Dana Sipos

I'm bringing the band to the sweetest little community festival with a big big heart, coming up this weekend! We're playing 9pm in the weird church on Saturday and sad songs In-the-round on Sunday (solo). Loads of wonderful music happening in every nook and cranny of Cumberland village. Hope to see you there ❤

Have you seen the 2023 lineup yet? This year, we've got a wide variety of acts ranging from brass bands to drag shows, stand-up comedy to square dancing and back again! https://www.woodstovefestival.ca/2023-music
We can't wait to see you in Cumberland!

Loves me a sweet community arts festival! YYJ frands, come check out this goodness of the Out There Art Festival presented by Alter Arts Society happening in Quadra Village! I'll be performing at 2:15 on Saturday, August 2 and the lineup is 🔥🥳

Summer tourin rolls on! After a super lovely weekend at Music on the Mountain, I'm heading to Cochrane for a show at the lovely Found bookstore
Dana Sipos Live in Concert

Please send your pals over! ❤ There may even be a special guest 🎱. A portion of the proceed will go towards BC wildfire relief.

Then onto to FAMI - Foothills Acoustic Music Institute where I'll be teaching Songwriting for the weekend. Looking forward to digging in to it!

Hitting the dusty trail! This first run of shows takes me up and around beautiful northern BC, and I'm sharing a few bills with the wonderful Richard Garvey. Kicking off the first show with the legendary Big Fancy in Prince George --> Dana Sipos, Richard Garvey & Big Fancy! and ending up at the Peace Valley Folk Fest this coming weekend! Hope to see your sweet summer faces out on the road. I've got some new songs I'd love to try out on you

Vancouver town! Shari and I have been scheming for this for some time and I’m super excited to swap songs and stories with this fine crew. Songbird North this very eve (Thursday!) at the Roundhouse. Would be so lovely to see you 🌞

By hook or by crook I'll be back in my favourite mountain town this summer, performing at the very beautiful, community-rich
Tiny Lights Festival ❤️

the line-up features standout musicians such as Abigail Lapell Sam Tudor Sam Lynch Pharis & Jason Romero Luca Fogale and tons more. Tickets are running low. See you at church!

Remember being 8? It's basically the best year ever, full of bike riding and scootering and dance parties and singing at the top your lungs and generally being awesome. Join me in celebrating the 8th spin around the sun of Victoria's favourite record store Vinyl Envy, with this fine time line-up spread out over 2 nights of party. Come hang! I'll be joined onstage by some of Victoria's finest Rad Juli Peter Mynett and David Parfit🥳🥳🥳

That time chris.lloyd.guitarist and I snuck into Vinyl Envy under the cover the darkness and vinyl records...

Thanks to John Flatman

Hoodoo Dana Sipos with Chris Lloyd at Victoria BC's favourite record shop, Vinyl Envy.September 2022Filmed and edited by John Flatmanwww.danasipos.com

Just dig out an old copy while going through boxes at the old farmhouse 😏

Real excited to take to the Beacon Hill Park/Cameron Bandshell stage with chris.lloyd.guitarist as part of the
Summer concert series this coming Tuesday eve!

It’s a nice early show, 6pm ~~ so bring a blankie, a snack, some pals, watch for peacocks, pet a llama on your way in and I hope to see your during these dog days of summer!

Two-step your way into our hearts and into a lovely evening at Victoria Event Centre!

Ornery, Cud Eastbound, Dana Sipos is happening tonight July 6! and I'm super delighted to warm the stage with chris.lloyd.guitarist for these lovely folks Cud Eastbound and Ornery gathering from various far flung locales.
I believe this is the last show of their tour, presented by the mighty Outhouse Productions !!
💕✨🤠
Rad poster by squigglysqualor

Doing a hop skip spin across the big pond real soon and am super excited to be playing the BreakOut West x FOCUS Wales Festival Takeover at Scotland's Music Convention Wide Days on Saturday 21st May in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 with some other rad artists on the bill.

