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Dan Mangan nominated for Polaris prize

One of our favourite Canadians Dan Mangan has been nominated for Canada's prestigious Polaris Prize. This is great news indeed and he sits in good company, with Caribou, Broken Social Scene, Owen Pallet and The Besnard Lakes all sitting pretty, among others.
Dan's played a number of shows for The local most recently as part of our HUGE 4 venue affair last wednesday to celebrate Canada Day (which we promoted with our friends at CIMA).

We'll be announcing a new Dan Mangan show for October very soon. Watch this space!

The Full list:

The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Caribou - Swim
Karkwa - Les Chemins De Verre
Dan Mangan - Nice, Nice, Very Nice
Owen Pallett - Heartland
Radio Radio - Belmundo Regal
The Sadies - Darker Circles
Shad - TSOL
Tegan And Sara - Sainthood

More info at the Polaris website