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Julian Taylor US tour dates
April 3 - May 20
Americana/folk singer-songwriter Julian Taylor will be hitting the road in the US soon with Matt Andersen (see dates below). “I’m beyond thrilled to be joining the amazing Matt Andersen on tour,” says Julian. “Matt is a powerhouse performer, and it’s an absolute honor to share the road with him. If you have the chance, catch one of these shows—it’s going to be something special.”
JULIAN TAYLOR TOUR (w/Matt Andersen):
April 3 – Seattle, WA | The Triple Door
April 4 – Portland, OR | The Showdown
April 5 – Baker City, OR | Churchill School
April 7 – Novato, CA | HopMonk Tavern
April 8 – Venice, CA | The West
April 9 – Tucson, AZ | 191 Toole
April 10 – Phoenix, AZ | Musical Instrument Museum
April 11 – Santa Fe, NM | Tumbleroot Brewing and Distilling
April 12 – Albuquerque, NM | South Broadway Cultural Center
April 13 – Denver, CO | Swallow Hill Music
May 1 – Portland, ME | Portland House of Music and Events
May 2 – Rockland, ME | Strand Theatre
May 3 – Natick, MA | The Center for Arts in Natick
May 5 – Exeter, NH | The Word Barn
May 6 – Rockport, MA | Rockport Music, Shalin Liu Performance Center
May 7 – Fall River, MA | Narrows Center for the Arts
May 8 – Northampton, MA | The Iron Horse
May 9 – New York, NY | The Iridium
May 10 – Sellersville, PA | Sellersville Theater
May 11 – Vienna, VA | Jammin Java
May 13 – Pittsburgh, PA | City Winery
May 14 – Cleveland, OH | Music Box
May 16 – Ann Arbor, MI | The Ark
May 17 – Grand Rapids, MI | Midtown
May 18 – Chicago, IL | Old Town School of Folk Music
May 19 – Madison, WI | The Bur Oak
May 20 – Minneapolis, MN | The Dakota
**Julian is available for interviews to preview these
About Julian Taylor
Julian Taylor’s latest album, Pathways, was released on September 27, 2024, by the Howling Turtle, Inc. label. The album followed on the heels of his most recent solo LPs, 2020’s highly acclaimed, award-winning album, The Ridge (which garnered Taylor’s anointing as Solo Artist of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards) and 2022’s equally lauded album, Beyond the Reservoir (nominated for two Juno Awards and three Canadian Folk Music Awards), as well as his 2023 career retrospective release, Anthology Vol. 1.
Besides the first single, “Weighing Down,” which was released in April 2024 and just cracked the CBC Radio Top 10, Taylor released three additional singles from Pathways, including “Running Away” (May 2024), “Ain’t Life Strange” (July 2024), and the title track, “Pathways” (featuring Allison Russell) (August 2024).
The journey of life puts us all on our own respective pathways to find out who we are and how we can strive to overcome any of the inner doubts and struggles we all experience. Since the outset of his career, acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriter Julian Taylor has been on his own never-ending quest to answer such big questions in his music — and his latest album, Pathways, candidly captures how he approaches handling his own litany of ever-lingering burdens.
“When you feel heavy, you’ve got to get things off your chest,” believes Taylor, “and Pathways reflects the way I was feeling while I was writing it and making it. What any of us are going through at any particular time acts as a stamp, or an imprint, of what we’re battling and trying to heal within ourselves. I’ve been going through it myself — I’m still going through it — and I’m trying to work through a lot of the pain I’ve caused myself and others.” The eight concise tracks that comprise Pathways found Taylor looking even further inward than ever before to corral a succinct song cycle that attempts to come to grips with the throes of strife that wrack us all, yet somehow find a way to power through it all.
Pathways was co-produced by Taylor and Colin Linden (Emmylou Harris, Bruce Cockburn, Blackie and The Rodeo Kings), mixed by Colin Linden, and mastered by Greg Calbi. The album was recorded in two key locations: Jukasa Studios at the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, and Linden’s own Pinhead Recorders in Nashville.
Even when he’s recording and touring, Taylor remains busy with his long-running, weekly, three-hour radio show, “Julian Taylor’s Jukebox,” which is distributed by Native Voice One (NV1), the Native public radio distribution service which links over 200 stations across North America to Native radio programming, from reservation and village-based stations to top-market urban radio stations. The radio show is a genre-defying musical journey, focusing on BIPOC and independent artists like Taylor himself. The concept for “Julian Taylor’s Jukebox” came from the Rowe AMI vintage jukebox in Taylor’s home, inviting listeners to hear what he would play for them if they were hanging out with him in his living room. It won a 2024 CRABO Award from the NCRA – National Campus and Community Radio Association for Best Syndicated Show.
Toronto-based Taylor has been part of the musical fabric and landscape in Canada for two decades. He enjoyed a breakthrough year in 2020, when his second solo acoustic album, The Ridge, earned more than five million plays on Spotify, praise from press worldwide, and airplay from America to Australia to the U.K. Loaded with soulful Americana and country twang, the album was produced by Taylor himself and Saam Hashemi, and was recorded at The Woodshed in Toronto. In addition to winning Taylor Solo Artist of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards, The Ridge was also nominated for: two Juno Awards (Contemporary Folk Album of The Year, Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year), the Polaris Prize Long List, a Summer Solstice Indigenous Award (Contemporary Folk Album of the Year), a Canadian Music Week INDIES Award (Indigenous Artist of the Year), and an additional Canadian Folk Music Awards nomination in the English Songwriter of the Year category. The nominations and awards kept coming in 2022, with Taylor winning best male artist in the International Acoustic Music Awards and scoring five Native American Music Award nominations. In 2023, Taylor received a nomination in the Country Music Association of Ontario Awards in the Roots Artist of the Year category, and a further nomination for a Juno Award in the Contemporary Indigenous Artist of the Year category.
Taylor is a major label veteran, Toronto music scene staple, and musical chameleon. His versatility as a songwriter is signature; one minute he’s onstage playing with his band spilling out electrified rhythm and blues glory, and the next he’s featured at a folk festival delivering a captivating solo singer-songwriter set. Formerly associated with the band Staggered Crossing, he has continued to record and perform as a solo artist and has released 12 studio albums since 2001. With his songs being placed in such TV shows as “Haven,” “Private Eyes,” “Kim’s Convenience,” “Degrassi: The Next Generation,” and “Elementary,” his versatility as a songwriter is signature. He has had four albums on the long list of the Polaris Prize in Canada and has charted on several Canadian and Indigenous Music Charts. Two songs from The Ridge album, the title track “The Ridge,” and “Human Race,” went to #1 on the Indigenous Music Countdown, while the Julian Taylor Band song “Back Again” hit #3 on the same chart.
Taylor is as explosive and captivating a live performer as you’ll ever see. Taylor has toured Canada and the U.S. countless times, sharing the stage with the likes of Serena Ryder, Blue Rodeo, William Prince, AHI, Rodney Crowell, Keb’ Mo’, and has performed at the Festival d’Été de Quebec, the Mariposa Folk Festival, Ottawa BluesFest, and more. Taylor was extremely honored to perform at not one but two Olympic Games, in Salt Lake City and Vancouver.