The Cedar Presents
greak lake swimmers — caught light tour 2026 with Lucy Michelle & Eamonn Mclain
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Doors 7PM | Show 7:30PM
Standing | All Ages
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Great Lake Swimmers founder Tony Dekker has always been akin to a wildlife photographer, often choosing to make records in unique surroundings with a connection to Ontario history. For the band’s latest album, Caught Light, he holed up in the Ganaraska Forest, between Peterborough and Port Hope, with producer Darcy Yates (Bahamas) and engineer Jimmy Bowskill (Blue Rodeo). Their goal was to tap the warmth of early ’70s folk/pop/rock, whether it be the cozy sonic sweater of Gordon Lightfoot’s classic work or the gentleness of underrated American songwriter Dory Previn. Dekker made everyone listen to John Martyn’s 1971 album Bless the Weather before the session.
great lake swimmers
Featuring a blend of acoustic instruments, rural soundscapes, and wistful vocals, Great Lake Swimmers are a critically acclaimed indie-folk group led by Tony Dekker. Based in Southern Ontario, the group emerged in the early 2000s with a succession of heavily atmospheric albums recorded in old silos and rural country churches. The music developed in that pastoral warmth, performed and recorded in acoustically resonant and historical locales with a revolving cast of personnel. They are renowned for homespun folk and lush, intimate Americana in their live shows.
Their newest album, Caught Light, released in October 2025, is their most immediate and instinctive album to date. Recorded in just five days in Ontario’s Ganaraska Forest with producer Darcy Yates (Bahamas) and engineer Jimmy Bowskill (Blue Rodeo), it draws warmth from early ’70s folk-pop while embracing a new spontaneity and directness in Dekker’s songwriting.
Great Lake Swimmers have been shortlisted for the prestigious Polaris Music Prize and nominated twice for Canada’s Juno Awards, with the CBC calling them “a national treasure.”
Lucy Michelle & Eamonn Mclain
Lucy and Eamonn, pals since high school, have been performing and making music together for the last 20 years. Band members in both Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles as well as Little Fevers, Eamonn's unique musical sensibility and Lucy's earworm melodic delivery have complemented each other ever since the beginning. Over the last year, the duo have been taking many of their Little Fevers and Velvet Lapelles songs, stripping them down and breathing new and interesting life into them, inspiring new sounds and unexplored musical pathways.