Resilience and Escape with Emily Triggs
"Come up here to steal away, seeking an asylum.
You made the great escape, I stay here to guide them..."
—Emily Triggs ("The Water Tower", The Great Escape, 2024)
Montreal-born, Alberta-based Emily Triggs is the kind of singer-songwriter whose music comes from a place where poetry and sensitivity meet honesty and grit.
Emily grew up in a household of mixed English and french cultural influences. Both her parents were artists: her mother—Louise Demers Triggs—was a dancer in the folk troupe Les Feux Follets. Her Father—Stanley Triggs—was a folk singer, whose recordings can be found on…
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