Kim Albert
SATURDAY, JUNE 14 @ DUFFY’S TAVERN (9PM)
It always starts with the music. Kim Albert grew up in a household full of the traditional fiddle tunes of her self-taught dad and has been performing music since a childhood. Marked by the untimely loss of her mother at the age of eight, her haunting, pared-down folk songs are steeped in love and loss. She crafts music as mindful meditation in a daily practice of acceptance, self-exploration and forgiveness. The result is a personal, revealing interpretation of the fallibility and wonders of what makes us human.
Her sophomore record, To Hold it All, gets its title from the loss of a friend who left behind kids who were the age Kim had been when she lost her mother. Experiencing mourning through the eyes of those kids made her realize just how empty the platitudes we offer the bereaved are. The song helped her come to terms with the fact that love and loss, beauty and pain are intertwined -- sides of the same coin; that grief is not something to be gotten over but rather something with which one learns to coexist. The album was released in August, 2023 and was nominated among the 15 best albums in Quebec by Le Devoir.
Hometown: Montreal, QC, Canada
Booking: kim.albert.music@icloud.com