Charlottetown – Three is a traveling album, says Nova Scotia musician Joel Plaskett about his newly released triple album, so he is taking it on the road with a new tour. Plaskett brings Three to the Confederation Centre of the Arts on Tuesday, April 21.
Since 2006, Plaskett has toured extensively both solo and with The Emergency, to sold-out clubs and theatres throughout Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and Australia. The Vancouver Sun gives Plaskett’s new triple album four stars. Plaskett has had numerous ECMA nominations and wins since his first nod in 2002, and has been nominated three times for a Juno Award.
Three marks the first time that Plaskett has recorded with his father, Bill, a, long time musician himself.
“I grew up around him playing a lot,” says Plaskett the younger on his website. “I just thought, in the back of my mind, that it would be great to document that in some capacity. So he’s playing guitar or [four-string] tenor guitar on a lot of the second record of Three.”
Plaskett will be presenting a stripped down acoustic show accompanied by his father Bill, Rose Cousins and Ana Egge.
“I think my strongest suit as an artist is writing from personal experience, or at least observation and trying to give my audience a sense of what I care about,” Plaskett says. “This time around I figured I’d roll that all into a giant, somewhat-autobiographical, occasionally-fictional mess of songs.”
Joel Plaskett performs on the Mainstage, Tuesday, April 21 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 and are available at the box office, by calling 566-1267 or toll free 1-800-565-0278, and online at www.peipresents.com.
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Media contact: Dan Wall, publicist, Confederation Centre of the Arts, phone (902) 628-6135
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