BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Halifax X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Halifax BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1044@devourfest.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20261009T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20261009T233000 DTSTAMP:20260505T165118Z URL:https://devourfest.com/program/daniel-lanois-in-concert/ SUMMARY:Daniel Lanois in Concert DESCRIPTION:A true icon of modern music is coming to the Annapolis Valley. Daniel Lanois—the legendary GRAMMY Award-winning producer\, songwriter\, and sonic innovator—brings his unmistakable sound to Wolfville for a ra re and intimate live performance.\nRenowned for shaping some of the most i nfluential records of our time with artists like U2\, Bob Dylan\, and Emmy lou Harris\, Lanois is equally mesmerizing on stage. His live performances blend atmospheric guitar\, pedal steel\, and rich\, immersive textures in to a deeply moving musical experience that defies genre.\nSet against the charm of Wolfville\, this special evening offers a rare chance to experien ce a master at work—up close and personal. Expect an evocative journey t hrough sound\, story\, and soul from one of Canada’s most celebrated mus ical voices.\nLimited tickets available. Don’t miss this extraordinary n ight.\nValid photo ID is required for entry. 8 ticket limit. Ticket prices include HST &\; fee. Reserved theatre and high top seating. For access ible seating\, please contact info@sonicconcerts.com.\n\nGot questions? Em ail info@sonicconcerts.com.\n\nDoors at 7 pm\, Show at 8 pm. Cash Bar. 19+ \n\n[caption id="attachment_13539" align="alignnone" width="417"] Daniel L anois\, 2019. Photo by Marthe A. Vannebo[/caption]\nDANIEL LANOIS - BIO\nD aniel Lanois is a name that deserves to be mentioned alongside the finest sonic experimenters of the 20th century – and the 21st century too. Yes\ , he's been willing to step back into the background as others take the li melight\, but that shouldn't diminish his contribution\, which ripples thr oughout practically every style and sound of the modern era. Whatever you' re listening to – whether it be acoustic or electronic\, roots or futuri st\, underground or pop – if you listen closely you'll hear traces of th e sonic signatures of Daniel Lanois. And what's more he's still experiment ing as eagerly as he ever has. At a point when most musicians with anythin g resembling his level of success would be resting on their laurels and pl aying on old successes\, he still has more hunger for the new than people a third his age\, and as a result is creating music as beautiful and new a s ever before.\nDaniel grew up in Hull\, Quebec\, a town known best for ga mbling and drinking – “on the left side of the tracks” as he puts it . His family were not well off\, but there was a strong musical foundation from the beginning: his father played fiddle\, his mother sung\, and ther e were regular family gatherings where live music was at the centre of thi ngs. “We didn't have money to go out\,” he explains\, “and there was n't too much happening\, so what we'd do is have get-togethers where every one – uncles\, aunts\, anyone in the wider family – played music toget her\, it was just what we did.” This put him at the heart of a living\, breathing roots and folk music tradition\, even as he was discovering his own tastes from the pop culture of the time. As his childhood went on\, he soaked up Motown\, R&\;B and rock'n'roll\, then the psychedelic explos ion\, and by the time high school was approaching\, he was already fixed o n music as the only game worth pursuing.\nSince his parents broke up – h is mother took the kids away in the car and never looked back – he'd bee n pretty much allowed to run free\, something he says “is the best upbri nging you could ever have.” Allowed to follow his own desires\, while Da niel was still in his teens\, he and Bob set up a studio in the basement o f their new home in Ontario\, and music became a career before he could ev en complete school. He's never looked back since: from the very beginning\ , Daniel built a reputation with local musicians as someone who could work the studio but thought as a musician\, and this steadily spread across Ca nada\, as he moved to bigger premises and bigger jobs. The 1970s were spen t as a journeyman producer\, honing his technical skills – until towards the end of the decade\, his reputation reached the ears of Brian Eno who recruited him to help with his Ambient series of albums.\nThe work they di d on those albums together\, and with musicians like keyboardist Harold Bu dd\, has entered into legend. They perfected the idea of studio-as-instrum ent\, making every part of the production an integral component of the ove rall texture\, and striking the perfect balance between avant-garde experi mentation and straightforward pleasure in sound that Daniel has continued to pursue in everything he's done since then. Daniel's well-grounded\, no- nonsense approach to the studio proved to be the ideal counterpoint to Eno 's cerebral flights of fancy – with common ground in their shared mischi evous love of spontaneity. The Ambient albums reached a culmination in 198 3's Apollo\, in which Daniel's slide guitar glides through the soundscapes \, evoking the weightlessness of space. These sounds have continued inspir ing ambient and electronica experimenters ever since\, from The KLF's epoc h-defining Chill Out in 1990 through untold dancefloor and downbeat record s right up to the present day.