Events Calendar

Thanya Iyer

Montréal’s Thanya Iyer is an enigmatic songwriter whose sparkling experimental pop music embraces mindfulness, aesthetic beauty, and the interconnectedness of all things. Iyer’s 2025 release, TIDE/TIED, expands on the future-folk of their 2020 Polaris Prize long-listed album KIND. With washes of jazz-inflected pop and ensemble ambience courtesy of Daniel Gélinas’ meditative drumming, Pompey’s adventurous multi-instrumentalism, and the celestial harp of Emilie Kahn, Thanya Iyer builds a layered musical world that Pitchfork described as “a lucid daydream that’s constantly melting at its edges.”

Thanya Iyer Workshop • June 24 • Tom Lee Music Hall
Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts.

Elisa Thorn

Known for her charming off-the-cuff humour and distinctly contemporary use of the instrument, harpist/vocalist Elisa Thorn draws from indie, jazz, chamber pop, and post-rock to create a meditative, psychedelic, and energizing sound that’s all her own. Thorn’s an insatiable collaborator in projects that include Gentle Party, HUE, and The Giving Shapes, but she’s currently focusing on her solo work, including the 2025 release of her debut album, xiik.

Called “experimental folk for the bathtub,” Elisa’s intriguing sounds have been found to be equally impactful on sinks, basins, and people.