Singa Silva has a musician from Cornwall promoting The Chase in Ontario

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Cornwall musician Nate Silva will be returning home – twice – when he takes the province by storm, and not just during his summer tour for The Chase album.

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The 38-year-old musician, who grew up in Cornwall, attending the former St. John Bosco and St. Joseph’s Catholic Secondary School. He will perform June 1 at La Maison with band members Matt Babineau (drums) and Dan Joseph (bass guitar); he will appear in the region as a solo act at Brockville’s Keystorm Pub on August 16 and Cornwall’s Lola’s Pub on August 18 as part of the tour that will take him to the Maritimes later that month.

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It’s a lot of travel, with 20 dates booked so far, and it’s already been a lot of work for the veteran guitarist and singer/songwriter promoting his seven-track debut album.

“I think it’s still important to tour,” Silva said in a phone interview last month from Ottawa. “Yes, it’s expensive, with travel and paid musicians, and maybe I’m taking an old-school approach, but I still see the value in playing music in front of people.”

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Silva handled every detail of the tour—from bookings to putting up flyers to dropping by Toronto last month to pick up CDs—but he’s also thinking big and is in the early stages of building a team; So far Ottawa’s Michel Benac with Voila Concerts is on board as booking agent and Montreal’s John Ascher (Ascher Media Relations) is publicist.

It’s been a few years since Silva toured, returning before the pandemic and while shifting his focus to what is now a Master of Arts in Music and Culture at Carleton University.

The tour doesn’t start until May 31st, but a key date took place last week with the release of the album on May 3rd, which included the release of a video for the title track, as well as the release of the latest two singles, Said and Done and Perpetuate , to go along with Come Down – it was first out of the gate last summer – followed by Burn, Best Damn Thing and Cauterize.

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Silva said the album marks something of a return to the kind of music he was originally drawn to as a kid in Cornwall, bands like Green Day and Foo Fighters, and said The Chase’s songs have the energy of post-grunge alternative rock . , but with a twist.

“Well, it’s kind of a weird mix, there’s also folk-influenced, acoustic-guitar-based music,” said Silva, who spent a decade fronting Toronto progressive rock band The Slyde and toured America Northern with indie from Calgary. folk-rock band Reuben and the Dark, including in 2019.

Also on June 1 in Cornwall will be Escape the Population and Us With Wolves’ Ryan McGillis for a solo opening set.

For more artist information, visit Silva’s website, natesilvamusic.com.

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