Great Lake Swimmers

About Great Lake Swimmers

The Great Lake Swimmers are a Canadian folk-rock band from Toronto around the singer-songwriter Tony Dekker. In 2004, the band was voted the most popular folk / roots band at the Canadian Independent Music Awards, and in 2005 was awarded the Galaxie Rising Star Award by Canadian television companies. The released their album Bodies and Mind in 2005 followed by the album Ongiara in 2007. In March 2009, the Great Lake Swimmers released their fourth album Lost Channels. For their recordings they choose unusual and atmospheric places such as old buildings with natural influence like old churches or unused grain silos or parish halls. Only for their fifth, released in 2012 album New Wild Everywhere, the musicians have gone in a studio. Just the song The Great Exhale was recorded in an abandoned subway station in Toronto.