Jerry Leger

Hey gang, 
I’m so excited to let you know that we’ll be playing the new room at Massey Hall, TD Music Hall in Toronto, Nov 29th celebrating the upcoming album Donlands. 
Special guest Katie Cruel. Grab your tickets here: https://tdmusichall.mhrth.com/tickets/jerry-leger-and-the-situation/

If you’re reading this in time, Happy Bandcamp Friday! To celebrate, we’ve added Donlands as a pre-order on Limited Edition Brown Vinyl, Black Vinyl, CD, Download + unlimited streaming. Request to have your Vinyl or CD autographed!
Pre-order and get the first single “Three Hours Ahead Of Midnight”.
Go to the store: https://jerryleger.bandcamp.com/album/donlands

I’m so happy to announce my next studio album Donlands, out October 27th on Cowboy Junkies’ label, Latent Recordings/Warner Music Canada/Proper Music. It’s produced by legendary Grammy Award winning producer/engineer, Mark Howard (Lucinda Williams, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Courtney Marie Andrews). 

You can pre-order Vinyl (including limited edition Brown Vinyl), CDs and listen to the first single “Three Hours Ahead Of Midnight” here: https://eek.lnk.to/JLTHAOM

Donlands was recorded at Gold Standard Recorders, located in the old Donlands Theatre in Toronto. I wanted to make an album that floated in a similar dimension as The Flamingos 1950s version of “I Only Have Eyes For You”. I also wanted to get that atmosphere Mark achieved on beautifully records he helped make such as Bob Dylan’s Time Out Of Mind and World Without Tears by Lucinda Williams. To read more about Donlands, check out the new bio written by Jason Schneider: http://jerryleger.com/about/

If you’re reading this in time and are in the Toronto area, we’ll be playing a surprise show tonight (Aug 23) 7pm-10pm at The Only Cafe, appropriately located at Danforth & Donlands. We thought it would be fun to celebrate the album announcement by performing the record from start to finish! It’s casual, PWYC and limited space available. 

We made a video for “Three Hours Ahead Of Midnight” at the historic Imperial Pub in Toronto. It was beautifully filmed, directed and edited by Mitch Fillion. 
Please take a look and subscribe to the channel if you haven’t already!

Thanks to Bedroomdisco in Germany for premiering the video “Three Hours Ahead Of Midnight”. This was beautifully filmed by Mitch Fillion at the historic Imperial Pub in Toronto. The single will be released tomorrow!

Follow the link to watch: https://www.bedroomdisco.de/2023/08/jerry-leger-gefuehlvolles-songwriting/

Pre-save/add the single: https://eek.lnk.to/JLTHAOM

Surprise Surprise!
A brand new single comes out next week, pre-save it here: https://eek.lnk.to/JLTHAOM

Produced by legendary producer/engineer Mark Howard, known for his work on Bob Dylan’s Time Out Of Mind (which Mark won a Grammy for), Real Gone by Tom Waits, Willie Nelson’s Teatro and for making the beautiful World Without Tears with Lucinda Williams, among many others. I can’t wait for you to hear “Three Hours Ahead Of Midnight” and there might be more news where that came from…

This weekend, Aug 12 & 13, I’ll be joined by Dan Mock to perform at this year’s Trout Forest Music Festival in Ears Falls, ON. Tickets and more info here: https://www.troutfest.com/
You can watch Dan and I perform “Kill It With Kindness” live from Latent Lounge, which has just been added to the YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/sNHk_o30Yoo

I’m also excited that the band and I will be part of this year’s Limestone City Blues Fest in Kingston, ON, Saturday August 26th. 
Tickets and more info here: https://downtownkingston.ca/blogs/upcoming-events/limestone-city-blues-festival

In other show news, I’m happy to announce a special solo show happening in Lascelles, Quebec at Magasin General La Peche, Sunday September 17th. Tickets can be purchased directly from them, just email: mglapeche@gmail.com

As previously announced, I’ll be returning to Europe with the band this October/November. 
We’ve added Oct 24th in Leiden, Netherlands at Q Bus and Oct 29th in Venlo, Netherlands, opening for The Sadies at Grenswerk. This will be our 2nd show opening for The Sadies this year, as we’ll be joining them in Ramara, ON Sept 23rd for a show in support of The Orillia Youth Centre. 
Visit the TOUR page for ticket links and more info! More dates to be announced.

Hey folks, 
Hope you’ve been enjoying the summer!
The band and I are looking forward to playing an outdoor show this coming Saturday, July 15th in Belwood, ON. It’s part of a summer concert series called “Canadian Soundwaves” happening at Skol House. 

We’re also really happy to announce two more festivals in the Netherlands, adding to Take Root in Groningen, November 4th. 
October 21st, we’re really excited to be part of this great lineup for Ramblin Roots Fest in the beautiful TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht. A week later we’ll be playing the Rootzz Fest in Breda at the Mezz venue. 

In September, we’re pleased to be part of a fundraiser for the Orillia Youth Centre, happening on the 23rd at Fern Resort, Ramara, ON. We’ll be on a bill with the Ronnie Douglas Band and headliners, The Sadies. 

