Something happens when Daniel Lanois plays in a room that no studio recording quite prepares you for. The pedal steel finds corners the space did not know it had. The ambient architecture he has spent decades refining — layered textures, reverb-heavy environments, sound that builds like weather — reconstitutes in real time, warmer and stranger than any album suggests. Lanois plays the Brockville Arts Centre on Monday, September 28.
About the Show
He comes to Brockville behind Belladonna Nocturne, released June 19, 2026: fourteen original instrumental tracks described in press materials as “sublime, mysterious, and unmistakably his own.” The album is a thematic sequel to his 2005 GRAMMY-nominated Belladonna, extending what sources describe as “his long-running exploration of ambient composition, studio-as-instrument production, and cinematic sound design.” The record operates, in the words of one reviewer, as “a unified sound environment” rather than a collection of songs. Brian Blade plays drums, Daryl Johnson plays bass, and Emmylou Harris contributes what album documentation calls “wordless whale song.” The lead single “Steel Mill” features Lanois on piano and pedal steel, with his own dub orchestration built around spatial depth, instruments surfacing from reverb-heavy environments.
That Emmylou Harris connection is not incidental. Lanois produced Wrecking Ball for her in 1995, one credit in a body of work that Rolling Stone described as belonging to “the most important producer to emerge in the 80s.” His production résumé includes U2’s The Joshua Tree, Peter Gabriel’s So, and Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind. He is a seven-time GRAMMY winner, a Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductee, and the recipient of a Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Earlier in 2026, he announced a career-spanning licensing deal with Warner Music Group covering thirty-five years of work. That catalog weight falls away when he is actually in front of you: audience accounts consistently identify “The Maker” as a song that hits harder live than on record, the kind of performance where the studio version begins to feel like a rehearsal.
Venue & Logistics
The Brockville Arts Centre, at 235 King Street West, is a 700-seat theater in Brockville, Ontario, part of the upper St. Lawrence corridor that defines North Country touring geography. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. EDT; the show runs 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. All ages. The Brockville date falls one night after a confirmed Ottawa stop, part of Lanois’s late-September Canadian swing.
Tickets
Tickets are $62 CAD through Showpass; the Brockville Arts Centre box office lists them at $55 CAD, with the difference likely reflecting service fees. All sales are final; no refunds or exchanges. Complimentary tickets are available for support workers through the box office on a first-come, first-served basis; the Access Card is accepted. Buy tickets