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Three of the Halifax music scene's top new contenders pay a visit to the Evergreen. A Music Nova Scotia Bringing it Home Presentation.
Kim Wempe:
Kim Wempe has a fight in her. From the second she opens her mouth it’s not something that can be overlooked. Some may call her vocals haunting and smokey, others may insist she is the child of Janis Joplin and sister of Adele, but the unique pull of her music is the quiet warrior you can hear seeping through her songs. The minute her wide brown eyes fix themselves on the road ahead, there is no holding her back. Wempe is out to blaze her own trail and leave a slew of dropped jaws in her wake.
Winner of the Galaxie Rising Star of the Year at the 2010 East Coast Music Awards, Kim’s undeniable talent has been showcased at JUNOFest, the Vancouver Olympics, Canadian Music Week and festivals across the East Coast including the Stan Rogers Folk Festival and Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival. She has peformed alongside Royal Wood, Jill Barber, Jenn Grant, James Keelaghan, David Francey, Matt Andersen, and Madison Violet.
Ria Mae
Ria Mae has had an outstanding year with the release of her debut full-length album, Under Your Skin, produced by Asif Illyas (MIR). Under Your Skin won the 2012 East Coast Music Award for Pop Recording of the Year, Ria was a finalist for the 2011 International Mountain Stage NewSong Contest, and was the Regional Winner and National Runner-up for the 2012 Canada-wide Radio Star Contest.
A versitile artist, Ria Mae creates slick pop songs with universal themes of longing, love lost, and hearts found. Ria toured with Melissa Ferrick and opened for her 17 dates in the US and in Canada; Ferrick is a Boston-based singer-songwriter with two decades of experience and a rapid fan base. From Massachusetts to New York and Nashville, they made one stop in Toronto at the legendary Horseshoe Tavern for the only Canadian date. Back in Halifax, Ria performed a sold-out CD release show and debuted the music video for her first single, the title track, "Under Your Skin."
Her creativity is a constantly moving target. For her second single, Ria collaborated with hip-hop heavyweight Classified to produce "Leaving Today". The song debuted on Top 40 radio stations across the country, received a 2013 ECMA award nomination for Song of the Year, a 2012 Music Nova Scotia award nomination for New Artist Recording of the Year, and Ria worked with director Julian Crick to produce a music video, which has garnered thousands of views from her fans in Canada and the US.
Ria showcased at CMJ in New York, NY; at Folk Alliance in Memphis, TN; Canadian Music Week in Toronto, ON; and at ECMA in Moncton, NB; and has shared stage with JUNO award-winner Amelia Curran, JUNO nominee Jenn Grant, Buck 65, and in the US with Chris Velan, Keaton Simons, and Arthur Alligood. A versatile artist, Ria Mae's on-screen performance in a film called Snow, written by Rohan Fernando, premiered at California's Cinequest Film Festival. The movie won Best Score at the 2011 Atlantic Film Festival, and screened in theatres across the country.
Gabrielle Papillon
Canadian singer-songwriter Gabrielle Papillon has been humming her own melodies from the time she could toddle, adding guitar chords as a teen. She sings stories real and imagined, strums chords both grand and delicate. Above all, Papillon loves the journey of a song and draws inspiration from guitar slinging troubadours such as Ani Difranco, Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon.
In 2001 Papillon released her first album Songs for a Rainy Day. She then turned to academia for eight years, completing BA and MA degrees in English Literature and History, emerging with fresh songs spilling from her lips and a ripened musical sensibility. Papillon released The Wanderer in January 2010 and The Currency?of Poetry in October 2011, which hit a number of "Best Of" lists?and landed in !Earshot's Top 20 National Chart for Folk/Roots/Blues.
She has showcased at OCFF, Halifax POP Explosion, POP Montreal, CMW, NXNE, Festival Diapason, Nova Scotia Music Week, and the International Folk Alliance Conference in Memphis and East Coast Music Week. She also performed at the In the Dead of Winter Festival in 2010 and 2011, and headlined at the All Folk'd Up Festival in Montmartre Saskatchewan in 2011 and 2012 and was a finalist in the Open Category for Ottawa Folk Festival's One Fret Less Award in 2010 and a regional finalist in the International category for the 2012 Mountain Stage Newsong competition.
evergreentheatre@gmail.com
902-825-6834
Three of the Halifax music scene's top new contenders pay a visit to the Evergreen. A Music Nova Scotia Bringing it Home Presentation.
