The Beauties are a Canadian

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band from Toronto.

Career

They formed at the

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in 2006. The band members are Shawn Creamer, Derek Downham, Paul Pfisterer, Jud Ruhl and Darin McConnell. The Beauties have opened for Skydiggers, Broken Social Scene, Justin Rutledge and Jason Collett, and have backed up songwriters including Ron Sexsmith, Jim Cuddy and

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. They signed to

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in 2009. That same year, ''

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'' named the Beauties as the best roots/country band in Toronto. They recorded an EP with

, but so far only one song from those sessions has been released; a cover of " The Funeral" by Band of Horses. On June 1, 2010, they released their first full length, self-titled album on Six Shooter Records.

Discography

* ''Die Die Die EP'' (Independent, 2008) * '' The Beauties'' (Independent, 2010)

References

External links

Six Shooter Records
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