Springboard’s containR presents a Special Stampede Greatest Hits Singalong with Kenna and Chris
Join the masters of musical fun times, Kenna and Chris for a singalong of all your favourites! For over a decade, they’ve been offering up their fun piano arrangements to audiences, convincing complete strangers to sing together loudly, proudly and poorly. Think karaoke but with your very own piano accompaniment! No song too cheesy, no moment too magical. Except all your favourites from Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton to Queen and Bonnie Tyler.
Kenna Burima
Join musician, singer, and storyteller Kenna Burima as she shares her favourite songs that she likes to sing with people she doesn’t know. Guaranteed it’ll be songs you know.
In her adopted hometown of Calgary (Moh’kinsstis, Treaty 7), Kenna Burima has earned a reputation as someone who can turn ideas into big projects, teach the unteachable, and inspire people to come together.
From the indie-folk of Woodpigeon, the sweaty garage sludge of Brenda Vaqueros; grandiose projects abound, nurturing Kenna’s compositional skill and style. Her cherished collaboration with Calgary theatre company, One Yellow Rabbit has offered the unique opportunity to compose for the largest and loudest of instruments, the Calgary Tower’s carillon.
To this day, you can still hear the bells of The Calgary Songs Project, an ambitiously transcribed thirty-song playlist of Calgary songwriters spanning thirty years. This work dovetails into her daytime concerns of offering city street singalongs to unsuspecting citizens, teaching music, and currently developing a songwriting program “The Song” that uncovers the mysteries of songwriting to anyone regardless of training or experience.
But the best way to figure out what drives Kenna is to delve into her solo albums; classical-cabaret-pop affairs that draw on her vast musical know-how.
The complexities of her songwriting reflect the heart of an artist who is never content to restrict herself to one genre, one project, or one ideal. With her third solo album While She Sleeps, the angry intensity of her sophomore release Hymn (2016) turns inward to unravel the quiet mysteries of creation.
