The Gertrudes

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The Gertrudes
The Gertrudes at the VFMF in 2010.jpg
The Gertrudes at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival in 2010
Background information
Origin Kingston, Ontario
Genres Indie folk
Years active2008 (2008)–2021 (2021)
Labels Apple Crisp Records, Wolfe Island Records
MembersGreg Tilson, Annie Clifford, Jason Erb, Matt Rogalsky, Josh Lyon, Pete Bowers, Jason Mercer, Paul Clifford
Website thegertrudes.com

The Gertrudes are a Canadian indie folk band from Kingston, Ontario, founded in 2008. From 2009-2012 they found significant placement on campus music charts, toured Canada coast to coast, and reached number 1 on the CBC R3-30 charts. From 2013 to 2020, they released and performed very occasionally, in connection with community issues. [1] In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new phase of writing and recording began which has resulted in a new album, Emergency To Emergency, for release in November 2021. [2]

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History

The Gertrudes were formed in Kingston, Ontario in 2008. [3] The band's name was a reference to a founding member's grandmother, who the family believes to be reincarnated in his sister of the same name. [4] Musicians performing with the band varied from one show to the next, but core members included Greg Tilson (guitar, vocals), Annie Clifford (banjo, vocals), Lucas Huang (ukulele, percussion), Jason Erb (piano), Matt Rogalsky (guitar, mandolin), Josh Lyon (trumpet, piano, accordion), Pete Bowers (percussion), Chris Trimmer (theremin), and Pim van Geffen (trombone), with Amanda Balsys (violin, vocals) joining in time for their first full-length release, Dawn Time Riot in 2010. PS I Love You were guest musicians on one track of Dawn Time Riot. [5] Exclaim! called the album "a meticulously crafted spectrum of modern folk sound". [6]

Their single All the Dollar Bills Sing Hallelujah debuted at the top of the CBC Radio 3 R3-30 chart in the summer of 2013. [7] They also placed multiple albums on the !earshot campus and community music charts. [8] [9] In 2012 they played during the finale of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival alongside the Tao Rodriguez-Seeger Band. [3]

After their early years of regularly performing and recording, the band occasionally reassembled between 2013 and 2020 to contribute to community and activist projects, including providing the score for a 2014 documentary about the closure of prison farms across Canada, [10] releasing a song critical of first Prime Minister John A. Macdonald's racist and expansionist policies in counterpoint to celebrations on his 200th birthday in 2015, [11] and in 2016 releasing a song and music video to protest a plan to extend a road through Douglas Fluhrer Park in Kingston. [3]

During the global pandemic beginning in 2020, The Gertrudes began a new intensive phase of songwriting and recording, towards an album to be released in Fall 2021. [2] Keeping with COVID restrictions, recording sessions were held in band members' gardens and homes, and continued as possible given changing restrictions on gatherings. Sessions were engineered by Dylan Lodge, [12] Jason Mercer, [13] and Matt Rogalsky, [14] with Rogalsky and Mercer each mixing half the album's songs and co-producing the album with The Gertrudes. Several of the band members and many of the backing vocalists also recorded their own parts at home and sent them in for mixing.

As of September 2021, several singles have been released, including "The Other Side", "Parham" [15] and "New Carolina". The full album will be released on November 26 on Wolfe Island Records. [16] To coincide with the new album, The Gertrudes have digitally re-released their Hard Water EP and three earlier albums on all streaming services.

Discography

Singles and EPs

Studio Albums

See also

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  14. ↑ "Matt Rogalsky". Dan School of Drama & Music. 2020-04-10. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
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