Sat, June 16
Doors open – 7:30 / Showtime – 8:00
$18 in Advance / $20 at the door
A Canadian with Iraqi heritage, Winona Wilde (nee Noosa Al-Sarraj) is a fierce, funny, feminist who has built quite a body of work and achievements for her original songs in only 5 short years. A former lawyer / opera singer / dishwasher, she makes her living touring Canada, US & Sometimes Europe, confronting racism and intolerance head on, through song.
A lifelong Ontarian with Iraqi heritage, Winona Wilde (nee Noosa Al-Sarraj) is a fierce, funny, feminist who has built quite a body of work and achievements for her original songs in only 5 short years. A former lawyer / opera singer / dishwasher, she makes her living touring Canada, US & Sometimes Europe, confronting racism and intolerance head on, through song.
Joey O’Neil escaped the industrial depths of downtown Toronto to the blissful abyss of the Yukon wilderness.
Between chopping wood and conversing with common woodland critters ’round her cozy Klondike cabin, she makes up foolishly heartfelt Canadiana upon her trusty vintage guitar. Plucking folksily, O’Neil spins personal yet universal yarns of yearning and distance.
Though most of her time is spent in survival mode as she cuts kindling and hauls water with her canine sidekick, Oblio, O’Neil released her first full-length in June of 2016. Produced by Nick Ferrio, Far, Far, Far is a collection of twelve tracks which speak of distance through the Canadian landscape, the separating of hearts and the cataloging of time. Train beats, walking bass and swelling lap-steel project these succinct songs into the folk-country realm, often earning a Stompin’ Tom Connors comparison as O’Neil patriotically name-drops our nation’s places. She often ventures back and forth between her territorial and provincial homelands playing intimate shows along the way.