The latest:
The Henrys, with the highest of hopes, have a new record mixed, mastered and ready to go on November 1, 2024. Secular Hymns and Border Songs, here and on our Bandcamp page. There will be a CD release concert at the Tranzac Club in Toronto a week later, on November 8. This is a dual release, involving our friend Andrew Downing and his band and their new record Utopia Ontario. A couple of Utopians are in The Henrys, and a Henry or two will dabble in Utopianism, so it will be an evening with some great players and plenty of beautiful instruments.
You can buy tickets to the concert here.
Our new record has been described in England as ‘gorgeous‘, and in Holland as “Breathtakingly beautiful. Completely unclassifiable music, a world apart. Listen and enjoy. In addition, each CD is packaged in a beautiful cardboard envelope with a photo glued on. That completes it. An album to cherish.” (Moors Magazine)
Uneasy Listening
Not the latest:
Welcome to this website about Toronto band The Henrys. We’ve been writing, performing and recording original music since 1990. Nine albums (and two related), concerts at The Bottom Line (NYC), the North Sea Festival (The Hague), SXSW, etc. The band uses some oddball instruments (kona and other acoustic and electric steel guitars, pump organ, conch shell, etc) to define the sonic areas of our original compositions, which don’t fall easily into any genre, but draw on a variety.
Our new record, Secular Hymns and Border Songs, is out November 1/’24. The previous, Shrug, came out in 2022. Before that, Paydirt, which was nominated for a ‘Pushing the Boundaries’ Canadian Folk Music Award 2021 (but did not push enough, or more likely, pushed way too hard), and was chosen by British journalist Richard Williams as one of the best releases of 2020.
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Recordings
Secular Hymns and Border Songs (2024)
The Yearly Ears (dig.comp.’94-98)
Coasting Notes (by Three Metre Day)
and one by Don Rooke:
Atlas Travel (2003)
And one by Don and Kevin Breit (2023)