With just a few days until Christmas, we’ve got an early present for you: Two brand new songs Holiday songs from Jim Cuddy! To download Jim’s recordings of the holiday classics “Winter Winterland” and “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?”, head JimCuddy.com now.

Great news, New Brunswick! Blue Rodeo has added another show to their upcoming Canadian tour and it’s in your province. On January 21, you can catch them at The Centre at Casino New Brunswick in Moncton.

BlueRodeo.com members can log into their accounts for our ticket presales, starting November 27 at 10 am AST. If you don’t already have a free account, be sure to sign up for one before then.

UPDATE: We have now learned that this release has been delayed. Stay tuned for a new date, but you can still pre-order from our store starting on Friday, November 23.

As part of this year’s Record Store Day Black Friday, the completely remixed version of Blue Rodeo’s 1987 debut, Outskirts, is being released as a double LP!

Make sure to visit your favourite independent record store this Friday, November 23 to pick up your copy, or place your order directly from the BlueRodeo.com Store while supplies last.

Two new shows have just been confirmed as part of Blue Rodeo’s upcoming Canadian tour. The band will perform not once, but twice at The Yukon Arts Centre in Whitehorse, YK, on January 3, 2013. There’ll be an early show at 5:30 pm and a late show at 9 pm.

BlueRodeo.com members can log into their accounts for our ticket presales, starting November 22 at 10 am PST. If you don’t already have a free account, be sure to sign up for one before then.

The holiday season is around the corner and we’re offering 20% off all of our songbooks in the BlueRodeo.com Store! The songbooks are the perfect gift for someone interested in learning the piano, guitar and vocal parts to songs from an array of Blue Rodeo albums including Outskirts, Casino and Five Days In July.  The discount will be available beginning today and ending Sunday, November 25 so check out the songbooks in the Store now and start practicing!

Looking for other great gift ideas? Check out some of the merchandise in our Sale section!

It’s the news you’ve been waiting for: The Blue Rodeo & Friends Silver Anniversary Concert will premiere tonight (November 8) on CBC Radio 2 at 7 pm as part of CBC’s Canada Live concert series.

Taped last month at the Glenn Gould Theatre in Toronto, the Blue Rodeo & Friends Silver Anniversary Concert features performances by Blue Rodeo and a stellar cast of Canadian greats: Devin Cuddy; Cuff The Duke; Great Big Sea; Andy Maize and Josh Finlayson of the Skydiggers; Oh Susanna; Justin Rutledge; The Sadies; Ron Sexsmith; and Whitehorse.

If you can’t tune in tonight, the show will air again tomorrow night on CBC Radio 1 and will be available to stream on demand soon.

As promised, CBC Music has posted a handful of videos from Monday night’s phenomenal Blue Rodeo & Friends Silver Anniversary concert. Head to CBC.ca now to see the band perform “What Am I Doing Here?” with Great Big Sea, “Diamond Mine” with The Sadies, “Bad Timing” with Oh Susanna, and  an all-star performance of “Lost Together” by the entire lineup.

The good folks at CBC Music have just posted a video of Blue Rodeo and Great Big Sea performing “What I Am Doing Here?” at last night’s Silver Anniversary concert at the Glenn Gould Theatre in Toronto.

Head to CBC.ca now to watch the video now, and stay tuned for more clips soon!

To help celebrate today’s announcement of Blue Rodeo’s cross-Canada tour, we’ve discounted some merchandise items in the BlueRodeo.com Store. This is the perfect time to suit up in the 2010 Tour Hoodie Sweatshirt (available in both ladies’ and men’s styles) or the 2010 Tour Long-Sleeve T-Shirt (also available in both ladies’ and men’s styles).

Start your Christmas shopping early by checking out these and other great items in our Sale section. But don’t wait too long because once these items are gone, they’re gone for good!

To celebrate 25 years since the release of Outskirts, Blue Rodeo is hitting the road, like true Canadians, in January and February of 2013. The tour will kick off in Vancouver on January 5, and makes its way to another 24 cities across the country. For a look at the complete list of shows, please visit the Tour page now.

Beginning tomorrow, October 30, BlueRodeo.com will be holding ticket presales for most of these newly announced dates. You’ll need to log into your account to participate in the presales. If you don’t already have a free account, sign up now!