\nAnd Daniel continued to experiment too. Th ough his connection with Eno would lead him onto working on some of the bi ggest selling records of the time\, by megastars as big as U2 and Peter Ga briel\, his approach in the studio was always as exploratory as when he wa s making the Ambient albums. Indeed\, often this is what would make his pr oductions so unique: there was never a formula\, just a determination to f ind the right approach for the right artist. Working with Bob Dylan in 198 7\, for example\, he brought out a Roland TR-808 drum machine to use as a compositional tool – kickstarting the groove of the Oh Mercy album\, and helping make it one of the most dramatic creative reinventions in Dylan's career. A few years later\, he and Eno helped bring the electronic music culture that they themselves had helped to inspire into U2's Achtung Baby. \nThis refusal to sit still\, this constant hunger for new ideas and techn iques\, has defined Daniel's solo work too. Though his albums have been fe w and far between\, every one has dug deep for inspiration and roamed wide ly in its sound and style: as much as someone who counts Lee “Scratch” Perry as a literal neighbour in Jamaica should. Whether exploring his Fre nch Canadian identity and folk heritage in bilingual songs or taking mains tream rock themes into outer space with manipulations as strange as any el ectronica\, shoegaze or post-rock young guns were managing at the time\, e very record has a questing spirit to it. Most recently\, he has hit a rich creative seam\, and on the rhythmically complex Flesh and Machineand now on the gorgeous\, weightless Goodbye to Language\, he is going all the way with that experimentation. On both of these records he connects the most forward-looking instincts that constant contact with studio technology can develop with the natural rootedness that only a lifetime in music can giv e a person.\nGoodbye to Language is the perfect joining of the dots\, from the music as a constant background of his childhood\, through the world-c hanging experiments of his early days with Eno\, through his flights throu gh the most rarefied atmospheres of the mainstream of music. Constructed e ntirely from the sounds of his pedal steel guitar\, it's built with compos itional rigour that recalls the 20th century dreamscapes of Ravel and Debu ssy\, with a sense of sonic futurism and yet also with the naturalness tha t can only come from someone rooted in centuries of grassroots music. And while fusions of influence can sometimes lead to homogenisation in the ble nding of source material\, this record does precisely the opposite: it's a bout highlighting the highest common factors from a lifetime of influences . Or as he succinctly puts it: “I operate under the banner of soul music – music that just feels right and comes from a truthful place.” When a musician with as much expertise and experience as Daniel tells their own personal truth\, you should really listen closely.\nAlbum with Venetian S nares: Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois “An appetite for the unknown” - Daniel Lanois No collaboration is unlikely when the end goals are the sam e. What started as mutual respect for one another s work\, led to several years of a creative germination resulting in an eight-track full-length ex ploration released May 4th on Timesig/Planet Mu. The path began in 2014\, after Lanois reached out to Venetian Snares (Aaron Funk) as a fan of his w ork. The project started to take root in Summer of 2016\, after Funk hung around Toronto between shows. Taking his gear to Lanois studio\, the two b egan to play for the first time together in what would prove to be a forma tive moment in their creative journey together. I love making music with D an\, he has a real understanding of how to create a world and build what m ay exist within that world. 'Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois' travels to n ew zones in what Lanois describes as a body of work driven by exploration. Funk laid the groundwork with drums while Lanois rode the pedal steel\, w eaving their sounds together in a new sonic tapestry. The two ultimately l anded at their destination\, their work ready to be shared with those will ing to explore.\nDaniel is currently working in the studio on his next mus ical body of work - Heavy Sun: 2“The road is calling as the music keeps on guiding me through the labyrinths of song\, messages and inventions. Su rrounded one more time by talent I admire\, this new body of work features harmony singing with built in capacity to raise the spirit. This time\, a s Daniel Lanois and Heavy Sun. From electro dynamics to soul singing\, thi s new entourage represents what I’m currently excited about. As music ri des the airwaves\, we continue to troubadour our way to the stage for that exchange we love\; ‘live performance’. Heavy Sun is made up of a tale nted cast of characters\, Rocco Deluca (guitar &\; vocals)\, Jim Wilson (bass &\; vocals)\, Johnny Shepherd (organ &\; vocals) and yours tr uly Danny Lanois (guitar &\; vocals). We sincerely hope to bump into yo u to raise the spirit together for a night of song and magic carpet ride.\ nThe more I travel\, the more it all bleeds together\, record making\, rad io\, Internet\, tv\, festivals\, life itself and of course SINGING!\nThe o riginal instrument\, that being the voice\, is alive and well in this Heav y Sun configuration.”\n- DL ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://devourfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/0 5/DanielLanois_Wolfville_4x5-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:EVENT,Studios Event LOCATION:Devour! Studios\, 360 Main Street\, Wolfville\, Nova Scotia\, B4P1 C4\, Canada GEO:45.091942;-64.359045 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=360 Main Street\, Wolfville \, Nova Scotia\, B4P1C4\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Devour! 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