{"id":2400634,"date":"2026-05-03T22:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2400634"},"modified":"2026-05-03T22:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:46:16","slug":"canadian-blues-music-award-winner-ollee-owens-announces-new-album-with-grammy-winning-producer-colin-linden-and-tour-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/canadian-blues-music-award-winner-ollee-owens-announces-new-album-with-grammy-winning-producer-colin-linden-and-tour-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Blues Music Award Winner OLLEE OWENS Announces New Album With Grammy-Winning Producer Colin Linden And Tour Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n            <!-- image --><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thatericalper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ll-scaled.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>            <!-- content --><\/p>\n<p>Ollee Owens is having a year. The Calgary-based blues and Americana artist has taken home the inaugural Canadian Blues Music Award for Emerging Blues Artist or Group of the Year \u2013 recognising her album <em>Nowhere to Hide<\/em> and cementing her place as one of the most vital new voices in Canadian blues. With over 2.5 million social media views in 2025, a Roots Music Report chart run that placed her album in the Canadian Top 10 for over 35 weeks including five at #1, and now a national award to her name, Owens is no longer an artist to watch. She has arrived.<\/p>\n<p>And she is already looking ahead. Owens has announced that she will be recording her next album in Nashville with producer Colin Linden \u2013 a pairing that signals serious artistic ambition. Linden is one of the most decorated figures in Canadian and American roots music: a Grammy winner for producing Keb\u2019 Mo\u2019s <em>Oklahoma<\/em>, the recipient of nine Juno Awards from 25 nominations, a Maple Blues lifetime achievement award winner, and the musician whose guitar runs through the soundtracks of the Coen brothers\u2019 <em>O Brother, Where Art Thou?<\/em> and <em>Inside Llewyn Davis<\/em>. He has produced and played alongside Bruce Cockburn, Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris, John Prine, and Gregg Allman, and served as musical director for the ABC series <em>Nashville<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Nowhere To Hide\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/0PectCNlqS8bl0UXyujMcK?si=DJoveWO3RX-U2FVIOui5ng&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>For Owens to enter the studio with Linden is to step into a lineage of blues and roots recording that runs deep \u2013 and the match of his soulful, genre-rooted instincts with her commanding voice and unflinching songwriting is one of the most exciting prospects in Canadian blues right now.<\/p>\n<p>Owens\u2019 journey from a small farming community in Manitoba to award-winning artist is extraordinary. Inspired by blues legends and gospel greats, she began writing songs at eight and picked up the guitar at twelve \u2013 before stepping back from music to raise her three daughters. The music never left her, and in 2022 she returned with <em>Cannot Be Unheard<\/em>, proving her voice was built to be felt. Since then, she has shared festival stages with Dawn Tyler Watson and Matt Andersen and performed at B.B. King\u2019s Blues Club in Memphis. <em>Nowhere to Hide<\/em>, produced at Nashville\u2019s Sweetbriar Studio with Bobby Blazier and an all-star lineup including guitarist Will McFarlane, bassist Tommy Sims, and keyboardist De Marco Johnson, earned praise from <em>Blues Matters, Blues Music Magazine, <\/em>and<em> Americana Highways<\/em>, which called it one of the strongest surprises of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The video for the title track \u2013 shot in a cavernous warehouse with a massive projection screen juxtaposing historic and contemporary struggles \u2013 made an immediate impact, and her previous video \u2018Shivers and Butterflies\u2019 amassed nearly 800,000 views in a single month. Draped in bold red to symbolise courage, Owens delivers a searing performance with the urgency of a woman who has walked through fire and come out stronger. \u201cI wanted to create a visual bridge between history and the challenges we face now,\u201d she explains. \u201cThe troubles we sense, see, and experience may change shape, but the fight remains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Owens brings her celebrated live show back to western Canadian stages this spring and summer. A vocal powerhouse whose passion for authentic connection is unmistakable in person, she will appear at Hard Knox Brewery in Diamond Valley on April 18, Kinfest in Millarville, AB on June 20, Summer in the Park in Lacombe on June 24, the Camrose Blues Festival on July 17, the Venue Summer Concert Series in High River on August 2 and Nanaimo Blues Festival on August 8.<\/p>\n<p>The blues has always been about finding strength in the struggle. With a national award, a legendary producer, and a summer of stages ahead, Ollee Owens is making it clear she is just getting started.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tour Dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>June 20 at 7:45 PM \u2013 Kinfest \u2013 Millarville, AB<br \/>June 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM \u2013 Summer in the Park \u2013 Lacombe, AB<br \/>July 17, 2026 at 6:00 PM \u2013 Camrose Blues Festival \u2013 Camrose, AB<br \/>July 30, 2026 at 6:00 PM \u2013 Private Event \u2013 Calgary, AB<br \/>August 2, 2026 at 1:00 PM \u2013 The Venue Summer Concert Series \u2013 High River, AB<br \/>August 8 at 3:00 PM \u2013 Nanaimo Blues Festival \u2013 Nanaimo, BC<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.thatericalper.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ollee Owens is having a year. The Calgary-based blues and Americana artist has taken home the inaugural Canadian Blues Music Award for Emerging Blues Artist or Group of the Year \u2013 recognising her album Nowhere to Hide and cementing her place as one of the most vital new voices in Canadian blues. 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