A moving songwriter and compelling guitarist, critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter Claire Coupland combines smooth Folk finger-picking with soaring melodies and a dose of Jazz-school chord changes. Claire has been relentlessly touring and appearing in festivals all over Canada, the U.S. and the UK, drawing audiences into her intimate and heart-wrenching performances. Her album ‘New Light’ delivers carefully crafted, vulnerable reckonings of self-worth, escaping abuse, fragile family dynamics, and, ultimately, hope for the future. Her music has had steady CBC & BBC-UK airplay, and rave reviews from music publications around the world. Claire brings a graceful contemporary feel to modern folk music, always with a touch of her wicked sense of humour and a pureness to her voice that can silence a room!

A nomadic tribe of multi-instrumentalist songwriters currently based on Cortes Island, Awakeneers’ timeless yet contemporary Folk sound centres on honest vocals sweetened with multi-part harmonies and acoustic instrumentation. Since their early days as small-town buskers, this unique musical family has toured North America and Europe by sailboat and by van, playing for Folk clubs, festivals, ecovillages, and congregations of all faiths. They weave a genre-bending blend of acoustic positivity that orbits elliptically around the idea of Folk music. Segueing from a foot-stomping fiddle tune to a Hip-Hop guide to mindfulness to a meditative love song for Mother Earth, Awakeneers’ music is honest, rich, and diverse. Their songwriting shines a light on life’s big questions, celebrating the goodness of humanity and the miracle of life on Earth.

Genevieve Charbonneau (Heartwood, Genevieve & the Wild Sundays) and Jeremy Walsh (Scruj Macduhk, the Jeremy Walsh Band) are award-winning songwriters from Vancouver Island who together have been thrilling audiences with gorgeous harmonies and catchy, well-crafted songs. Genevieve’s 2023 single “Symphony of Sorrow” placed in the top three of the Folk category in the International John Lennon Songwriting Competition and Jeremy was 2007 Vancouver Island Music Awards Songwriter of the Year as well as a collaborator on Scruj Macdunk’s Juno Award nominated album ‘Road to Canso’. Genevieve’s adventures in eco-homesteading, parenting, and love, and Jeremy’s explorations into Irish Trad music and Canadian blue-collar life form the foundation of their musical co-adventures together. Both are engaging, energetic performers and their honesty, wisdom, and humour form the backbone of their performances.

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