Celeigh Cardinal
Over her career, Celeigh Cardinal’s powerful voice and impactful storytelling have led to critical and popular acclaim. On Boundless Possibilities, Cardinal’s 3rd studio album, she finally felt she had permission to truly be herself in a way she never felt she’d achieved on previous records. Scheduled for release on June 21, 2024, the new music is a set of songs listeners will feel in the body, mind, and soul, a thoughtful and compellingly honest portrait of an artist coming to terms with her place in the world and her spirituality, but also a blueprint for others facing similar struggles. The kind of record that anyone who’s experienced loss – large or small – will find solace in and feel, regardless of who you are and what your world looks like, that you are not alone.
Her debut record, Everything and Nothing at All (2017) earned the Indigenous Artist of the Year title at the 2018 Western Canadian Music Awards, 8 nominations at the Edmonton Music Awards, a CBC Indigenous Music Award for ‘Best Pop Album,’ and others. The follow-up, 2019’s Stories from a Downtown Apartment, garnered Cardinal a JUNO Award for Indigenous Music Album of the Year in 2020, two WCMA Awards for Songwriter of the Year and Indigenous Artist of the Year, and reached #2 on the National Earshot Folk/Roots/Blues chart.
Cardinal’s songs have also been featured in numerous films and TV shows, expanding her reach and introducing her music to new audiences. Additionally, she has toured extensively across Canada and internationally, with performances at Dubai's Expo 2020, Germany’s Reeperbahn and Women in (e)Motion Festival, Folk Alliance shows in Kansas City, Montreal, and New Orleans, and at Canadian events celebrating vastly different musical genres, ranging from the Mariposa and Vancouver Folk Festivals and the Saskatoon Jazz Fest to appearances with the Regina Symphony Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, and on APTN for National Indigenous Peoples Day Live, among many others.
AV & The Inner City
"AV & the Inner City" is an all-female soul/roots group which formed during the course of the COVID19 pandemic and opioid crisis pandemic in the inner city of Edmonton, Canada. This summer they were awarded an Emerging Artist Award based on their performances at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival, despite not having a single recording to their name.
The group is made up of 6 singers: band leader and multi award-winning singer-songwriter AV (Ann Vriend), Debbie Houle; co-founder of the Juno-nominated international touring Indigenous a cappella group “Asani” and who regularly sings backup vocals for acts such as Juno Award winner Maria Dunn, Mercy Funk, and others; former jazz radio host, jazz singer, musicologist, and professional pickle company owner Johanna Alleyne (company: Mojojojo Pickles and Preserves); Crystal Eyo, a communications business owner and lead singer and songwriter of Edmonton pop/RnB band “Mercy Funk”, ESL teacher Alenka Lundell, who fronted and wrote songs for bands in her home country of Czech Republic; and Jenn Dahlen, a plumbing and HVAC maintenance planner who is also a clarinetist, burgeoning songwriter, and who has sung backup vocals for Canadian singer/songwriter/producer Jennifer Berezan.