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Five Minutes With: Calgary Folk Artist Spencer Jo

June 28, 2024 Emilea Semancik

Canadian artist Spencer Jo isn’t interested in sugarcoating things. In fact, they spent much of their musical life searching for sour truth and throwing the spotlight onto it. They’ve been in and out of punk […]

The Dust Collectors
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Five Minutes With: Calgary Alternative Folk Band The Dust Collectors

May 10, 2024 Demian Vernieri

The Dust Collectors are an alternative folk band from Calgary, Alberta. After years of playing separately in different bands, these long-time friends quickly moved from garage jams to song-writing. By Winter 2018, they were recording […]

Maclayne
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Five Minutes With: Calgary Folk-Pop Singer-Songwriter Maclayne

May 3, 2024 Demian Vernieri

Maclayne is a singer-songwriter artist based out of Calgary, Alberta. With a style often compared to artists like Sara Bareilles, Olivia Rodrigo and Regina Spektor, her brand of folk-pop is authentically quirky and theatrical, featuring […]

Kris Demeanor
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Five Minutes With: Calgary Folk Singer-Songwriter Kris Demeanor

April 26, 2024 Demian Vernieri

Kris Demeanor is a Mohkinstis (Calgary) based singer-songwriter, theatre and film actor, and was the first poet laureate of Calgary. He likes racquet sports, cooking, and biodiversity. Name: Kris Demeanor Genre: Folk Founded: 1992 # of […]

Jacquie Drew
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Five Minutes With: Calgary Folk-Roots Musician Jacquie Drew

April 12, 2024 Demian Vernieri

If ever you imagined a musical artist who could cover your favourite love song as she wrote it herself, stage a spontaneous outdoor jam to bring your whole neighbourhood together, and then rock out a […]

Bella White
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Five Minutes With: Calgary Folk Singer Bella White

March 29, 2024 Demian Vernieri

Bella White, a Calgary native, was immersed in the world of Appalachian folk, country, and bluegrass from a young age, thanks to her father—a native Virginia banjoist. Her musical journey began early, writing her first […]

Grant Kennedy
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“Five Minutes With” singer and songwriter Grant Kennedy

April 7, 2023 Demian Vernieri

Grant Kennedy is a singer-songwriter and emergency physician who grew up on the Canadian prairies, the product of farmers and fiddlers. A childhood trip to the Philadelphia River Blues festival with his family served as […]

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Calgary Guardian Winter 2023 Spotify Playlist

April 3, 2023 Admin

Every Friday we publish our “Five Minutes With” music series which showcases local bands and musicians through a questionnaire and samples of the artist’s music to help introduce our readers to some of the incredible […]

KP Smith
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“Five Minutes With” award-winning singer-songwriter, KP Smith

December 23, 2022 Demian Vernieri

KP Smith (they/them) is a designer, director, creator, and singer-songwriter who has worked across western Canada. They focus on sharing and telling LGBTQ2SIA+ stories through their work while building community through representation and a growing […]

Caitlyn O’Connor
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“Five Minutes With” musician, actor and dancer, Caitlyn O’Connor

November 25, 2022 Demian Vernieri

Caitlyn O’Connor is a musician, actor, and dancer from Calgary. She graduated from the conservatory theatre program at Rosebud School of the Arts (Rosebud, AB) in 2018 and has been living in her home city […]

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