Peterborough Musicfest has announced Alberta-born country pop artist Lindsay Ell will perform a free-admission concert at Del Crary Park on Saturday, August 10th — the first of three performers to fill the remaining open dates in the festival’s 37th summer season. It’s Ell’s first-ever appearance at Peterborough Musicfest.
Now a dual Canadian-American citizen, the singer-songwriter and virtuoso guitarist was born and raised in Calgary, where she started playing piano at the age of six before falling in love with the guitar when she was eight — courtesy of her father’s collection of guitars. She also fell in love with the blues as a child, and began writing songs when she was 10.
Five years later, Canadian musical icon Randy Bachman discovered and mentored Ell, calling her “the most talented and multi-faceted artist I’ve come across in many years, producing her first album Consider This when she was 17, also co-writing most of the album’s 11 songs with Ell.
After releasing her 2009 album Alone, Ell began making regular trips began Calgary and Nashville, where she participated in songwriting sessions while playing live shows, moving there permanently when she was 21.
Her first official single with record label Stoney Creek Records, entitled “Trippin’ on Us,” debuted in 2013 as the most added song for country music radio in both Canada and the United States, and Ell made her Grand Ole Opry debut in 2014.
Three years later, she released her EP Worth the Wait, which was followed the same year by the album The Project, and then by 2018’s The Continuum Project and Heart Theory in 2020.
VIDEO: “Trippin’ On Us” – Lindsay Ell
Along the way, she has been nominated for almost 30 awards, winning Female Artist of the Year at the 2015 Association of Country Music in Alberta, Interactive Artist of the Year at the 2019, 2020, and 2021 Canadian Country Music Awards, and Single of the Year at the 2023 Canadian Country Music Awards for “Right on Time.” She has also been recognized for her role as host of the Citytv reality competition show Canada’s Got Talent, which earned her a 2024 Canadian Screen Award nomination.
It was recently announced that Canadian country superstar Shania Twain will be joining Canada’s Got Talent as a judge, and Ell will be joining Twain’s Las Vegas residency as her lead guitarist (she opened for Twain during her 2023 Canadian tour).
Here’s Peterborough Musicfest’s summer lineup, with acts still to be determined and announced for Wednesday, July 10 and Saturday, July 27.
- Tenille Townes – Saturday, June 29
- Road Apples – Monday, July 1
- Aysanabee (with Cale Crowe) – Wednesday, July 3
- Tim Baker/Great Lake Swimmers – Saturday, July 6
- To be announced – Wednesday, July 10
- I Mother Earth – Saturday, July 13
- Metric – Wednesday, July 17
- The Beau Dixon Band – Saturday, July 20
- To be announced – Saturday, July 27
- Rêve – Wednesday, July 24
- Down With Webster – Wednesday, July 31
- Elton Rohn – Saturday, August 3
- Dwayne Gretzky – Wednesday, August 7
- Lindsay Ell – Saturday, August 10
- Choir! Choir! Choir! – Wednesday, August 14
- David Wilcox – Saturday, August 17
For more information about Peterborough Musicfest, including details about upcoming concerts, visit www.ptbomusicfest.ca.
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