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Martha Wainwright
November 18 · The Gateway

Martha Wainwright

With Bernice

Doors @ 6:00 PM MST/MDT · Show @ 8:00 PM MST/MDT

Presented By ATB

About Bernice · Toronto, ON

Bernice is the experimental pop vessel of musician/songwriter Robin Dann and her longtime collaborators. Dann’s storytelling is focused in the present moment, compassionately meeting ourselves where we are, and finding joy in familiar but ever changing spaces. Bernice’s latest album, Eau de Bonjourno openly plays with the shape of a pop song, drawing on the band members’ backgrounds in jazz, subverting rhythmic formulas, and resting in grooves that sit just outside of predictable, tenderly held together by intimate vocals. 

About Martha Wainwright · Montreal, QC

The beguiling performer and songwriter returns with her brand new, 5th studio album, Love Will Be Reborn, which follows recent years of loneliness and clarity in search of optimism and joy. Her writing reflects a well lived life, with resulting work that never shies away from an existential throbbing wound. She covers major subjects that move from darkness to light, with songs about aging, new love, shaking off the past and escaping from the ball and chain of anger to find new joy. Wainwright's artistry embraces her wildness and sketches out her raw depth; an edge that makes her uncompromisingly herself and continues to mesmerize an audience two decades on. Love Will Be Reborn captures Wainwright’s heart in transition like a phoenix from the ashes of an existential twilight.

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