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Genres
  
folk

Labels
  
Six Shooter Records

Origin
  
Saskatoon, Canada

Record label
  
Six Shooter Records

Occupation(s)
  
singer, songwriter

Website
  
[1]

Genre
  
Folk music

Albums
  
Broadside Ballads

Music group
  
The Deep Dark Woods (Since 2005)

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Ryan Boldt is a Canadian musician and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of Canadian prairie gothic folk band, The Deep Dark Woods. The band originates from Boldt’s birthplace of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Contents

In November 2014, Boldt released his debut solo album The Broadside Ballads. The release features a collection of Boldt’s renditions of traditional North American and British folk songs.

Other influences on Boldt’s performances and songwriting include Ian and Sylvia Tyson, Bob Dylan, The Stanley Brothers, Neil Young, The Grateful Dead, The Band and Leonard Cohen.

Boldt is co-founder of Big White Cloud Recs, a Saskatchewan, Alberta and BC based record label.

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Tours

Boldt has toured throughout Canada, the US and Europe, both as a solo performer and as leader of the band, The Deep Dark Woods. He played Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits Music Festival, and Newport Folk Festival (2012). Boldt opened for Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead (2012), and played in Lesh's Terrapin Family Band (2014). Boldt has also opened for Blue Rodeo and Merle Haggard; and Robert Earl Keen at Irving Plaza in New York.

Discography

  • The Deep Dark Woods (2006)
  • Hang Me, Oh Hang Me (2007)
  • Winter Hours (2009)
  • The Place I Left Behind (2011)
  • Jubilee (2013)
  • Broadside Ballads, solo release (2014)

    • Awards and Recognition

  • 2009 Western Canadian Music Awards, Best Roots Group; winner, Winter Hours
  • 2009 Canadian Folk Music Awards, Ensemble of the Year; winner
  • 2009 CBC’s Great Canadian Song Quest, winner; The Deep Dark Woods, Charlie’s (Is Coming Down)
  • 2012 Americana Music Honors and Awards, Best New Group, nominee; The Deep Dark Woods
  • 2012 Juno Awards, Roots and Traditional Album of the Year, Group; nominee, The Place I Left Behind
  • 2015 Juno Awards, Roots and Traditional Album of the Year, Group; nominee, Jubilee

    • Filmography

    Safe Haven, the 2013 film adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel, features The Deep Dark Woods song, My Baby's Got to Pay the Rent, written by Boldt. The film also includes a cameo from the band with Boldt film-credited as the band leader.

    Songs

    Love Is Pleasin'Broadside Ballads · 2014
    Sally My DearBroadside Ballads · 2014
    RambleawayBroadside Ballads · 2014

    References

    Ryan Boldt Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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