Instruments Drums Genres Indie rock Origin Winnipeg, Canada | Role Musician Name Jason Tait | |
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Associated acts The Weakerthans, Bahamas (musician) Music groups The Weakerthans, Young Artists for Haiti (2010) Albums The Falcon Lake Incident, Left and Leaving, Reunion Tour, Reconstruction Site, Live at the Burton Cumming | ||
Jason Tait of Bahamas & The Weakerthans | Drummer to Drummer | S02E10
Jason Tait is a Canadian musician from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is the drummer for the Canadian indie rock band The Weakerthans. Tait has also been a contributing member of Broken Social Scene and The FemBots. He also played drums for the Painted Thin 1995 album Small Acts of Love and Rebellion. Stephen Carroll, guitarist for The Weakerthans, was also a member of Painted Thin.
Tait played drums on Greg Graffin's 2006 album, Cold as the Clay.
Currently, Tait plays drums for Bahamas, a.k.a. Afie Jurvanen, a Toronto-based singer/songwriter.
In 2015, Tait collaborated with his Weakerthans bandmate John K. Samson, Christine Fellows and Ashley Au on the music for For the Turnstiles, a dance performance by Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers troupe inspired by Neil Young's 1974 album On the Beach. In 2016, Tait and Fellows coproduced Samson's solo album Winter Wheat.