Abigail Lapell and Steph Cameron

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From the same stable as the Be Good Tanyas / Frazey Ford, Canadian singer-songwriters Abigail Lapell and Steph Cameron bring their music to the UK. Abigail's album Anniversary (released , 05/ 24) will have a deluxe version released during February, 2025. Steph's album Blood Moon gets its release during April, 2025. Expect traditional folk from a modern pop perception.

Abigail Lapell

Call it Prairie Noir or Canadiana Desert Rock: Abigail Lapell sings haunting, gorgeous modern folk songs. The Toronto songwriter and multi-instrumentalist returns with Anniversary, an evocative collection of original love songs. Co-produced with Great Lake Swimmers’ Tony Dekker, the album was recorded at 200-year-old St Mark’s Church in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Dekker helped shape the sessions’ spooky, resonant sound and lent his voice to a couple of spellbinding duets.

Dekker and Lapell assembled a stellar cast of musicians to support Lapell’s powerhouse vocals, piano, harmonica and signature fingerstyle guitar. The ensemble’s sensitive, orchestral country-jazz arrangements reveal the depth of Lapell’s musical palette, balancing upbeat earworms with elegiac ballads.

Over the past five years and three captivating albums, Lapell has won three Canadian Folk Music Awards, hit number one on Canadian folk radio and reached a staggering 48 million + streams across digital music platforms.

“Abigail writes songs that stop you right in your tracks.” (Brooklyn Vegan).
“Abigail Lapell may be the best folk artist you haven't yet discovered.” (KUTX (NPR)).
“Understated yet seductive.” (No Depression).
“A disc of pure, impalpable beauty, weightless notes and melodies that pierce our hearts” (Rolling Stone).

Steph Cameron

Saskatoon-based roots singer / songwriter Steph Cameron arrived on the scene like a bracing gust of fresh musical air with her 2014 debut record Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady, receiving unanimously enthusiastic reviews.

"This is a monumental, brilliant album… heralds the crowning of a bright new talent," declared PopMatters in calling it the #1 Canadian album of 2014. No Depression termed it "a stunning debut", while Exclaim! noted that “Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady delights from start to finish. Steph Cameron is the real deal.”

Her new album Blood Moon (release April 2025), explores the glint of the earth and its spirit and speaks to our connection to the land sky and one another. The title, Blood Moon, describes the moon taking on a striking red hue and roots the subject of the album in awe of the natural world and that of human connection.

"It’s not unusual for artists plying an Americana trade to be likened to such names as Townes Van Zandt, John Prine and Bob Dylan, but the artists in question are usually men. It’s rare for a female singer to attract such comparisons. Vancouver’s Steph Cameron is both an exception and exceptional". (Folk Radio UK).