Dana Sipos with Tommy Carson

Dana Sipos is an acclaimed Canadian songwriter. She inhabited the far north before going nomad and her captivatingly nuanced songs are filled with a wild wind and a haunting surrealism. She now resides among the old growth and wilds of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Sipos toured extensively across North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand in support of her 2018 album, Trick of the Light, released on Juno-nominated musician and music advocate, Miranda Mulholland’s label, Roaring Girl Records. The album received acclaim from CBC, The Bluegrass Situation, Penguin Eggs, Folk Roots Radio (UK) and No Depression. Dana was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award in the English Songwriter of the year category and shortlisted for the Ontario Arts Council Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award and the Kerrville Folk Festival “New Folk” songwriter competition.
Sipos once again teamed up with experimental producer Sandro Perri and reunited with her accomplished studio band for her next project. To bring the new songs to life, the crew decamped to a large converted 1860s stone carriage house, The House of Miracles, in Cambridge, Ontario, in the summer of 2020. The result is an impeccably curated collection of sounds, anchored by Sipos’ haunting vocals and evocative lyrics. Many albums offer a snapshot in time, or a glimpse behind the curtain into a fleeting certain moment in the writer’s story. On The Astral Plane, Sipos instead invites the listener beneath the surface, diving into complex personal histories and relationships and their ongoing reverberations, from the past and into the present and future.
The Astral Plane is a deeply personal exploration, tracing the imprints of memory that form and take hold over the many lifetimes of a person, a family, the environment. Running parallel to this investigation of family histories and legacies, there are strong undercurrents of collective climate grief, the shifting faces of loss and inherited trauma echoing the ecological crises of our time. It has been lauded as a ‘mesmerizing jewel of an album’ by No Depression and garnered Sipos a Solo Artist of the Year nomination (2022 CFMAs).