THE EAST POINTERS WITH GUEST EMILEA MAY – 100% SOL D OUT!

JUNO Award-winners The East Pointers — Tim Chaisson (vocals/fiddle/percussion) and Jake Charron (guitar/keyboards) — are innovators within the ever-evolving genre of modern folk, crafting a joy-conjuring, dancefloor-shaking, roof-rattling fusion of folk, pop, and dance music. In the studio, four records have captured the furious energy of their live shows, adding to the legacy of East Coast folk while lighting a path for a new generation of music lovers. Already internationally acknowledged as musical trailblazers, on their newest offering, Schoonertown, released January 23, 2026, The East Pointers have come home. Equal parts origin story and statement of craft, Schoonertown captures the moments that shaped their youth: nights out with the boys, the dizzy romance of first love, sprawling families and small towns, two weeks on in a bleak winter, kitchen parties and vinyl records and tape decks, every mistake, every late night, every long drive, beer and cigarettes and fights, laughing until you can’t breathe, ambition rising like a king tide, the piss and vinegar of youth, the sun emerging so bright over the horizon you have to shield your eyes–the devastation and exhilaration of all of it. Since their debut album, Secret Victory, took home the 2017 JUNO Award for Traditional Album of the Year, The East Pointers have cemented their place as a defining voice in contemporary folk music. Their music, streamed millions of times over each month, has been featured on television, film, and broadcast, and their acoustic performances on social media have been shared by the likes of Ed Sheeran and Mumford & Sons. They regularly light up stages across Australia, Japan, the UK, Europe, Mexico, New Zealand, the USA, and Canada, and each fall they bring that energy back home to Prince Edward Island, where they host Goolaholla!, a festival celebrating music, community, and the spirit of the East Coast.

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When Emilea May picks up a guitar, she is seeking something elusive. The chords and melodies are reaching out for connection, trying to capture or process a feeling. Coming from one of PEI’s great musical families–her grandfather Gene MacLellan wrote Anne Murray’s “Snowbird” and her aunt is multi-award-winning folk artist Catherine MacLellan–May is more than a traditional singer-songwriter. Her open-tuning harmony and lilting melodies evoke Phoebe Bridgers, Sarah Harmer, Lizzy Mcalpine and Joni Mitchell. Her first and soon to be released EP "Unwreck Me" is a soft blow with a touch of grit–echoing her own lived experience through heartache and heaviness. Her music feels like a hand to hold through the hard parts, dancing through themes of self-honesty and emotional alchemy, with haunting vocals and cutthroat lyrics that have thrilled audiences.