SALMON ARM –– One of the most vital voices in Canadian independent music, Broken Social Scene is making its way to the Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival this August.
Over the years, the sprawling Toronto-based collective has featured from six members to as many as 19 (including such known artists as Feist and Metric’s Emily Haines).
Together, the band has released four full-length studio albums and launched several associated acts during its more than decade-long career.
BSS releases have combined to sell more than one million copies worldwide.
Formed in Toronto in 1999 by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, BSS has graced stages, screens and covers worldwide. The band is consistently credited as a pioneer of Canada’s widely successful indie scene and remains the flagship act of internationally renowned label Arts & Crafts.
BSS’ You Forgot It In People and their self-titled follow up won the 2003 and 2006 Junos for Alternative Album of the Year.
The band also inspired This Book Is Broken, an oral and visual history helmed by acclaimed journalist Stuart Berman, and This Movie is Broken, a feature-length movie crafted by renowned filmmaker Bruce McDonald, who set a poignant fictional romance against the backdrop of a real BSS concert held during the summer of 2009.
BSS is currently enjoying continued praise from its 2010 release, Forgiveness Rock Record, which has further cemented the band’s reputation as a world-class act and netted the group its third Juno for Recording Package of the Year.
Broken Social Scene joins the lineup at the 19th annual Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival Aug. 19. Early bird weekend passes are now on sale for $120 until May 27, and can be purchased at www.rootsandblues.ca, or call (250) 833-4096.