Kim Wempe:
Kim Wempe has a fight in her. From the second she opens her mouth it’s not something that can be overlooked. Some may call her vocals haunting and smokey, others may insist she is the child of Janis Joplin and sister of Adele, but the unique pull of her music is the quiet warrior you can hear seeping through her songs. The minute her wide brown eyes fix themselves on the road ahead, there is no holding her back. Wempe is out to blaze her own trail and leave a slew of dropped jaws in her wake.
Winner of the Galaxie Rising Star of the Year at the 2010 East Coast Music Awards, Kim’s undeniable talent has been showcased at JUNOFest, the Vancouver Olympics, Canadian Music Week and festivals across the East Coast including the Stan Rogers Folk Festival and Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival. She has peformed alongside Royal Wood, Jill Barber, Jenn Grant, James Keelaghan, David Francey, Matt Andersen, and Madison Violet.
Ria Mae
Ria Mae has had an outstanding year with the release of her debut full-length album, Under Your Skin, produced by Asif Illyas (MIR). Under Your Skin won the 2012 East Coast Music Award for Pop Recording of the Year, Ria was a finalist for the 2011 International Mountain Stage NewSong Contest, and was the Regional Winner and National Runner-up for the 2012 Canada-wide Radio Star Contest.
A versitile artist, Ria Mae creates slick pop songs with universal themes of longing, love lost, and hearts found. Ria toured with Melissa Ferrick and opened for her 17 dates in the US and in Canada; Ferrick is a Boston-based singer-songwriter with two decades of experience and a rapid fan base. From Massachusetts to New York and Nashville, they made one stop in Toronto at the legendary Horseshoe Tavern for the only Canadian date. Back in Halifax, Ria performed a sold-out CD release show and debuted the music video for her first single, the title track, "Under Your Skin."
Her creativity is a constantly moving target. For her second single, Ria collaborated with hip-hop heavyweight Classified to produce "Leaving Today". The song debuted on Top 40 radio stations across the country, received a 2013 ECMA award nomination for Song of the Year, a 2012 Music Nova Scotia award nomination for New Artist Recording of the Year, and Ria worked with director Julian Crick to produce a music video, which has garnered thousands of views from her fans in Canada and the US.
Ria showcased at CMJ in New York, NY; at Folk Alliance in Memphis, TN; Canadian Music Week in Toronto, ON; and at ECMA in Moncton, NB; and has shared stage with JUNO award-winner Amelia Curran, JUNO nominee Jenn Grant, Buck 65, and in the US with Chris Velan, Keaton Simons, and Arthur Alligood. A versatile artist, Ria Mae's on-screen performance in a film called Snow, written by Rohan Fernando, premiered at California's Cinequest Film Festival. The movie won Best Score at the 2011 Atlantic Film Festival, and screened in theatres across the country.
Gabrielle Papillon
Canadian singer-songwriter Gabrielle Papillon has been humming her own melodies from the time she could toddle, adding guitar chords as a teen. She sings stories real and imagined, strums chords both grand and delicate. Above all, Papillon loves the journey of a song and draws inspiration from guitar slinging troubadours such as Ani Difranco, Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon.
In 2001 Papillon released her first album Songs for a Rainy Day. She then turned to academia for eight years, completing BA and MA degrees in English Literature and History, emerging with fresh songs spilling from her lips and a ripened musical sensibility. Papillon released The Wanderer in January 2010 and The Currency?of Poetry in October 2011, which hit a number of "Best Of" lists?and landed in !Earshot's Top 20 National Chart for Folk/Roots/Blues.
She has showcased at OCFF, Halifax POP Explosion, POP Montreal, CMW, NXNE, Festival Diapason, Nova Scotia Music Week, and the International Folk Alliance Conference in Memphis and East Coast Music Week. She also performed at the In the Dead of Winter Festival in 2010 and 2011, and headlined at the All Folk'd Up Festival in Montmartre Saskatchewan in 2011 and 2012 and was a finalist in the Open Category for Ottawa Folk Festival's One Fret Less Award in 2010 and a regional finalist in the International category for the 2012 Mountain Stage Newsong competition.
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