From the back alleys of the mind and the tight communities of British Columbia’s Gulf Islands, comes O’mally; part jazz singing cat, part Irish Pirate Queen, and all raw talent. A fresh face in Canada’s folk music scene, O’mally is Meg Iredale-Gray, and whether she’s dazzling with her clawhammer banjo, telling stories on the old acoustic or haunting with her sweet and melancholy lyrics, its coming straight up from the murky depths of her very soul. Imagine if Dirk Powell, John Martyn, Joni Mitchell, members of Radiohead and Patti Smith all got together to play round the fire somewhere in the Appalachians…. You might find O’mally at that same sing-along.

Over the last three years O’mally has spent time touring Canada with various musicians or under the name Bandit with Outlaw Social’s Danielle Lebeau-Peterson, with whom she released a self titled EP last year. She’s played alongside Jeff Andrew, David Simard and Fish & Bird among others, and now O’mally strikes out solo with her debut album of original music, “Speck”. One can never be sure who will join O’mally on stage, but it’s sure to be an enjoyable and emotional show.

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News!

The spring CD release tour is over, and we're busy booking the summer trips... Speck was very well received everywhere we brought it, even hitting #3 on the Earshot NATIONAL Folk/Roots/Blues charts (week of May 18)! Windsor and Lethbridge kindly bumped us to #1 on their folk charts, and we promise we'll come visit next tour.

Bass Player Dan had his first ever poutine in Montreal, and Fiddle Player Elise had her first ever steak in Calgary. O'mally invented the Meatarrito in Toronto, but we won't go into that. We did a radio interview over the phone while pulled over in a mucky field at the side of a Saskatchewan highway in a windstorm, were well fed by wonderful people, got snowed on in our shorts, spoke a lot of bad French, listened to a lot of sweet music, and travelled with three different varieties of maple syrup. Favourite destination goes to Palmer, SK, pop. 20. If you're ever there, go to church! The green Westfalia was remarkably well-behaved, and I only had to push it around the corner once...

-Elise