Jay Gilday

At once elemental and unearthly, Jay Gilday is a raw and gorgeous siren of the Canadian north, fusing hymnal anguish with driving rhythm and blues.
As a songwriter, he threads together the colors of his own ancestral traditions: Dene spirituals, Irish ballads, Canadian folk and rock.
His second full-length record, Faster than Light (2016), earned the Indigenous Artist of the Year award from the Western Canadian Music Awards (2017), plus Singer-songwriter of the Year, and Artists to Watch from the Edmonton Music Awards (2017). “A lot of folk and some fire.”