ABOUT CLAIRE COUPLAND

There is a pureness to Claire's voice that can silence a room.  A moving songwriter and compelling guitarist, Claire combines her smooth signature folk finger picking, jazz influenced progressions and soaring melodies with a powerful, yet tender delivery. Claire has been relentlessly touring her new album and drawing audiences into her intimate and heart wrenching performances. Her new album “New Light” delivers carefully crafted, darker and more vulnerable reckonings of self worth, escaping abuse, fragile family dynamics and ultimate hope for the future. After joining forces with Juno award winning musician Sam Weber (Bahamas) and some of LA’s finest musicians (Dawes, Alan Hampton), the album presents fresh and spontaneous arrangements of her songs with mood filled percussion, slinky guitars, sparkling piano and shades of grunge and California rock. Her music has reached #3 in the national college/community radio charts, had steady CBC & BBC UK airplay, and rave reviews from music publications around the world who laud her lyricism, deft guitar playing and rich vocals. Claire Coupland brings a graceful contemporary feel to modern folk music, always with a touch of her “wicked sense of humour” (Rik Emmett, Triumph).

 
 

LISTEN TO NEW LIGHT

 
 
 
 
 

NOTABLE FESTIVALS & STAGES

MEDIA BUZZ

 

  • Official Showcase Artist - Folk Music Ontario (London ON)

  • Digital Currents Showcase - Salmon Arm Folk Society (SA)

  • CityFolk Festival (Ottawa)

  • Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Festival (Salmon Arm)

  • Harbour Blues ‘N Roots Festival (Victoria)

  • Valhalla Festival (Terrace)

  • Kingsville Folk Festival (Kingsville)

  • Living Roots Festival (New Brunswick)

  • Arisaig Americana Festival (Scotland)

  • Wimborne Minster Folk Festival (England)

  • Islands Folk Festival (Duncan)

  • Nether Edge Folk Club (Sheffield UK), Folk & Roots Club (London, UK)

  • Peace Valley Folk Festival (Hudson’s Hope)

  • Ignite The Arts Festival (Penticton)

  • Roots North Festival (Orillia)

Canadian Beats - New Light - Review Album

Canadian Beats - The Flame - Review Single

Great Dark Wonder - Drifting In The Breeze - Review

Celebmix/Music Release - The Flame - Review Single

Dusty Organ - 1000 Miles From A Dream - Review Single

Canadian Beats - 1000 Miles From A Dream - Review Single

Guitar Girl Magazine - 1000 Miles From A Dream - Review Single

Canadian Beats - Love Song - Review Single

STAGE PLOTS

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

  • #3 Earshot National College/Community Radio Charts - Folk/Roots/Blues (On The Other Side)

  • #5 Earshot National College/Community Radio Charts - Folk/Roots/Blues (New Light) 

  • Official Showcase Artist, Digital Currents - Salmon Arm Folk Society (2024), BC

  • Official Showcase Artist, Folk Music Ontario, Ontario - 2023

  • Songs From The Heart (Ontario Arts Council) - Song Nomination “Love In Your Eyes” 2018

  • Songwriting Semi Finalist “Here On In” RootsTech Song Contest - 2020

  • Feature Songwriter - Humber Producer In Residence Week w/Bob Ezrin (KISS, Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, Deep Purple, Peter Gabriel) 2015

  • Graduate - Contemporary/Jazz Music Degree at Humber College, Voice, Toronto, ON

  • Singer Songwriter Residency Artist - The Banff Centre for the Arts - 2018

  • VIA Rail Artist On Board - 6 transcontinental journeys across Canada

 
 

PHOTOS