BIO

There is a grounded current of energy that runs through Pearson’s music and connects with her audience. It feels like bare feet planted on an old hardwood floor. It smells like fields of heather on a foggy day.  

 

Her love for storytelling, drawing on folk, outlaw country, and Celtic traditions, is evident in her songwriting. The stories she tells are like lovingly-sewn patchwork quilts, stitched together by soul-stirring melodies and gorgeous modern folk-country arrangements. They are the quilts you spread out under the stars, and the ones you wrap yourself in all winter long. These stories, with their frayed edges, become more beautiful the longer you sit with them.

 

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.