Champagne Weather

Canada

Champagne Weather sounds like diving headfirst into a pool. For a moment, everything disappears. For a moment, you're wrapped in a bubble that drowns out the noise.

It's bold new music from CFMAward-winners and JUNO nominees James Hill and Anne Janelle. Both artists artfully bridge disparate musical worlds with a sound that evokes Steve Reich even as it harks back to Appalachian fiddle and English folksong. With every performance, Champagne Weather gives its audience a glimpse of what Canadian folk music icon Ian Tamblyn calls “the future of folk music.”

Champagne Weather creates space. Space between the mind and the body, space to be together, space to be alone. It swirls, it beats, it tumbles like dry leaves. Over top, a melody. Underneath, violin, cello and synth. Lyrics like clouds, impressions of modern life and the characters who call it home. Each song is a diorama, a shoebox-world with a peephole big enough to fall through.