Royal Canoe

Royal Canoe
Royal Canoe performing at Atlas Weekend 2017
Background information
Origin	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Genres	Indie pop
Years active	2010-present

Musical artist

Royal Canoe^[1] is a Canadian indie pop band from Winnipeg and Steinbach, Manitoba.

History

The band formed in 2010 from members of Manitoba bands The Waking Eyes, The Liptonians and TELE.^[2]^[3] They have toured with Alt-J and Bombay Bicycle Club.^[4] In 2014, Royal Canoe was nominated for Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards. They also opened for Bombay Bicycle Club on their So Long, See You Tomorrow tour.^[5]

On 2 February 2013 Royal Canoe performed Beck's Song Reader project in full at the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's New Music Festival.^[6]^[7] (Beck released Song Reader on sheet music without a recorded version.)

Solo projects

In 2016, keyboardist Matthew Schellenberg composed, performed and produced songs for the soundtrack to the film Lovesick.^[8] At the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, he received a nomination for Best Original Song for "Draw Blood".^[9]^[10]

Matt Peters along with Tom Keenan formed the Winnipeg Chamber-pop ensemble Heavy Bell. In January 2018 they released the album By Grand Central Station, a tribute to Canadian author Elizabeth Smart's 1945 novel By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept.^[11]

Members

Matt Peters - Vocals, keyboards, acoustic guitar
Bucky Driedger - Electric guitar, vocals
Matt Schellenberg - Keyboards, vocals
Brendan Berg - Bass, keyboard, vocals
Michael Jordan - Drums

Former member

Derek Allard - Drum kit

Discography

Co-Op Mode (2010)
Extended Play EP (2012)
Purple & Gold 7 inch (2012)
Today We're Believers (2013)
Royal Canoe Does Beck's Song Reader (2014)
Something Got Lost Between Here and the Orbit (2016)
Waver (2019)
RC3PO (2019)
Sidelining (2021)
Vault (2011 - 2021) (2022) (Compilation album of unreleased demos, B-sides and rareties)

References

^ "SOMETHING GOT LOST BETWEEN HERE AND THE ORBIT",Royal Canoe
^ "Meet Winnipeg's Royal Canoe: They love Beck. And making music on computers | Metro News". Retrieved 2016-09-22.
^ "Canadian album of the week: Royal Canoe will make you a believer". North Shore News, John Goodman, June 17, 2014
^ "Alt-J + Royal Canoe". 22 July 2015. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
^ "A Day in the Life: Juno-nominated Winnipeg band Royal Canoe gears up for the awards". National Post. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
^ Hudson, Alex (8 January 2013). "Royal Canoe Performs Beck's 'Song Reader' and Arcade Fire's Sarah Neufeld Goes Solo for Winnipeg's New Music Festival". exclaim.ca. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
^ "Royal Canoe / beck". Royal Canoe official website. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
^ "Royal Canoe's Matt Schellenberg Teams Up with John K. Samson on 'Lovesick' Soundtrack". Exclaim!, January 11, 2017.
^ "2017 Canadian Screen Awards nominees revealed". CKNW, January 17, 2017.
^ "Screen Awards nominees announced". Winnipeg Free Press. 18 January 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
^ "Paste Magazine". pastemagazine.com. Retrieved 2018-06-08.