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Joe Lapinski + Band w/ special guest Abigail Lapell
Niagara Artists Centre
Thursday 26 February 2026
7pm Doors / 7:30pm Show
$20 Tickets - https://www.nac.org/site/events/joe-lapinski-abigail-lapell
Joe Lapinski and his band are back at the Niagara Artists Centre. Fresh off his 2025 release “New Day”, Lapinski is bringing his full band to the NAC Microcinema for a night that’s shaping up to be something special.
The show kicks off with Juno-nominated singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell. Lapinski engineered and mixed her “Anniversary” album (produced by Tony Dekker of Great Lake Swimmers), and is excited to have her back in Niagara for this one. Expect a few surprises along the way.
Abigail Lapell:
Toronto songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Abigail Lapell returns with “More Songs About Love”, the extended companion to her JUNO-nominated 2024 album “Anniversary”. An evocative collection of original love songs, “Anniversary” was produced with Great Lake Swimmers’ Tony Dekker and recorded at 200-year-old St Mark’s Church in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Dekker helped shape the sessions’ spooky, resonant sound and also lent his voice to a couple of spellbinding duets.
Balancing upbeat earworms with elegiac ballads, “More Songs About Love” adds eight new stripped-down tracks to the collection. Combining cynical and sentimental elements, the collection ultimately emerges as an earnest celebration of love. “Anniversary” & “More Songs About Love” is out May 3, 2025 on Outside Music.
Over the past six years and four spellbinding releases, Lapell has garnered four Canadian Folk Music Awards and accrued a staggering 60 million streams across online platforms. She tours regularly across Canada, the U.S. and Europe.
https://www.abigaillapell.com
Joe Lapinski:
Joe Lapinski creates cinematic indie folk rock where stories unfold in the warm glow of golden hour. A longtime fixture of the Canadian independent music scene, he is a songwriter, performer, producer, and sound designer based in St. Catharines, Ontario. Lapinski’s creative world is both expansive and collaborative, working with projects such as Minuscule, The Woodshed Orchestra, and Rita & The Daydreamers, and founding the community-focused WOW! Recording Studio & Creative Music Space.
For more than 25 years, he has brought his music to stages across the country, sharing bills with artists including Daniel Lanois, Rheostatics, Arcade Fire, and Great Lake Swimmers. His live performances are dynamic and shapeshifting, ranging from intimate solo sets to a full six-piece band featuring choral-pop vocalists from Minuscule.
Lapinski’s newest album, “New Day” (2025), co-produced with Dave Clark, deepens his signature blend of emotional honesty and sonic experimentation, exploring themes of release, renewal, and choosing love over fear.
https://joelapinski.ca
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