WATCH! BRAND NEW VIDEO starring Charlie for the previously unreleased “You Really Got It So Bad” off of the upcoming compilation ‘Too Broke To Die: Retrospective 2005-2019’ available digitally March 29th worldwide & physically (limited edition) at all April/May European Tour Dates only. Filmed & Edited by LPPhotographs. Song produced by Michael Timmins of Cowboy Junkies and ft. Carleigh Aikins, Tamara Lindeman (The Weather Station), Ivy Mairi on vocals. Watch here: https://youtu.be/-Z1iY2XMTcw

TOUR DATES SO FAR: http://www.jerryleger.com/tour/

Special thanks to Daniel Demois, The Duke and Latent Recordings.

I’ll be returning to UK & Europe for 7 weeks this April & May with The Situation’s Dan Mock on bass and Kyle Sullivan on drums. Happy to add another date May 30th in Ospel, NL at the Mijl op Zeven Festival. Tickets on sale here: https://www.ticketcrew.nl/tickets/festival-mijl-op-zeven?fbclid=IwAR0SNiw54BJ6xl8bJCiZGeDG9vIzw5IcYJ3Wmlaov_UetL35kywaIT7z_sY

Hey folks,

I’ll be heading back overseas this April and May for a bunch of trio shows featuring Dan Mock on bass and Kyle Sullivan on drums (both of The Situation). To coincide with the tours we’ll be releasing a compilation titled ‘Too Broke To Die : A Retrospective 2005-2019’ on March 29th. It’ll be available on CD in Europe-only and digitally world-wide. Below are the shows announced so far, many more on the way.

Photo: LPPhotographs
Hey all!
I want to start off by thanking everyone who helped make 2018 the best of my career so far. This year saw two European tours, cross Canada tours, the European re-release of the album Nonsense and Heartache, a full page feature in the German Rolling Stone (Nonsense and Heartache also rose to #3 on the RS Writers Album Charts) and I happily joined Maiden Voyage Booking Agency in the UK and Sedate Booking Agency for the rest of Europe. It was also an honour to see Nonsense and Heartache listed as one of the best albums of 2018 in AmericanaUK. The record got to have a second life overseas, after its initial 2017 Canadian release through Latent Recordings/Warner Music Canada (Proper Music in Europe).

It was a year of very hard work that paid off and I was so happy to have had a highly successful European debut tour with my longtime band, The Situation (James McKie, Dan Mock, Kyle Sullivan) and to have Laura Proctor (LPPhotographs) doing tour photography (documented in a limited edition tour zine) and being part of the crew. We made so many new friends this year and played so many great shows and festivals. We also found time to record and release the 2nd album from my side project, The Del Fi’s, which keeps us busy in between everything else.

The other week we entered the studio to begin work on the next record. Like the previous 2 albums, it’s being produced by Michael Timmins of Cowboy Junkies and it’ll be released in 2019 on their label, Latent Recordings. There’s a lot of new songs I’ve written that Michael and I are narrowing down. I’m very excited to get back into the studio in another week or so. We’ll also be returning to Europe for a long Spring tour. Stay tuned for announcements.

Have a happy and safe New Year’s everyone! All the best to you and yours, we’ll see you in 2019!

Hey folks!

What a great year it’s been for us and thank you for the ongoing support. Tonight, Dec 15th we’ll play our last show of 2018 in our hometown at The Horseshoe Tavern, supporting Union Duke. Gavin Gardiner of The Wooden Sky opens the show. Doors at 9pm, they’re might be a few tickets left. Also, if you can, please bring new and unused socks to the merch table. We’ll be collecting them for the homeless as part of a donation being put on by Indie88 and Socks4Souls. Hope to see you tonight.

Today, I release the 2nd album from my wild ‘n’ wonderful side project, The Del Fi’s  titled ‘Residuals’ Follow the link to stream it and if you dig, please consider downloading or ordering on CD (comes with download). Features 10 brand new songs that I wrote, then recorded with a cast of 18 Del Fi’s in one session, live off of the floor, barely knowing the songs at The Trailer in East End Toronto. Aaron Comeau did the crazy job of recording and mixing this spontaneous rock ‘n’ roll and James Paul mastered it for listening pleasure. Thanks to LPPhotographs for the amazing front cover photo and photographing the session. We’ll also be celebrating by playing the first 3 Wednesdays of this month (Tonight Dec 5th, Dec 12th, Dec 19th) in the front room of The Cameron House in Toronto. 10pm! Listen/Buy the album here: https://thedelfis.bandcamp.com/album/residuals