For any UK pals in the neighbourhood, come say hello!
RSVP - https://wide.ink/FT22tickets

This sweet opportunity is supported by Creative BC and the Province of British Columbia, FACTOR and the Government of
Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters 🎉

It surely takes a musical family to raise an album and yet I am so thrilled to be nominated for Solo Artist of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards / Prix de musique folk canadienne for my album The Astral Plane!

See you soon Charlottetown!!

Described as “slightly strange and completely mesmerising” (Gold Flake Paint UK), Dana Sipos is an acclaimed Canadian songwriter whose music combines haunting vocals, enigmatic lyrics and bold production choices. For her latest release, The Astral Plane, Sipos once again teamed up with experimental producer Sandro Perri, and reunited with her accomplished studio band. To bring the new songs to life, the crew decamped to a large stone converted 1860s stone carriage house in Cambridge, Ontario in the summer of 2020. The result is an impeccably curated collection of sounds, anchored by Sipos’ haunting vocals and evocative production.

Dana Sipos is nominated for the 2022 CFMA Artist of the Year Award.

Dana Sipos

Dana Sipos est une autrice-compositrice-interprète Canadienne renommée, décrite comme étant ‘une interprète accomplie au son envoûtant’ (No Depression). Suite au lancement de son album Trick of the Light en 2018, elle a étendu sa tournée à travers l’Amérique du Nord, l’Europe et l’Australie. Elle a également été nominée en tant qu’auteure-compositrice anglophone de l’année au Prix de musique folk Canadienne. Son nouvel album The Astral Plane, publié par Roaring Girl Records, explore les empreintes de la mémoire, les cycles de deuil et les connections intrinsèque entre l’hérédité du trauma et la crise écologique de notre époque. L’album a été proclamé comme ‘un bijou hypnotisant’.

Dana Sipos est nominé pour le prix de Artiste solo de l'année des PMFC 2022.

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Dana Sipos is performing at the CFMAs Saturday Night Awards Concert, April 2, starting at 7:30 PM ADT at The Guild, Charlottetown, PE. Tickets are $40 plus tax, purchase here: https://bit.ly/3sZo6zu

Dana Dipos fera une prestation lors du concert gala du samedi 2 avril à 19h30 (HAA) à The Guild, Charlottetown (Î.-P-.É.). Le coût des billets pour le spectacle est de 40 $ + taxes. Achat de billet au : https://bit.ly/3sZo6zu

I’m so pleased that the latest and final update to the Be Calm phone line is up for you to listen to. Thank you so much to all of the artists who contributed their talents!

This update features humpback whales singing their songs; 11-year-old Kwakwaka’wakw/Coast Salish/Chinese author Adelyn Newman-Ting reading from her new book ‘Finding The Language’; beautiful poetry from youth poet laureate for Victoria, James Summer, as well as Francophone poetry from Michael Cameron; ‘Skinny Legs’, a gorgeous song by Dana Sipos; harpist Alison Vardy performing ‘Island Suite’; James Bay Community School students singing ‘You Are My Sunshine’ with seniors (recorded pre-pandemic); a calming meditation by Michelle Gaucher; and soothing ambient music from amiskwaciy (Edmonton) based musician Matthew Cardinal.

You can dial toll-free 1-877-223-2256 to hear all of the selections - please feel free to pass the phone number on to anyone you know who might not have easy access to the internet (or who just likes the phone), and who might be looking for something to cheer them up.

Or head over to victoria.ca/becalm, where you can listen to the current update as well as all of the previous updates, and read all of the artist bios and transcripts.

This project is part of my Artist in Residence position with the City of Victoria, and my two year term has finished! I will be sharing more in the coming days about a few of the other public art projects I’ve been working on in that role.

Talk soon, thanks for listening! ❤

Just in time for the ho ho holiday bustle! The next edition of BE CALM audio hotline, brainchild of City of Victoria Artist-in-Residence (among many other hats), the amazing Kathryn Calder.

Dial 1-877-2BE-CALM or visit http://victoria.ca/becalmRed for a wonderful array of local songs, stories, indigenous wisdom, nature sounds, poetry. I am super honoured to have Skinny Legs in this edition of the Contemporary Music section!