Great music and poetry coming to Kentville! Tickets $20 / $10 students / pwyc at the door
Singer-songwriter Jenina MacGillivray, with her good friends The Burning Hell serving as her backing band, is touring the Maritimes to celebrate the release of her sophomore album Perseids. Rounding out a fantastic double bill is another dear friend, former Halifax poet laureate Tanya Davis.
Born in Cape Breton, raised on Prince Edward Island, and based in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Jenina MacGillivray writes songs that are wistful, longing, and intimately familiar, weaving the small places of Atlantic Canada into the broader world. Her debut album Marion won Music NL’s Factor Album of the Year, Female Artist of the Year, and was called “the real deal” (Roots Canada) and “possibly the most beautiful album of the year” (East Magazine).
PEI's official Poet Laureate Tanya Davis is a writer and interdisciplinary artist based in rural Epekwitk / Prince Edward Island. Since releasing her first album in 2006, she's been working primarily in music and literary performance and occasionally in theatre, audio art, and film. She has released 4 records and two books, including a hardcover published by HarperCollins of the widely popular videopoem How to be Alone, a collaboration with filmmaker Andrea Dorfman. In 2020, also with Dorfman, she released a follow up called How to be at Home, produced by the NFB as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Tanya was the 2011/12 Halifax Poet Laureate and the Artist-in-Residence at Dalhousie University's Faculty of Medicine in 2016.