If you’ve taken in the live music scene in the last few years, you’ll likely recognize Emily Triggs. She’s been a House Doctor, a Fallen Angel, a Magnolia Buckskin a member of June Gloom and current duo partner in The Rosellas. A bred-in-the-bones roots musician, Emily’s albums have been nominated for Folk Music Canada and Western Canadian Music awards. Triggs followed her muse from Montreal to Calgary, by way of West Virginia where she explored the Appalachian side of folk music. This guitarist, singer, songwriter takes you on a journey though influences and experiences that have shaped her folk, roots, alt country sound. Come hear her share songs from her latest recording, past album and new material she has been working on.
Since releasing her latest album The Great Escape Canadian singer/songwriter Emily Triggs was the third most played artist on the prestigious CKUA Radio in 2024, and has hit folk/roots charts across Canada as well as cracking the USA’s Alternative Country Specialty Chart. The album has also earned glowing features in the Calgary Herald, and at Wildfire Music and Roots Music Canada and continues to receive radio play on CBC across the country and into the United States.
Emily grew up in eastern Canada, the youngest of five in a mix of English and French culture, it was in living room jam sessions with local and visiting musicians that Emily learned the history and art of lyrical composition and performance. A prolific songwriter with a passion for storytelling, her songs showcase her honest, pure vocals. Emily has her own thread of folk/roots filled with a lifetime of music and influences and shares stories through songs with an endearing simplicity that belies their emotional depth.
The Great Escape will not let listeners down as Emily continues to push boundaries as an artist, this being her most honest writing and recording to date. Recorded in Vancouver the album captures the undeniably authentic style of song writing and arrangement that reflects the world of music that Emily has built around her however there is an energy and a heaviness that was not seen in her last recordings.
