Dallas Green is bringing the city and the colour to Prince George this spring.
He is one of Canada's biggest musical buzz stories, as a member of acclaimed rock band Alexisonfire (now back together), as Pink's collaborator in their folk duo You+Me (their album Rose Ave. was one 2014's biggest), and with his solo smash success as City and Colour (Get it... Dallas... Green... City... Colour?).
The material he generates as City and Colour has been lauded by sources like the BBC, Rolling Stone and the Wall Street Journal, and it has won both MuchMusic and Juno awards.
Long before Green's career turned to shades of gold and platinum, he was earning the outspoken respect of his musical peers. Artists as diverse as Gord Downie, Ron Sexsmith and Tegan & Sara put their collaborative stamp on his solo stuff right out of the gate, and he hasn't had a dry spell since then.
City and Colour is out on tour to support the new album If I Should Go Before You. It's the first new release since 2013's The Hurry And The Harm, which produced platinum sales results, hit No. 1 in Canada in its first week, cracked the Top 20 in the U.S., and the live tour was so popular he sold out Air Canada Centre.
Now he is back. He is coming to P.G. for the first time as a soloist (he performed here with Alexisonfire), on what is only a 12-concert tour of Canada.
With him is special guest Shakey Graves in the opening performance slot. Shakey Graves is based in Austin (the mayor of Austin once proclaimed it Shakey Graves Day – quite a feat in a town as musically endowed as that one) but he has been north of the border many times in recent years. He has been a sellout act in numerous Canadian markets. Now he gets a chance to tour a wide chunk of the country and see places he's never been like Prince George. Esquire Magazine called Shakey Graves "a rising folk hero" after the success of his first three albums Roll The Bones (2011), Donor Blues (2012), And The War Came (2014) plus the limited-edition special release Nobody's Fool earlier this year.
City and Colour and Shakey Graves play at CN Centre on June 5.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. at CN Centre Box Office, Studio 2880, and online via the Ticketmaster website.
