Thom’s latest album, The Wood Buffalo Youth Song Project, has won a 2012 East Coast Music Award in the Children’s Recording of the Year category. The album was created with fellow Maritime musician, Keith Mullins. The project saw Swift and Mullins visit ten schools in ten days in Northern Alberta. Each day, they worked with [...]
Thom will be performing with the Sistema NB Children’s Orchestra on Wednesday, April 4, from 7-9 p.m., at the Moncton High School Auditorium. The public concert is part of the New Brunswick Child and Youth Advocate’s year-long public education and awareness campaign promoting the child’s right to play. The campaign launched during last November’s inaugural [...]
In the midst of writing for his new album to be released this year, Thom is heading west this month to perform three shows in Alberta. He will perform at: The Slice in Lethbridge on January, 26th Calgary Folk Club in Calgary on January 27th The Blackbird Coffee House in Coleman on Saturday, January 28th [...]
As part of the Shivering Songs Festival, Hot Toddy is reuniting to perform the group’s album, Shoe Factory. Special guest for the evening is The Olympic Symphonium Tickets are available at Reads Newsstand (384 King St.), Backstreet Records (435 King St.) and online at etixnow.com
In September, Thom painted an original piece of art to help fight kidney disease. His painting along with others are available on eBay from Oct. 20-30th to support this important cause. To view and bid on Thom’s painting, click here.
On Friday, November 25 at 7:30pm, three of Nova Scotia’s most talented male singer-songwriters team up with Symphony Nova Scotia for an acoustic concert of blues, folk and soul. Thom Swift plays his expressive, earthy roots-blues, Kim Dunn showcases his versatile jazz piano and Dave Gunning sings his sincere, poetic folk songs in this multifaceted [...]
In March 2011, Thom Swift and Keith Mullins visited ten schools in ten days in Northern Alberta. Each morning they worked with a small group of students to create a song from scratch. Each song was written, performed, and recorded in one day. This is The Wood Buffalo Youth Song Project.
Click the image above to watch Thom Swift & The El Caminos perform “Take a Drive” Live at CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio for Great Canadian Songquest 2010.
The East Coast Music Association just announced nominations for East Coast Music Week (April 13-17) in Charlottetown, PE. Thom was nominated in three categories, including FACTOR Recording of the Year, Male Solo Recording of the Year and Blues Recording of Year. He will be performing at the event. For details on the event, visit: http://www.ecma.ca/
You might have caught these handcrafted “Blue Sky Day” mugs on Thom’s merch table. Now you can order one right here at thomswift.com, just in time for the holidays! Created by artist Tim Isaac, each mug is handmade and as a result unique and one of a kind. Perfect for coffee on the front porch, [...]
Thom Swift knew his musical career was changing when he won the “Galaxie Rising Star” prize. The Canadian music award typically goes to artists decades his junior.
When Thom Swift was writing songs for his latest album, blue sky day, he had a mission in mind, crafting a tune that perfectly suited the talents of his band.
From its opening track “Stand Tall”, Thom Swift’s second solo CD blue sky day is full of life lessons, from a naturally gifted musician and songwriter with a lifetime of experience to draw upon; lessons about how to live, how to love, and how to have a good time, taught with agile fingers on beloved vintage guitars and a voice as richly textured as the bark on a spruce tree.
To get your copy of Blue Sky Day, available in CD + Digital format, visit the Thom Swift Shop today!
