Jadea Kelly - Toronto ON - Album Release with guest opener Ryan O'Reilly (HUGH'S ROOM live)
Schedule
Fri Sep 30 2022 at 11:00 pm to Sat Oct 01 2022 at 02:00 am
Location
Revival Bar | Toronto, ON
It has been three years since Jadea Kelly's last tour, and she is so very excited to see you all, and perform songs from her newly released, fourth studio album ROSES. Gratefully joining forces with her dear pal Ryan O'Reilly, the pair are super excited to entertain the people of Toronto in only a few short months!
Tickets: $25.00 (Adv) + taxes
8pm start
Ticket Link (found on https://hughsroomlive.com/tickets/):
https://www.showpass.com/jadea-kelly/
Website: www.darthjadea.com
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BIO:
'If you can imagine Patsy Cline writing songs with Feist you kind of have an idea of where Jadea Kelly resides in the musical spectrum' - The Pop Stereo USA
Described by CBC as 'one of the shining jewels in the crown of Canadian songwriters' Jadea Kelly spends her time writing and living between Toronto, Canada and Los Angeles, CA. In 2016 she was awarded 'Contemporary Singer of the Year' at the Canadian Folk Music Awards for her heartfelt 2016 release 'Love & Lust'. The featured single 'Beauty' was placed on the Lifetime Network feature 'No One Would Tell' and the 2017 CBC Rio Paralympics Terry Fox Tribute. Jadea also received 'Best Score & Music' accolades from the Hollywood Independent Documentary Awards for her 2019 MWI EP soundtrack.
Jadea has co written and toured (as opener and backing vocalist) with the likes of Justin Rutledge, Whitehorse, Judy Collins, Catherine MacLellan, Royal Wood, Kelly Prescott, Sweet Alibi, Peter Katz, The Digging Roots, Leela Gilday and Joey Landreth. She has also performed and showcased her music across Canada, The United States and Europe, performing at the likes of Americana Fest (Nashville TN), Winnipeg Folk Festival, Calgary Folk Festival, Edmonton’s Interstellar Rodeo, Metal Toronto and Peterborough Folk Festival. Despite her Americana influence, she is also the featured vocalist with JUNO award winning metal group Protest the Hero (Kezia, Scurrilous and Volition).
Following a long pandemic pause, Jadea Kelly returns triumphantly in 2022 with her long awaited fourth studio album. Titled ‘Roses’ and released March 4th, 2022. Roses has earned impressive Spotify / Apple Music / Amazon Music editorial playlists, as well as front cover features on ‘Folk and Friends’ (Spotify), 'Renegade Folk' (Spotify) and ‘Fresh Folk Acoustic’ (Amazon Music). Accumulating over 2.6 million streams. Jadea was also featured on BBC Scotland ‘Another Country’ with Ricky Ross. She was also featured on the front cover of etalk / CTV, a March 2022 International Women's Day' feature.
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Ryan O'Reilly, from Winchester, UK, is a songwriter whose Irish parentage & English upbringing combine to create a passionate storyteller. A meandering journey began with performing at open-mics in Toronto as a teenager, studying poetry in Dublin, and making a living street-performing on London’s Portobello Road. Ryan began gaining a reputation and fans from DIY band tours across Europe and North America, while also hard at work learning his trade, opening for the likes of Ashley McBryde, Matthew & The Atlas, and Lissie, and joining acts like Tift Merritt, Arkells, and Anaïs Mitchell on-stage to perform. In 2017, Ryan headlined a tour of medieval churches across Europe with Canadian trio The O'Pears and continued touring Europe with Jadea Kelly in 2018 and Hayley Reardon in 2019. The debut album The Northern Line was released on Qatar’s first indie label (DNA Records), with singles "The One", "November" and "Sometimes Things Just Happen" entering German airplay charts. The second album I Can't Stand The Sound was recorded in a cinema in Brooklyn, NY. Like its predecessor it was produced by David Granshaw in collaboration with Tyler Kyte, the album was released in January 2018 and warmly received by German and Spanish radio. A new album was recorded at Chale Abbey during lockdown on Los Angeles Production label Bicycle Path. Ryan also has co-writing credits on some popular 2021 releases including "Trying To Break Your Heart" by British band Flyte, "Still Alive" by Rosenheim's Amistat, "Girl In White" by Belarusian exiles Naviband, and "Losing From Within" by Boston's Hayley Reardon.