It’s been a busy year for the man who never seems to sleep. It’s incredible that Ben Caplan has any strength left to tickle the ivories and entrance crowds across the continent after his impressive showing at the East Coast Music Awards earlier this month. Ben Caplan & the Casual Smokers had an opportunity to play the ECMA Awards Gala this year. CBC Music declared the band to be the “2012 ECMA Buzz Band”, and commented that Ben simply “blew away the audience at the awards show”.

Not content to ever stay in one place, Ben Caplan set out on his third European tour on April 20th. Sweeping through the Netherlands, Belgium, the UK, and Poland, the tour has been off to a rollicking start. Caplan fans will be glad to hear that Ben recently signed to Cool Buzz Records who re-released his debut full length In the Time of the Great Remembering last month in Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg. He’s already played a string of sold out show across the Netherlands, and after he’s about to trail with his band across the English channel for two weeks in the UK including performances at the Great Escape Festival in Brighton and Liverpool Sound City later this month.

As if that wasn’t enough, the man contending for the title of “The Hardest Working Man in Show Business” has announced he’ll be setting off on a tour of Central Canada, including a showcase at the North by Northeast Festival in Toronto. Plus he’s working on a new record. Full tour dates and download links can be found below.

May 5 @ Castle Gardens Main Stage, ROCHESTER, UK (**Sweeps Festival)

May 5 @ Gordon House Hotel, ROCHESTER, UK (**Sweeps Festival)

May 11 @ Canada House at The Blind Tiger Club, BRIGHTON (**The Great Escape Festival)

May 14 @ The Bull & Gate, LONDON, UK
May 16 @ The Half Moon, LONDON, UK 

May 17-18 @ Liverpool, UK (**LIverpool Sound City Festival) 

May 24-25 @ KRAKOW, PL (**Green Zoo Festival)