New Moon Folk Club Presents: Kacy & Clayton w/ Lily Monaghan

The music Kacy and Clayton make is inextricable from where they grew up. They sing about the kind of people you’d find in Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan (population very few). The hills, barns and remoteness of the area are in these songs, with a bittersweet acknowledgement that this music has taken them far from home.

Their sound is equal parts homespun, coming from a family and community where playing music is an ever present part of social gatherings, and the rare country, blues and English folk rock these second cousins obsess over and collect. For Carrying On, Clayton cites as influences: Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete, Hoyt Axton’s My Grif in Is Gone, Cajun fiddle music, and the steel guitar of Ralph Mooney who played on many of the records that defined the Bakersfield country music scene of the 1950s. Sixties psych has also woven its way into these new songs; Kacy enjoys telling people that they live 250km from the mental hospital that coined the term ‘psychedelic’.

Lily Monaghan

Born and raised in Edmonton, Lily Monaghan is a blues/folk/country fusion singer-songwriter with a warm, unique tone. Often using a biographical approach to her passion of songwriting, she captures a raw and soulful atmosphere for anybody who listens. A recent graduate from the Bachelor of Jazz and Contemporary Popular Music program from Grant Macewan University, she dedicates her time to improving her skills as well as adopting new ones. Lily’s mission is to create heartfelt, meaningful, and emotional music; drawing inspiration from many songwriters including Brandi Carlile, Stevie Nicks, and Hozier.