Mad Agnes with Opening Act Shawna Caspi
Mad Agnes has won hearts on two continents with their signature intricate harmonies, compelling songwriting, and passionate delivery. The genre-bending trio — Margo Hennebach, Adrienne Jones, and Mark Saunders — creates an exciting, inclusive performance, delivering new original songs, selections from their thirteen album catalog, story telling and impromptu vocal improv.
Singer-songwriter Shawna Caspi takes her time crafting lyrics that are poetic and meaningful, using unusual rhymes and surprising turns of phrase. Shawna spent years on the road, playing festivals, halls, train cars, backyards, and living rooms, supporting her warm voice with intricate fingerstyle guitar accompaniment, and drawing energy from shifting landscapes and long drives through Canada and the USA. This is music that makes an authentic human connection, that conveys a sense of closeness, of being understood, of feeling less alone. Her latest album, Hurricane Coming, was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award and an Ontario Folk Music Award.