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Dan Mangan brings the Natural Light Tour to The Bronson, Saturday October 11 with very special guest Bells Larsen.. Tickets are available HERE and via the link above.
Please note that this event is for guests aged 19 and older.
Presented by spectrasonic with the support of Ontario Creates
Dan Mangan is a 2x JUNO Award-winning and 3x Polaris Music Prize-nominated musician and songwriter. He has brought signature wit, sonic innovation and lyrical insight to the indie/folk community, garnering him a fiercely dedicated and deeply involved audience. He has played Glastonbury & Jimmy Kimmel Live, sold out Massey Hall and The Bronson.
Toronto/Montreal singer-songwriter Bells Larsen opens the show. His sophomore album Blurring Time is out April 25.
Enveloped in soundscapes of quiet and expansive intimacy, he unfurls intricately-crafted acoustic arrangements that opt for unconventional melodic left-turns. Produced by Graham Ereaux, by making the most out of minimal inventory, Larsen conjures the attention to detail of lyricists like Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens, and Adrienne Lenker. Inquisitive, open-eyed, and discerning, Larsen’s meditations on everything from tender and fragile sibling dynamics, to the transformative potential of queer world-making, are grounding reflections on shared trials and epiphanies.
His new album, Natural Light, is a return to folk music’s classic underpinnings of political resistance. A return to writing “song songs” that might be played around a campfire. Mangan has experimented rigorously with his sound over the years, but resting in his roots may be where he operates most effortlessly.
Over two decades, Mangan has managed an enviably strong creative ethic, and his integrity as both a singer and songwriter has only strengthened with age. The big picture cohesiveness of Natural Light harkens to a pre-streaming, album-focused sensibility. Songs bleed together through focused transitions and overlapping interludes. Mangan’s lyrics act as gondolier for the journey, reassuring the listener that it’s cool to care. Dan sings for his kids, for his wife, and for a society in existential crisis.
