Biography

With a confident voice and boundless energy, Celeigh Cardinal owns a stage, connecting deeply with her audience through humour, passion and love. In 2020, Cardinal was awarded one of Canada’s highest musical accolades: the JUNO Award for Indigenous Artist of the Year. She also received a Western Canadian Music Award in 2018 for Indigenous Artist of the Year, and two nominations in 2020, including Indigenous Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year. Tracks from her most recent release, Stories from a Downtown Apartment, have reached #1 on the Indigenous Music Countdown four times since 2019. Cardinal has two full-length albums completed and her third release in the works, which is being supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2021, Edmonton-based singer-songwriter was chosen by The Walt Disney Corporation to perform a single and music video as part of their first season of a new initiative, The Recital of Remixes. She has toured through Sweden, Germany, Denmark and The Netherlands and has showcased in Dubai at Expo 2020, Reeperbahn in Hamburg, Germany, and Folk Alliances from 2018-2020 in Kansas City, Montreal and New Orleans. Celeigh is quickly becoming one of the great Canadian voices that make up the fabric of this country’s roots music scene.