Biography:
Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian indie folk band which formed in 2003 in Wainfleet, Ontario, Canada. The band began with Tony Dekker (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Erik Arneson (banjo, guitar, harmonium), Bret Higgens (bass), Julie Fader (keyboards, vocals) and Greg Millson (drums). Julie Fader subsequently left, and Miranda Mulholland, on violin and backing vocals, joined.
Fifty-five years ago, Marilyn Bell took a plunge and traversed Lake Ontario.
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Other songs:
- Pulling On A Line
- Your Rocky Spine
- Backstage With The Modern Dancers
- Changing Colours
- Concrete Heart
- Easy Come Easy Go
- Everything Is Moving So Fast
- Great Lake Swimmers
- I Am Part Of A Large Family
- I Became Awake
- I Could Be Nothing
- I Will Never See The Sun
- Imaginary Bars
- Lets Trade Skins
- Moving Pictures Silent Films
- Moving Shaking
- New Wild Everywhere
- On The Water
- Palmistry
- Passenger Song
- Rivers Edge
- See You On The Moon
- She Comes To Me In Dreams
- Song For The Angels
- Stealing Tomorrow
- Still
- The Great Exhale
- The Man With No Skin
- There Is A Light
- Think That You Might Be Wrong
- This Is Not Like Home
- Three Days At Sea Three Lost Years
- To Leave It Behind
- Unison Falling Into Harmony
- Various Stages
- When It Flows
- Where In The World Are You
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