Celeigh Cardinal
“Celeigh Cardinal is totally friggin’ metal. Her songwriting is both honest and sublime; it hits me in the head AND the heart. And just wait till she starts to sing. You’ll wake up in the middle of the night with a cold sweat, jonesing to hear that voice just one more time. Oh yeah, and she’s kind and hilarious to boot... Gross. ”
— David Landreth (The Bros. Landreth)
Bio
“I’ve always connected with artists whose voices resonate; you can feel it in your body. That is what I’ve always wanted to be.”
Discovery is the beauty of music. It reveals itself in layers. Such is the evolution of 2020 JUNO Award winner, Celeigh Cardinal. With a confident voice and boundless energy, Cardinal owns a stage, connecting deeply with her audience through humour, passion and love. Whether sweetly strumming an acoustic guitar or leading her talented band, she commands our attention. Her singing is rich and deep with a burnished maturity and a nimble technical virtuosity that wraps itself around notes with a purr, a snarl or something in the middle. With two full-length albums completed, and a future release in the planning stages, Cardinal is poised to expand her profile which already includes awards from the 2020 Juno Awards, the 2018 Western Canadian Music Awards, multiple Edmonton Music Awards, and recently she received two nominations for the 2020 Western Canadian Music Awards for Indigenous Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year.
Celeigh has performed across North America and internationally, including Reeperbahn in Germany, and tours in The Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden.
“Celeigh is quickly becoming one of the great Canadian voices that make up the fabric of the Canadian roots music scene.”
— Doug Cox, Vancouver Island Music Festival
Performances Highlights
Thriving Roots- Americana Music Association (Virtual) September 16th, 2020 - Performed in Winnipeg, MMB
Summerfolk Festival, Owen Sound, ON (Virtual) August 21-22nd 2020 - Performed in Edmonton, AB
Philadelphia Folk Fest, Philadelphia, PA (Virtual). August 14th, 2020 - Edmonton, AB
Revelstoke Arts Council – Guerilla Gigs August 5th, 2020 - Revelstoke, BC
Women in (e)Motion Festival March 6th, 2020 - Bremen, Germany
Folk Alliance International - Official Showcase Artist Jan 23-26th, 2020 - New Orleans, LA
Assembly of First Nations Winter Gala Dec 7th, 2019 - Ottawa, ON
Mundial Montreal - Official Showcase Artist November 21-24th, 2019 - Montreal, QC
Folk Music Ontario - Official Showcase Artist September 27th – 29th, 2019 - Toronto, ON
Reeperbahn Festival - Official Showcase Artist September 19-22, 2019 - Hamburg, Germany
Indigenous Music West Showcase September 17, 2020 - Berlin, Germany
Regina Folk Festival August 9-11, 2019 - Regina, SK
Big Valley Jamboree August 2, 2019 - Camrose, AB
Calgary Folk Festival August 25-28, 2019 - Calgary, AB
Vancouver Folk Festival August 18-21, 2019 - Vancouver, BC
Alianait Arts Festival June 28-30, 2019 - Iqaluit, NU