Great Lake Swimmers

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Great Lake Swimmers
Playing at the Tsunami Club in Köln.
Background information
Origin	Wainfleet, Ontario, Canada
Genre(s)	Indie folk rock
Years active	2003–present
Label(s)	(weewerk), Nettwerk
Website	greatlakeswimmers.com
Members
Tony Dekker Erik Arnesen Colin Huebert Julie Fader Darcy Yates

Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian indie pop band built around the melodic folk rock songs of singer-songwriter Tony Dekker from Wainfleet, Ontario. The current touring line-up includes Tony Dekker on lead vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica, Erik Arneson on banjo, electric guitar and harmonium, Colin Huebert on drums, Darcy Yates on upright bass and Julie Fader on keyboards and vocals.

The band's style has been compared to Red House Painters, Nick Drake, Will Oldham, Gram Parsons, Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine and Neil Young.

The band released its third full-length album, Ongiara, on March 27, 2007 in Canada and in May for the rest of the world. Although signing to Nettwerk early in 2007, Great Lake Swimmers continue to be managed by (weewerk). (weewerk) also released a limited edition vinyl version of Ongiara and Australian indie label Speak N Spell released it in that country this September.

1 Discography
2 Records
- 2.1 Singles
3 Soundtrack
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Discography

[edit] Records

Great Lake Swimmers (weewerk, 2003)
Bodies and Minds (weewerk, 2005)
Hands in Dirty Ground (limited edition LP, weewerk, 2006)
Ongiara (Nettwerk, 2007)
Ongiara (limited edition LP, weewerk, 2007)

[edit] Singles

"Your Rocky Spine" (UK single, Nettwerk, fall 2007)
"Gonna Make It Thru This Year" (new single for Toys For Tots Xmas Comp, Nov 2007)
"See You On The Moon!" (Kids song for Paper Bag Records compilation, Mar 2005)

[edit] Soundtrack

"Song Sung Blue" (unreleased film score, weewerk, 2008)

In 2006, the band also released a "digital box set" on Zunior, consisting of their first two albums, the limited edition Hands in Dirty Ground EP, several digital tour photos and the video for their song "To Leave It Behind" on a 512 MB USB flash drive. ^[1]