If you're looking for something to do tonight, Whitehorse, Yukon-based singer-songwriter Sarah McDougall is performing at the Motley Kitchen as part of the restaurant's dinner and a show series.
Last summer, McDougall toured the UK. Having just left Australia, she performed last weekend at a Canada 150 event at Ottawa's Winterlude festival. On February 17 she is being featured at the Burlington Performing Arts Centre. In May she performs in Denmark.
Since the release of award-winning "The Greatest Ones Alive" in 2011, McDougall has been touring endlessly both in Canada and internationally, taking time to work on songs and record between tours. She has played festivals such as Iceland Airwaves, the Edmonton Folk Festival, and the Winnipeg Folk Festival.
Critical acclaim seems to follow her wherever she goes. Born in Sweden, Swedish magazine Nöjesguiden declared her “One of Sweden’s best singer-songwriters”. The magazine Rootstime in Belgium described her as ‘One of the greatest talents of our era”. The CBC said her latest recording, Grand Canyon is "as vast and as varied as its namesake.”
McDougall is known for her honest and poetic songs, passionate performances, and unique voice. She writes and performs songs about identity, love, fear, hope, growing up, rootlessness, and forgiveness, written from the point of view of the hopeful outsider, trying to figure out their place and make sense of the world.
Her last two albums received nominations for the Western Canadian Music Awards' Songwriter of the Year and the Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Singer of the Year. Both albums won the WCMA for Roots Solo Album of the Year first in 20012, then in 2015.
Dinner and entertainment combined is $50, including HST. Show-only seats are $20 each. Doors open at 6 p.m., with the buffet dinner served at 6:30 p.m. and the show approximately from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Reserve early to assure good seats and dinner at 705-222-6685. The Motley Kitchen presents the series in collaboration with Northern Lights Festival Boréal.
