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Award winning Canadian-American songsmith Rachael Kilgour brings her heartfelt new release to The Alluvion. Known for her straightforward language and unveiled delivery, Kilgour's newest collection of work is full of vitality in its exploration of grief. The tender and intimate unscripted performance chronicles the life, death, trials and triumphs of her late father. With "My Father Loved Me", Kilgour makes amends with her memories, her emotional inheritance and her own mortality. She carefully carves out meaning and belonging in the wake of the death of an ordinary working man.
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About the artist:
Rachael Kilgour's exquisite fourth full-length collection, My Father Loved Me, is a tribute to her late father, produced by JUNO Award-winning songwriter Rose Cousins and recorded in the senior Kilgour's native Canada. In the spare, often gutting language for which she is known, Kilgour gives us a complex portrait of a man as seen through his daughter's eyes. With unwavering acuity she poses questions about identity, inheritance, and grief, and affirms the value of one ordinary working man's life to an often indifferent world.
Like her father, Kilgour is a hard worker. She comes by her considerable skills honestly, honing her craft over the past decade in listening rooms, festivals, concert halls, and recording studios, and picking up accolades along the way. Kilgour first attained notoriety outside her native Duluth, MN as the grand prize winner of the 2015 international NewSong Music Performance & Songwriting Competition and winner of the 2017 Kerrville New Folk Contest. She has been featured at NYC’s Lincoln Center, at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and at the Sundance Film Festival. Her oft-noted “unapologetic lyrics” (Rolling Stone) and “master crafted indie folk” sensibilities (Billboard) are on full display in this latest collection of songs.
