Ellen Froese is bringing her unique musical take on folk music to the NAC’s Fourth Stage!

Despite sadness underpinning the album's creation, due to Froese’s friend and recording engineer passing away during the making of For Each Flower Growing, Froese was lucky to find a wonderful creative foil in Sheepdogs' Sam Corbett, helping her reimagine her conception of what “folk music” can be. With the addition of drum machines, synths, and more intricate vocal production techniques, Froese reflects that “folk music can be anything I want it to be, I don’t have to be stuck in an antiquated mindset to hold strong musical ties to the past”.

And the results of that mindset are stellar; the album foregrounds the singer's lilting, ethereal vocals atop right-in-the-pocket, pillow-y drumming, melodic bass lines, ripples of Hammond organ layers, and – for the headphone listener – a bevvy of expertly-placed sonic details tucked into the margins.