The Tom Fun Orchestra
The Tom Fun Orchestra is a Canadian indie rock ensemble from Cape Breton, Canada. The band features an unconventional mix of electric and acoustic instruments, including violin, banjo, accordion, trumpet, double bass, electric guitars and drums, and have elicited comparisons to acts ranging from The Clash, Tom Waits and The Pogues to The Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene. History Formation and ''You Will Land with a Thud'' The Tom Fun Orchestra was formed in Sydney, Nova Scotia in 2005 by singer-songwriter Ian MacDougall. The group has since performed throughout Central and Eastern Canada as well as in Ireland, Australia and the UK. The band recorded their debut album, '' You Will Land With a Thud'', with producers Gordon Gano Gordon James Gano (born June 7, 1963) is an American musician widely known as the singer, guitarist and songwriter of American folk punk band Violent Femmes. Early life Gano was born in New York City to actor parents Norman and Faye Gano, and gr ...
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Charlottetown
Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, Charlottetown was an unincorporated town until it was incorporated as a city in 1855. It was the site of the famous Charlottetown Conference in 1864, the first gathering of Canadian and Maritime statesmen to discuss the proposed Maritime Union. This conference led, instead, to the union of British North American colonies in 1867, which was the beginning of the Canadian confederation. PEI, however, did not join Confederation until 1873. From this, the city adopted as its motto ''Cunabula Foederis'', "Birthplace of Confederation". The population of Charlottetown is estimated to be 40,500 (2022); this forms the centre of a census agglomeration of 83,063 (2021), which is roughly half of the province's population (160,302). History Early history (1720–1900) The first European settlers in the area were French; perso ...
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Musical Groups Established In 2005
Musical is the adjective of music. Musical may also refer to: * Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance * Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narrative songs sung by the characters * MusicAL, an Albanian television channel * Musical isomorphism, the canonical isomorphism between the tangent and cotangent bundles See also * Lists of musicals * Music (other) * Musica (other) * Musicality Musicality (''music-al -ity'') is "sensitivity to, knowledge of, or talent for music" or "the quality or state of being musical", and is used to refer to specific if vaguely defined qualities in pieces and/or genres of music, such as melodiousness ...

Earthworm Heart
''Earthworm Heart'' is the second full-length album recorded by Cape Breton indie rock band Tom Fun Orchestra It was recorded over a period of a few years at Soundpark Studios in Sydney, Nova Scotia Sydney is a former city and urban community on the east coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Sydney was founded in 1785 by the British, was incorporated as a city in 1904, and dissolv .... It was produced by Jamie Foulds and the band, engineered by Foulds and Bert Lionais, and mixed and mastered by Foulds. Track listing 1.Merry Christmas Jim - 5:08 2.Rowing Away - 3:31 3.I Am Bleeding Hallelujah - 3:58 4.Dear Eleanor - 2:59 5.Lungs - 3:43 6.Concussional - 0:53 7.Anchors Aweigh - 4:27 8.Earthworm Heart - 2:36 9.Animal Mask - 4:17 10.Winter Spring - 2:04 11.Boxcar Lullaby - 3:59 12.Sunshine on my Bones - 4:26 13.Ulysses - 3:11 14.Sympathetic Wolf - 6:48 Personnel Tom Fun Orchestra Albert Lionais - Trumpet, Coronet, ...
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