 drum machine going through a Korg tape echo machine. Geoff Hilhorst, of course, added the organ, and my friend Jay Hollinaty played the drums.”

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MORE ABOUT THE DEEP DARK WOODS
As always, The Deep Dark Woods' music exists in a proud continuum of songwriting, but this is a band whose influences can be felt more than heard. The spirit of the '60s and '70s hovers around the perimeter at all times, but truly only in spirit: there is no aping here, just an enviable ability to conjure that same world-weary-but-hopeful sound that, for instance, Levon and company patented across The Band's early '70s masterpieces. And that era leans heavily on the sonic palette of their latest record, The Circle Remains as well. This “out of time” aspect can be attributed to their influences of course, but also to the analog tape-heavy recording process the band and producer David Parry (Alice Phoebe Lou, Loving) favoured for this album. And it makes perfect sense, adding a burnished quality to the album's sound and placing a premium on the considerable abilities of these musicians.

A passing listen to the voice of The Deep Dark Woods' Boldt may find one drawing comparisons to some of the other titans of this strain of intimate, personalized songwriting that emerged in the during the '90s “indie folk” scenes, but the more one listens, it becomes apparent that Boldt has carved out his own niche in this rarefied realm. His singing (which is often coated with the gentle spectre of good old-fashioned analog tape delay) is lilting and mellifluous, imbuing a floating, mercurial element to the performances, but it's also playful, each line gently teasing out the edges of his melodies. 

For both neophytes and the converted alike, The Circle Remains will be an easy point of entry for the uninitiated, and it will certainly provide another proof-positive for the longtime fan. 

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TOUR DATES

CANADA
September 3 - Park Theatre - Winnipeg, MB
September 4 - Artesian - Regina, SK
September 5 - Capitol Music Club - Saskatoon, SK
September 7 - Festival Hall - Calgary, AB
September 8 - Bo's Bar - Red Deer, AB
September 9 - The Owl Acoustic Lounge - Lethbridge, AB
September 11 - Purple City Festival - Edmonton, AB
September 18 - Riverstone Retreat, Durham, ON
September 19 - The Canadian Canoe Museum - Peterborough, ON

EUROPE
October 3 - De Casino - Sint-Niklaas, BE
October 4 - Thiemeloods - Nijmegen, NL
October 7 - Vega Jr - Copenhagen, DK
October 8 - Annelundsgården - Malmö, SE
October 10 - Kulturhuset - Halden, NO
October 11 - MIR - Oslo, NO
October 12 - Moskus - Trondheim, NO
October 13 - Hedingen - Vemdalen, SE
October 14 - Debaser Nova - Stockholm, SE
October 15 - Blackbird - Uppsala, SE
October 16 - Baggelycke Gård - Motala, SE
October 17 - Kulturhuset - Vänersborg, SE
October 18 - Dexter - Odense, DK

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