Episode 3: Kathleen Yearwood – A Perfect Blood Sacrifice

‘I spent my deformative years in a land with an active genocide. I lit out to get back to Europe but poverty pulled me back. I look hopeful on that passport photo. Nobody wanted me to go into the arts. My working-class background told me not to, but I did. Everything else was like leaving a helpless child unattended. I tend to it now.’ – Kathleen Yearwood

Kathleen Yearwood is a visionary vocalist, electric guitarist, and composer working in the experimental-folk tradition.  She is also a writer, watercolour painter and printmaker.

Kathleen lives in the deep woods north of Edmonton (Treaty 8 Territory); her gorgeous descriptions of making harsh, ritualistic music in isolation are the perfect medicine for a cold winter’s night in COVID-distraught Alberta.  If you’re looking for ways to connect to deep truth, the turning of the season, wild animals and ecological magic, I highly recommend you take a listen.