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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Quique Escamilla
Sponsored by Long & McQuade • quiqueescamilla.com
Quique Escamilla, a multi-instrumentalist,
singer-songwriter,
and producer living in Toronto, is
originally from Mexico and has been
performing music for over 25 years.
His powerful voice fuses traditional Mexican styles of music
with modern sounds including rock, reggae, ska, pop, jazz,
cumbia, and bolero. His star has been rapidly rising on the
Canadian music scene lately. In 2014 he won the Canadian
Folk Music Award for World Solo Artist and earlier this year
he won the World Music Album of the Year Juno Award for
his album 500 Years of Night.
Kim Harris
Sponsored by The Stella Rose B&B • kimharrismusic.com
Kim Harris’s voice, like the ocean,
is vast and ever-changing. She
takes listeners on a symphonic
journey that soars through
constellations, tumbles through
storm clouds, and plunges into
the underbelly of the sea. Originally from Newfoundland,
now based in Halifax, Harris has performed at Halifax Pop
Explosion, East Coast Music Awards, Nova Scotia Music
Week, and In the Dead of Winter Music Festival. Her debut
album, Only The Mighty, evokes a graceful soulfulness, and
was nominated for a 2015 East Coast Music Award for Rising
Star Recording of the Year.
Donna Holmes
Sponsored by Friends of the Fesetival • facebook.com/OpenMikeandDonna
Donna sang “Raindrops Keep Falling
on My Head” in a school concert
when she was four years old – and
has been singing ever since. Donna
sings jazz with the Annapolis Big
Band and performs original songs at the open mic she
hosts every Tuesday night at TAN café in Wolfville. She
has performed at the Halifax Jazz Festival; sung back-up
for Greg Muttart, Up Dog, and Heather Kelday; and is one
of the singer/songwriters featured on the new Christmas
album Let the Good News Ring produced by Ruby Throated
Records and which also includes original songs by Kimberly
Matheson, Andy & Ariana, and The Hupman Brothers.
The Hupman Brothers
Sponsored by Kings County Honda • hupmanbrothers.com
Ryan and Scott Hupman have
created a musical legacy that has a
deep connection to the Blues yet
respects their intuitive sense of
following the music to wherever
it takes them. Their albums have garnered various nominations
and awards including an ECMA, a Music Nova Scotia
Award, and a Maple Blues Award Nomination. In 2011, Adam
Bazinet and Chris Robison began playing music with Ryan
and Scott and this new collaboration (as the Hupman Brothers
Band) has yielded a couple more albums and two more
nominations. Whether playing as a duo, with their band, or
with other musicians, the Hupmans are a class act.
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