The Young Novelists | |
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Origin | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Genres | Folk, Roots |
Years active | 2009 | –present
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Website | www |
The Young Novelists are a Canadian folk-roots band, formed in Toronto, Ontario in August 2009. They play and tour as a five or six-piece band, or as a duo.[1][2] Their second full-length studio album, made us strangers, was released in April 2015 and won the Canadian Folk Music Award for New/Emerging Artist, as well as being nominated for the Canadian Folk Music Award for Vocal Group.[3][4] It remained nine weeks on the Top 10 Folk/Roots/Blues !earshot radio charts in Canada.[5]
The Young Novelists received the award for New/Emerging Artist of the Year at the 11th Canadian Folk Music Awards. They were also the winners of the 2015 Grassy Hills Songwriting competition at the Connecticut Folk Festival.[2] Songwriter Graydon James also received the 2015 Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award, presented by the Ontario Arts Council.[6] Previously, they were the 2010 recipients of the Galaxie (now called Stingray Music) Rising Star award.[7]
Festival appearances include Mariposa Folk Festival,[8] Summerfolk,[9] and Falcon Ridge Folk Festival.
Their song “It Takes All Kinds” has been described as being "[for] fans of Blue Rodeo, The Band, and pre-weirdness Wilco".[10]
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