BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//360exp//Events//ES METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE TIMEZONE-ID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:854b2ec6-bdfb-4f72-b874-ec255ea8416f@360exp.net SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260910T200930 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261021T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20261021T060000 SUMMARY:Spencer Burton (Dine Alone Records) at Meteor LOCATION:Meteor DESCRIPTION:Spencer Burton (Dine Alone Records) at Meteor Oct 20th / $25 a dvanced / $30 door / 8pm doors \nFor fans of: Corb Lund\, Andrew Hyatt\, Mariel Buckley \nHome\, as we so often hear\, is where the heart is. It ’s where you belong and where your story begins. There’s no place like it\, but paradoxically\, it’s not a place\; it’s a feeling–simultan eously sweet\, simple\, the anchor of the soul.\nOver the course of his la st two lauded LPs – 2024’s North Wind and 2021’s Coyote –Spencer B urton deeply considered and contemplated the concept\, even retreating to a secluded cabin in the sticks of Northern Ontario to record the former an d find “home” for himself.\nUltimately he did\, but that blissful disc overy would soon be tempered by an unforeseen burden\, and on his new self -titled collection\, Burton ruminates on how to return to it.\n“This alb um was also written in isolation\, though not by choice\,” he begins\, r ecalling the harrowing experience of his son requiring emergency life-savi ng surgery at the foot of 2025. “Our lives were turned upside down\; it was very sudden and very urgent.”\nHis wife refused to leave the bedside \, and since only one parent could remain in the cramped hospital room aro und the clock\, that once again left Burton with ample time for insular in trospection – albeit this time\, not by choice.\n“I just started writi ng songs about the whole experience\, and playing them for my family becam e a way for all of us to cope with and work through the situation\,” he shares about the weeks-long ordeal. “They don’t necessarily feel like ‘hospital songs\,’ but they do carry a recurring theme of home – of wanting home and finding home when you can’t physically be there.”\nTh e resulting collection – like the transformative experience that inspire d it – is one rich with hope\, home\, and healing. What began as the see ds of something deeply personal sprouted into something optimistic and und eniably communal – both figuratively and literally.\nMost of the songs w ere written and\, for a good while\, solely performed on an acoustic guita r in a sterile and stodgy Ontario hospital\; however\, the album – produ ced by longtime friend Matt Kelly and engineered and mixed by Erik Nielsen – features a diverse and decorated cast of musical collaborators amasse d from different eras of his career.\n“The last few albums were done dow n in Nashville\, but this one was so personal\, I wanted to make it nearer to home with people really close to me\,” shares Burton\, listing off a list of familiar names who added backing vocals and various instrumentati on to the sonic collage.The material is beautifully delicate and dulcet – the purest distillation of his prolific\, decades-long pursuit in the arts\, spanning his roots in Ontario’s seminal early-00s punk scene to h is dark-tinged alt-country stylings as Grey Kingdom through to the candid\ , compelling country-folk catalogue of the last decade-plus\, fittingly re leased under his given name.\nHis latest works have earned acclaim from es teemed outlets like Exclaim! and the CBC\, a coveted Canadian Folk Music A wards nomination\, major tours supporting the likes of Burton Cummings and City and Colour\, and high-profile slots at revered festivals from Maripo sa to Riverfest. His latest is sure to maintain the impressive momentum.\n “Prairie Moon” opens the album with a perfect summation of all that fo llows – simple poetry\, alliterative\, vulnerable\, and alive\, set to a dynamic backdrop of sweetly subtle and pristinely nuanced instrumentation . It’s effortlessly engaging and memorable\, everything seemingly in its right place.\nClosing your eyes to “I Need a Song\,” you float into a n immaculate concert hall in rural Tennessee\, seated in the centre of a w holly rapt audience as the lush harmonies and poignant instrumentation slo wly decay into the arched ceiling.\n“Little Boy” and the penultimate “Bound for Home” carry considerable weight\, the latter inspired by Bu rton’s then-bedridden son reporting on his dreams from the night before –all longing to be home.\nAnd fittingly\, “Prairie Moon Pt. 2” serve s as the perfect response to that longing call\, revisiting the sonic enve lopment of the opening track and embodying the primary theme of the record as a whole.\n“It was one of those miracle situations\,” reflects Burt on\, looking back on the surreal experience that spawned the offering. “ [My son] is back to being a kid\, safe and sound with us at home. I typica lly write for myself\, but these songs were really for me and for my famil y\, to get us through this very specific thing. But going back and revisit ing them from the other side of it all\, it occurs to me we all face hards hips as parents or just as people\, and everyone needs comfort and hope an d to know they’re not alone.”\nIndeed\, these 10 tracks offer a powerf ul testament to the/ idea that one can find home where it originally wasn ’t\; that a home can be built atop connections and comfort and\, most im portantly\, the people that remind us we’re right where we belong.\n\nBo letos: https://www.showpass.com/spencer-burton-at-meteor/ URL;VALUE=URI:https://360exp.net/events/854b2ec6-bdfb-4f72-b874-ec255ea841 6f END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR