Events › Sounds from the Valley: Music and Poetry

Head down to Edmonton's Snow Valley Ski Club to take in FREE concert with music and poetry. Listen to artists from EPL's Capital City Records and Capital City Press as they share their work at the bottom of the ski hill in the beautiful Rainbow Valley. Free of charge, we'll be collecting non-perishable food items for the Edmonton Food Bank.

Music from Capital City Records Artist, 0Stella

With sell-out shows in Ireland and Canada, and performing for Oscar-winner Glen Hansard, 0Stella's [oh-Stella] alt-rock Irish fusion is captivating audiences everywhere. This is rock and roll with traditional Irish fiddle and bodhrán (sometimes wrapped in thick distortion) and catchy pop melodies that shimmer with rebellion. 0Stella sings in both English and Irish and regularly engages the crowd to sing along in both languages.0Stella's unique sound deftly combines Canadian rock with Irish storytelling and folk music and draws comparisons to Paramore, Garbage, Lana Del Rey and The Frames.

Readings from Capital City Press Authors:

Gavin Bradley is an Irish writer from Belfast, who lives in Edmonton on Treaty 6 territory. Some of his work has appeared in The Irish Times, The North, Tesseracts, and Glass Buffalo, and his debut collection, Separation Anxiety, was the first book from North America to win UNESCO's Bridges of Struga International Poetry Award for best debut book of poetry. You can see what he's up to at: gavinbradleywrites.ca or follow him on Instagram @gavinbradleywrites

Domale Dube Keys is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta. She is a transborder Black feminist scholar who teaches and researches in the areas of feminist organizing, race, gender, and sexuality to support movement-building around the globe for social and environmental justice. Her ethnographic research has documented the experiences of Black women and immigrants who are involved in transnational nonviolent organizing. Her first monograph based on this work For Our Survival is forthcoming and was awarded the University of Illinois Press and the National Women’s Studies Association’s First Book Prize. Keys’ nonfiction has also been featured in Ms Magazine.

Tamara Soltykevych was born and raised in the great city of Edmonton and is now happily raising her two littles here with her husband. She has worked as a transportation engineer for the past decade and has had a keen interest in reading and writing most of her life. Tamara recently received a Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto and continues to write poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction in her spare time.