Spotlight On: FEIST
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Leslie Feist is a true SHERO of indie rock, who started out singing with an all girl punk band in her teens, then moved to Toronto from Calgary where she found a rich musical community including her future bandmates in Broken Social Scene. Her debut album as Feist was self-released in 1999 titled Monarch, and simultaneously working with Broken Social Scene, she continued to write and record her own songs. Starting with the arrival of her 2004 sophomore album Let It Die, followed by The Reminder in 2007, Metals in 2011, and 2017's Pleasure, Feist has become a consistently critically acclaimed, massively influential artist, not to mention award-winning - she has earned multiple Juno awards, Grammy nominations, a BRIT Award, and the 2012 Polaris Prize (becoming the first female artist ever to do so). Feist's excellent sixth album Multitudes arrived a few months ago, and was just announced as shortlisted for the Polaris Prize. She joins us to discuss the intersection of the songs for Multitudes, motherhood, grief, and her experimental, the intimate, theatrical show in the round that shares the name of her new album.
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