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DAVID LARONDE
ONTARIO TOURING FALL 2024
Featuring Award-Nominated
Album I KNOW I CAN FLY
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NORTH BAY, ONT. – Teme-Augama Anishnabai singer-songwriter DAVID LARONDE performs contemporary roots, folk, rock, and blues. Laronde, who lives in Temagami, ON, will embark on a MINI-TOUR to continue promoting his latest of three full albums, I KNOW I CAN FLY, out now on all major platforms. Laronde begins touring July 24 in Northern Ontario in Haileybury at Art in the Park concert series, then hits North Bay for three shows at World Fusion Fest on August 10, Entertainer's Hall of Fame Gala on Sept 13, Capitol Centre on Feb 1. A southern Ontario festival appearance is scheduled for 3 PM on Sept 14 at the Belmont Village Bestival in downtown Kitchener. Don't miss this one since a few new songs will be debuted. Laronde is currently in a "song-writing phase" but feels strongly about continuing LIVE performing.
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Laronde’s debut album Right City Wrong Town was nominated for APCM Awards’ Best Blues Album in 2013. Then came Under the Raven’s Wings, and then his third album, I Know I Can Fly – which received a nomination for Indigenous Songwriter of the Year from the Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2022.
More accolades came in 2023 with a nomination for a Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Award and in 2024 an induction into the North Bay Entertainers Hall of Recognition that salutes significant artistic contributions and for the enjoyment brought to the North Bay area. David's accompanying musicians are from North Bay and recorded albums with local producers and went on to award nominations for that work.
Given this history, audiences already know that his storytelling is sharp, and his music is uplifting. As Laronde says, "Music transcends all. The message in my music simple. In this great land of ours, let’s use the strength and power from our ancestors – who thrived for thousands of years, holistically, physically, and spiritually connected to Mother Earth. We all have the power to live free and healthy just by being aware of our connection to our ancestors." That said, Laronde IS ON A MISSION.
He scheduled a visit to the East Coast to walk in the footsteps of his own Deny de Laronde ancestors, to feel and experience the history at Port Lajoie (Charlottetown), PEI, France-Acadia-PEI-Ottawa River valley. This is a research project ongoing towards a new album called the DeLaronde Ancestry which explores the paternal history of French ancestors.
Laronde’s latest album I Know I Can Fly. It’s a quietly powerful meditation on the perseverance of loving relationships and personal freedom through all sorts of challenging circumstances. It features crisp acoustic guitar, compelling vocals, and gentle but captivating production throughout. "I Need You" offers a simple confession of timeless, eternal commitment, while "Run With My Father" combines a Roma feel and haunting vocals with an unusually wordless chorus.
Laronde says the song is about feeling free, and connecting to his parents, as he was running along a beach in Cuba. The gently rolling title track offers an evocative slide guitar, a distinctive hand drum, and a rootsy Americana vibe. Laronde says he wrote this song of freedom while sitting on a rock watching a gull float in the summer breeze. On the other hand, "Leonard's Lament," a dark, moody piece, with tremolo'ed electric guitar, was written for Leonard Peltier -- who's been in a federal penitentiary for the past 47 years, after being wrongly convicted of killing two FBI agents at the 1975 shootout on Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.
"Right Here For You" is about a teenage mother giving up her baby at birth and reuniting some 50 years later. Trumpets sound in celebration of the fulfilled quest to find each other. "Gonna Be Alright" is a lighthearted, bouncy, old-school country song of reassurance that relationships will last through tenuous times of lockdown and forced co-habitation. "Teen suicide on Canadian Indian reservations remains an unsolvable human problem," says Laronde.
"'One Last Time' is meant to bring the listener into the aftermath of one such event." "Footsteps" is the most purely "folk" song on the album and is a personal account of the inner turmoil when making "moving on" decisions to end a relationship or an unsatisfactory job. "Lovers being held apart by circumstances due to COVID-19 are most noticeable at Christmas time," says Laronde. "'Where Are You' is about that void left when a lover is alone during the holidays." "I Carry Your Smile" is an instrumental about the ever-present smile of Laronde's mother Barbara Laronde (nee Turner). "When I smile, I think of her, and carry her love wherever I go," he says.
MORE ABOUT DAVID LARONDE DAVID LARONDE is a Canadian award-nominated Indigenous singer-songwriter performing contemporary roots, folk, rock, and blues. He hails from the ancient Teme-Augama Anishnabai (Deep Water People) in beautiful Northern Ontario. His music is uplifting and refreshing, as he fuses an urban influence with the mystery and ancestral philosophy of his homeland. With award-nominated albums to his credit, Laronde writes songs that offer fresh takes on the human condition. They examine themes of personal strength, freedom, love, hope, and joy, with the ever-changing seasons in the background. With full band, duo, or solo he engages the audience with an entertaining, energetic and soulful performance every time.
I KNOW I CAN FLY ALBUM CREDITS: All songs written by: David Laronde. Released June 4, 2021 David Laronde: Acoustic guitar, ukelele, vocal Peter Cliché: Acoustic and electric guitars, fretless bass guitar, banjo, mandolin, dobro, flute, ukelele, violin and background vocals Produced, mixed and recorded by: Peter Cliche Mastered by: Serpent One Mastering, Toronto Album graphics: Haley Laronde Front cover photo: Gerry Gooderham Back cover photo: Heather Reid Cover photography: Gooderham Photography
ONTARIO TOURING 2024 DATES: July 24 Art in the Park Concert Series, Haileybury, ON
Aug 9 Private concert - South River, ON
Aug 10 World Fusion Fest, North Bay, ON
Sept 13 Entertainers Hall of Recognition Gala– North Bay, ON
Sept 14 Belmont Village Bestival, Kitchener, ON
Oct 1 Jazz at the Junction, North Bay, ON Oct 22. Private concert, Sault Ste. Marie, ON
Feb 1. Capitol Centre, North Bay, ON
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