November 1, 2024: Here's a link to an impressive new album by Sandy Bell:
https://sandybell1111.bandcamp.com/album/break-of-day-songs-for-colin
Sandy was one of the original co-founders of The Wanted (along with Richard Henderson and Vera Colley of Whoa, Nelly!) back in 2003. This is a fine work that highlights Sandy's beautiful voice, her heartfelt emotive songwriting, and her ranging musical eclecticism.
December 2022: We’re delighted to have been selected to showcase at “Your Roots Are Showing”, Ireland's newest and largest annual folk, roots, and traditional music conference! See you in Carrickmacross, Ireland, January 22 to 26, 2023!
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October 2022: Way cool news! Our recent album, Strange Flight, produced by Michael Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies, has just been nominated by Folk Music Ontario, Canada’s largest folk and roots music organization, as their Album of the Year!
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June 2021: Another cool international review of Strange Flight! This time from Belgium, by Rootstime, a major European e-zine (www.rootstime.be).
En ja. Dat is Nederlands. 😉
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May 2021: Strange Flight, the album, still on the !Earshot Distribution System charts at CKUV. Now #2!
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May 2021: Americana UK has just released an awesome review of Strange Flight!
“In ‘Strange Flight’ The Wanted weave an impressive array of roots threads throughout which the overriding impression is their atmospheric melodies and harmonies.”
Click on the above image to read the full review by Americana UK!
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April 2021: The Rocking Magpie, a UK e-zine, has just published a way cool review of Strange Flight!
“The Wanted— Beautifully Blurring the Lines Between Folk and AltCountry”
Click on the above image to read the full Rocking Magpie review!
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April 2021: Another zooming podcast during lockdown! This with Noel Clubb and Mark Duda on the Spanglish Sports World Network…
Click on the image to listen in on YouTube!
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April 2021: Check out The Sound Cafe- a great blog and podcast site. We sat down with Douglas McLean and here’s the true story…
Click on the image to get to the blog, and to listen to the podcast, click here https://www.thesoundcafe.com/backstage-with-douglas-mclean and scroll down!
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April 2021: Strange Flight, the album, still Top 10 at CKUV on the !Earshot Distribution System!
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April 2021: Still in rotation on Stingray’s Folk/Roots channel:
THE WANTED / Weary Town Blues / Strange Flight / Independent
THE WANTED / Strange Flight / Strange Flight / Independent
(Stingray operates more than 100 radio stations across Canada, reaching 7.5 million listeners every week in their cars, workplaces, and homes.)
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April 2021: OK, so this is way cool! !Earshot Digital Distribution System is a digital network delivering music to campus and community radio across Canada, the USA and abroad, and they've picked our song "Way Down in the Hole" as their Song Of The Day:
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March 2021: Great Dark Wonder, a cool US e-zine dedicated to the Canadian music scene, covers Stand Up, the third single from Strange Flight!
“…this is a band making waves right now!”
Click on the above image to read the full post!
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March 2021: I Guess, a track from Strange Flight, was featured on Adobe & Teardrops, a way cool blog and podcast from New York City! Give it a read and a listen!
“…they have a cool Tom Waits thing going on, so check them out!”
Click on the image to read the blog and listen to the podcast!
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March 2021: It’s been a long and strange flight indeed! But pandemic notwithstanding, we have successfully released Strange Flight, (named even before the lockdown of 2020). Available now. Everywhere. ‘Nuff said.
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February 2021: Stand Up comes out on March 26th! Pre-save it to your digital library!
Click on the image now to automatically add Stand Up to your Spotify, iTunes or other music library (for free!) on March 26 2021 when the single comes out. You’ll also be automatically entered into a release date draw for a cool Wanted T-shirt!
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February 2021: Canadian Beats premieres Strange Flight, the video and title track of our upcoming album! Read about it here:
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February 2021: Strange Flight, the single, is coming on February 19! Pre-save it to your digital library!
Click on the image now to automatically add Strange Flight to your Spotify, iTunes or other music library (for free!) on Februrary 19 2021 when the single comes out. You’ll also be automatically entered into a release date draw for a cool Wanted T-shirt! See below!
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January 2021: Roots Music Canada published a really cool article about Strange Flight, our upcoming album! Read it here:
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January 2021: Pre-save our upcoming single, Before the Fall, to your digital library! Click here:
Click on it now to automatically add Before the Fall to your Spotify, iTunes or other music library (for free!) on January 22 2021 when the single comes out. You’ll also be automatically entered into a release date draw for a cool Wanted T-shirt! Check out the T-shirt details at:
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January 2021: Before the Fall, written by Jeff Rogers of the band, is set to be released as the first single from our soon-to-be released album, Strange Flight. The single will be released on most digital platforms on Friday, January 22, 2021. Before the Fall is a “story” song— there is a pretty strong narrative element to it. It’s penetrating, topical and a touch apocalyptical. It’s a cry of frustration and anger at things we can't seem to change. The style of the song could be described as idiosyncratic americana— an intersection between styles of fiddle music, Appalachian folk, jazz and blues, and The Wanted cross those genres, borders and traditions all the time. Before the Fall, with its strong melodies and harmonies, pays homage to folk traditions but isn’t at all afraid to reconstruct them.
