Ste-Croix has captured the attention and heart of the country with her musical strand from Coast to Coast to Coast; recording one song in every Province and Territory of Canada for her “Canadian Girl” album. Partnering with Canada’s finest Folk and Roots guest artists, this award-winning Folk/Roots artist is truly creating a national music treasure. In July 2010 she began her travels across Canada to Halifax (starting in Vancouver), hitting the studio with some of the finest indie roots and folk artists in each region of the country. The album is a celebration of Ste-Croix’s pan-Canadian life journey.
Ste-Croix was born into a musical family in Gaspé, Québec and showed promise as a vocalist from the age of six. Her debut album, Flying High, released in 1996, was in heavy rotation on Vancouver’s Z95.3 FM. It was picked up by Sony Music in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and had independent distribution throughout Asia. Her follow-up, 2002’s Summer June, included two songs that ended up in films. “Gravity” was heard in Vic Sarin’s Deluxe Combo Platter, and “Complete Me” was featured in The Party Never Stops. The album received local commercial radio play from both QM FM and Clear FM. Ste-Croix’s most recent album, 2007’s Here I Am, charted in the top 100 in the Adult Contemporary Charts and received airplay from as far away as Montreal’s Mix 96 and Toronto’s EZ Rock, and the title track earned an Honorable Mention in the Billboard World Song Contest.
Most recently, Ste-Croix performed at Robson Square during the Olympic Games in Vancouver, and one of her songs was chosen for a compilation album honouring the life of Dr. Martin Luther King. Described as a prolific and introspective writer with the “demonstrated talent it takes to write a hit song.” Billboard World Song Contest, President/Director; Bonnie Ste-Croix is a full-time touring artist with four albums of original work, songs charting on radio, world songwriting winnings, film placement and multiple industry contracts in Canada and the USA. She consistently reels in rave reviews from industry, critics, venues and audiences alike.
Alycia saw Natalie MacMaster play at the Apple Blossom Festival in Kentville as a nine year old, and decided that’s what she wanted to do. She started taking fiddle lessons with Gordon Tucker, was lucky enough to win a dinner with Natalie during the 1998 East Coast Music Awards, and has been having fun fiddling ever since.
Alycia learned a variety of styles from Gordon, spent a few years learning the Cape Breton style from Kendra MacGillivray, Buddy MacMaster and others, and has worked with accomplished accompanist and instructor Kimberley Holmes. Alycia has attended the Gaelic College and Ceilidh Trail School in Cape Breton and also loves to stepdance.
