PERFORMING ARTIST OF THE YEAR NOMINEE Folk Music Ontario 2024
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR NOMINEE Capital Music Awards 2024
SONG OF THE YEAR WINNER Folk Music Ontario 2021
Highlights
Over 500K Streams
Over 400M Videos Views
Featured on "All In A Day with Alan Neal" on CBC
Official Showcase Artist at Folk Alliance International Conference 2022
Ottawa Citizen Feature "Ottawa Artists that are Creating Buzz"
CCMA Off-Country Showcase Artist
Featured Performance for Canada's Olympic Team for Tokyo Olympics 2020
SIRROMA Diamonds In The Rough Showcase Artist and Winner at CCMA 2022
MAJOR ARTIST CUT Joe Diffie - As Long As There's A Bar
ARTIST OF THE YEAR NOMINEE CMA 2022
Opened for The Good Lovelies, Hillsburn, The East Pointers, Blue Rodeo and more
"Jessica Pearson and the East Wind are the sort of act that completely reinvigorate you as a promoter, and remind you why you do the job. Absolute dreams to work with, and such a joy to watch that I was plotting when I could get them back to play again before they'd even finished their set."
- Stephen Rotzsch Thomas, Folk Room UK
"Raring to go, her live show delights and engages as much as the songs do on her incredible debut. This person charms without being cute, arrests without force, and brings more goosebumps per hour than a windchill. Jessica Pearson and the East Wind remind us that a mighty music show is not how many people you put on stage: it's who stands on that stage beside you.”
- Amanda Putz, CBC
“Impeccable musicianship, great singing and a wide variety of material all served up with with good humour... with Jessica's warm and genuine personality shining through and creating an instant rapport with the audience.”
- Mike Kirrage, Festival Director of Gate to Southwell Music Festival, UK
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Biography
Like the yellow morning sun inviting fields of sunflowers to turn toward her, Jessica naturally draws her listeners in. Whether you are at a live show or enjoying her musical offerings through your bluetooth speaker, you are sure to feel the sunny warmth she so effortlessly conveys. Her love for storytelling, drawing on folk, outlaw country, and Celtic traditions, is evident in her songwriting.
In 2021, Pearson received the Folk Music Ontario ‘Songs from the Heart’ award for her song Ready My Heart and was selected for Global Music Match, a program created to connect artists internationally on social media platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic. Playing shows, festivals and showcases across eastern Canada, Ireland, Iceland, The UK, the USA and Sweden, Jessica Pearson and the East Wind have opened artists like The Good Lovelies, The East Pointers, Hillsburn, Blue Rodeo and more.
Pearson was nominated for "Music Video of the Year" at the Capital Music Awards and was recently nominated for "Performing Artist of the Year" at the Folk Music Ontario Awards in 2024.
Her debut album On The Line was released January, 2022 to a sold out crowd with her follow up single "Row" reaching top 100 on the Canadian Indie Country Countdown. She is currently working on an all women created album to be released in 2025 with Juno Award Winning producer Hill Kourkoutis.
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