KYLA CHARTER STEPS OUT IN FRONT WITH NEW SINGLE, “DOUBTS”


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SUPPORTING PATRICK WATSON ON DECEMBER 15 AT TORONTO’S MASSEY HALL

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Today, Kyla Charter is stepping out in front with her new single “Doubts”. Having lent her voice to the backgrounds of tracks and performances from July Talk, Alessia Cara, and Zaki Ibrahim, to Rich Aucoin and Patrick Watson, the new single marks the first official solo release for the celebrated Toronto musician.

Working together with production team Safe Spaceship (Chino De Villa (Jessie Reyez, Justin Nozuka, Charlotte Day Wilson), Scott McCannell (Claire Davis, Aphrose) and Ben MacDonald), “Doubts” was written in lockdown, after her tour opening for Patrick Watson was cut short due to the pandemic in early 2020.

“I had a moment, in the dark days of lockdown, where I was forced to face myself and all the ways in which I had been self-sabotaging,” says Charter on “Doubts”. “I truly asked myself why…There were no good answers. I realized, the ‘me’ that was having those thoughts was an unreliable narrator. I allowed myself to question those thoughts, challenge those thoughts, and ‘have my doubts’ about those thoughts as they told me what I did and didn’t deserve. In writing this song, I got to explore the exorcism of that kind of thinking.”

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MORE ABOUT KYLA CHARTER
A graduate of Humber College Jazz and Contemporary Music Program for Vocal Performance, Kyla was invited to sing with July Talk at Field Trip Festival by her good friend James Baley. The performance was the beginning of a beautiful working relationship and the start of her professional career. Over the years Kyla has lent her vocals to artists that include Alessia Cara, Zaki Ibrahim, Rich Aucoin, and most recently Patrick Watson. After singing together for a CBC First Play Live session in the fall of 2019, Patrick invited Kyla to accompany him on a last minute trip to Paris to play France Inter, and subsequently to open for him on the European leg of his tour for 2019’s Wave. 

The tour began in February of 2020 and was cut short by COVID-19 but the singer was excited to come home and continue working on her first album. As restrictions eased in the summer of 2020 Kyla began working full force on her first body of work.

Kyla has been sharing some of her new songs with audiences from Mariposa Festival to the City of Toronto YYZ Live Online series. She is currently getting ready to open for Patrick Watson at Massey Hall on December 15th, and release her first EP in February of 2022. 

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DONOVAN WOODS SHARES NEW SINGLE, “I HOPE YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND”

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Recently, Donovan Woods released new singles “Here In Chicago” and “IOWA” with Aoife O’Donovan. Today the JUNO Award winning songwriter is sharing another new song, “I Hope You Change Your Mind”. Co-written with David Hodges (Maren Morris, Carrie Underwood, Ed Sheeran) the track is such an understated tearjerker that you don’t even realize the relationship is over until the last line. “That song is about that back-end portion of a relationship when everyone knows the score but no one wants to say it,” Woods says. “It’s loving someone so much that you’re not sure how to be mad at them, so you twist yourself into knots.” 

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Over a year ago, when a hush fell over the house after his kids went to bed, Donovan Woods got to work on his celebrated album Without People, which he made in isolation at the height of the pandemic. 

“So much of what I like about making records is the spontaneity of making music in a room together, and we missed that, but we tried our best to re-create that feeling” says Woods, winner of the 2019 JUNO Award for contemporary roots album (for Both Ways) and whose global streams have surpassed 220 million.

Without People was acclaimed as “a nuanced experience” (American Songwriter) and a thoughtful exploration of “fleeting interpersonal moments now under the microscope” (NPR/KUTX). So much of that album’s allure was rooted in how Woods connected with his collaborators and imparted the intimacy so many of us craved during a global health crisis. It was so successful, in fact, that it led to a deluxe edition of Without People in 2021.

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As an in-demand songwriter whose work has been recorded by the likes of Tim McGraw (“Portland, Maine”) and Lady A’s Charles Kelley (“Leaving Nashville”), Woods has been venturing beyond the singer-songwriter scene where he first cut his teeth. Equally at home in folk and country, he has worked with songwriters such as Tom Douglas, Lori McKenna, Brandy Clark, Ashley Monroe, Femke Weidema, and Ed Robertson (Barenaked Ladies).

Woods' featured vocals on Dabin & Nurko’s “When This Is Over” veered into anthemic dance pop, and yet Woods still sounded right at home. On “IOWA”, Woods found a kindred spirit in Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Aoife O’Donovan for a pastoral meditation on dreaming of a place you know doesn’t exist.

Those collaborations highlighted a growing truth about Woods: As respected as he is as a solo artist, he continues to evolve and work with musicians across disparate genres. As he does so, his own songs have become more dimensional as he digs into new sonic textures.

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CANADIAN 2022 TOUR DATES
Apr 20 – Sarnia, ON @ Imperial Theatre (+)
Apr 21 – Sarnia, ON @ Imperial Theatre
Apr 22 – Meaford, ON @ Meaford Hall
Apr 23 – Huntsville, ON @ Algonquin Theatre
Apr 28 – Kingston, ON @ Sydenham Church
Apr 29 – Kitchener, ON @ Centre in the Square
Apr 30 – London, ON @ London Music Hall
May 4 – Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre (+)
May 5 – Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre
May 8 – Edmonton, AB @ Winspear Centre
May 9 – Calgary, AB @ Jack Singer Concert Hall
May 10 – Saskatoon, SK @ Broadway Theatre (+)
May 11 – Saskatoon, SK @ Broadway Theatre
May 12 – Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre
May 17 – Ottawa, ON @ National Arts Centre (+)
May 18 – Ottawa, ON @ National Arts Centre
May 19 – Montreal, QC @ L’Astral
May 27 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall

 (+) Solo Acoustic Performance

PRAISE FOR DONOVAN WOODS

“Woods' brand of folk-pop is both grand and unassuming” – The Line of Best Fit

“Donovan Woods is no stranger to making music that tugs at the heart-strings.” - The FADER

"He’s got a knack for slice-of-life storytelling that blends heartache and hooks." - Rolling Stone

“Capturing the early optimism of new-found love, the singer pours his heart out for this emotional and moving tune.”  - Wonderland

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KATIE TUPPER SHARES NEW SINGLE / VIDEO FOR “HOW CAN I GET YOUR LOVE?”

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Today, Katie Tupper shares her sophomore single, “How Can I Get Your Love?” and announces her debut EP Towards The End out early 2022 and available for pre-order HERE. Following up a debut as poised as “Live Inside” was no easy feat, but Tupper’s latest feels as if it reaches even deeper into the seemingly endless acres of her hometown, Saskatoon. Hailing from the heartland of Canada, Tupper deals in a blanketing mixture of Neo-soul and exquisite folk, seeming to speak for a region neglected all too often, displaying just how richly her music roots through the native meadows and grasslands (or as she refers to them here, “fields of butter”).

‘All my friends could have been lovers, if they’d asked nicely,’ Tupper ornately laments over a delicate, immediately intimate acoustic backdrop which gradually swells into a placid mixture of hushed percussion, keys, and strings.

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“How Can I Get Your Love?” is a song that at once speaks of all the possible partners we miss out on from sheer cluelessness, and ultimately centers around a single, great passion. Not even the luckiest alive have avoided losing someone who felt like they should have been the someone, and Tupper expertly and devastatingly digs right into wounds that never truly heal. “I know you got another lover, but being honest, that don’t matter,” Tupper sings, speaking for anyone and everyone who’s ever been so desperate to regain what they’ve lost that the potential damage along the way hardly matters. She’s in pure awe of such a stunning blow, and “How Can I Get Your Love?” lands one just as striking.

“It’s about coming back to your hometown and wanting things to be exactly as you left them, and the desperation for those memories once you realise that is not true,” Katie reveals about the song. “I wrote about moments in previous relationships where you fully lay yourself out on the line, almost to a desperate extent because you feel you need to. It feels like vulnerability and bravery in confessing an old love but it really is more of seeking comfort in the familiar and begging those around you to create that for you.”

The video for the track, ​​directed by Mashie Alam, is one of sheer release, with Tupper and two others serenely expressing themselves through dance, standing in intriguing contrast to the song’s somewhat tortured words, it seems to tell of the moment after the tale expressed within the song: reveling in the freedom that comes from entirely offloading one’s most deeply concealed emotions.

“It’s an ode to my upbringing in Saskatchewan,” Katie shares about the clip. “For the song that is yearning for hometown normalcy I wanted the video to show exactly what summers looked like for me and what my nostalgia looks like.”

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“Live Inside” and “How Can I Get Your Love?” serve as just a taste of what’s to come, as Tupper prepares her debut EP, Towards The End, for an early 2022 release via Arts & Crafts.

Having begun to tinker with her own songwriting via piano lessons at a particularly young age, she found herself touring the U.S. playing bass drum with a marching band at the age of just 14. By the time she was 18, she had properly entered the local Saskatoon art community, joining a loose collection of musicians, all in preparation of gradually striking out on her own. Stay tuned for more from Towards The End.

TOWARDS THE END TRACKLIST
01 Live Inside
02 Danny
03 How Can I Get Your Love?
04 Cost Of Loving You
05 Misbehavin'

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