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Broken Social Scene’s Jason Collett will play in Charlottetown at Hunter’s Ale House (185 Kent St) on September 24 as part of Exclaim’s Wood, Wires, & Whiskey Tour for 2008. Advance tickets will be available online at ticketpro.ca, or by phone at 1-888-311-9090. This show is a 19+ show with doors opening at 10 pm.
When Toronto singer-songwriter Jason Collett was mulling over titles for his new album, Here’s To Being Here, he stumbled across a line in an anthology of poetry by his friend Emily Haines’ (Metric) late father Paul, a well-known avant-garde jazz poet.
“I really love the simple sentiment of the title. I think of it as a toast, a raising of the glass to the notion of being present to the moment. Recording this record was all about that for me. Capturing the bits of spontaneous magic in the studio that are just the happy accidents of the day. For me there’s a kind of unadorned celebratory ring to the phrase ‘here’s to being here.’ There’s no irony in it, and lord knows we’ve all had enough of that for a while. About Here’s To Being Here Jason says,“I feel this is a rock-and-roll music record. Not rock, not rock and roll, but Rock ’n Roll music. I don’t care much for the roots-rock tag or the singer-songwriter one and all the banality those genres conjure up. Rock ’n Roll music encompasses all sorts of influences—country, blues, gospel…all those things, and I’m just part of that tradition.”