Tim Baker has announced a new holiday-inspired album. The singer-songwriter will share Full Rainbow of Light on November 15 via End Times Music.
Inspired by the feeling of the holidays, Full Rainbow of Light was recorded by the ex-Hey Rosetta! leader in his hometown of St. John's, NL. Save for a cover of "I'll Be Home for Christmas," the LP features all-original compositions.
"Full Rainbow of Light is the first record I've made that really centers around a single concept throughout: the warmth, the nostalgia and the goodness of being home at Christmas," Baker shares in a release. "Through many themes and stories and sounds, these songs keep pointing back there, to my people and places and past, in Newfoundland & Labrador — to all the tradition and the change of it, the warmth and the winter, the hardship and the hope of it."
The album is previewed today with opener "It's Tonight," a song that Baker says took him years to write, but only a few minutes to record in a single take.
He shares of the single, "Christmas appears in the song only as a time, a possible setting, but I think the rich feeling of it underscores the beauty and height of the narrator's almost pleading fantasy. The song is of course really about love and the dream of it coming to you and running through your life."
Baker and his All Hands band will take Full Rainbow of Light on tour later this year alongside Cape Breton folk rockers Villages, and you can find their complete itinerary below. Tickets for all dates are on sale now.
Full Rainbow of Light follows Baker's 2022 LP The Festival. Last year, the artist shared EP Along the Mountain Road.
Full Rainbow of Light:
1. It's Tonight
2. Full Rainbow
3. Light the Light
4. Saint Tibb's Suite:
I. Tibb's Eve
II. Uncle Slush's, Sam Sinnock's, Susanna Perry's
III. Will It Ever Come?
5. Out Come the Plows
6. Ice on the River
7. Christmas Rose
8. Evergreen
9. I'll Be Home for Christmas
10. Down Come the Boughs
Tim Baker 2024 Tour Dates:
09/18 Peterborough, ON - Market Hall
09/19 Cambridge, ON - Fest2Fall
11/28 Bonavista, NL - The Garrick Theatre *
11/29 Twillingate, NL - Saint Peter's Anglican Church *
11/30 Corner Brook, NL - Arts & Culture Centre *
12/02 Sydney, NS - St. Patrick's Museum *
12/04 Moncton, NB - Tide & Boar *
12/05 Halifax, NS - Light House Arts Centre *
12/06 Wolfville, NS - Festival Theatre *
12/07 Fredericton, NB - Fredericton Farmers' Market *
12/10 Ottawa, ON - Bronson Centre Theatre *
12/11 Kingston, ON - Kingston Grand Theatre *
12/12 Toronto, ON - Danforth Music Hall *
12/14 Hamilton, ON - The Music Hall *
12/15 London, ON - London Music Hall *
12/20 St. John's, NL - Arts & Culture Centre *
* with Villages