We are excited to host Marin & her band on Saturday, December 3rd!
Marin Patenaude’s confessional folk is deeply honest, inspired by the wildness of nature, the messiness of human connection, and the overwhelming desire to run away from it all. She’s from a little town called Horsefly in Northern British Columbia, Canada.
The daughter of musical parents, she was raised on folk, country, and classic rock and is very much at home with a piano, a guitar, and all the possible harmonies. She lived a lot of lives and wore many erroneous hats before sinking fully into music. Collecting random skills like one collects tattoos, one day she decided to make a record. A surprising first release, it’s full of gut punching beauty.
Before the world turned upside down, Marin joined Dallas Green's Toronto based label Still Records in support of her second album. Sight Unseen shows a louder, grittier side of Marin’s indie folk sensibility. Citing the influence of artists like Joni Mitchell, Tori Amos, and Neil Young, there’s an underlying darkness beneath the clear, free spirited melodies. It's big and it's not always light. Her vocals are strong and technically trained, and she's outspoken about the complexities of relationships and the uncertainty of our current existence.
For Sight Unseen she took the reins on production at Afterlife Studios in Vancouver with engineer John Raham and her shit-hot band. With open hearts and strange ways of thinking, magical studio moments lend to a refined album with a fresh approach to sound.
Following the release of her self-titled debut in 2016, Marin extensively toured BC’s festival circuit as a solo, duo, and full band act. She opened for Sarah McLachlan in 2016 and toured with City and Colour in 2021. She crossed Canada with Kenton Loewen as part of Dan Mangan’s house concert series Side Door, through Germany and Switzerland with Cole Schmidt, and many other adventures in strange towns and down unknown roads. In studio and on stage she’s worked alongside Jill Barber, Khari Wendell McClelland, Sam Tudor, Real Ponchos, CR Avery, Ora Cogan, The Crackling and many more.
She’s currently settled in soggy Vancouver, BC making another album and working as a session harmony singer and hanging out in rooms with friends singing songs to the people. But sit the **** down and NO DANCING!