Half Moon Run

Half Moon Run is coming back to Ottawa for two nights at the Algonquin Commons Theatre! Night One is SOLD OUT! Very limited tickets left for Night Two.

Montreal's Half Moon Run return today with the first new music for 2023 with a propulsive, affirming sonic journey with new song, “You Can Let Go” and the launch of a global headline tour which brings the 2020 JUNO Award winners to Ottawa Nov 25 & 26 at the Algonquin Commons Theatre, produced by spectrasonic with the support of Ontario Creates . Tickets go on sale Friday March 10 at 10 am via the link above and the venue box office.

“In the back of my mind was a beautiful, truthful shouting,” says one of the group's three singers, songwriters + multi instrumentalists, Devon Portielje. The song's verses recall the inducing cardiac panic of the group's earliest hits, at least until the fever breaks and the chorus transcends into the sublime harmonies they have become universally known for. Portielje continues, “A tumultuous, transformative journey through the dark places of the mind towards, hopefully, the light.”
The past few years has largely kept the band from doing what they indisputably excel at: touring, that which has become synonymous with the band's name, fame, global accolades and dedicated audiences they have single-handedly built since they began internationally touring their first album Dark Eyes in 2012. In the latter half 2022, Half Moon Run did play a select few dates, and unsurprisingly, some of their most successful shows yet: there were over 45,000 people on the Plains of Abraham for the final night of the Festival d’été de Québec; and ADISQ awarded the band another Félix (their fifth) for Best Anglophone Show of 2022.

To those who know the constant creative prolific nature of Half Moon Run also know well, where there is one new song, there is bound to be many more. “All I can say is that our last EP was looking inwards and moving onwards, and now we’re maybe, looking upwards,” hints Portielje. More updates and details to come.