Canada's The Deep Dark Woods will return to the UK for their first shows in four years in May 2018 in support of their recent 'Yarrow' album which was released on the Six Shooter label. The shows will include a London date at Bush Hall and two nights at the Kilkenny Roots Festival. The Deep Dark Woods will be joined on the tour by fellow Canadians Kacy & Clayton who will also be promoting a new record 'The Siren's Song'. More about The Deep Dark Woods, their album and those tour dates follow:

Canada's The Deep Dark Woods return to the UK & Ireland in May in support of their recently released album, Yarrow, out now on Six Shooter Records. The band, returning after a four-year hiatus, play a number of shows up and down the UK including a London show at Bush Hall on May 3rd. They will also play two shows at the famed Kilkenny Roots Festival before a first-time appearance in Belfast at Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival.  They will be joined on the shows by fellow Canadian psych/folk duo Kacy & Clayton whose Kacy & Clayton whose The Siren's Song is released in UK in April. 

UK Tour Dates:

1 May – Nottingham – The Maze
2 May – Oxford - The Bullingdon
3 May – London – Bush Hall

5 May - Kilkenny Roots Festival

6 May - Kilkenny Roots Festival
7 May – Belfast – Cathedral Quarter Arts Fest
8 May – Glasgow – Broadcast
9 May – Liverpool – Leaf
10 May – Newcastle – The Cluny 2
11 May – York - The Crescent
12 May – Bedford - Ent Shed
12 May – Brighton – The Prince Albert
15 May – Bristol – The Tunnels
16 May – Winchester – The Railway

Floods and plagues, ghosts and slaughter: woe to those who populate the songs of The Deep Dark Woods’ new album Yarrow. A gentle summer breeze swings the gallows ropes, flowers bloom callously on lovers’ graves. These anthems are definitely not from Eden.

In Yarrow, there’s a juicy unease to frontman Boldt’s presence, as if a new door has opened to let loose the weirdness. In place of the freewheelin’ jammy vibe of previous efforts, the new album has a darker, stranger tenor. “Fallen Leaves,” a song that captures the stinging salinity of loss and the grimy, scuzzed-up “Drifting On A Summer’s Night,” occupy creepier, spookier corners of the folk world. “The Birds Will Stop Their Singing” and “Teardrops Fell” are slow-burning eulogies that demonstrate the potency of Boldt’s distinctly mournful vocals.

Yarrow was borne in a fever – scarlet fever, to be medically specific. A disease of the last century is a fitting backdrop for songs that dig bare-handed into the loam to unearth the corpses of old English folk and country blues. After a five-year hiatus and band reconfiguration, Yarrow is The Deep Dark Woods reimagined by leadman Ryan Boldt. Produced by Shuyler Jansen and Ryan Boldt, the new album also features touring companions Kacy & Clayton.

Boldt writes in a deep tradition of bleak and forlorn storytelling, drawing lines from Ireland to Tennessee, the Oxford Girl to Folsom Prison. Since 2012’s Jubilee, Boldt’s outlook has become decidedly more macabre. In these new songs, he taps into a rich vein of gothic surrealism that aligns with some of the great murder balladeers of our time.

The Deep Dark Woods have developed an international following with particular success in the Americana realm, nominated alongside Alabama Shakes and Dawes for Emerging Artist of the Year at the 2012 Americana Music Awards. Originally from Saskatchewan and now based on the west coast, The Deep Dark Woods fuse spooky prairie folk with Texas country blues and California psychedelia.