Friday, November 20, 2026 • 8:00 PM
Market Hall Performing Arts Centre
Basia Bulat has built her reputation on a rare combination of intimacy and reach — a Montreal singer-songwriter whose music draws from folk, soul, and gospel, then reshapes those traditions with a voice that can sound both fragile and commanding in the same breath. A three-time Polaris Music Prize finalist with a catalogue that has steadily evolved from spare early recordings into richer, more adventurous territory, Bulat took her biggest sonic leap with Basia’s Palace, released on February 21, 2025. Co-produced with Mark Lawson and mixed by Tucker Martine, the album folds in synths, strings, and dreamlike textures without losing the emotional directness that has always anchored her songs. For this more intimate live setting, Bulat strips the material back down again, performing on guitar, piano, and autoharp and letting the strength of the writing carry the evening — a reminder that beneath all the atmosphere, her songs still hit with quiet force.