Miranda Martini, singer _ songwriter

Miranda Martini is a musician, writer, composer and sound designer. Her recent solo album, The Historian, was featured on the CBC Radio show Key of A as part of their “Best of 2025” episode, showcasing the best new music out of Alberta last year. The album also charted at #8 on CJSW Folk/Country/Blues charts for 2025, and was featured in the Alberta Views Magazine 2026 Albums Guide.

Multidisciplinary artist Miranda Martini shares songs off of her new album The Historian—her first solo album in 10 years—which meditates on her connection to the land, her ancestors, and the uneasy mantle of “singer-songwriter.” Freely blending bluegrass and R&B/soul, The Historian pays tribute to Martini’s Black prairie ancestors, particularly those of the Black prairie communities of Maidstone and Campsie from which Martini descends.

As she says in the album liner notes, Martini wrote the title track to honour three historians: her great-great-aunt Daisy Williams, who was the keeper of the family’s stories; her great uncle Phillip Risby, an artist whose paintings are a mirror of a life lived as a black man growing up in North America; and her mother, writer and historian Cheryl Foggo, who ignited in Martini a passion for using art to understand the world and her place in it.

Onstage, Martini uses her molasses-rich voice and gift for storytelling to invite audiences into her living room, making magic with crowds of 15 people or 500.

This is the third of four concerts in a Series of Emerging Artists Concerts during 2026 that is generously sponsored by: