MOOSE JAW — SaskMusic plans to celebrate International Women’s Day this year by hosting an all-female show at the Mae Wilson Theatre on Friday, March 7, at 7 p.m.
The concert will honour “fierce women” by showcasing the talents of four Saskatchewan artists who have a mix of musical styles from roots to rock, according to a . Tickets are $25, with all proceeds going to Moose Jaw Transition House.
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Classic rock and country
Kriss Atcheynum is a singer/songwriter from the Sweetgrass First Nation who, for several years, has performed professionally alongside her husband and guitarist, Audi Atcheynum.
Together, they write and perform original songs while also covering various classic rock and country favourites and drawing inspiration from legendary bands like Fleetwood Mac, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Heart, and CCR.
Atcheynum also performs as a solo artist and with her band, Gypsy Moonbird.
Folk, gospel, jazz
Rhonda Gallant-Morari is a Saskatoon-area singer-songwriter who entertains audiences with unique stylings at the piano, her rich voice, and evocative songwriting. She recently headlined the Mid Summer’s Music Festival 2024 and won the Judges’ Award at the 2024 Zoomer Idol Saskatoon fundraiser.
Gallant-Morari’s captivating stories, intertwined with catchy melodies and beautiful arrangements, never fail to charm. Her sophomore EP, “Star Drift” (2020), contains a mix of genres, embracing folk, gospel, and jazz, with a hint of country and pop, which inspire strong emotions and even the urge to dance.
The Saskatonian is currently in production on her third album, due in 2025.
Prairie folk music
Last Birds is the offspring of Canadian Folk Music Award-nominated artists Lindsay Arnold and Mike Davis, who hail from North Portal. Using their small prairie hometown as a backdrop, Last Birds weaves together rural legends and current-day experiences to form a modern prairie gothic.
Their songs veer away from overly romanticized views of small-town life to peer into the dark corners of the local bar, peek in the windows of an abandoned house down the street and pine for something or someone beyond the veil.
Their two-voices, two-guitars approach is steeped in early country-folk influence and provides an intimate storytelling experience that audiences have repeatedly described as mesmerizing.
The duo was nominated for multiple awards in 2021 and 2022, including the Saskatchewan Music Awards’ Roots/Folk Artist of the Year. Last Birds released their first full-length album, “Endless Turn of Day into Night,” on Oct. 20, 2023.
Hard rock
All Girl Chill is a three-piece “all-girl rock band” from Saskatoon. The band formed in 2012 and has gone through ups and downs with real-life adult situations, such as raising children, marriages, breakups and divorces — great material from which to get songwriting ideas, the Facebook post said.
They are all about empowering women and making them believe in themselves, while their influences include other female musical greats such as Delores O'Riordan of the Cranberries, Heart, Amy Winehouse, Melissa McClelland, and Lucinda Williams.
All Girl Chill’s unique brand of entertainment fuses together guitars and a ukulele along with tight three-vocal harmonies, high-energy dance moves, impeccable attire and witty stage banter that will make you want to dance.
