Tragedy Ann

Festive Nights with Guelphites is back! ❄️
On December 20th, us and a bunch of folkie friends will be playing a collaborative wintersong concert at . Tickets are offered on a sliding-scale, with a portion of sales being donated to 2 amazing community arts projects: and the Yukon Gold Folk Club (launching in 2024!). We’d love for you to join us! Last year the tickets sold out in 48 hours so we moved it to a bigger space - but look how cute it was last year at Otherwise Studios! (Photos by .baguley )

Ticket link can be found through our website (link in bio). ❄️

*Attn: England* we can’t leave you out! After showcasing at Your Roots Are Showing conference in Ireland and performing at Celtic Connections in Scotland, we are heading on over to Sheffield for our debut concert in England, at Cafe #9 on January 28th. If you know anyone in the area please let them know! There are tickets available both at the cafe and online. (I’m a sucker for the old-school physical concert ticket!) This musical cafe seems like the perfect intimate space for our music & storytelling, and we can’t wait to check it out.

✨ Announcing our first festival appearance of 2024! ✨ What a thrill to think we’ll be in Scotland playing Celtic Connections in just under 2 months. These fine folks have been programming incredible music in Glasgow for 30 years, and it’s a huge honour for us to be a part of this lineup. Joining us on January 26th at the City Halls Recital Room will be Maggie Rigby (we love her song & video for “Best Love in the Universe”). This will be our “premiere” performance in Scotland, so we’d love for you to tell your Scottish friends about this momentous occasion!

Well thanks, Joseph from for showcasing our website in their article “20 beautiful band websites we love” 💗 and look! Our pals are on the list too :) We have 2 upcoming concerts with them this week so if you were hoping to get tickets, now ya know the sites are easy to navigate! Haha.

Tonight: Toronto

Friday: Rockingham house concert with Moonfruits

Sunday: in McDonald’s Corners with Moonfruits

Website link is in the ol’ bio!

My face when I’m SO EXCITED FOR THE SHOWS! 🥳 Toronto Tuesday! Rockingham Friday! McDonalds Corners Sunday! It’s gonna be a blast and a half to play for you all 💗

This past week we’ve been experimenting with some new sounds & co-written tunes with Moonfruits - it’s felt liberating to let the process unfold as we go, creating for the sake of creating 💫 Time will tell where it goes from here!

~ d e t a i l s / t i c k e t s ~

Tuesday, November 14th
Toronto, ON
9pm doors / 9:30 show
$15 adv / $20 at the door

Friday, November 17th
Rockingham, ON
6:30 pm doors / 7pm show
$20 adv / sliding scale at the door / kids are free

Sunday, November 19th
Music at MERA | McDonalds Corners, ON
1:30 pm doors / 2pm show
$25 / general admission

Feeding 2 birds with 1 scone here:
✨ sharing a sweet photo from last month at Guelph Little Theatre, by Dilettante Hospitality (holy heck did that show ever fill our cups. THANK YOU to the droves of Guelves who joined in with your whole hearts)
✨ announcing a handful of upcoming concerts! It's been ages since we've played in Toronto, and we're STOKED to be returning to one of our favourite venues, The Burdock Music Hall alongside one of our favourite humans, George Woodhouse as The Public Service Duo!! Tickets are now live on Burdock's website.
The next 2 shows will be double-bills with our dear friends & long-time collaborators Moonfruits. Tickets for MERA are also live - and if you're near Rockingham and keen to come, send us a message so we can connect you with the hosts!

It’s not every day your name is on a marquee! We’re getting silly with excitement for our hometown show this Friday! I counted the morning on the way to the theatre and it’s about 300 steps from our house - it’ll be the quickest concert-to-PJs turnaround yet 🥳 see you soon, Guelves!

I just love these sound check photos and these top-notch humans ❤️ we are getting so excited about our next show, Sept 22 and wanted to make sure you know, you are welcome to come to the concert no matter what your financial situation is. It’s really important to us that our concerts are accessible to all - music is healing, and we all deserve that. ❤️ tickets are pay-what-you-can at the door (from $0-$25) and kids 12&under are free. We would love to spend time with you there! Xo

🇮🇪 Last time vs. this time: we’re going to Ireland, folks!! Travelling alongside a bunch of our pals, we are showcasing at Your Roots Are Showing in January. We spent a few days in Ireland as a vacation at the end of our European tour last year, but this will be our first time performing there - we can’t wait! With some of Braden’s own roots being tied there, it feels good & important to spend time there in musical community. Stay tuned for more about this January jaunt - and if you happen to have a house-concert-able home in Ireland/Scotland/England, let’s talk!

