Silkworm with Nina Nastasia and Fines

Founded in 1987, SILKWORM is a storied and beloved rock band, revered among many of those in the know. The band released nine richly distinctive, influential albums and "a bunch" of singles, EPs, and compilations over an eighteen-year period, as well as touring worldwide in North America, Europe, and Asia, notably playing every state in the continental USA except Delaware.

The group recently played together as a dual-guitar quartet for the first time in thirty years, at Steve Albini’s memorial in late July 2024.

The experience was so rewarding that they began to discuss regrouping for some additional events...which led them to poking at the best possible options for doing so.

After a quite successful summer and fall of shows in the central US in 2025, they are setting out on tour in May (central/eastern US) and August (western US) of 2026.

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Nina Nastasia’s rare gift of a voice is an intimate, winged presence that is able to either freeze or melt your heart; that can powerfully soar and twist, or brush ultra-gently against you, suddenly summoning goose bumps. Mojo commented on its ability to “suck the air out of the room”. Picking over themes of love, longing and loss, childhood, dreams and human dramas, her beautifully concise, hook-laden songwriting and the spare arrangements of her band have a certain gritty, rustic charm and intensity. Simultaneously tough and fragile, her songs crackle and smolder with an intimate emotional honesty and a dark undertow.

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Fines is the songwriting project of Darcy Hancock, who is returning to live performance this summer after spending many years focused primarily on writing music.

Many listeners will remember Hancock as a member of Vancouver’s indie rock favourites, Ladyhawk, whose records, and non stop touring helped establish them as one of Canada's most beloved alternative bands of the 2000s.

Over the past several years, Hancock has quietly accumulated a large body of new songs, and Fines marks the beginning of sharing that work publicly. With solo performances planned throughout the summer and a new EP scheduled later this year, the project offers a fresh look at a songwriter who has never stopped creating.

Fans of The Wedding Present, Bedhead, and unguarded guitar will find plenty to connect with in songs that are melodic, direct, and full of the kind of details that only come from time spent paying attention.

No refunds, unless event is cancelled. No exchanges.

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