November 18th, I’m honoured to be part of a big show celebrating The Band’s “The Last Waltz” at the legendary Massey Hall in Toronto. It’s being put on by the official Band tribute, Chest Fever. Scarlet Rivera has also just been announced as a guest. Rivera is probably best remembered as being the violinist on Bob Dylan’s Desire album, part of Dylan’s 75/76 Rolling Thunder Revue tours, resulting in the live album Hard Rain (my childhood introduction to Bob Dylan) as well as the bootleg series collections, Live 1975 and The Rolling Thunder Revue – The 1975 Recordings. 

SEE TICKET LINKS BELOW FOR ALL UPCOMING SHOWS

New on the YouTube channel, watch us perform fan favourite “Factory Made” at Paradise Theatre: https://youtu.be/fPDiKMi4s98

Hey gang!
Thanks so much to all those who came out to the shows in Germany, the Netherlands, England, Ireland and Scotland! My buddy and “roadie” (pictured above) Gabriel had a blast! I want to thank the promoters, venues and everyone who helped us out along the way. 

Check out a few live reviews that popped up during the tour:

Review of May 9 in London: https://garyw66.weebly.com/blog/playing-cowboy-songs-he-knows-by-heart

Review of May 11 in Durham: https://rockingmagpie.wordpress.com/2023/05/12/jerry-leger-at-the-old-launderette-durham-city/

Review of May 17 in Bangor: https://www.lonesomehighway.com/live-reviewsold/2023/5/19/jerry-ledgerthe-court-house-bangor-northern-ireland

Review of May 18 in Glasgow (sold out): https://americana-uk.com/live-review-jerry-leger-at-sounds-in-the-suburbs-the-doublet-bar-glasgow-18th-may-2023

I also would like to thank Rob Hughes for the little blurb in the latest issue of UNCUT Magazine!

ONTARIO SOLO SHOWS

*JUNE 8 – Bluebird Bar, Toronto, 8pm-10:30pm
*JUNE 9 – Bowie’s Music Club, Smiths Falls, 8:30pm (early show) & 11:30pm (late show)
*JUNE 10 – Hotel Wolfe Island, Wolfe Island, 7pm-9pm

OTHER UPCOMING SHOWS:
June 16 – Tall Pines Music & Arts Festival, Gravenhurst, ON (full band) ADV TIX
July 15 – Canadian Soundwaves (presented by Skol House), Belwood, ON (full band) JUST ANNOUNCED!ADV TIX
Aug 12 & 13 – Trout Forest Music Festival, Ear Falls, ON (duo) ADV TIX
Nov 4 – Take Root Festival, Groningen, Netherlands (full band) ADV TIX

MORE INFO: http://jerryleger.com/tour/

I’m happy to announce the third and final digital-only EP for this year from myself and Latent Recordings. The Time Flew By will be released April 28th and features an outtake from each album I’ve made on Latent with producer, Michael Timmins of Cowboy Junkies. These are top shelf songs; they weren’t left off the albums because of their quality. Deciding which tracks make up an album can be very difficult and tricky. You have to take into account flow and cohesion. Sometimes the best songs are the ones that don’t make the final cut.

About the video: The video for “And The Time Flew By” was filmed & recorded live off the floor by Mitch Fillion (known for his work under the name Southern Souls) at my local beer joint, Eulalie’s Corner Store.  

About the song: “And The Time Flew By”– We tried this for 2019’s Time Out For Tomorrow but it didn’t seem to live in that world of songs. It always felt special to me though, so I kept it in the back of my mind. The title came from a repeated phrase in a Kurt Vonnegut book I was reading. It sort of became a cross between Tom Waits’ “Martha” and an old country-gospel end-of-life kind of song.

Pre-save/add The Time Flew By: https://eek.lnk.to/JLTTFB

Watch “And The Time Flew By”: https://youtu.be/KVL4Iba7W-E

It’s another Bandcamp Friday (artists keep 100% of revenue) and we’ve added the new EP Latent Uncovers to the store for download/unlimited streaming. 
Also, all merch products (excluding Nothing Pressing) will be 50% OFF until the end of Sunday. Part of our spring cleaning sale! Visit the store: https://jerryleger.bandcamp.com/

I was fortunate to be the guest to open the second season of Jane Gowan’s Music Buddy Podcast. We talked about my career and also got to record a version of my song “Nothing Pressing” with Jane and podcast producer Tim Vesley (of Rheostatics) at Blue Rodeo’s Woodshed studio. You can hear that at the end of the episode, which is available now: https://www.musicbuddy.ca/

NEW SOLO SHOWS IN ONTARIO ANNOUNCED!
*JUNE 8 – Bluebird Bar, Toronto
*JUNE 9 – Bowie’s Music Club, Smiths Falls
*JUNE 10 – Hotel Wolfe Island, Wolfe Island

Look at all the upcoming tour dates, including Europe & the UK on the TOUR page

Hey folks,

Since transferring the site to a new provider, we lost a few things along the way….The TOUR page now has all the dates back up (take a look!) but we also lost some NEWS posts from the last few months. This is why it’s not a bad idea to join the mailing list: http://eepurl.com/hA3n1f

I’m excited for my return to Europe and the UK for a whole bunch of dates this Spring. This will also be my first solo tour overseas, it’s a-gonna be special. I’ve added a couple new dates, April 28 in Amsterdam at Concerto Recordstore (free show) and April 29 in the small German town of Rinkerode at Alte Dorfschanke. Check out the full list of shows and tickets links on the tour page: http://jerryleger.com/tour/