Sound Series: Patrick Watson

We welcome Canadian singer-songwriter and composer, Patrick Watson, to the Carnegie Lecture Hall on a tour supporting his forthcoming album Uh Oh which features a varied, high-profile roster of collaborators including Charlotte Cardin, Charlotte Oleena, Hohnen Ford, Klô Pelgag, La Force, MARO, Martha Wainwright, November Ultra, and Solann. Watson, a Polaris Music winner in 2006, has five gold albums in Canada and over the course of his career, has retained the uncanny ability to coexist in mainstream pop-culture spaces and on the avant-garde fringes.

• Doors open at 7 p.m.

Patrick Watson composes, performs, and records his albums with his long-time bandmate and collaborator and multi-instrumentalists Mishka Stein and Olivier Fairfield. The Canadian artist reached gold and platinum status in over multiple countries (including five certified gold albums in Canada), and his shows sell out around the world. Over the course of his career, Watson has retained the uncanny ability to coexist in mainstream pop-culture spaces and on the avant-garde fringes. His songs have been featured in primetime crowd-pleasers like Grey’s Anatomy and This Is Us, as well as in multiple arthouse films from Denis Villeneuve (Polytechnique), Wim Wenders (Perfect Days) ,and Philippe Falardeau (C’est pas moi, je le jure!) and more. He’s an artist who’s as comfortable performing impromptu pop-up shows on the train tracks in a Quebec mining town as he is leading the BBC Orchestra at London’s prestigious Barbican. Watson’s an in-demand composer with over 15 film scores under his belt. He was awarded the prestigious inaugural Impact Award at the 2024 Canadian Sync Awards. Watson’s viral single Je te laisserai des mots became the first French song to accumulate one billion streams on Spotify.

But whether you discovered Patrick Watson through your local indie record shop, a movie soundtrack, a social-media video, a European music festival, his hit collaboration with Cinematic Orchestra (2007’s To Build a Home), or through his appearance alongside Patti Smith and Michael Stipe at the 2021 Pathway to Paris all-star benefit concert, his music has a similar effect on all who enter his kaleidoscopic sound-world. The songs of Patrick Watson transform your everyday surroundings into your own imaginary wonderland, translating stress and sorrow into joy, and helping you find peace within the chaos of modern life.

Sound Series

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