Grenadian-Canadian songwriter Kaia Kater recently released new album Grenades in the UK to critical acclaim.
Now she has announced a string of tour dates this Spring including a show at The Stables in Milton Keynes on Friday, May 19.
Known for her prowess as a songwriter and tradition bearer who performs with “the skill of a folk-circuit veteran” (Rolling Stone), Kaia took a decidedly different direction for the new opus.
What started out as a search to discover the roots of her identity became a physical and emotional exploration of history, in particular her paternal ancestry, and has led to bold new heights of imagination and creative expression.
Kaia's father Deno grew up in Grenada, fleeing to Canada in 1986 as part young speakers program, after the U.S. invasion.
His voice can be heard recounting those events during the album's interludes — a way for the Canadian songwriter to tie her present with his past, in order to understand our current global climate of war, unease, immigration, and displacement.
To fully immerse herself in the story, Kater traveled to her father's homeland — her first visit as an adult. “Going home to Grenada felt like shining a light into a part of myself previously shadowed,” she says. She hoped to find the answers to a lifetime’s worth of questions: questions which found their way into these songs as she considered “the legacy of lineage and of fractured family trees.”
Tickets for The Stables show are on sale now, here
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