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Sarah MacDougall Live Concert at Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom
Doors – 7:30 / Music – 8:00
Admission by donation at the door
Multiple Award winning singer/songwriter Sarah MacDougall is known for her poetic songs and passionate performances. Sarah mixes folk, pop, and rock elements into her infectious, often epic songs. Born in Sweden, now based in Canada, Swedish magazine Nöjesguiden declared her: “one of Sweden’s best singer/songwriters’ and Rootstime Belgium described her as ‘One of the greatest talents of our era”.
Sarah has played festivals such as Iceland Airwaves, Edmonton Folk Festival, Reeperbahn, and has shared the stage with artists such as Bruce Cockburn, Tallest Man on Earth, Buffy St. Marie, Passenger, and more.
Her most recent release, ‘All The Hours I Have Left To Tell You Anything’ is a record about strength, identity, death, the breakdown of relationships, birth, and the ghosts we honor and carry throughout. It is Sarah’s fourth record. It was written in the midst of the death of her grandparents, the birth of her niece, and a break up. The nine songs are also influenced by the places that made her and changed her: the dark beauty of Scandinavia the vastness of the Canadian North .
Sarah is working on a new album, set to be released 2024/2025.
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Opening up is Bird Feet:
Bird Feet is an evolving experimental sound project by Kim Edgar. Using looper pedals, synths, and other weird effects, they create hypnotic and ritualistic live loops and then sing weird songs overtop! They released their first full length album, Mercury, in spring of 2024
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Thanks to our funders: Yukon Government, Government of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts
Special thanks to the Dawson City Music Festival Association for bringing Sarah up to participate in their Goldensides Studio programming.
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Founded in 2001, in a partnership with Parks Canada, the KIAC Artist in Residence Program has welcomed over 300 talented artists, musicians and filmmakers to Dawson City from all regions of Canada and around the world. Our alumni include Sobey Art Award nominees, Western Canada Music Award winners, and prize-winning filmmakers from film festivals across the globe.
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