Eric Chenaux On Tour in UK and Canada This Spring
Chenaux plays UK solo shows 28 April to 03 May ending in London at Café OTO
Chenaux plays duo shows with Ryan Driver in Canada 14-17 May ending with the closing concert of the Festival Internationale de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV)
The singular guitarist, singer, improvisor, and composer Eric Chenaux has released eight solo albums of out-jazz/avant-folk fried balladry that juxtapose crooning vocals with wildly iconoclastic guitar stylings, all on Montréal-based imprint Constellation. His last solo record, the acclaimed Say Laura (2022), was an Album Of The Year at The Wire, The Guardian, and The Quietus; Record Collector called it “a beguiling album brimming with sublime alien balladry” and Uncut wrote “as delicate and lovely as a rare orchard.”
Most recently he released the debut Eric Chenaux Trio album Delights Of My Life (2024) with Toronto-based musicians Phillipe Melanson and longtime collaborator Ryan Driver—the latter will be joining Chenaux for duo performances in Canada in May.
Eric Chenaux
Solo • UK
28 Apr 2026 Birmingham, UK • Centrala
29 Apr 2026 Oxford, UK • Common Ground
30 Apr 2026 Coventry, UK • Just Dropped In
01 May 2026 Manchester, UK • St Margaret’s Church
02 May 2026 Newcastle, UK • The Lubber Fiend
03 May 2026 London, UK • Cafe Oto
Eric Chenaux & Ryan Driver
Duo • CANADA
14 May 2026 Toronto, ON • Standard Time
15 May 2026 Peterborough, ON • Sadleir House
17 May 2026 Victoriaville, QC • FIMAV
Revisit the world of Eric Chenaux videos, featuring music from across his discography, mostly set to films by longtime collaborator Eric Cazdyn(Distinguished Professor of Aesthetics and Politics at the University of Toronto), several shot on location at Chenaux’s farmhouse studio Le Pouget in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, and including “This Ain’t Life” by Eric Chenaux Trio (with Ryan Driver and Philippe Melanson) just for good measure.
Prior to his move to France in 2011, Eric Chenaux was a key figure in Toronto’s fertile avant/improv music scene throughout the 1990s and 2000s, releasing a solo album of instrumental improv guitar in 1999 and co-founding the experimental music label Rat-drifting in 2001, which documents a dynamic cross-section of iconoclastic Toronto experimental musics. Previously (1988-1993) he was the guitarist/vocalist of Toronto postpunk group Phleg Camp and the related duo Lifelikeweeds. He has performed and recorded with countless artists, including Ryan Driver, Sandro Perri, Eloïse Decazes, Martin Arnold, Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, John Oswald, Michael Snow, Bass Clef, Han Bennink, Christine Abdelnour, Josephine Foster, Norberto Lobo, and many more. Chenaux also composes for film and contemporary dance, including a long-standing association with conceptual filmmaker Eric Cazdyn for his solo music, and in a recurring collaboration with multi-media and sound installation artist Marla Hlady.
Ryan Driver is a songwriter, improvisor, and multi-instrumentalist based in Toronto, Canada.. He is the leader of The Ryan Driver Sextet and The Titillators. Besides his own projects, Ryan has sung and/or played piano, flute, analogue synthesizer, guitar, melodica, and/or his simple homemade instruments (thumb-reeds and streetsweeper bristle bass) with frequent collaborators Eric Chenaux, Sandro Perri, Jennifer Castle, Tamara Lindeman (The Weather Station), Alex Lukashevsky, Doug Tielli, Nick Fraser, Rob Clutton, Lina Allemano, Thom Gill, Brodie West, Michael Davidson, Martin Arnold, and many others. Driver has performed around the world including countless festival appearances. His extensive recorded output is available mainly through Rat-drifting (Canada), Barnyard Records (Canada), Fire Records (UK), Tin Angel Records (UK), and Apres-Midi (Japan).
“Chenaux has one of the all-time great singing voices in popular music.”
The Guardian
“Sublime alien balladry.”
Record Collector
“As delicate and lovely as a rare orchid.”
Uncut