A Canadian folk icon is coming to Vernon this fall.
Murray McLauchlan is scheduled to perform at the Vernon Performing Arts Centre Oct. 22.
One of Canada’s most highly regarded singer/songwriters, McLauchlan has released 18 albums and been awarded 11 Junos in his 40-year career.
His songs Farmer’s Song, Down by the Henry Moore, Whispering Rain and Sweeping the Spotlight Away are now considered Canadian standards.
McLauchlan is also a painter, an author, an actor, a radio host and has been bestowed an honourary doctor of laws and appointed to the Order of Canada.
This is McLauchlan’s first tour since his 2012 critically acclaimed release Human Writes.
In the past three years, he restricted his touring to shows with Lunch At Allen’s, the group he co-founded, whose members also include Ian Thomas, Marc Jordan and Cindy Church.
“As a songwriter I know that it’s not enough to sit in your kitchen and write. Your songs need to be heard. Music is a communicative art and if it isn’t brought in front of people there is no way to tell if that end has been met,” said McLauchlan about his return to the stage. “I like to think of a concert tour as a kind of roving gallery to test your art and your ideas. I try to do my very best to make it worthwhile for folks to be there and to perhaps look at things in a new way when they leave.”
Tickets for McLauchlan’s concert in Vernon go on sale Friday. Cost is $46.75 (all seats) available at the Ticket Seller, 250-549-7469, www.ticketseller.ca.
