Patrick Watson Tickets

Patrick Watson composes, performs, and records his albums with his long-time bandmate and collaborator and multi-instrumentalist Mishka Stein and Olivier Fairfield. The Canadian artist reached gold and platinum status in multiple countries (including five certified gold albums in Canada), and his shows sell out around the world. Over the course of his career, Patrick has retained the uncanny ability to coexist in mainstream pop-culture spaces and on the avant-garde fringes. Patrick's songs have been featured in primetime crowd-pleasers like Grey's Anatomy and This Is Us, as well as in multiple arthouse films from Denis Villeneuve (Polytechnique), Wim Wenders (Perfect Days), and Philippe Falardeau (C'est pas moi, je le jure!) and more. He's an artist who's as comfortable performing impromptu pop-up shows on the train tracks in a Quebec mining town as he is leading the BBC Orchestra at London's prestigious Barbican. He's an in-demand composer with over 15 film scores under his belt. He was awarded the prestigious inaugural Impact Award at the 2024 Canadian Sync Awards. Watson's viral single Je te laisserai des mots became the first francophone song to accumulate 1 billion streams on Spotify.

His international profile has been raised by media appearances in several key markets. He's been featured on billboards in New York's Times Square, performed at an NPR Tiny Desk Concert, and was called "an outstanding storyteller" by legendary All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen. Patrick has also made TV appearances on Taratata (France 2), France TV Info La Matinale, and hosted an episode of BBC Music Life Podcast in the UK with guests Weyes Blood, Flume, Caroline Shaw, and more.

Patrick Watson's 2006 Polaris Music Prize-winning breakthrough, Close to Paradise, is a defining document of the fabled post-Y2K Montreal indie scene, a magical memento of an era when rent was still cheap and creativity was pouring out of every storefront gallery space on the Plateau. But as much as he seemed to embody the whimsical spirit of the flaneur roaming the depanneur-lined streets of Montreal, Patrick has since amassed an expansive and eclectic body of work--from the art-folk odysseys of 2009's Wooden Arms to the cosmic synth-washed songcraft of 2015's Love Songs for Robots, to his latest Better in the Shade, featuring the beautiful piano anthem Ode to Vivian.

But whether you discovered Patrick Watson through your local indie record shop, a movie soundtrack, a social-media video, a European music festival, his hit collaboration with Cinematic Orchestra (2007's "To Build a Home"), or through his appearance alongside Patti Smith and Michael Stipe at the 2021 Pathway to Paris all-star benefit concert, his music has a similar effect on all who enter his kaleidoscopic sound-world. The songs of Patrick Watson transform your everyday surroundings into your own imaginary wonderland, translating stress and sorrow into joy, and helping you find peace within the chaos of modern life.