Bruce Cockburn "On A Roll" announces 44 Date North American & UK Tour in support of forthcoming album, 'O Sun O Moon'

Exciting news that singer-songwriter/guitar master Bruce Cockburn is touring in support of his forthcoming new album "O Sun O Moon." Check out the terrific advance cut "On A Roll" too...Robert Kinsler

Listen to the single “On A Roll” and Pre-Order/Pre-Save Album Here

“Time takes its toll,” sings the 77-year-old Bruce Cockburn on the opening song, “On A Roll,” his 38th album, O Sun O Moon, out on May 12 via True North Records.  “But in my soul / I’m on a roll.”

 

April 16, 2023 SAN FRANCISCO    Bruce Cockburn has enjoyed an illustrious career shaped by politics, spirituality, and musical diversity. His remarkable journey has seen him embrace folk, jazz, rock, and worldbeat styles while earning high praise as a prolific, inspired songwriter and accomplished guitarist. He remains deeply respected for his activism and humanist song lyrics that thread throughout his career. On all his albums Cockburn has deftly captured the joy, pain, fear, and faith of human experience in song.

 

Bruce Cockburn has won 13 JUNO Awards, an induction into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, and has been made an Officer of the Order of Canada, among many other accolades. He has 22 gold and platinum records including a six-times platinum record for his Christmas album. Cockburn continues to tour internationally.

 

He’s on a roll.

 

BRUCE COCKBURN 2023 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 

 

JUN 1                    PLYMOUTH NH FLYING MONKEY CENTER

JUN 2                    BEVERLY MA THE CABOT

JUN 3                    HARTFORD CT INFINITY HALL

JUN 4                    NEW YORK NY CITY WINERY

JUN 7                    BETHLEHEM PA MUSIKFEST CAFÉ

JUN 8                    PHOENIXVILLE PA COLONIAL THEATRE

JUN 9                    WASHINGTON DC WARNER THEATRE

JUN 10                  GREENSBURG PA PALACE THEATRE

JUN 12                  BUFFALO NY ASBURY HALL BABEVILLE

JUN 13                  KENT OH KENT STAGE

JUN 14                  ROYAL OAK MI ROYAL OAK THEATRE

JUN 16                  CINCINNATI OH LUDLOW GARAGE

JUN 17                  NASHVILLE TN CMA THEATRE

JUN 18                  ATLANTA GA VARIETY PLAYHOUSE

JUN 24                  KENSINGTON CA COVENTRY GROVE

AUG 10                 WHISTLER BC OLYMPIC PLAZA

AUG 24                 OXFORD UK ACADEMY 2

AUG 25                 LONDON UK SHEPHERDS BUSH EMPIRE

AUG 26                 KETTERING UK GREENBELT FESTIVAL

AUG 30                 BOULDER CO ETOWN HALL RADIO TAPING

SEP 1                     PEGOSA SPRINGS CO 4 CORNERS FOLK FESTIVAL

OCT 11                  HAMILTON ON FIRST ONTARIO HALL

OCT 12                  MONTREAL QB GESU-ELISE

OCT 14                  QUEBEC CITY QB IMPERIAL BELL

OCT 16                  FREDERICTON NB THE PLAYHOUSE

OCT 17                  CHARLOTTETOWN NB CONFEDERATION CENTRE

OCT 19                  MONCTON NB CAPITOL THEATRE

OCT 20                  NEW GLASGOW NS WELLNESS CENTRE

OCT 21                  HALIFAX NS REBECCA COHN

OCT 23                  PORTLAND ME STATE THEATRE

OCT 24                  OLD SAYBROOK CT KATHARINE HEPBURN ARTS

OCT 25                  NORTHAMPTON MA ACADEMY OF MUSIC

OCT 27                  RUTLAND VT PARAMOUT THEATRE

OCT 28                  NY HANGAR THEATRE

OCT 30                  NELSONVILLE OH STUART’S OPERA HOUSE

NOV 1                   CARMEL IN TARKINGTON CENTRE

NOV 2                   MILWAUKEE WI SOUTH MILWAUKEE PAC

NOV 3                   CHICAGO IL OLD TOWN SCHOOL

NOV 4                   CHICAGO IL OLD TOWN SCHOOL

NOV 17                 SANTA MONICA CA MCCABE’S GUITAR SHOP

NOV 18                 SANTA BARBARA CA LOBERO THEATRE

NOV 30                 SACRAMENTO CA CREST THEATRE

DEC 1                     BERKELEY CA FREIGHT & SALVAGE

DEC 2                     BERKELEY CA FREIGHT & SALVAGE

Bruce Cockburn announces "True North - a 50th Anniversary Box Set" Limited Edition Vinyl on September 25, 2020

One of my favorite artists has announced an impressive limited edition vinyl set is coming this fall! Robert Kinsler

Bruce Cockburn Announces 

‘True North - A 50th Anniversary Box Set’

Limited Edition Vinyl Set Arrives September 25th, 2020

Preorder to reserve a signed and individually numbered set here.

