Aly Williams
Aly Williams
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Long Bio
Aly can’t help but sing about the mountains near her home in rural Southern Alberta.
Her music celebrates the history and landscape of her home in near the Rocky Mountains and the experiences of women in these places.
A childhood of skiing on the west coast first connected her to the mountains and when she is not singing she loves spending time in wild spaces. From trail running, to hunting, to climbing and paddling.
She holds the Fastest Known Time for completing the TripleCrown in Waterton: 60km over 3 mountains in 9 and a half hours.
In 2022 she set a female record on the Yukon River, paddling 1000 miles in 6 days with her friend Heidi Virtanen. She was singing the entire time. These experiences, as well as a deep inspiration from the women who broke trail before her, inspire her folky music.
Her vocals- pure with a hint of Irish lament- are complimented by intricate and rhythmic guitar that transports you to the mountains that her songs are inspired by.
Drawing from the wealth of stories from the Alberta Rockies, her songs celebrate the stories of females who blazed the trail before her.
She is set to release her 1st single "Wise Woman of the Woods" produced by Paul Zacharias, in Summer 2024.
Short Bio
Aly Williams' is a folk artist from the Rocky Mountains in Alberta.
Her vocals- pure with a hint of Irish lament- are complimented by intricate and rhythmic guitar that transports you to the mountains that her songs are inspired by.
Drawing from the wealth of stories from the Alberta Rockies, her songs celebrate the stories of females who blazed the trail before her.
She is set to release her 1st single "Wise Woman of the Woods" produced by Paul Zacharias, in Summer 2024.
Songs
Be Your Breeze
Bertha
Bertha Ekelund lived in Southern Alberta in the early 1900's. A warden: impressed by her, named a mountain, trail and basin after her. Living a tumultuous life in the Rockies, she keep getting drawn back to the mountains after life struggles.
Wise Woman of the Woods
Too Close to the Sun
(to be linked soon!)
Florence Lassandro was the only woman ever hung in Alberta. Caught in the crosshairs between increasing womans' rights and the prohibition, her death came 6 months before liquor was legalized in Alberta.