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The Young Novelists

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Genres
  
Folk, Roots, Americana

Origin
  
Toronto, Canada

Record label
  
The Young Novelists

Years active
  
2009 (2009)–present

Genre
  
Folk

Albums
  
Made Us Strangers

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Associated acts
  
graydon james & the young novelists

Website
  
www.theyoungnovelists.com

Members
  
Graydon James John Law Michael Paddags Laura Spink

Past members
  
Noel DiTosto Alex Dodd Shawn Jurek

Similar
  
Jory Nash, The Royal Oui, Colleen Peterson, Joe Crookston, Digging Roots

Profiles

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The Young Novelists are a Canadian folk-roots (also called "Americana") band, formed in Toronto, Ontario in August 2009. They play and tour as a five or six-piece band, or as a duo. Their second full-length studio album, made us strangers, was released in April 2015 and won the Canadian Folk Music Award for New/Emerging Artist, as well as being nominated for the Canadian Folk Music Award for Vocal Group. It remained nine weeks on the Top 10 Folk/Roots/Blues !earshot radio charts in Canada.

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They Young Novelists received the award for New/Emerging Artist of the Year at the 2015 Canadian Folk Music Awards. They were also the winners of the 2015 Grassy Hills Songwriting competition at the Connecticut Folk Festival. They also received the 2015 Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award, presented by the Ontario Arts Council. Previously, they were the 2010 recipients of the Galaxie (now called Stingray Music) Rising Star award.

Festival appearances include Mariposa Folk Festival, Summerfolk, and Falcon Ridge Folk Festival.

Their song “It Takes All Kinds” has been described as being "[for] fans of Blue Rodeo, The Band, and pre-weirdness Wilco".

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Discography

  • a small town eulogy, (April 2011)
  • live at dublin st. church, (November 2011)
  • in the year you were born, (September 2012)
  • made us strangers, (April 2015)
  • Songs

    Always Make the MistakeMade Us Strangers · 2015
    Couldn't Be Any WorseMade Us Strangers · 2015
    Brothers in the GarageMade Us Strangers · 2015

    References

    The Young Novelists Wikipedia