Jessica Pearson Interview
Her love for storytelling, drawing on folk, outlaw country, and Celtic traditions, is evident in her songwriting. The stories she tells are like lovingly-sewn patchwork quilts, stitched together by soul-stirring melodies and gorgeous modern folk-country arrangements. They are the quilts you spread out under the stars, and the ones you wrap yourself in all winter long. These stories, with their frayed edges, become more beautiful the longer you sit with them.
In 2021, Pearson received the Folk Music Ontario ‘Songs from the Heart’ award for her song Ready My Heart. She was also selected for Global Music Match, a program created to connect artists internationally on social media platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jessica Pearson & the East Wind was also nominated for ‘Group of the Year’ at the 2021 Capital Music Awards and nominated for ‘Album of the Year’ at the 2022 and 2023 Faces Awards.
Her long-awaited debut album On the Line was released in January 2022 through Willow Sound Records, to a sold-out crowd and her new single “Row” comes out on June 30th, 2023.
Jessica Pearson joins us on the phone to talk new music and what’s on the way
