Canadian multi-platinum supergroup Blue Rodeo

“They have the chops to warrant the attention and high expectations they’ve sparked since their debut… When Rodeo hits the mark with the likes of “Summer Girls” they’re first class.”
Harp – February 2008

The day before Blue Rodeo released their 11th studio album, Small Miracles, the band loaded themselves up in a van and did something they had never done before.  For ten hours that day, one of Canada’s most popular bands played on street corners all around the downtown core, shocking fans and stopping local traffic.  For a band that has become woven into the fabric of Canadian life, it just seemed to make sense to step down off the stage and serenade the public on its way to work.

Commuters were caught off guard as they got off their morning trains and hockey fans were thrilled to run into the band outside a Toronto Maple Leaf pre-season game.  But perhaps the most appreciative audience were the patients at Princess Margaret Hospital.  Patients and staff jammed the hospital’s foyer to enjoy the band’s five song performance.  Of all of the impromptu performances, this was the one that had the most meaning to the band members.

“The nurse who looked after my dad when he was in intensive care up in North York was there too, and so that was pretty sweet,” said Greg Keelor afterwards.

By today’s standards, it can be called a small miracle if a band stays together for five years and records two albums, but what would you call it when a band has been recording best selling albums for twenty years?  Though it was no intended that way, it seems most appropriate that Blue Rodeo called their new album Small Miracles.  The thirteen track album, once again features the storied songwriting  talents of Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor.

Recorded throughout the Spring of 2007, Small Miracles was produced by Blue Rodeo and Chris Shreenan-Dyck.  The album’s first single is the rollicking “C’mon”, for which a video has been shot and directed by longtime collaborator Chris Mills (Modest Mouse, The Tragically Hip, Broken Social Scene).  Inspired by “Paddle To The Sea,” the video chronicles the journey of a song from its creation to recording to the public and, ultimately, to the concert stage.

Since the release of their debut album, Outskirts, in March 1987, Blue Rodeo has established themselves as one of the premier bands in Canada with Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor ranking among the best songwriters in the country’s history. Over the course of their stellar career Blue Rodeo has has been nominated for an astounding 24 Juno Awards, taking home 11 of the prizes - 5 of which acknowledged the band as Group Of The Year.  They have released 11 studio albums, one live album, a Greatest Hits collection and an award winning DVD, selling in excess of 4 million copies around the world.