About
Acclaimed Canadian songwriter Dana Sipos’ cosmic folk songs are constellations - glowing in the vast landscape, mapping the liminal spaces between memory and myth.
Described as “slightly strange and completely mesmerising, ”Sipos’ talent for earthen imagery, rich spiralling vocals, and textured instrumentation sets the stage for a deeply moving performance. Exploring themes of impermanence and transformation, Sipos has penned another collection of captivatingly nuanced songs that holds the complexity of the human experience up to the light. Golden Molten will be released in January 2026.
“gently fierce. Spellbinding, even. when one peels back the layers of her lyrics, it’s a journey through the poetry of being” -vents magazine
“Sipos is a master of creating immersive atmospheres for her listeners to lose themselves in” -no depression
Dana Sipos coaxes silkworms out of their cocoons and spins them into song. She inhabited the far north before going nomad and her captivatingly nuanced songs are filled with a wild wind and a haunting surrealism. She now resides among the old growth of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
A consummate performer, Sipos has brought her unique brand of cosmic folk to living rooms, concert halls and festivals stages across North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Sipos once again teamed with contemporary producer and her Ontario-based band to bring her new batch of songs to life. Exploring themes of impermanence and transformation the new album, set to be released in early 2026, is another collection of captivatingly nuanced songs that holds the complexity of the human experience up to the light. Sipos has been nominated for three Canadian Folk Music Awards and shorlisted as a finalist in the legendary Kerrville New Folk songwriting festival in Kerrville Texas. She has been celebrated by contemporary musical luminaries such as Laurie Brown, profiled in Penguin Eggs and interviewed on CBC Q. Sipos is moving gently with this release, letting the new album unfurl in its own rhythm. It will be worth the wait and in the meantime, She is bringing the new songs to stages across the UK, Canada and Sweden.
Dana has facilitated songwriting workshops in remote communities in northern Canada and is a participating artist with Carnegie Hall’s The Lullaby Project in partnership with Vancouver-based Instruments of Change. She is currently working as a songwriter and artist facilitator with Memory Connections, an initiative supporting adults with dementia.
Select past performances include the National Arts Centre (Ottawa, ON), Wide Days Festival (Edinburgh, UK), Naked Song Festival (Eindhoven, NL), Available Light Film Festival (Whitehorse, YT), Cygnet Folk Festival (Hobart, TAS), Toronto storytelling Festival (ON), Milk and Honey Festival (Queenstown, NZ), Philadelphia Folk Festival (PA), In the Dead of Winter (Halifax, NS), Atlin Festival of the Arts (BC).
Her past project have been generously supported by FACTOR, Canada Council for the Arts, Socan Foundation, Creative BC, Ontario Arts Council, Yukon Sound and Film Commission and NWT Arts Council.
