FemmeVox 6
Sun, Oct 06, 2024 8:00 PM
A concert series featuring established and emerging singer-songwriters.
Artists work together in pairs to write brand new compositions to premiere at each concert.
Featuring:
Tara Holloway
Catriona Sturton
Empress Nyiringango
Naviger
Ticket info: $35 General Admission.
PERFORMERS:
Empress Nyiringango
Ottawa-based Rwandan Canadian award-winning singer-songwriter Empress Nyiringango is a self-taught musician, showcasing the self-titled Jablur sound, which stands for jazz, blues, and Rwandan. This distinctive fusion features Rwanda’s oldest instrument “Inanga" (Zither) and contemporary music sounds. Singing in her mother tongue Kinyarwanda, paired with Swahili, French, and English, Empress Nyiringango composed her first song ‘Agahinda’ (sorrow) in memory of all the victims of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Saddened by the heinous crimes, she embarked on an arduous healing musical journey to convey messages of resilience, compassion, unity & peace to the world.
Her new album titled, UBUNTU, has been nominated for the Canadian Folk Music Awards 2024 in the category of Global Roots Album of the Year.
https://www.empressnyiringango.ca/
Catriona Sturton
Big heart, Big lungs. Sings like an angel, plays like a beast. Rock and roll lover of heavenly and the heaviest blues. One woman, harmonica-driven band. After learning to file harmonica reeds in a back alley, Catriona Sturton became the bassist for Halifax teen-rockers, Plumtree (who inspired the cult-favourite book and movie, Scott Pilgrim, with their song of the same name). She is a multi-instrumentalist who plays harmonica, slide banjo, violin & guitar (often at the same time).
Catriona is a J.M.I. Recordings artist, released her debut album with the label, We Bloom at Night, earlier this year. Her biggest claim to fame might be that, according to Critics Pick, Nashville Scene, she may have written the best song to date about butt-dialing with, “Calling From My Pants”.
Tara Holloway
Tara Holloway’s voice can stop you dead in your tracks. It’s a towering instrument: raw and soulfully weathered, yet capable of precise runs and pitch-perfect delicacy. Her debut album, Sins to Confess, was released in 2012 and was followed up by Little Ghosts in 2015. After touring extensively across the country and to Nashville, she has returned to Ottawa and settled comfortably as an in-demand vocalist. Having worked with local elite producers and engineers, she has co-written with Lynne Hanson and appeared on recordings of Jeff Maleras, Sills and Smith and many more. Her songs have appeared in shows like Sons of Anarchy and Dallas.
Naviger
Naviger, a side-project of songwriter Andrea Simms-Karp, gives us music that jumps between the nostalgic and the solitary, the introvert and the extravert, and everything in the grey. Naviger's album, Barn Raising, is available as a free download on Bandcamp, showcasing a mix of campfire songs and pop ballads. Simms-Karp has been soothing audiences with her clear, sweet melodies for decades, and is happy to call Ottawa her home.
