CIVL Station Manager Aaron Levy brings you a shuffle this issue with stellar local artists from a variety of genres.
Glisha has been a feature of the Fraser Valley Music Awards (FVMA) world since she was nominated for the first time in 2020. Since then, she’s won in multiple categories, and came first-place at this year’s Dakota Leslie Memorial Fan Vote. I’ve also previously shuffled her upbeat tune “Staycation.”
Another multiple-time Fraser Valley Music Award Winner, Jenny Banai, pressed her video-accompanied vinyl LP couchwalker with financial help from CIVL and the FVMAs. She also played at Mission Folk Music Festival with her band a couple years back as part of a separate prize we offered.
Going way back into Abbotsford local music history, Sammi Morelli was a fixture of the Ethical Addictions Coffee House scene: a locally owned Abbotsford based coffee shop that was home to the then-burgeoning local DIY music community. Morelli resurfaced at the FVMAs in 2022 and received a Fraser Valley Music Award for Excellence by a Queer Artist.
Playing in Toronto this month with legendary FVMA winner Mauvey (who was featured in the shuffle last week), Kimmortal is not an FVMA nominee. That’s because they are Vancouver’s resident non-binary hip hop artist extraordinaire these days. They even headlined our local free festival Jam in Jubilee in Abbotsford this summer!
