songs for my father to fall asleep to
Join Kris Demeanor for a special evening celebrating his moving album, Songs for my Father to Fall Asleep To.
ABOUT
Join Kris Demeanor and special guests for an intimate evening of music celebrating Kris’ album Songs for my Father to Fall Asleep To. This collection of songs was recorded over the past four years in studios, basements, churches, forests and tunnels, and was created as a love letter to his family and friends, and in particular to his father Wilfried. The performance will highlight the recording along with projection, lighting and story, creating a theatrical song cycle curated by the brilliant eye and ear of Ghost River Theatre’s Eric Rose.
Check out the first single ‘Wolves’ from Songs for my Father to Fall Asleep to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqylElABTkc
The night will continue with a raucous second set from Kris Demeanor’s back catalogue!
Kris Demeanor - SONGS FOR MY FATHER TO FALL ASLEEP TO
Co-Presented by Ghost River Theatre
West Village Theatre – 2007 10 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T3C 0K4
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Thursday, May 1 @8 PM
Friday, May 2 @ 8 PM
Saturday, May 3 @ 8 PM
credits
Kris Demeanor, Singer/Songwriter/Storyteller
Eric Rose, Director
Ella Jean Haggis, Singer/Songwriter/Multi-instrumentalist
Kris Demeanor
Lead Performer
Singer, Songwriter, & Storyteller
Kris Demeanor is a singer songwriter, born and raised in Mohkinstis (Calgary) by parents who instilled a love of and respect for nature, a curious mind and a hunger for adventure.
Collaborating with Ghost River and creating music with Cedric, Alanna, Skip, Tauran, Kenna and Eric represents the ultimate coming together of these interests and values.
Kris dedicates his work to daughter Aviva and partner Deborah, in celebration of the ongoing joy and beauty in a turbulent world.
Ella Jean Haggis
Singer/Songwriter/
Multi-instrumentalist
Ella is a singer-songwriter and music producer from Calgary. She moved to the UK at 18 to pursue comedy and writing but returned as a musician influenced by UK Garage and psychedelic rock. In 2022, she moved back to the sacred gathering ground of Moh’kins’tsis (Calgary) and found work by day in environmental advocacy. She is honoured and excited to contribute to Songs For My Father To Fall Asleep To on trumpet, bass, and other instruments.
Eric Rose
Co-Creator and Director
GRT Artistic Director
Eric Rose is an award winning multi-disciplinary director and creator of live performance and the Artistic Director of Calgary’s acclaimed Ghost River Theatre. His passion for the creative process has inspired the diversity of his multidisciplinary experience spanning: large scale contemporary and classical theatre, site- specific performance, devising theatre, new play development, physical performance and dance. Eric’s work embraces a hybrid of high tech visual spectacle with low-fi theatrical magic and is developed through a significant investment in imaginative research and development.