Jason Tait is a Canadian musician from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is the drummer for the Canadian indie rock band The Weakerthans."The Weakerthans Spellbound". Exclaim!, By James Keast, 1 Sep 2003 Tait has also been a contributing member of Broken Social Scene and The FemBots.
Career Tait played drums for the Painted Thin's 1995 album, Small Acts of Love and Rebellion; Stephen Carroll, guitarist for The Weakerthans, was also a member of Painted Thin.
Tait moved to Toronto in about 2003, and lived there for ten years."Whose House? Jason’s House". The Uniter,19 January 2017. Thomas Pashko He played drums on Greg Graffin's 2006 album, Cold as the Clay, and Bob Egan's album The Glorious Decline."Bob Egan The Glorious Decline". Exclaim, By Kerry Doole, 16 February 2007
In 2010, Tait set out on a cross-Canada tour with Toronto-based singer/songwriter Afie Jurvanen, who uses the stage name Bahamas."Cutting their hockey teeth". Queens Journal, 19 November 2010 Claire Nelischer
Tait returned to Winnipeg in 2013. In 2015, he collaborated with his Weakerthans bandmate John K. Samson, Christine Fellows, and Ashley Au on the music for For the Turnstiles, a dance performance by Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers troupe inspired by Neil Young's 1974 album On the Beach."John K. Samson Scores Neil Young-Inspired Project in Winnipeg". Exclaim!, 29 April 2015. In 2016, Tait and Fellows coproduced Samson's solo album Winter Wheat."John K. Samson Returns with 'Winter Wheat' Solo LP, Shares New Single". Exclaim!, 15 August 2016.
Currently, Tait continues to play drums for Bahamas. While on tour, he plays kits made by C&C Drums, a Gladstone, Missouri-based custom drums manufacturer whose products he endorses.
See also
Music of Canada Canadian rock List of Canadian musicians
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