TORONTO, ON, May 4, 2020 -- To be active and relevant in music for 50 years is a significant achievement for any individual recording artist. The same can be said for any independent record label. To achieve this milestone together as an artist and label team without interruption, has to be one of the most extraordinarily rare events in music.

To celebrate this milestone, Bruce Cockburn and True North Records have produced True North - A 50th Anniversary Box Set, a Limited Edition vinyl box set containing three of Bruce’s most significant recordings. The first album where it all started, the self-titled debut Bruce Cockburn along with two albums that have never before been released on vinyl: The Charity of Night and Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu. Each album has been re-mastered by Bruce’s long-time producer Colin Linden, and is pressed on colored vinyl. The five-180 gram discs are contained in original artwork sleeves adapted from the original designs by the acclaimed graphic designer Michael Wrycraft, and housed in an individually-numbered box signed personally by the artist. There will be only a limited initial pressing. 

Photo credit: Daniel Keebler

Bruce Cockburn was the first artist signed to True North Records, the tenacious independent label founded by Bruce’s manager Bernie Finkelstein and first operated from a Yorkville Avenue, Toronto, phone booth. Bruce’s debut self-titled album was the label’s first album release on April 7, 1970, produced by Eugene Martynec, with the catalog number TN1. Fifty years on, Bruce Cockburn still records for True North Records, which released his 34th album “Crowing Ignites” in late 2019. 

Bruce says, “In 1969, when I was feeling the need to record an album of the songs I’d been writing, I had no concept of what that might lead to. In some organic way it felt like it was time. The future wasn’t really an issue. It still isn’t. For each of us, there’s a future or there isn’t.

“But looking back over the arc of 50 years of recording, performing, and travel, not to mention relationships and personal challenges,” he continued, “I can only shake my head and mutter a word of thanks for all of it.”

Cockburn concluded: “Even if I’d been a planner by nature, I doubt I could have predicted how things have gone… and they’re still going!”

Cockburn has also scheduled fall tour dates celebrating the 50th Anniversary   Additional updates and ticket information can be found through the official Bruce Cockburn website and the complete list of tour dates is below.

Although Mr. Finkelstein sold True North Records to entrepreneurs Geoff Kulawick, Harvey Glatt and Michael Pilon in 2007, True North continues to be a vital independent label signing and releasing records by Bruce alongside many of Canada’s leading singer-songwriters and musicians including Buffy Sainte-Marie, Murray McLauchlan, Matt Andersen, Colin James, Sass Jordan, Sue Foley, Natalie MacMaster and Jimmy Rankin.

Bruce Cockburn: True North - A 50th Anniversary Box Set

TND750 - Bruce Cockburn (LP) | A Charity of Night (2LP) | Breakfast In New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu (2LP) - 5 x 180 Gram Colored Vinyl Discs original artwork sleeves.

PREORDER HERE

Bruce Cockburn 2020 Anniversary Tour Dates

September 4, 2020 CNE Bandshell, Toronto, ON

October 16, 2020 Showplace Theatre, Peterborough, ON

October 17, 2020 National Arts Centre, Ottawa, ON

October 18, 2020 Empire Theatre, Belleville, ON

October 20, 2020 Isabel Bader Theatre, Kingston, ON

October 29, 2020 Academy of Music Theater, Northampton, MA

October 30, 2020 Wilbur Theater, Boston, MA

October 31, 2020 Pythian Opera House, Boothbay Harbor, ME

November 1, 2020 Higher Ground, South Burlington, VT

November 4, 2020 StageOne at FTC, Fairfield, CT

November 6, 2020 Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River, MA

November 7, 2020 Newton Theater, Newton, NJ

November 8, 2020 City Winery, New York, NY

November 9, 2020 Birchmere, Alexandria, VA

November 11, 2020 Rams Head On Stage, Annapolis, MD

November 13, 2020 Harvester Performance Center, Rock Mount, VA

November 14, 2020 McGlohon Theater, Charlotte, NC

November 15, 2020 Songbirds Guitar Museum, Chattanooga, TN

November 17, 2020 City Winery, Atlanta, GA

November 18, 2020 Ponte Verde at Palm Beach Lakes COA, West Palm Beach, FL

November 19, 2020 Capitol Theater, Clearwater, FL