BIG Birthday Bash | Tim Baker | July 1, 2023

BIG Birthday Bash - 2023

🧨 We’re kicking off summer with a BANG 🧨

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✨ Saturday, July 1st  ✨

Tim Baker & All Hands

with special guests: Half Moon Run and Billianne

Huge Thanks to our Sponsors:

Bud Light, Mike’s Hard Lemonade,  Lamb’s Newfoundland, OZFM, NTV, Red Bull, Delta St. John’s Hotel and Conference Centre

ABOUT TIM BAKER - Tim Baker is a prolific wild-eyed dreamer. In 2022, Baker has returned with The Festival, a sonic embrace, a call in for love, and a cry out for connection. Baker wants us to bring our pain and suffering, and align it all with melody. The Festival is a kaleidoscopic view in these complicated times.Best known as the songwriter and leader of Hey Rosetta!, a Juno-nominated, Polaris-shortlisted, and multi award-winning band based in St. John’s, Newfoundland. With over 15 years of performing their high-energy spectacle in stadiums, clubs, theatres and major festivals all over the world, Hey Rosetta! called it quits in 2017.Baker has since transitioned from being the mover and shaker of a major indie rock band, and ascended to a profound songwriter and producer. His solo LP, Forever Overhead (Arts and Crafts), garnered him a Juno nomination for Songwriter of the Year, three East Coast Music Awards (and several nominations), and a Polaris longlist. In 2019, he released The Eighteenth Hole Variations EP, the Side Door Sessions LP in 2020, and that same year, he released the Survivors EP.

ABOUT HALF MOON RUN - B.C natives Molander and Dylan Phillips connected with Ottawa expat Devon Portielje in the Mile End 10 years ago. Half Moon Run forged a sound that inspires all sorts of colorful, contradictory descriptors—folk music for the modern dark age, art rock for harmony-pop enthusiasts, rustic indie anthems for neoclassical heads—but no matter what you call it, the physical and emotional responses among listeners is always the same: heartbeats accelerate, goosebumps rise, eye sockets well up. From the moment Half Moon Run dropped their 2012 debut album, Dark Eyes, they no longer belonged to Montreal, but to the world at large. For many of the group’s fans around the world, Half Moon Run is a restless six-armed organism that can seemingly swap instrumental roles on a song-by-song basis, while delivering their now-signature three-part harmonies with a telepathic ease. Their third album, A Blemish in the Great Light was Half Moon Run’s highest charting release in Canada to date (debuting at No. 3) and landed them their first Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year. During international year-plus lockdown, Half Moon Run kept their heads above water with stopgap releases like the Seasons of Change EP, The Covideo Sessions & brand new Inwards & Onwards EP. (Both EPs now available on one CD!)

ABOUT BILLIANNE - is a 20 year old singer-songwriter from Milton, Ontario. With her sonorous voice, she captivated the internet in 2021. Her poignant adaptation of the Tina Turner classic “Simply The Best” caught the ears of millions, soaring across TikTok and spurring a spark of virality that redefined what comes next in her life. Since, Billi has released two covers, earning herself a six figure following on both TikTok and Instagram, 20 million global streams and over a million monthly listeners on Spotify. Her social media covers have even caught the attention and subsequent praise of idols like Taylor Swift and The Lumineers.  As Billi moves from covers into her own original music, she finds refuge in nostalgia, radiating towards ideas that exemplify authenticity through simplicity. Ultimately, Billi is coming to learn that her greatest honesty lives in her songwriting and what she shares next will not only be a reflection of her tastes but also an unveiling to her thoughts. Single ‘No Wonder’ is the first offering in a string of music that Billi will release to the world in the coming months.