Moonfruits

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Event type: All Ages / Licensed

2024 Canadian Folk Music Award nominees Moonfruits (Emerging Act & Producers of the Year) craft contemporary folk that addresses our collective humanity with heart, wit, and wonder. Led by partners Alex Millaire and Kaitlin Milroy, Moonfruits pen songs in both French and English, a reflection of their bilingual lived experience in their hometown of Ottawa.

Theirs is the music of open-minded dreamers and diligent doers, confronting dehumanizing capitalism and environmental catastrophe with a rousing message of solidarity. This Stingray Rising Star, SOCAN, and Trille Or award-winning group has toured their transportive live show across Canada, the US and Europe. In 2021, the duo co-wrote, arranged, and played in Moby: A Whale of a Tale, premiered on a ship in Toronto’s harbour, recipient of four Dora awards.

Moonfruits’ lushly orchestrated sophomore album, Salt, weaves stories of family, responsibility and loss in this era of climate change and deepening inequality. It is rooted and astral, tender and powerful, foreboding and hopeful, cradling all the convictions and contradictions of its songwriters. Moon Cradle, its dreamy harp-string-and-voice laden closing track, won the Capital Music Awards for Best Production and Arrangements.

Live, expect a dynamic performance with warm, welcoming harmonies ranging from raucous to whisper quiet, innovative arrangements with bowed guitar and banjo, a little knob-tweaking and a hefty dose of family-fueled storytelling. Singing in English and French, Moonfruits love to open their audiences’ ears and hearts to sounds unfamiliar, and adore a good singalong.

“the future of roots music is in good hands” — Heather Kitching, Roots Music Canada

“a tremendous live act ... they absolutely brought the house down” — Jan Hall, Folk Roots Radio

Moonfruits also love collaboration, and they perform, whenever possible, with a roving cast of players, including double bass, backing vocals, harmonium, pump organ, percussion, violin, singing saw and harp. They have a keen interest in classical-folk crossover concerts and have chamber orchestra parts at the ready.

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