Ria Mae is visiting The Sanctuary - Centre for the Arts on November 8. We've been patientally waiting for a long time and now it's coming true. Finally!
Enjoy a fantastic night filled with amazing tunes and stories created and performed by the...
Ria Mae is visiting The Sanctuary - Centre for the Arts on November 8. We've been patientally waiting for a long time and now it's coming true. Finally!
Enjoy a fantastic night filled with amazing tunes and stories created and performed by the talented Ria Mae.Tickets are only available on ticketscene.ca.
Doors open at 7:30 pm, show starts at 8 pm. This will be a seated show. If you have any questions, please email thesanctuaryarts@gmail.com.
For Halifax, Nova Scotia born and raised pop artist, Ria Mae, it took a mid-pandemic visit home to her old neighbourhood to bring it all back. She was staying right across the street from where she lived in her early twenties. “It’s funny, I could see my old tiny apartment from there,” Mae laughs cautiously. “I used to Airbnb that place all the time and sleep on my younger sister’s couch, so I could scrap up enough money for recording sessions”.
Mae’s new EP, Therapy, is a curated batch of six swelling anthems that are both conversational and confessional. After a first listen to the entire EP you find yourself wondering - who is Ria Mae talking to in these songs? Each track seems targeted, in a way that most can relate, towards one person. You’re just not sure if it’s someone she’s driving to, or away from, but her lyrics are clearly a roadmap to the person Ria Mae is today.
Thomas ‘Tawgs’ Salter came on board to produce For Your Love, as well as the album’s title track. For Your Love, co-written with Tawgs and Simon Wilcox, was featured in network television series, The L Word, in late 2021. Therapy also brought Joceyln Alice to the process, the song serving as Mae’s first collab with the Calgary born critically acclaimed songwriter. The song was inspired by Mae’s fear of being completely consumed by a relationship, with lyrics describing the sentiment: “Ten years of therapy, to try to get your feel off of me”. Mae reflects, “I never wanted to get crushes on people because the crush would be so intense. I would feel it starting and I would be like ‘Oh no! I can’t go back to this place’, like it was a complete negative”
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