Nonetheless, we loved performing at the festival again. We also managed to impress a few very young members of the audience (see the pics below). With any luck, we inspired a couple of kids to go home and ask their parents for electric guitars! One little girl was seen air-guitaring on her umbrella after our set, so we might have started something.

Check out some photos from the performance below. (Check out the guy who’s plugging his ears; classic!).

Thanks to anyone who came out, and we had a great time. See you next year!

AUG. 21-

• Cafe Dekcuf, Ottawa (221 Rideau Street)

• W/ The Uncles, The Mudplots, and Tungda Browne

AUG. 22-

• The Mansion, Kingston (506 Princess St.)

• W/ John Torres
  

If anyone has a gig on the Friday, August 20th, drop us a line. Anywhere along the eastern end of the 401: Peterborough, Cornwall, Cobourg, Gatineau, etc. We could be playing at your very own party/bbq/intervention!

And don’t forget, our new single ‘Cadence’ is available for free dowload here!

Here’s our updated Show schedule:

JULY 24-

• The New Bloor Festival, Toronto, 5pm (Margueretta Street Stage) 

AUG. 12-

• Split Level Festival, Hard Luck Bar, Toronto (812 Dundas St. W.) 

AUG. 21-

• Cafe Dekcuf, Ottawa (221 Rideau Street)  

AUG. 22-

• The Mansion, Kingston (506 Princess St.)  

SEPT.3-

• The Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto (368 Queen St. W)

Case in point: we recently played at the Annual General Meeting of the Learning Enrichment Foundation here in Toronto. LEF is a great organization that helps to fill some of the gaps in our social services.

Their mission statement:

The Learning Enrichment Foundation provides community responsive programs and services which enable individuals to become valued contributors to their community’s social and economic development.

We’ve actually played for them twice now, through our bass player Matt’s work connections. They are a really open and friendly community of people, and their events are always a fun mix of food, music, intercultural dialogue, and social justice.

The Stormalongs performed a short set as a three piece (two acoustic guitars and acoustic bass), with all three of us singing on one microphone, just like 1940′s radio.

Here are some pics from this performace. (Note Adam’s formal attire; he had just come from work and hadn’t taken his suit off. The Full Windsor!)

If so, The Stormalongs, Toronto’s most rocking of indie rock bands, have got an event for you.

We have been invited once again to play at The New Bloor Festival, on Saturday July 24th, 2010. This is an annual family-style street festival, organized by the Bloordale BIA. We played the event last year when it was known as the BIG Festival, and our set was caught in the rain (which we documented in the ‘Watersong’ video that you can see here). But we played anyway, braving the possibility of electrocution in order to bring our music to the good people of Toronto.

This year we will be performing at 5 PM on the Margueretta Street Stage.

Not sure where that is? Check out the event map below, or go on their website (www.newbloorfestival.com) to see the full schedule of events.

There are many cool acts performing this year, all of the entertainment at the festival is free, and it’s a great event to help support the Bloordale community in general. Maybe we’ll even play songs from our upcoming album 2nd, ‘Raise Up Your Head’! Two things that go well together: new music and food eaten while standing.

And since you’re alreading reading our website, jump over to the ‘Single’ page and download our new digital single ‘Cadence’ b/w ‘Equinox’ for free, with some beautiful artwork. If you like the songs, send ‘em to your friends!

Happy Canada Day to everyone! We hope this day finds you celebrating in traditional fashion, be it BBQ-ing, listening to the Guess Who, or watching the perpetually lame Parliament Hill concert that some of us secretly love. Don’t forget to wrap your day up with a big singalong of our national anthem.

On this most maple of days, we are very proud and excited to release our first single from our forthcoming second album, ‘Raise Up Your Head’. The song is called ‘Cadence’ and it is a song about drawing strength from a loved-one in difficult times. ‘Breaking down in rhythm’, the phrase repeated in the song’s coda, is a reference to those times in life when you feel weak and vulnerable and you have to rely on someone you love.

As a companion or compliment, we also have include another new song called ‘Equinox’, which is a funky psychedelic jam about those endlessly long summers of our youth.

If you like these songs, and you want to support Canadian indie rock & roll, please send these songs to your friends or send them here to download them. Tell people about The Stormalongs and help independent music!

Also, come and see us at The Horseshoe Tavern on July 31st!

The Stormalongs walked in solidarity with the G20 Labour Protests on June 26, 2010 in Toronto, Canada. This is what we heard and saw.

There was violence and destruction of property at these protests, but we only heard about it. The vast majority of the protesters were not using violence to get their messages across. Thousands of people turned out and demonstrated peacefully and in a very well-organized manner. The media will spin these events a hundred different ways or more, but the truth is that democracy and freedom were well-served here today.

JULY 31- The Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto (368 Queen St. W)

AUGUST 21- Cafe Dekcuf, Ottawa (221 Rideau Street)

• with The MudPlots, Tungda Browne, The Uncles