THE DEL FI’S ON RESIDUALS ARE:
ANDREW BARKER, CHRIS BENNETT, ANDREW BOULOS, ERIC BROMBACHER, JILLIAN BUNTING, SHAWN CLARKE,
AARON COMEAU, MATT COOKE, MICHAEL ECKERT, ANGIE HILTS, JERRY LEGER, JAMES McKIE, DAN MOCK,
GRAHAM NICHOLAS, GALEN PELLEY, KYLE SULLIVAN, KEN YOSHIOKA, ALAN ZEMAITIS
https://thedelfis.bandcamp.com/album/residuals

Photo: LPPhotographs
Happy Holidays everyone!
All Vinyl (w/ download), CDs (w/ download) and downloads are 50% off in our Bandcamp Merch Store for the whole month of December. It includes all the albums from the Self Titled debut to our previous release, Early Riser (not all selections are avail on Vinyl and CD). My current album Nonsense and Heartache is not part of the sale but is still available to order from the official website and other outlets and sites.
Check out the Bandcamp page for this December half off sale:
https://jerryleger.bandcamp.com/music

We just uploaded another video from our sold out Nonsense and Heartache release show last year. Take a look at a live version of “Another Dead Radio Star.”

Photo: LPPhotographs
Hey folks,
I wanted to share a track from the upcoming album Residuals by my side project, The Del Fi’s. Just like the first album it was recorded live off the floor in one day at The Trailer Studio in the East End of Toronto. It features 18 musicians (including myself) feeding off each other playing spontaneous reactions to songs they didn’t really know and even though I wrote them I barely knew them either!
The album comes out December 5th which will also coincide with kicking off an album release residency at The Cameron House in the West End. We’ll play the first 3 Wednesday in the front room (the 5th, 12th and 19th) with music starting at 10pm. If you can’t make it to the West, The Del Fi’s play every Thursday night at Castro’s Lounge in the Beaches, 8:30-10:30.
Check out the song “Wait A Little Longer” by The Del Fi’s and pre-order the album while you’re there!
https://thedelfis.bandcamp.com/track/wait-a-little-longer

In other news, I have a couple Ontario shows happening this weekend and a few more in December before the end of the year. Check out the dates below:
*Sat Nov 24 – CROW. Bar and Variety, Collingwood, ON 9:30pm (trio show)
*Sun Nov 25 – The Second Wedge Brewing Co., Uxbridge, ON (solo) afternoon show, 3pm
*Fri Nov 30 – Niagara Oast House Brewers, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, 7pm (duo show)
*Sat Dec 1 – Bar Hop Bar Toronto, Toronto, ON, (duo show) 9pm
*Sat Dec 15 – Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON (full band show) w/ Union Duke + Gavin Gardiner (The Wooden Sky) 9pm

It’s great to be back home in Toronto after another successful tour of Europe, our 2nd this year. Thank you to everyone who came out to the shows, we had such a great time. A big highlight was playing to a very engaged capacity crowd at the Take Root Fest in Groningen this past Saturday. The bill also included acts such as Neko Case, Sarah Shook & The Disarmers (whom we also played with in Deventer, NL), Father John Misty, Kurt Vile, Alejandro Escovedo, Trampled By Turtles (whom we also played with in Amsterdam, NL), Shakey Graves and more. We’ll be back overseas in the Spring with dates bringing us from the UK through to Scandinavia. Lots of exciting news ahead!

This Thursday night, Nov 8th in Toronto we’ll be at the Horseshoe Tavern on a bill part of this year’s Indieweek. Doors are at 8:00 and our set is scheduled for 11:30-12:15. We hope to see you. Please check out the TOUR page for other upcoming dates before the close of the year.

Hey folks,

The Situation and I are very excited to return to Europe this Friday for a short run of shows including the Take Root Fest with Kurt Vile, Father John Misty, Neko Case, Trampled By Turtles (who we’ll be playing with in Amsterdam) and more. Check out the link here for dates and more info: http://www.sedate-bookings.com/news/jerry-leger-over-in-the-netherlands-and-germany-for-a-short-string-of-shows

or check out the TOUR page!

Also, thanks so much to Altcountry.nl for letting folks know about our upcoming dates in The Netherlands. You can check out the article here: https://www.altcountryforum.nl/2018/10/20/tour-data-jerry-leger/