A self-confessed working-class Patsy Cline, but a bit more ethereal.  

If you’re about to shelve Alissa Arnason amongst the other folk/country artists in your library, dust off that shelf and think again, for Arnason is in a league of her own. Conceived in the prairie town of Mozart SK ( ..yes that’s right), on Schubert St, (yes, right again..) it’s as if the stars had already decided music would be her path in life. 

By day, however, Arnason works as a cook for gold miners and treeplanters in bush camps. These bush camps are so remote that we’ve never heard of them, and it’s this nomadic, brave existence along with the deep submergence into nature, that make this woman, and her music what they are. Songs about being tired from work, the relentless passing of time, memories, unconventional ways of living, along with love songs and lullabies to nature and the universe. 

Alissa has also studied the art of energy healing and cites that to her, there is no difference between the two worlds of healing and art - her art is her healing, and the two are her gift to the world.  

Her gorgeous single Lighthouse, was released on World Peach Records in 2021, it was the first recording Arnason had released in 7 years. A song she describes as “raw and honest, one that really gets to the guts of the complexity of love”. A tale of letting go and accepting what is instead of holding on, specifically to a lover, who she describes as a Lighthouse. She hopes that in hearing it the listener feels permission to be vulnerable and honest in their own forms of self-expression.  

But IMHO Alissa is the true Lighthouse here, a beacon of light for weary souls in desperate need of some truth and healing, her presence is like a sweet balm for the broken hearted. When you hear her your heart will be putty in the palms of her hands, (just like when she makes brownies no doubt), and you will never want to leave. 

For more information go to www.worldpeachrecords.com 

-Jayne Trimble

June 14-16th, 2024 - Tiny lights festival - Ymir, bc

July 19-21st, 2024 - pachena bay Music festival - pachena bay, BC

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august 6th, 2024 - The royal - Nelson, BC

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