GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS is singer/songwriter Tony Dekker, writer of haunting acoustic folk made from "three chords and the truth."

He has released four full-length albums, scored the documentary Some Sung Blue, received the Galaxie Rising Star Award from the CBC in 2005 and was voted Favourite Folk/Roots Artist at the Canadian Independent Music Awards in 2004.

His songs are often influenced by the ambient sounds of his surroundings and he regularly records in non-traditional spaces, from an abandoned grain silo to a historic castle. Guests on his records have included Serena Ryder, Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) and Sarah Harmer. He and his band have performed across North America and Europe with Feist, Goldfrapp and Robert Plant & Alison Krauss.

His latest record, Lost Channels was inspired by the Great Lake waterways. It entered the Billboard Heatseekers chart in the Top 10 and has been shortlisted for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize.