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Northern Lights Festival Boréal: July 8-11, 2021
The music of Half Moon Run is often described as dreamy alt-pop, bucolic alt-folk, and psychedelic indie rock. Armed with classical training and omnivorous influences, they build on cerebral, acrobatic arrangements and harmonies, lilting prettily in one moment then feral the next.
They rose out of the fertile cultural scene of Montreal in 2009, when Connor Molander and Dylan Phillips, students and recent transplants from Vancouver Island, connected with Devon Portielje, fresh out of Ottawa. Later, they tapped a third Comox-born musician, Isaac Symonds, to intensify their live show.
From the outset, the lingua franca of these four multi-instrumentalists and vocalists was music and, in a typical show they play instruments ranging from guitar, piano, keyboard, pedal steel, bass, harmonica, and mandolin, to synth.
Less than a year after their later debut album, Dark Eyes (2012), they found themselves opening for Mumford and Sons on a European arena tour. Two years of furious worldwide touring followed, opening for international acts like City and Colour, and Of Monsters and Men, and making waves at major festivals all over North America and Europe.
For their second album, they packed up the tour van, headed west to California, and recorded Sun Leads Me On (2015), which went Gold in Canada. After back-to-back hometown shows selling 9,000 tickets in about 45 minutes, they hit fourteen European festivals and sold out rooms across Canada, the U.S., Australia, and Europe.
Now, with their third album set to drop in 2019, things have changed but things are also the same, like an evolving, close relationship where each record serves as a checkpoint. They have shows lined-up from June through to the end of November right across Canada, the U.S. the United Kingdom and Europe.
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Northern Lights Festival Boréal: July 8-11, 2021