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Content Warnings

• Orientalism
• Intergenerational Trauma

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Jadie & Kendra
she/her

Jadie and Kendra are a married duo with smooth harmonies and a varied selection of classics, current top 40, but MOSTLY 90’s music.

In 2024, they released their first single as a duo called “What I Couldn’t Sell” which is available for listening and download on all music streaming services.

You can find them on all social media platforms if you would like to check them out and follow/like. OR check out their website at www.klassenhunt.com for all show listings and links to their music.

“They offer up zippy physical comedy as well as song-and-dance numbers, charmingly preposterous scenarios, and jokes-within-jokes.” – CBC Manitoba (4.5 Stars)

Kate Blechinger

Kate Blechinger is an award-winning singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist originally from oskana ka-asastēki (Regina, Saskatchewan) on Treaty 4 Territory. Now based on Treaty 6 Territory in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta), Kate has been active in the Western Canadian music scene as a solo artist and collaborator since 2013. As a bassist, Kate has been part of several Citadel Theatre productions, and accompanied such artists as Ben Sures, Mallory Chipman, Marissa Karpiak, and Borrowed and Blue.

Kate makes music about love, growth, loss, and the interconnectivity of life. Merging many different genres, including folk, jazz, pop, and blues, Kate centres sharing human experience at the heart of all her songs. With poetic, playful lyrics, she serves up sincere stories, delivered with “a voice like liquid peace” (CBC News).

Kate’s 2018 debut album, Under a Dancing Sky, features innovative folk-jazz arrangements of Joni Mitchell’s compositions alongside several of Kate’s original compositions. Kate won the Jazz Recording of the Year award at the 2019 Edmonton Music Awards for her version of ‘Night in the City’. Kate’s arrangements and compositions have been featured on CKUA Community Radio, CBC Radio-Canada, and CBC Radio Two, among other campus and community stations.

Kate is currently workshopping new music with plans to record a sophomore EP in 2025. Kate is excited to bring her intimate, solo bass and voice performance to Skirtsafire 2025!

Photo Credit: Lindsey Tran, Understudy Studio

Jyn-Ting Ying

Jyn-Ting Ying 應琬霆 (They/Them) is a queer non-binary Asian-diasporic artist and musician based in Amiskwaciwâskahikan, or what is known as Edmonton, Alberta. Their music blends their classical and jazz training with their love of fantastical soundtracks and avant-garde electro-pop. Jyn-Ting’s debut album “Black Silk, Living Eyes” explores themes of fetishization and intergenerational trauma through Wendy Chen and Li Qingzhao’s poetry, reimagined into electro-acoustic soundscapes. Outside of their solo projects, Jyn-Ting provides musical support in the form of piano accompaniment to Sorry Not Sorry Improv, and local theatre troupe, and choirs for various schools. Their musical support can also be heard on interdisciplinary projects such as “Do You See What I See” and “Poetry4Palestine”.

Ellie Heath
she/her

After decades in theatre, Edmonton-based multidisciplinary artist Ellie Heath is still spreading her wings, using the catharsis of songcraft to help her make sense of life’s ups and downs. Heath’s debut EP SHINE, which released on June 20, 2024, marks a shift from her earlier introspective work to a warmer, more inviting sound, with songs of “falling in love, falling out of love, and finding self-love.”

Heath collaborated with musician, producer, and Victory Pool Records manager Jesse Northey and musician Steven Foster to record and produce SHINE. Drawing inspiration from artists like Tennis, Squirrel Flower, Tim Baker, Alanis Morrissette, Sheryl Crow, and Counting Crows, Northey’s upbeat, inventive pop style and Foster’s theatrical insights added layers of glitter and gloss to the songs, balancing their emotional weight with brightness. Through SHINE, Heath weaves a journey of self-worth and growth, embracing trials and triumphs alike to find ways to soar.

A passionate mental health advocate, Heath fundraises and raises awareness through her art. In 2022, animator-director Doug Cook paired her song “Float Away” with a short film he created, exploring themes of anxiety, loneliness, and addiction recovery. The film, later adapted into a music video, earned critical acclaim, winning multiple awards including Best Music Video at the AMPIAS, and featured messaging supported by the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA).

Heath is also known for her achievements in theatre, having written, produced and performed in the 5-star critically acclaimed show Fake n’ Bake, which featured “Float Away” and earned her three Sterling Award nominations. She has also toured Canada and the US with the award-winning sketch troupe Girl Brain.

You can see Ellie Heath next in JUPITER, the last show in Theatre Network’s 50th season at the Roxy 124 Street.

Angela Begin

Angela Begin is a singer-songwriter, radio host, and music educator based between Treaty 6 Territory (Edmonton) and Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang (Montreal). Her creative practice is informed by the natural world, and the themes of spaciousness, temporality and transformation. Angela’s alternative-folk songs and writings are meditative and self-reflective explorations about childhood, home, mutability, identity, intergenerational baggage, and migration.

Angela graduated with Great Distinction from Concordia University of Montreal in 2024 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music. She also completed a Music Diploma in Jazz Performance in 2019 at Macewan University. Angela is the host of The Spacious Astrology Playlist at Concordia’s campus radio station, CJLO. She is the recipient of an Art Volt mentorship with Julia E. Dyck and a member of the CARBON (Community of Artists Researching the Beinghood of Nature) artist collective.

Sera Dawne

Singer-songwriter Sera Dawne captivates audiences with a tone that is simultaneously both sweet and lived-in, like crushed velvet. Drawing upon influences such as Joni Mitchell and Feist and blended with her nomadic upbringing in a military family, Dawne’s original folk-pop music is rooted in a strong sense of place, positioning listeners amidst Canadian landscapes through compelling sensory lyrics, tied together with honest and conversational undertones. Now based in Edmonton, listeners have likely heard Sera performing at local venues, cafes, and open air markets, and can look forward to her upcoming single release in the near future.

Artist Adopted by
Lilli Chevrier