Description
This concert is a co-bill featuring two outstanding young Canadian singer-songwriters.
Annie Sumi is a mixed-race, ethereal-folk artist from Canada. Her music is intimate and expansive, inviting the listener into a familiar otherworld. Inspired by the mirrored relationship between physical and emotional landscapes, Sumi’s music speaks of the human experience through the language of the senses.
“Listening to Annie Sumi in concert is like taking a musical forest bath”, says Carter Smith of Common Ground Concerts.
Since 2015, the Ontario-based songwriter has released three critically-acclaimed albums and toured her music across Canada, parts of the U.S. and Europe. Both Reflections and In the Unknown were awarded with a number of nominations as ‘Emerging Artist’, ‘Female Vocalist’, and ‘Songwriter of the Year’, and received support from national and international radio. Her third album, Solastalgia, was written at the foot of Sleeping Buffalo Mountain on Stoney Nakoda and Blackfoot territory at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. The album digests terminology found in Dr. Glenn Albrecht’s Earth Emotions in hopes of creating conversation about the ongoing climate emergency.
Madeleine Roger is a singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Canada. While skillfully accompanying herself on acoustic guitar, it is her artistry as a songwriter that can silence a room, uniting her lyrical prowess with a breathtaking voice that lingers long after the last note.
She has toured extensively across Canada, Europe, and the UK performing live at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Shetland Island Folk Festival, Vancouver Island Music Festival, Stan Rogers Folk Festival, Summerfolk Festival of Arts and Crafts, among many others. She is also a regular collaborator with JUNO award winning string quartet The Fretless, appearing with them in performances and on recordings as a vocalist and co-writer.
Her newest collection of songs, “Nerve”, is a deeply personal body of work examining every nook and cranny of love and loss. It is unflinchingly honest – Madeleine has poured over every word, and the mastery of her craft shows.
Here is a video of Annie Sumi performing her song “Skybound”
And here is a video of Madeleine Roger performing her song “Love Only Grows”:
