BEAUTIFUL VIEW MUSIC FEST (FROM HANNAH GEORGAS AND TEN KILLS THE PACK) SEPTEMBER 18 & 19

BEAUTIFUL VIEW MUSIC FESTIVAL - FEATURING SARAH HARMER, JEREMIE ALBINO, CADENCE WEAPON, ADA LEA + MORE

BELLVILLE, ONTARIO - SEPTEMBER 18 & 19, 2026

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Set in the heart of Downtown Belleville, Ontario, Beautiful View is a homegrown music festival founded by acclaimed artists Hannah Georgas and Sean Sroka (Ten Kills the Pack). With careful curation, the festival is rooted in a deep love for indie music and the power of songwriting, celebrating creative voices, where raw stories and authentic sound take shape.

This year’s lineup includes headliners Sarah Harmer, Jeremie Albino, and Ada Lea, and performances by Cadence Weapon, Thanya Iyer, Lisa Bozikovic, Vic Louis, Letdowns, and more. Full details and tickets are available at : https://beautifulviewfestival.com/

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MORE ABOUT BEAUTIFUL VIEW
Beautiful View brings artists and audiences together in intimate, non-traditional spaces—from cozy cafés and historic buildings to charming hidden corners of the city. It’s more than just a music festival — it’s an experience. Local shops, restaurants, and businesses join in the celebration, offering exclusive festival specials, and unique collaborations that showcase the spirit of Belleville

With a strong focus on community, inclusivity, and meaningful connection, Beautiful View offers a space where artists and audiences engage deeply with each other and their surroundings.

Built by artists for music lovers, Beautiful View invites audiences to listen, engage, and experience the creative spirit that brings people together.

MORE ABOUT HANNAH GEORGAS & TEN KILLS THE PACK
Acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriter Hannah Georgas is known for her emotionally resonant, textured pop songs. With a career spanning over a decade, her work has been celebrated in Pitchfork, The Guardian, NPR Music, and The New York Times. Georgas has released five full-length albums and earned five JUNO nominations and three Polaris Music Prize nods. She has toured with The National, Broken Social Scene, City and Colour, and Sara Bareilles, and her music has appeared in over 50 film and television placements. She recently joined Broken Social Scene as a member and songwriter, contributing to their latest LP, Remember The Humans, including its lead single, Only The Good I Keep. Hannah is also set to release a new album this fall with her new project, So Faint.

Sean Sroka, the poetic force behind Ten Kills the Pack, is known for his raw, confessional lyricism and genre-curving songwriting. Parallel to his writing collaborations with artists like TALK, or Reklaws, Sroka is a 2024 JUNO Award-winning songwriter for his work with Aysanabee (including the award-winning "Somebody" and new album title track "Edge of the Earth"). Ten Kills the Pack has gained a loyal following for exploring the gritty beauty of the human condition through music that blends a punk rock ethos with the calm and kindness of folk.

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SPENCER BURTON UNVEILS ANOTHER NEW SINGLE, “TIME”

SPENCER BURTON SHARES HIS NEW SINGLE “TIME”, OUT TODAY VIA DINE ALONE RECORDS

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Home, as we so often hear, is where the heart is. It’s where you belong and where your story begins. There’s no place like it, but paradoxically, it’s not a place; it’s a feeling –simultaneously sweet, simple, the anchor of the soul.

Over the course of his last two lauded LPs – 2024’s North Wind and 2021’s Coyote – Spencer Burton deeply considered and contemplated the concept, even retreating to a secluded cabin in the sticks of Northern Ontario to record the former and find “home” for himself.

Ultimately he did, but that blissful discovery would soon be tempered by an unforeseen burden, and in his new music, Burton ruminates on how to return to it.

This rings especially true on the new single “Time”, of which Burton says: “Things can happen in life that leave one realizing how precious time is. Seconds turn into minutes, turn into hours, turn into months. It’s about healing, and caring. Beginning and end. Time.”

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MORE ABOUT SPENCER BURTON
Spencer Burton’s songwriting is beautifully delicate and dulcet – the purest distillation of his prolific, decades-long pursuit in the arts, spanning his roots in Ontario’s seminal early-00s punk scene to his dark-tinged alt-country stylings as Grey Kingdom through to the candid, compelling country-folk catalogue of the last decade-plus, fittingly released under his given name.

His latest works have earned acclaim from esteemed outlets like Exclaim! and the CBC, a coveted Canadian Folk Music Awards nomination, major tours supporting the likes of Burton Cummings and City and Colour, and high-profile slots at revered festivals from Mariposa to Riverfest.

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For his 2024 album, North Wind, Spencer Burton retreated to a small off-grid cabin in Northern Ontario, reconnected with nature and found peace and comfort in isolation. Taking a step back from the realities of life let him step back into making music after some time away.

The majority of North Wind was written in the north woods, in solitude and reflection. And while the songs have a spiritual importance, they also speak to ordinary life away from it all–fishing, an encounter with a coyote, sitting with your own thoughts.

“It’s really interesting what pleases the ear, musically, when isolated for a few weeks at a time. The only inspiration being yourself and the beauty of true untampered nature. It’s a different atmosphere than what we’re accustomed to. It really helped bring these songs to life.”

“I’m not really trying to write music these days,” says Spencer. “I’m trying to write good feelings.”

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TRUE MOUNTAIN LAUREL SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR “ANGEL SO BAD”

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TRUE MOUNTAIN LAUREL, THE ‘SUPERGROUP’ OF HALEY BLAIS AND SAM LYNCH, ANNOUNCE THEIR DEBUT ALBUM, ANGEL SO BAD, OUT AUGUST 28, 2026 VIA BIRTHDAY CAKE RECORDS

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“Both artists are adept at encompassing poetic contradictions and double meanings in their respective solo work, so it comes as no surprise that even the song's titular question…has multiple interpretations, each more rife with possibilities than the last and set free against the expansive open plain of their voices entwined atop dreamy acoustic guitar, featherlight piano and craning pedal steel.” - Exclaim!

“Both Vancouver musicians are experts in smart indie rock that sounds extremely sweet while the lyrics cut deep. That’s true in their partnership, True Mountain Laurel, as well.”
- The Georgia Straight

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Born out of late-night harmonies, shared voice memos, and a long-standing friendship rooted in mutual admiration, Haley Blais and Sam Lynch have formed the supergroup True Mountain Laurel. Their debut collection of songs, Angel So Bad, is a tender, dust-swept exploration of all the feelings that fall through the cracks. Equal parts folk reverie and country yearning, the project pulls from their respective solo careers. Sam’s poetic introspection and Haley’s razor-sharp lyrical intimacy blend into something softer, stranger, and wholly their own.

Having already shared the album’s title track, “Angel So Bad”, today they’re sharing the new video for the single. “Everything with this project has been very kismet, so it only made sense that our first video would honour the magic of the universe, and the weird and unpredictable synchronicities that have lead us to create this album,” explains the duo.

“With that in mind, it felt very fitting to pay homage to a movie about magic and sisterhood. Put True Mountain Laurel on the soundtrack for Practical Magic 2, please and thank you.”

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“Angel So Bad” is an ode to the moral trials associated with that oldest of human hobbies: gossiping. Often put down as at best idle talk and at worst a social danger, "Angel So Bad" asks us to consider its magical properties, its role in community building, its function as a catalyst for human connection.

“When we finished writing ‘Angel So Bad’, I could tell it was going to be the inspiration for the world of the project and the rest of the songwriting process,” says Blais. “It’s tongue in cheek but earnest; it crosses its fingers while it tells the truth.”

“Although it wasn’t the first song we wrote together, ‘Angel So Bad’ felt like the true starting point of whatever this project was meant to be,” explains Lynch. “The song started as a conversation about gossip, and slowly turned into a cheeky exploration about how exhausting it can feel to constantly try to be a perfectly good person all the time.”

MORE ABOUT TRUE MOUNTAIN LAUREL
What began as casual writing sessions in between Sam and Haley’s respective tour cycles has slowly transformed into a collaborative ritual: trading lines and melodies over coffee and recording scrappy voice note demos at the end of the day. The songs emerged not from pressure or plan but from a desire to make music the way they first fell in love with it — no clocks, no ego, just two voices in a room.

Influenced by artists like Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams, and early 2000s Canadian singer-songwriters, the project is less about genre and more about feel. Acoustic guitars, brushed drums, pedal steel, and the occasional jangly piano support lyrics that feel diaristic without being confessional: capturing the ache of growing older, the strangeness of still wanting more, and the joy of finding home in another person’s voice.

There’s a looseness to these songs that feels intentional. Where Sam’s solo work leans cinematic and atmospheric, and Haley’s leans into the clever and orchestral, here they meet in the middle: warm, minimal, and a little bit rough around the edges. Live, the project takes on an even more intimate form without setlists or rigid arrangements. Just two friends singing the truth as they feel it that night.

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PERFORMANCE DATES
Aug 2 - Comox, BC | Filberg Festival

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ANGEL SO BAD TRACKLIST
01 Angel So Bad
02 Holy Hell
03 Bird Of Prey
04 East Of Anything
05 Sunny
06 I Love You, Nicole
07 Angel Reprise
08 The Trial

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