Can’t wait to see you there Good Lovelies Polky Moonfruits Rube & Rake Basset the Band Aleksi Campagne Medusa Maddie Storvold Digging Roots Saskia Tomkins: a musician of the bowing kind ❤️

✨Introducing our band for Sept 22 in Guelph!✨
Shannon Kingsbury on harp & vocals | Jillian Sauerteig on cello & vocals | Peter Klaassen on upright bass & vocals

What a dream to play with these deeply inspiring musicians 💗

We’d love for you to join us at the Guelph Little Theatre for this special concert! Tickets are available in advance on our website (link in bio). There is also a PWYC option at the door, and kids 12 & under are free.

Guelph Little Theatre

✨ Announcing opening act: ✨our dear pal and next door neighbour, ! This concert is doubling as the kickoff-party for Praise The Ward, a weekend of festivities in our neighbourhood with markets, concerts and much more. We are thrilled that Josh will be the one to warm up the stage for us - warming hearts is one of his many gifts. I first met Josh when I worked for .3 one summer in university. He was the very first person I ever interviewed on-air! Not long after, I recorded my first and only solo album in his old studio outside of town, and we have grown closer ever since - emotionally and geographically, it seems! Josh has a dedication to stories, community, and kindness that resonates with us deeply. We can’t wait to listen to his set alongside you on September 22. Tickets are available on our website, at the link in our bio.


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✨ c o n c e r t . i n . g u e l p h ✨
We could practically walk our instruments over: the Guelph Little Theatre is just a hop skip and a jump away from our doorstep, and we'd love to gather with you there on September 22nd! This concert will serve as the launch party for "Praise The Ward" - a neighbourhood celebration of creativity and community. I can't think of a better reason to gather than that 💗 Tickets are now LIVE on our website, tragedyannmusic - dot - com. Pass it on, Guelves!

📸 by Steph Montani

Guelph Little Theatre
Guelph Arts Council
GuelphToday.com
Downtown Guelph
Visit Guelph
The City of Guelph
Two Rivers Neighbourhood Group
CBC Kitchener-Waterloo
In The Key Of C

Some of you already know: Braden and I don’t just play in Tragedy Ann - were also in a band called ✨ It’s an art-folk/rock collective led by my sister and I, and it’s very near and dear to our hearts. We’re happy to share that The Lifers will be playing a rare and love-filled concert in Toronto at ’s music hall on August 3 alongside dear pal 💗 It would be such a joy to see you there, and have you experience another side of what we do :) Right after this we will scamper on over to Blue Skies Music Festival! Tragedy Ann played Blue Skies last year and it was one of our favourite weekends of our whole Heirlooms Release Tour. I can’t wait to return for their 50th Anniversary with this special group of humans 🌸
For tickets to our Burdock show, head to the link in bio!

We had a marvellous evening downtown Kitchener on Friday, playing a secret-concert! GoodCo has been putting on some stellar free programming this summer, and we're grateful to have been a part of it. It was such a joy to connect with a whole bunch of new folks, just down the road from our hometown.

Here we are with “Canada’s Gnarliest Tree” in all its glory. 💗 We are now home from BC and have been working on some new tunes - we’ll be debuting some of them at our concert in Meaford next Friday! For tickets and details head to Sideroad Sounds

Giggling because I’m not wearing pants and Braden almost tricked me into a higher camera angle 🤭🍑🤭 COCA, you really showed up! Thanks to all of you who were so generous with your ears and hearts during our showcase yesterday. We had a blast and can’t wait to come to your campuses! Don’t be a stranger 🤍 we will be at the Biz Hall on Friday - come say hi!

SOCAN Foundation - Fondation SOCAN

🏔️And we’re off! 🏔️ We are showcasing at COCA tomorrow in Vancouver! What should we do during our time off? All tips welcome 🙂

We are excited to connect with all the folks planning campus events this week, in the hopes of playing concerts, running workshops, and collaborating with orchestras at colleges and universities across Canada! Send us your good vibes 🥰

SOCAN Foundation - Fondation SOCAN

Slowing down social media, one story at a time. It’s been just over a year since “Heirlooms” was released, and we’re sharing some behind-the-scenes photos and stories to celebrate and reflect. 🤍 Should the spirit move you, we’d love to hear any stories relating to an “Heirlooms” listening experience that you might have to share.

