DAN MANGAN + Blacksmith
After a two year hiatus, an induction into fatherhood and some time to regroup, Dan Mangan returns under the new moniker Dan Mangan + Blacksmith for a new album in 2015. Since breaking out in 2007 as a folk singer, Dan Mangan has wandered into increasingly expansive and experimental territories, along the way earning an international following as well as two JUNO Awards and multiple listings for the Polaris Music Prize.

HAYDEN

From the arresting low register of his 1996 arrival, Everything I Long For, through the enigmatic Skyscraper National Park (2001), and the steadfastly fragile Elk-Lake Serenade (2004), Hayden has woven one of the most consistent through-lines of musical narratives imaginable, leading his audience through a scrapbook of downtimes fought and resolved, love lost and love solved. Hey Love is a snapshot of this relationship: Hayden at his most prolific, and perhaps Hayden at his most celebrated.

His new album Hey Love arrives only two years after his last release, on the inspiration of Dream Serenade: Hayden and wife Christie Greyerbiehl’s inaugural benefit for Toronto’s Beverley St. School for developmentally disabled children (October 2014 at Massey Hall). The album was performed and produced almost entirely by Hayden at his Toronto home studio, Skyscraper National Park. Additional recordings took place at Revolution Studio in Toronto with contributions from his live band featuring Jay McCarrol, Taylor Knox, and JJ Ipsen. The foursome hits the road with Dan Mangan + Blacksmith in February with Hey Love hitting streets on March 24, 2015.