Gabrielle Papillon

In 2015, she released her fifth album The Tempest of Old. It charted on Canadian national campus radio, CBC Radio 2, and the international iTunes Singer-Songwriter charts and won the Music Nova Scotia Award for Recording of the Year.[2] She also began working with veteran music manager Peter Jenner.[3] She released her sixth album Keep the Fire in 2017.[4] The album was nominated for three East Coast Music Awards,[5][6] four Music Nova Scotia Awards,[7] and a Canadian Folk Music Award,[8] winning the Music Nova Scotia award for SOCAN Songwriter of the Year in 2018.[9] Papillon's seventh album Shout was released in 2019.[10]

Songs from Papillon's albums have appeared in various films and television shows in Canada, the United States, and Australia including Rookie Blue (USA)[11] and This Life (CAN).[12]

Tom Power, host of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's 'q', has called Papillon "one of the finest songwriters in the country right now".[13] In an interview for the Globe and Mail, writer, director, and actor Sarah Polley said of Papillon "She is an incredible songwriter and has a transcendent voice."[14]

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