Singer-songwriter Adam Baldwin performed on the first day of Sommo Fest 2024 in Cavendish, PEI.
SWOMP was in the pit for his performance. See our photos, below:
Baldwin has been a mainstay of the Atlantic Canada music scene for over a decade.
With his sophomore full-length album, Concertos & Serenades, Baldwin—born and raised “inside these imaginary lines” that denote Nova Scotia—offers an East Coast testimony that challenges the typical tourism marketing gloss. Through eight masterful songs, Baldwin bears witness and pays tribute to a tradition of desperation: sinners and losers, perpetual failures, and down-and-out phantoms that haunt his home’s coastlines and back roads—without passing judgment. Some of the tales happened, some didn’t, and most walk a tightrope between truth and fiction.
Starting as a member of the rock combo Gloryhound before joining Matt Mays & El Torpedo in 2009, Baldwin’s music has continued to evolve since his award-winning, self-titled solo debut EP in 2013. In 2016, Baldwin released his first full-length album No Telling When (Precisely Nineteen Eighty-Five) featuring the singles “Daylight” and “Anytime.” In 2019, he released the follow-up No Rest for the Wicked, including “Salvation” and “Dark Beside the Dawn.”
In March 2020, with in-person performances impossible due to COVID-19, Baldwin launched his Cross-Country Chin Up concert series, streaming almost every Friday evening on YouTube. In addition to creating this weekly opportunity to connect virtually with fans, he also raised funds for the Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia, the Red Cross Stronger Together Nova Scotia Fund, the RCMP Fallen Officer Fund, and the Black Cultural Society for Nova Scotia. The online concert series also produced two digital EPs: Chin Up Sessions (originals) and Songs for the Parlour*(covers).
Follow him at https://adambaldwin.ca/.