Fredericton’s Kylie Fox & her band – along with support from Julia Cunningham and Darren Roy Clarke – take to The Carleton stage on Friday, March 28th. Show time is 8 PM and tickets are $25 + HST.
Kylie Fox is a Canadian singer songwriter, touring and recording artist. She fuses folk storytelling with vintage elements of jazz and alternative rock. With influences like Kate Bush, Sharon Van Etten, and Joni Mitchell, her music is ethereal, lush and real.
Currently based in Fredericton, NB, Fox exudes fun and love for her art and for storytelling, which is evident on “Confetti” (April 2023), the lead single from her second studio album. “It’s a bright and brooding alternative rock ballad, which speaks to the nostalgia of novelty,” explains Fox. “I was thinking about how the newness of romance can fall and simply be swept away — like confetti.” This track, and the album, Sequoia (release date TBC), are produced by Daniel Ledwell (Jenn Grant, The Good Lovelies, Fortunate Ones).
Fox’s debut album, Green (2020), led her to tour Canada extensively, sharing stages alongside names like Bahamas, The Strumbellas and Joel Plaskett, along with showcasing at the East Coast Music Awards (2021), Folk Alliance International (2021) and the Canadian Song Conference (2021). She participated in the Banff Centre for the Arts International Songwriting Residency (2020) and performed at the Cavendish Beach Music Festival (2022). She was recently named “Innovator of the Year” at the 2023 PrixNB Awards.
Julia Cunningham is a singer-songwriter from Halifax, Canada. After years of quietly sharing her music with local audiences, the Music Nova Scotia grant recipient is stepping into the spotlight as a captivating emerging artist. Cunningham’s recently arrived debut EP, Dive Deep, is a culmination of many years of writing, creating and fine-tuning a collection of songs that are deeply personal, yet profoundly relatable. From her warm vocals to her earnest lyrics to her skillful guitar playing, Cunningham’s folk-pop sound exudes a sense of nostalgia befitting the end credits of a movie.
Warkworth Ontario singer-songwriter Darren Roy Clarke has released his stunning new album Dirty Face and a Broken Screen, a collection of modern classic folk songs with intimate vocals that pulls you right into his story: a country dweller, a family man and a tradesman who realized life is too short to not make the art he carries with him deep down.
A few years ago, a near fatal work site accident while running his own contractor business put things in perspective for Clarke:Life is too short. I need to do what fuels me.
Darren has gained recognition as a “musician’s musician,” sharing stages with Canadian performers Broken Social Scene, The Sadies, Kerri Ough (Good Lovelies), Tony Dekker (Great Lake Swimmers), and Craig Cardiff.
His musical storytelling tackles everything from the worry of living up to a spouse’s expectations, to struggles with mental health, and humanity’s penchant for Wanderlust. It’s his search, humble and human, that makes him the perfect companion to life’s moments- and were you lucky.