•1• The rest of these will be shared in chronological order, but as in the rest of life, we feel it’s wisest to start with gelato. This photo is from our European tour with The Lifers & Samson Wrote last summer, and if we’re being honest, we could have taken a similar picture most nights (inexplicably, always around 11pm) while we were in Italy. Photo by either Nita or Sam.

•2• This was taken from our very first pre-production meeting with The Rogue Music Lab in July of 2021. We had approached James with a collection of demos that we’d worked on at home, and gathered to scheme. Most memorable for us from this meeting was JP’s suggestion for us to take another look at “The Good of My Heart” which we had banished to the “demo graveyard”. Those golden ears of his heard something in the song that we had missed, and we’re eternally grateful for it. Photo by JP.

•3• Day 1 of tracking. We went on a field trip that primarily introduced us to Cheese Boutique while also getting some recording done. After hearing our demo and thoughts around “Strasbourg”, JP suggested we try capturing a performance at the Oculus Pavilion in South Humber Park. This structure sounds WILD and worked marvelously in setting “Strasbourg” apart as a bit of a palette-cleansing skit midway through the album.

(Stories continuing in the comments!)

✨See you Sunday, Toronto!✨
9pm | Tranzac Club | $20 at door or thru Eventbrite
Details: Roots Music Canada

Photos 1&2 by Jon Lepp Photo
Photos 3&4 by Honey House Photography

✨ t o r o n t o ✨ j u n e 4 ✨ Tranzac Club

It’s been over a year since we’ve played for you, Torontonians! We are thrilled to be playing as part of MooseFest at the Tranzac on Sunday.

The event starts at 7, and we are on at 9 - come early to see amazing acts like our dear pal ❤ Tickets are $20 at the door or thru Eventbrite - head to for more details & ticket link. They also interviewed me (Liv) the other day and just published a lovely article about some of the thoughts swirling in my head these days.

wrote this sweet blurb about us, too: “Exciting contemporary folk duo Tragedy Ann, whose award-winning songs touch on pressing social issues such as climate change, poverty and abortion access and invite us to consider how we choose to live our lives.” 🙏

Hope to see you there!

📸 from our set at Estonian Music Week on Saturday, thanks to photographer Peeter Poldre

🎉 Happy Birthday, Heirlooms! 🎉
Our album Heirlooms turned 1 year old today 🎂 To celebrate, we're offering 15% off all music & merch purchased through our website this month. (use discount code: BIRTHDAYBOOK) We'll also reimburse shipping for local orders & hop on our bikes to hand-deliver packages in Guelph 🙂

Creating Heirlooms changed our lives. It showed us what we're capable of, and how much richer the journey is when we do it with friends. It showed us how important community is, and how our music can deepen these vital human and other-than-human relationships. We're deeply touched by all of you who have told us what Heirlooms has meant to you, and we hope it will continue to inhabit a special place in your heart and on your literal-or-digital music shelf.

Throughout Heirlooms' birthday month, we'll be sharing some special memories from the creation process and offering new ways of interacting with the music. We hope you'll join us. ❤️

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✨OTTAWA✨ We're coming to Ottawa Grassroots Festival to accompany Moonfruits on April 20th! We'd love to see you there.

The songs we'll be sharing are from their album Salt, which features bits and bobs from Braden and I!

Here are some photos by Curtis Perry Photography from the Salt album release show at Red Bird Live back in September.

✨Behind-the-scenes✨
1 - “the reveal”
2 - ladder straddle
3 - gluing flowers on Braden with
4 - location scouting
5 - choreography with Val
6 - the beautiful goldenrod I was painting in the final scene
7 - kitchen #1
8 - looking from my parents to grandparents yards
9 - me loving my alien face makeup
10 - flowers foraged for Braden’s face

We are touched by the incredible response to our Perfect Strangers video. Thank you all for being a part of what makes sharing art feel meaningful. 🤍

So... this happened

cw: abortion

On this International Women’s Day, we wanted to share a story that should never have to be a person’s reality, but is unfortunately all too prevalent. This is a still from our just-released video on YouTube - the first of 3 songs in the Live at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre series. “Float Away” demonstrates that if we want to build an equitable world, it needs to be one that provides access to free, accessible, publicly funded abortion care - everywhere.

We also want to take this moment to acknowledge the racism that is often overlooked in women’s rights conversations. For example - did you know that maternal health outcomes are worse for black women regardless of their class - even in Canada? This is just one example of the horrifically prevalent institutionalized racism we are upholding as a society. When we talk about women’s rights, we can’t leave anybody behind - not any trans women, black women, indigenous women, racialized women, disabled women or poor women. White women like myself have a lot of work to do: we need to be anti-racist, and we need to be active allies. I learned a term last week, through Selam Debs' Anti-Racism Course: ‘intersectional feminism’ - at its core, it means that we must not universalize the ‘woman’s experience’. Women’s rights movements have historically left out black, indigenous, disabled, and q***r women, and this needs to change. On this International Women’s Day and beyond, I encourage you to learn more about what intersectional feminism means to you.