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December 2020: Michael Timmins has now completed the mixing of our new album, Strange Flight, at The Hangar, the Cowboy Junkies’ Toronto studio. And Peter J. Moore, who won a Grammy for famously salvaging the reel-to-reel tapes and mastering Bob Dylan’s The Basement Tapes, has also completed the mastering of the album. Peter’s mastering credits include Neil Young, Garth Hudson, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Oscar Peterson, Diana Krall, Neko Case, Bruce Cockburn, Murray McLauchlan, Finger Eleven, Sloan, and hundreds of others. Peter has also won 2 Genies, 2 Geminis and has been twice nominated for a Juno.
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October 2020: This was the month we were to release Strange Flight, our new CD. We were able to get back into the Cowboy Junkies’ studio in early September during that short-lived Covid lull— masked and one at a time. So we finished recording all of the tracks. Now we’re mixing at a distance. New planned release date: March 2021. But will there be a launch tour…
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March 2020: So, there’s a world-wide pandemic and a lockdown throughout Canada. That pretty much burns our timetable for the release of Strange Flight, our second CD. It was planned for October, 2020. But now…
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October 2019: We’re in the studio planning our second record- at The Hangar, the Cowboy Junkies’ studio- with Michael Timmins producing- the songwriter, guitarist and producer for the Junkies. We’ll be releasing the album early in 2020, so stay tuned!
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July 2019: The 39 Days of July Festival. Duncan B.C. Quite Possibly the festival with the longest duration in the known universe! And what a time it was.
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April 2019: A sold out crowd at the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts! It’s quite a thrill to perform to an appreciative audience at a great listening venue.
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April 2019: We’re building our mini tour of Vancouver Island! The Wanted are booked at the 39 Days of July Cowichan Summer Festival on July 22, 5:00 pm! And then later that same day, we’re at the Duncan Showroom in Duncan, BC. Gonna be great!
“All of these scheduled musical events are designed to bring community together to celebrate our diverse local / Canadian and international music scenes, to give the opportunity to meet our neighbours, share a common experience and hopefully be able to now greet each other with a friendly smile on any future happen chance connections. We are proving that downtown Duncan and the Cowichan Valley is... ‘a rather fun place to be’.”
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February 2019: Folk Alliance International 2019! Exhausting, exhilarating, enervating. So many great new friends and artists who came and shared our showcase Saturday night: Annie Oakley, Hafdis Huld, The Lasses, Silent Winters, Big Little Lions, Madison Galloway, Driftwood Soldier. And they were truly awesome!
Here’s a pic from FAI 2019!
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February 2019: Folk Alliance International, the world’s largest folk conference, is convening in Montreal this year from February 13 through 16. The Wanted have 10 showcases over the conference and are looking forward to an overwhelmingly chaotic few days of performing, meeting new people and generally carrying on!
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October 2018: The Wanted are booked to perform in one of Ontario’s premier soft seat theatres! Block off Saturday, April 13, 2019 on your calendars! We’ll be at the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts, 8:30 pm:
https://www.oakvillecentre.ca/the-wanted
Get Your Tickets today!
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September 2018: The Wanted were delighted to have been selected to perform two separate showcases at the Canadian Country Music Awards. What a blowout party that was! Hamilton, you rock!
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July 2018: Each year, the Mariposa Folk Festival curates a thematic compilation CD of songs of selected artists that performed at the festival that year. Mariposa established Gender Equality as this year’s theme. We’re delighted that Mariposa has selected an original song by The Wanted for the CD. “On Your Way Out”, written by Natalie and Jeff Rogers of the band, is a stylish, ‘30s style swing tune with incisive and cheeky lyrics about re-adjusting the balance between a strong woman and the man who is holding her back: “I got me a truck and a PhD, and you thought you could ride for free, but all you ever do is slow me down.” You can hear that song by clicking on our Music tab at the top of this page.
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April 2018: The Wanted have been selected to perform at the Mariposa Folk Festival this summer. And we're delighted! We'll be sharing the stage with great artists like Buffy Sainte-Marie, Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets, Fred Eaglesmith, The Western Swing Authority, Walk Off The Earth, Valdy, and the Good Lovelies. See you there: July 6, 7, and 8.
http://www.mariposafolk.com/the-festival/lineup-2/#/artist/the-wanted
Get your tickets today!
http://www.mariposafolk.com/the-festival/purchase-tickets/
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February 2018: The Wanted had a busy summer festival season in 2017, with notable performances at the Carmel Fine Art and Music Festival in Niagara Falls; the Bread and Honey Festival in Toronto; the Boot Hill Country Jamboree in London; the Marshville Heritage Festival in Wainfleet; the Fieldcote Summer Music Concert Series in Hamilton; The Edwards Summer Music Series-Toronto Botanical Garden; The Lincoln Sunset Music Series; Roots North Festival in Orillia, and Canada Day 150 concerts in both Thorold and Guelph. We’re currently in discussions with a number of venues and look forward to a busy festival season this year as well. Stay tuned for updates!