Collective Concerts presents

Dead Horses

April 8

The Drake Hotel

Toronto, ON

8PM / 19

Tickets available at Rotate This, Soundscapes, and Ticketfly

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At fifteen, Dead Horses frontwoman Sarah Vos world turned upside down. Raised in a strict, fundamentalist home, Vos lost everything when she and her family were expelled from the rural Wisconsin church where her father had long served as pastor. What happened next is the story of Dead Horses stunning new album, My Mother the Moon, a record full of trauma and triumph, despair and hope, pain and resilience.

Blending elements of traditional roots with contemporary indie folk, the album is both familiar and unexpected, unflinchingly honest in its portrayal of modern American life, yet optimistic in its unshakable faith in brighter days to come. Earthy and organic, Vos songs often reveal themselves to be exercises in empathy and outreach; she writes not only to find meaning in the struggles shes endured, but also to embrace kindred souls on their own personal journeys of self-discovery. As much as the album is a reckoning with the past and everything she witnessed growing up mental illness, poverty, addiction, and violence, its also an effort to shape the future, to build a community based around art and love and beauty and acceptance, a community to replace the one she was so brusquely robbed of as a child.

My Mother the Moon is Dead Horses third album, and it follows hot on the heels of their acclaimed 2016 release, Cartoon Moon, which Wisconsin Public Radiocalled equally beautiful and effortless. That record prompted the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to declare Dead Horses a Band To Watch and earned them honors for "Best Album," "Best Americana/Bluegrass Artist," and "Best Female Vocalist" at the 2017 WAMI Awards. American Songwriter called Vos a compelling vocalistwho carries every tune with her husky, deeply emotional tone that feels lived in and real, while No Depression hailed her songwriting as beautiful and fresh. With a fleshed out touring lineup, the group logged countless miles, sharing bills along the way with Trampled by Turtles, Mandolin Orange, and Elephant Revival in addition to making festival appearances from Bristol Rhythm and Roots to WinterWonderGrass.