Here is a story of a new mother’s impossible choice. It is 80 years old, it is 800 years old, and it is 8 minutes old. Watch it in full on our Youtube Channel.

Video by Sarah Kierstead

✨About Barbara’s Cameo✨

This past September, we spent 2 days shooting our Perfect Strangers music video in and around our hometown of Guelph, placing the film in the real-life setting. The first verse talks about Barbara and her Parkinson’s journey. Barbara has been deeply supportive of us and this song specifically - so when we started dreaming up ideas for the video, we thought to ask if she wanted to play a cameo in the story. It felt fitting for Barbara to be the person that ends up connecting the two strangers in the narrative - this is a gift of hers in real-life, too.

The in-progress painting that she’s using to teach “Stranger 1” in the video (in her beautiful backyard garden), is one that Barbara is currently working on in real life. Since the onset of Parkinson’s, she’s been making use of a device to help steady her hand as she paints - you can see this around the 3-minute mark in the video.

Barbara is not only an amazing artist - she’s also a writer, teacher, arts organizer, and mime! Miming was handy for the film shoot and, it turns out, for Parkinson’s therapy! From what she’s explained, it can help folks with Parkinson's move through moments of paralysis.

We’ve learned a lot from Barbara through the years, and are deeply grateful for her time and skill in helping shape this music video.




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✨ D r e a m S e q u i n s ✨The Making Of:
Ever since we started arranging the music for Perfect Strangers, we’ve always imagined the instrumental ‘bridge’ as a dreamy swirl of surreal thoughts & hopeful feelings, endless possibilities & stark realities. Our favourite part of creating the music video was bringing this sensation into vivid form! Braden and I scoured local thrift racks for our white & flowy garments, and I couldn’t resist debuting my amazing sequined shirt from Kait of Moonfruits. The incredible of folk duo Basset the Band and transformed our kitchen table into a makeup station, giving us a chance to catch up after our tour together last spring. As one of us got treated to our face art, the other would head outside to learn the choreography from Val. When I saw Braden for the first time after he was all done up, I thought: I See You! It was magical.

We shot the dream sequence down the street at the Virginia-creeper-fence between my parents’ and grandparents’ yards, featuring Nonno’s exquisite pear tree & the “living room” where the photos above were taken. We filmed late into the cold September night, dancing on dew. I almost didn’t want it to end - but we were so tired from the big day of filming, with another day to come. We walked home feeling delightfully challenged and satisfied. After we spent the better part of an hour painstakingly removing the makeup & glue from our faces, we slept like babes.

If you haven’t yet seen what we created, you can head to our YouTube channel to watch the video.

🎥&📸 by Moss and Rock Productions

Today is Bandcamp Friday! On this special day, Bandcamp waves its commission on music sales. This means that if you buy music on Bandcamp today, you’re supporting musicians even more than usual! We are big fans of this app, as listeners and musicians. If you haven’t yet purchased our new album, today is a great day to do that 🙂 other albums on Bandcamp we recommend:
Anna & Elizabeth - The Invisible Comes To Us
Justin Orok - Kanata
Bedouine - Bird Songs of a Killjoy
Emily Steinwall - Welcome to the Garden

Happy Listening! 🎧❤️


Photo by Nicolette Hoang

It’s quite a peculiar feeling to realize that you’re living your younger self’s dreams. The most amazing part about it is that it feels way different than I had thought. Life holds more complexity than I had imagined was possible, and it is richer and more love-filled because of it.

This month has held private moments of great change and self growth, understanding and questioning. All the while, we have been stepping onto some remarkable stages with some deeply inspiring musicians, for full rooms of incredible audiences. We have been writing. We have been reflecting and looking ahead. And most of all, we have been immensely grateful - for you, for music, for each other, and for life itself.

Photo by Nicolette Hoang

We are giddy with excitement - we get to play a concert in Guelph on Friday (almost sold out!) and then open for Dan Mangan’s sold-out show in Morrisburg on Saturday! We’re counting down the days. Hope to see you there ❤️

Borealis Music Series presented by River Run Centre

Morrisburg concert presented by St. Lawrence Acoustic Stage

📸 by Nicolette Hoang