Connie Kaldor at the Duncan Showroom

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Thursday, September 24th, 2015
8:00 PM

Juno-award winner Connie Kaldor performs at the Duncan Showroom on September 24.

Tickets are available at the door ($45) and in advance ($40) online at http://www.showroomproductions.ca/buy-tickets

Her voice is as big as a prairie sky — a fitting metaphor for a lot of reasons, but mostly because Connie Kaldor was born and raised in Saskatchewan. Though she’s lived in a number of places in Canada — the last 20 years or so in Quebec — Kaldor remains in her heart, and often in her music, a Prairie  girl.

Kaldor could have just as easily had a career in theatre, which is how she started out, but early on, music won out. She started out in 1979 with little more than her voice and her guitar — plus a wicked sense of humour — at a time when female solo artists were few and far between on the folk circuit. Now, after more than 30 years performing at major festivals, small and large venues in  Canada and the States, India, China and Europe, Kaldor is  considered folk royalty.

In 1980, Kaldor started her own record label, now called Coyote Entertainment. Since then, she has recorded 15 albums, two of them Juno-winning children's albums.

More recently, Kaldor produced and hosted her own TV show, called Wood River. She was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee medal and the Order of Canada. And, as often happens, in the mid-2000s Kaldor returned to her theatre roots to create a number of projects, including a musical called Dust and Dreams based on those deep Prairie roots.