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BLACK FLY JAM AND ALGOMA CONSERVATORY CONCERTS
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Aleksi Campagne - Indie Folk
- Jan. 26
- Matinee - 3 p.m. - The Loft
- Doors open at 2 p.m. - Cash Bar
- Tickets: $40 (includes all fees)
- Tapas Plates: $15
- (preorder only - prepared by Rosetta Sicoli)
Purchase by phone with credit card: Call 705-971-4197 or go to Events at www.algomaconservatory.com
Aleksi Campagne’s original music blends folk songwriting with an edgy, multi-layered sound resulting from his unique combination of voice, violin and looping-effect pedals.
And if music is bred in the bone, Campagne is uniquely qualified to offer a contemporary, indie-folk take on the time-honoured fiddle-singing tradition. At five years old, he began performing alongside his mother, Canadian folk icon, Connie Kaldor. At 19, Campagne moved to Paris to study under jazz violin legend Didier Lockwood. Two years later Campagne became the only student to have ever been accepted into the classical violin, the jazz violin and the jazz voice performance programs at McGill University.
Campagne’s debut album is about all the firsts of growing up–from first loves to first moves, the first steps of your career and even first breakups. The album features 10 songs, but 20 tracks—each of the 10 songs are fully translated to offer a full English and a full french version (on two discs in one sleeve).
To create the album, Campagne received both a Canada Council Grant and a FACTOR Grant to fully fund the recording and its production. This album debuted on a Canada-wide tour this past summer, hitting festivals like the Canmore Folk Festival, Springtide Folk Festival, the Live from the Rock Festival, Bear Creek Folk Festival, and Islands Folk Festival. The album launch tour has continued throughout both Canada and the United States in Fall 2024 and Winter 2025. Aleksi had graced the lineups of some of Canada’s most beloved folk festivals—including the Mariposa Folk Festival, the Regina Folk Festival, and the Northern Lights Festival, among others.
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