Almost two years to the day after the release of Sarah Harmer’s JUNO Award nominated, Polaris Music Prize nominated album Are You Gone, the internationally lauded Ontario songwriter is finally able to take her stunning record on the road. Are You Gone is a deeply personal and political collection of songs motivated by the beauty of life, the urgency of the climate crisis, and the question of loss. Sarah called the album a spiritual successor of sorts to her acclaimed 2000 debut, You Were Here, which made many year-end critics’ lists, and which TIME called the year’s best debut album. Its simple title, Are You Gone, is a meditation on the idea of presence, and a bookend to the questions posed on You Were Here – a sharpened, more electric confrontation with the realities of nature and human nature.
The result of an unshakeable inclination to make music in conflict with a lifestyle more attuned to privacy, quiet, and activism, Sarah wrote Are You Gone gradually over the last decade as she traded music for grassroots organizing as her “day job.” Between co-founding the citizen’s organization PERL (Protecting Escarpment Rural Land) and leading the coalition’s successful efforts to prevent a quarry from being built on the Niagara Escarpment, she became a fixture in local politics and advocacy, while keeping her musical chops fresh by writing and playing casually with friends. Finally, in 2019, while pondering the “ghosts” of loss, capitalism’s gluttony and music’s potential as a public platform, Sarah got to work on Are You Gone, her most sophisticated record to date.
All tour dates are listed below and tickets can be purchased HERE.
SARAH HARMER 2022 TOUR DATES
Feb 23 – Peterborough, ON – Market Hall
Feb 24 – Peterborough, ON – Market Hall
Feb 26 – Montreal, QC – Corona
Feb 28 – Charlottetown, PEI – Charlottetown Brewing Company
Mar 2 – Moncton, NB – Central United Church
Mar 4 – Halifax, NS – Rebecca Cohn Theatre
Mar 5 – Fredericton, NB – Playhouse Theatre
Mar 21 – Meaford, ON – Meaford Hall
Mar 22 – Sudbury, ON – College Boreal
Mar 23 – Orillia, ON – Opera House
Mar 25 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall
Mar 26 – Parry Sound – Stockey Centre
Mar 31 – Ann Arbor, MI – The Ark
Apr 1 – Chicago, IL – OTS Szold Hall
April 2 – Milwaukee, WI – The Back Room @ Colectivo
April 3 – Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Centre
April 5 – Winnipeg, MB – Park Theatre
April 6 – Saskatoon, SK – Broadway Theatre
April 8 – Calgary, AB – Bella Theatre
April 10 – Edmonton, AB – Starlite
April 11 – Edmonton, AB – Starlite
April 14 – Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre
April 16 – Victoria, BC – Capitol Theatre
April 17 – Nanaimo, BC – Port Theatre
April 18 – Bellingham, WA – Mount Baker Black Box
April 19 – Seattle, WA – Triple Door
April 20 – Portland, OR – The Old Church
April 22 – San Francisco, CA – HopMonk
April 23 – Los Angeles, CA – McCabes
April 26 – Denver, CO – Soiled Dove
April 28 – Kansas City, MO – Knuckleheads
April 30 – Nashville, TN – Lounge at City Winery
May 15 – Burlington, ON – Burlington Performance Centre
May 19 – Kingston, ON – Grand Theatre
May 24 – London, ON – Centennial Hall
May 27 – Guelph, ON – War Memorial Auditorium
