Holly Cole continues to illuminate around the world with ‘Dark Moon,’ setting two major dates on the horizon: March 27 at the Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto and June 26 at Joe’s Pub in New York City. These performances arrive as the album’s reach expands across Japan, Germany and the United States, where audiences have embraced the record’s atmosphere, imagination and masterful ensemble playing. All of Holly’s live tour dates can be found – HERE.
Released to widespread acclaim, Dark Moon showcases Cole’s singular ability to reshape material from the New American Songbook with smoky phrasing, inventive arrangements and an unmistakable sense of drama. The expanded edition deepens that vision, featuring the vibrant “Comin’ Home Baby” alongside richly textured performances from longtime collaborators Aaron Davis, George Koller, Davide Direnzo, John Johnson and Kevin Breit, with additional contributions that enhance the album’s layered, ensemble-driven sound.
Across continents, the record has connected with listeners drawn to Cole’s interpretive depth and emotional clarity. In Japan, where she has long maintained a devoted following, Dark Moon continues her legacy of chart-topping success. In Germany and throughout the United States, the album’s cinematic sweep and intimate storytelling have resonated reaffirming her stature as another one of Canada’s internationally celebrated vocalists.
The next chapter unfolds with “Where Flamingos Fly,” a track that captures the album’s dreamlike spirit. “Rarely does a song come along with such idiosyncratic charm and imagination,” Cole shares. “I was drawn to it because of the beautiful idea at its heart: a peaceful, serene place that only flamingos can reach. It captures a sense of romance and dreamlike wonder, an elusive escape that exists just beyond the ordinary world.” The song extends the world of Dark Moon, offering listeners a transportive moment suspended between jazz tradition and modern storytelling.
With performances at Toronto’s storied Winter Garden Theatre and New York’s iconic Joe’s Pub, Holly Cole brings the global journey of Dark Moon home to two cities that have long celebrated her artistry. The album’s continued international success and the arrival of “Where Flamingos Fly” underscore a creative period defined by imagination, elegance and enduring connection.
TOUR DATES: ‘Dark Moon’ Tour:
Friday March 27 — Toronto, ON — Winter Garden Theatre
Friday June 26 — New York, NY — Joe’s Pub
About Holly Cole
Holly Cole is a renowned Canadian / International jazz singer who began her career in 1989 with the release of her 4-song EP Christmas Blues under indie label Alert Music, followed by her debut album Girl Talk in 1990.
In 1992, she signed with Blue Note’s Manhattan imprint and released Blame It on My Youth which achieved Platinum + sales in Canada, over 200,000 copies internationally, and based on the success of the single “Calling You”, a number 1 charted single and album in Japan. The next album based on her hit rendition of Johnny Nash’s, “I Can See Clearly Now” and its accompanying video cemented her success internationally setting up her following release, the critically acclaimed, Temptation, an album made up of material exclusively written by Tom Waits, one of Holly favourite songwriters.
With 12 albums to her name, Cole has achieved multi-platinum sales and received numerous awards, including 2 Juno Awards (out of 8 nominations) and 2 Gemini Awards. She has also won two Japanese Grand Prix Gold Disc Awards and the prestigious Ella Fitzgerald Award from the Montreal Jazz Festival, joining the ranks of Aretha Franklin, Diana Krall and Etta James. In 2014, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Queen’s University.
In 2019, Holly Cole reunited the original Holly Cole Trio, with David Pitch on bass and Aaron Davis on piano, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal. They performed at the cabaret Lion d’Or in Montreal, and these special shows were recorded and became the 2021 album ‘Montreal’.
For Christmas 2022, Cole released a remastered compilation combining her holiday releases from 1989 and 2001, titled anew Baby It’s Cold Outside and I Have the Christmas Blues.
Holly Cole isn’t one of those artists who falls into any one category. Her smoky voice is sultry, her arrangements smart and sexy and all the while she and her musicians very uniquely reshape traditional Jazz, Pop and Country standards this time particularly from the New American Songbook writers including Marty Balin, Peggy Lee, Hal David, Burt Bacharach and Johnny Mercer.
Holly Cole’s 13th studio album Dark Moon was released on January 24th, 2025, via Rumpus Room / Universal Music Canada.