The Hermitess is the solo project of songwriter and harpist Jennifer Crighton, who comes by way of various other musical incarnations, including The Consonant C and Devonian Gardens. Stripping back the performance to a harp and a circle of women's voices, the Hermitess is an inquisitive, contrary, wounded, wise and ever dreaming incantation
Live Performances feature a changing cast of characters that may include:
Shara Raska, Julia Gunst, Randee-Lee Ross, Erin Rudling, Aimee-Jo Benoit, Richard Gallant, Melissa McWilliams, Jolene Toner, Laura Reid, Melyssa Nielsen, Eric Hamlin, Danny Vescarelli, and others...
Photographs:
Yellow Smoke: Jennifer Allyson
Live shots: and Mike Tan
PERFORMANCES
2019
June 1 2019 - Blank Page Studio - w/ Kurt Loewen - Heavy & Low Album Release TICKETS
June 22 2019 - Sled Island, #1 Legion - w/ Cate Le Bon and others. TICKETS
June 29/30 - Frogfest, Rocky Mountain House, AB - w/ TICKETS
PAST DATES
Hermitess
by Hermitess
Press
It’s a sonic disruption to almost anything else you’ve ever heard, and the whole thing unfolds like a secret garden coming to life after a long, harsh winter, cracking through the Earth bloom by bloom, branch by branch, song by song.
an album of appropriately desolation-evoking, nature-inspired songs for her debut as Hermitess. Akin to the austere spookiness of Chelsea Wolfe or the more subdued moments of Myrkur, Crighton creates her haunted, distant atmospheres by blending her voice with her harp, sometimes cloaked in waves of distortion
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