Multiple Maple Blues Award winner, and 2022 JUNO Nominee for Blues Album of the Year, Miss Emily released her fourth album, Defined By Love on September 30th, 2022. Already getting amazing reviews and airplay, the high-octane entertainer with a powerful set of pipes calls Kingston, Ontario home and has been a highly sought-after performer at festivals around the country.
We humans are often defined based on a single thing. For some, it could be a career choice. For others, it might be a character trait or even an event. For Miss Emily, it would be simple to say that she’s defined by her unparalleled voice, but she would encourage you to seek a broader definition of who she is.
Whether it’s parental love, romantic love, or an all-encompassing love for community; Emily’s contention is that love is at the core of who we are. Emily Fennell’s earliest memories swirl through the dusty fairgrounds of Southern Ontario, accompanied by her parents, as she pursued her love of performing at county fair singing competitions where the creaky floorboards of outdoor stages laid down the backbeat. Later as a young adult, Miss Emily emerged from a soul-drenched gumbo of blues, old-school R&B, and jazz. With Ray Charles and Aretha as her mentors and K.D. Lang as her benchmark she went to school. Studying her craft on the sideroads, backroads, and highways of Ontario; she played every juke joint and nightclub that would have her.
Defined By Love is a deeply personal 12-song meditation on deception, pain, resilience, and finding strength among the ruins of heartbreak. Someone once said that we are the sum total of our experiences.
It’s three words and the fine line between friends, lovers and foes.
It’s walking the road less travelled but making that road your own.
That may, in fact, be true but those experiences – good or bad – shouldn’t define us. Take Miss Emily’s advice and don’t allow the world to lock you into a single description. Be defined by family, friends, and community. Be defined by love.
Tour Dates:
*Opening for Downchild
*Oct. 22nd – Vernon, BC Vernon & District PAC
*Oct. 24th – Invermere, BC Columbia Valley Centre
*Oct. 25th – Cranbrook, BC Key City Theatre
*Oct. 28th – Bow Island, AB Bow Theatre
*Oct. 29th – Bow Island, AB Bow Theatre
Nov. 9th – Ottawa, ON Shenkman Arts Centre
Nov. 25th – Toronto, ON Massey Hall
