Home Concert: Aleksi Campagne

Named Penguin Eggs & Roots Music Canada’s New Discovery of the Year (2024), Aleksi Campagne offers a contemporary, indie-folktake on the time-honoured fiddle-singing tradition. Born and raised in Montreal, Aleksi’smusic blends folk songwriting with an edgy,multi-layered sound resulting from his unique combination of voice, violin and looping-effect pedals. His debut album For The Giving / Sansrien donner was just nominated for a CanadianFolk Music Award (April 2024), and is a fully bilingual album offering 10 songs in French and the same 10 songs in English.

Aleksi’s debut has been a whirlwind! Aleksi was selected as a Mariposa Folk Festival EmergingArtist to perform at the festival. His first singleAnother Day was picked by Paul Corby as a TopSingle of 2022. He was then celebrated by Tom Coxworth as one of the Top 5 Favourite acts at the Folk Alliance International Conference, alongside acts like The Fretless and Mary Gautier. His second single Won’t be Scared was selected as the only Canadian finalist in the Kerrville Folk Festival’s Grassy Hill New FolkCompetition for Emerging Song writers. In July 2023. Aleksi Launched his debut album, which debuted at #22 FAI Folk Charts.

In a review in Le Devoir by Sylvain Cormier, Aleksi’s debut was compared to that of Patric Watson and half Moon Run. According to Roots Music Canada, “Aleksi Campagne finessed one of the most musically ambitious accomplishments of the year, an impeccable double album, one set of songs in two conjoined bilingual packages.” He is now touring his album with other 50 shows in Canada and the United States!