Nature is close to the heart of Canmore based folk and roots musician Lori Reid who returns to Lethbridge May 16 to play her first show here in several years with Pillgrim, aka Robin Periara.
“ I’ve played everywhere else, though I haven’t played the Slice, though everyone else I know has,” said Reid, getting ready to go to work.
While she plays a lot around Canmore and Banff and sometimes Calgary, she released her last CD in 2012-13.
“I was raising my son, who is all grown up now,” she said.
Reid is very much inspired by nature and healthy living.
She released a song several years ago called “Colours” about that subject.
“I wrote that years ago. It’s about being careful about what you put into your body,” she said.
She has always been inspired by nature.
“ I grew up in Fort MacMurray and spent a lot of time exploring the boreal forest alone,” she reminisced.
“ I’ve also lived in B.C. I was an organic farmer selling food at markets,” she said adding the environment and nature has always been something close to her heart and which seeps into her songwriting.
“ I try not to hit people over the head with a hammer with it,” she said.
She has known Pillgrim for 20 years and is excited to share the stage with him again.
“ We’ve been friends for many years,” she said.
“ He plays alt country music, but there is rock and jazz influences as well,” she said.
“ He’s very talented,” she continued.
She is also friends with Lethbridge songwriter Dave McCann and has played shows with him in Calgary and who used to play in the Fates with Jenny Allen and Lin Elder. Dave McCann will also be playing the show.
The show begins at 9 p.m.
