Juno winners The East Pointers set to perform at deCoste

PICTOU, N.S. — For most musicians, getting to record your first album is likely quite surreal; being awarded a Juno for it must feel phenomenal. Then, with the second album, another Juno nomination and more than four million streams on Spotify.

For The East Pointers, made up of Prince Edward Islanders Tim Chaisson and his cousin, Koady Chaisson, along with their good buddy Jake Charron, the excitement must be building since the October launch and tour kickoff of their third album, Yours to Break.

One of the stops for the band is at Pictou’s deCoste Performing Arts Centre Thursday, Nov. 28, at 7:30 p.m.

In the short time since the release of their first and second album, Secret Victory (2015) and What We Leave Behind (2018), the band has performed more than 450 concerts throughout Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Europe, Mexico, the U.S. and Canada.

While the music on their past two albums has been considered musically complex and technically brilliant, the core was traditional Celtic. With their new album, the fiddle tunes are grounded in complex rumbling bass lines. Playful keyboard tones turn traditional solos into urgent dance-party journeys, and off-the-leash festival jam sessions give rise to vocal numbers that are either perfect pop songs or moving tributes to the home and people they love.

Produced by Nova Scotiaborn, multiple Grammy and

Juno award-winning songwriter and producer Gordie Sampson, Yours To Break finds the band drawing on their historical Canadian Celtic roots and looking forward in equal measure.

The band will also have Lydia Persuad to open the show. She’s recently launched her debut album, Let Me Show You.

Persuad’s sound expands the boundaries of soul to include both folk and jazz. She has supported such icons as Gordon Lightfoot, David Crosby, and Lee Fields, and opened for

Serena Ryder, Sarah Harmer, and Joey Landreth. She is also a member of renowned cover band Dwayne Gretzky.

To get tickets, contact the deCoste Centre’s box office at 902-485-8848 ext. 1, toll free at 1-800-353-5338, in person at 99

Water St., Pictou or online at decostecentre.ca. Limited pairs of free Arts Are For Everyone passes are available from each of the local libraries throughout Pictou and Antigonish counties. For more information, contact the nearest branch.