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Deer Lake After Dark kicks off with Birds of Chicago

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts is introducing a new music series starting Saturday, Nov. 16
Birds of Chicago
Birds of Chicago will kick off the Shadbolt Centre's new Deer Lake After Dark series on Nov. 16.

What happens at Deer Lake after dark?

Awesome music, it seems.

The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts is presenting Birds of Chicago on Saturday, Nov. 16 as part of its new Deer Lake After Dark music series.

The duo of JT Nero and Allison Russell (formerly of the Vancouver-based band Po’ Girl) offer up their blend of Americana-roots-rock music on their new album Love in Wartime – billed as a “rock’n’roll suite with a cinematic sweep.”

The two formed Birds of Chicago in late 2012 and played some 200 shows a year between 2013 and 2017 before heading back to Chicago in 2017 to begin recording Love in Wartime.

“Any act of love is an act of bravery,” Russell says in a band’s bio. “We want to give people some good news. And we want them to be able to dance when they hear it.”

The band’s style has been described as “secular gospel,” featuring “deep lyricism, gut-punch singing and musicality.”

“A good show can send you back out into the night feeling, for at least a little while, that everything isn’t broken,” Nero said in the bio.

Their Shadbolt Centre show takes place in the James Cowan Theatre at 6450 Deer Lake Ave. Tickets are $25. Buy through tickets.shadboltcentre.com or 604-205-3000.