The Barenaked Ladies are turning back to the clock to provide Vancouver some holiday tunes when they kick off their Hometown Holidays tour! Barenaked Ladies go beyond their classics and dip their feet into the Christmas carols with their Barenaked for the Holidays album and will be playing to get people into the holiday spirit on December 1st at The Centre for Performing Arts!

The legendary Canadian rock band has had undeniable success since forming in 1988 out of Scarborough, Ontario. BNL has gone on to win multiple Juno Awards, Billboard Music Awards, and Grammy nominations, along with selling over 15 million records.

It all started when Co-founders Ed Robertson and Steven Page grew up with each other as aquantances and then eventually built their relationship through work as counsellors. They found out how much they had in common, one of them being music, which kickstarted them harmonizing with each other. After going to a Bob Dylan concert together and making up band names that could be be funny and unique, they came across “Barenaked ladies”. Ed Robertson was in a cover band but a week before their set at “Battle of the Bands”, they broke up. Robertson then had to make up a band name and then remembered “Barenaked Ladies” and then called up Page to perform with him and then they improvised their set. Additions were made to grow the group and then the band started making noise across the nation, going on tours and releasing full length albums going gold and platinum. Despite the success there were some changes within the band based on mutual agreements including OG co-founder of the group, Steven Page. The member of the bands now include Ed Robertson, Jim Creeggan, Tyler Stewart, and Kevin Hearn.

Barenaked for the Holidays is the bands holiday themed, studio released album that were given to the people back on October 5th, 2004. It’s an album that was traditionally sung around New Years Eve but includes many tracks simply for the winter season. The album also features fellow Canadian artists Sarah McLachlan and Michael Bublé, the features helped the BNL’s achieve gold status in Canada for the album.

Get into the holiday spirit with Canadian heroes, Barenaked Ladies at The Centre for Performing Arts at 8pm!

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