Described as “the future of folk music” (Ian Tamblyn) and “artfully hypnotic” (Lukas Pearse, Open Waters Festival), Champagne Weather is a chamber-folk duo that engages folk traditions through avant-garde experimentation and a radical approach to sound art, tackling familiar material from brave new angles. ​

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Champagne Weather is Canadian Folk Music Award-winners and JUNO nominees James Hill and Anne Janelle. With a blend of songwriting and sound sculpture, the two fearlessly unravel Western-European musical traditions, creating dreamscapes that dwell in the beauty of uncertainty. Their music is non-progressional, replacing the “forward” motion of Western European harmonic progression with a circular, intuitive approach to harmony that rewrites itself with every performance.

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Innovation is central to the duo’s ethos. Among their many projects, Champagne Weather has pioneered a “cell phone choir” that turns an audience into an interactive audio installation. They’ve developed a novel recording technology that can capture a song in “liquid form” so it takes a different shape every time it is played and conducted worldwide musical fan-collabs.

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That same instinct drives their inclusive, education-minded practice, where they aim to put music-making in the hands of every person. Portraits of Song, a workshop that invites attendees to create visual art while Champagne Weather plays, has been presented by galleries, festivals, and performing arts centres. Music for Paper goes further still: a living installation and workshop in which everyone present makes music together using nothing but a sheet of paper as their instrument.​

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Bookings: Nicole Rochefort, AIM Booking Agency. 
416.953.5752. Offer Form