(Hamilton, ON) – Wax Mannequin announces Canadian tour dates throughout July and August. The shows also mark the debut of Wax Mannequin shaped scented candles. Dates are as follows:

July 21 – Sudbury, ON                    The Townehouse
July 22 – Sault Ste Marie, ON          Bottoms Up
July 23 – Thunder Bay, ON              Crock’s
July 24 – Brandon, MB                    Brandon Folk Festival
July 25 – Brandon, MB                    Brandon Folk Festival
July 26 – Bruno, SK                        All Citizens
July 27 – Medicine Hat, AB             Ottoman Lounge
July 28 – Fernie, BC                       TBA
July 29 – Cranbrook, BC                 Finnigan’s Wake
July 30 – Kootenay’s, BC                TBA
July 31 – Penticton, BC                  Voodoo’s
August 01 – Wells, BC                    Artswells Festival
August 02 – Kelowna, BC               The Grateful Fed
August 03 – Vancouver Island, BC TBA
August 04 – Victoria, BC                Logan’s Pub
August 05 – Vancouver, BC            Railway Club
August 06 – Nelson, BC                 The Royal
August 07 – Calgary, AB                Palomino
August 08 – Canmore, AB              TBA
August 09 – Lethbridge, AB           The Slice
August 10 – Edmonton, AB            Likwid Lounge
August 11 – Regina, SK                 The Club
August 12 – Brandon, MB              TBA
August 13 – Winnipeg, MB             Lo Pub
August 14 – Thunder Bay, ON        Black Pirate Pub
August 15 – Sault Ste Marie, ON    House Concert

In 2009, Wax Mannequin released the acclaimed, Saxon (Zunior). Recorded with Andy Magoffin at the House of Miracles, Exclaim claimed, “…the masterful Saxon, [is an] earnest batch of songs, most of which are performed on classical guitar and blend Wax Mannequin’s trademark theatricality and darkly humorous perspective like nothing he’s ever issued.” He is also releasing a line of Wax Mannequin shaped scented candles. Available in wintermint, sandlewood, coffee, and pine, the candles will be available at all tour dates.

Wax Mannequin was born in the smoke and industry of Hamilton; a damaged, underdog town; a perfect breeding ground for strange, variant things. Incorporating folk, scrappy prog-metal and a tireless creative ethic, Wax infused his local influences with road-broken experience to forge something unsettlingly new. Solo (accompanied by heavy devices and an angry, nylon-string guitar) or band-backed (with Mark Raymond on bass and Aidan Campbell on percussion), he has toured constantly throughout Canada over the past six years, with more recent forays into Europe and Australia.

Wax now finds himself a forerunner in a strange new movement: roaming recluses and attention-seekers — solo-performers, equipped with laptops, damaged instruments and decaying minivans, making new sounds, informed by hard travel and rough living. Wax’s thought-provoking live performances and acclaimed recordings have garnered the fervent support of the creative underclass in his home country as well as a burgeoning international reputation. Now fully rested from his third foray overseas, a wiser, drunker Wax Mannequin readies himself again for the glories and pitfalls of the trans-Canada, and the trans-atlantic. Wax’s new release Saxon, out now on The Zunior Label, marks a gritty return to the psych-folk roots of this rambling iconoclast.

“By training his inner animal enough to let it run free with his muse, Wax Mannequin has given birth to a brilliant bestial gem of audio mythology.” – Exclaim!

“Part wandering minstrel, part rock animal, Wax Mannequin combines a fine sense of prog-rock parody with intense sincerity and lyrical smarts. ” – dB Magazine

“I could start off with a catch-all like ‘shockingly good songwriter’ or ‘eclectic artist,’ and while that would partly describe Hamilton’s Wax Mannequin, it would do the man a great disservice to leave it at that.” – Now Magazine

For more information on Wax Mannequin, visit: http://www.waxmannequin.com/

MP3 “Something To Hide” from Saxon: http://www.waxmannequin.com/Saxon/12%20Something%20To%20Hide.mp3