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Royal Theatre

805 Broughton St, V8W 1E5, Victoria, BC, Canada

www.rmts.bc.ca/calendar/index.aspx

Capacity: 1,434

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Doors open: 20:00

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City and Colour biography

Known artistically as City and Colour, acoustic/folk singer Dallas Green hails from Ontario, Canada. He was also a member of the folk band Alexisonfire from 2001 to 2012.

Green has been playing guitar and writing music since he was a teen and put out free downloads of his songs on the Internet in 2004. He reworked some of the songs to form a full length album called “Sometimes” and released it under alias City and Colour (which cleverly refers to his first and last name respectively). Los Angeles based label Vagrant Records re-released the album on 13 January 2009.

Green’s sophomore album “Bring Me Your Love” was released on 12 February 2008 with a more folk sound due to additional instruments like the harmonica and the banjo played by members of the band Attack in Black. He also collaborated with Canadian singer Gordon Downie on the single “Sleeping Sickness.” The album’s name is an ode to a short story by Charles Bukowski. Green supported his album with his first tour in the U.S., opening for bands Tegan and Sara and Girl in a Coma. He also toured in the UK, supporting rock artist P!nk in 2010 performing two new singles “Silver and Gold” and “Oh Sister.”

Green’s single “Fragile Bird” from his album “Little Hell” is his highest charting single in Canada, reaching No. 1 on the alternative/rock chart in 2011. The song also received widespread attention on the Australian radio station Triple J. Green confirms Neil Young has been a major musical influence on his songwriting and musical style.

Live reviews

Dallas Green (aka City and Colour) is probably my favourite singer-songwriter still living. I was a huge fan of his former post-hardcore band Alexisonfire, for which he played guitar and provided clean vocals, and as sad as I was to see them go them separate ways, Green was always destined for greater things. His singing voice is nothing short of angelic – he has hands-down the most captivating live vocals I have ever heard. Not only does he boast a formidable range – everything from a gruff country croon to a soaring falsetto – but his ear for a melody is the most on-point since the late, great Elliott Smith. I first saw him live at The Forum in London in 2010 and his passionate delivery blew me away. His albums are predominantly made up of melodic folk, but live a fully backing band adds rock’n’roll and blues to elevate his acoustic ballads above standard singer-songwriter fare. But the time I next saw him, the following year at London’s Roundhouse, his confidence had grown so much that the show incorporated heavier guitar rock not a million miles away from Alexisonfire (or at least the their lighter side). But the moment every fan hopes for when going to a City and Colour show is when he stands solo on the stage and delivers his early, heart-on-sleeve acoustic ballads – Green’s ‘Comin’ Home’, ‘Sometimes (I Wish)’ and ‘Day Old Hate’ are incredibly rewarding to see performed in the flesh. In short: I love City and Colour.

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