Amanda Rheaume
Winner of the 2023 Canadian Folk Music Award for Indigenous Songwriter of the Year, Amanda Rheaume enriches Heartland Rock with rootsy ballads. Reflecting her Métis Nation citizenship and 2SLGBTQ+ community role, Rheaume’s music offers fresh perspectives on resistance and resilience. She’s released five albums, four EPs, and is crafting a new album for release in 2025.
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Biography
Winner of the 2023 Canadian Folk Music Award for Indigenous Songwriter of the Year and the 2023 Capital Music Awards’ Album of the Year, Amanda Rheaume enriches Heartland Rock with her rootsy, guitar-driven ballads. Breaking boundaries in a genre often confined by anthems of underdogs, assumptions, and unfair advantages, Rheaume's music offers new perspectives on resistance and resilience, reflecting her Métis Nation citizenship and active role in the 2SLGBTQ+ community.
Hailing from a lineage of organizers and activists, Rheaume channels this legacy into her work as a builder of Indigenous music infrastructure and community. Rheaume has released 5 full-length albums and four EPs while fostering a self-managed career travelling numerous tours and achieving many milestones. 2013’s Keep a Fire was nominated for a JUNO Award and won a Canadian Folk Music Award. Rheaume is currently crafting her next full-length album for release in 2025.
Press Quotes
“a voice clear as a bell, reminiscent of Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell”
- Lindencult Times, Germany
“evocative storyteller”
- the telegraph
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"Conjuring thoughts of a swaggering Sheryl Crow"
- Folk Radio