Mariel Buckley
Mariel Buckley | |
|---|---|
 Buckley in 2025 | |
| Occupations | Singer, songwriter |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | Roots, Americana, Folk |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Website | marielbuckley |
Mariel Buckley is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter based in Calgary, Alberta.[1] She is the younger sister of singer T. Buckley.[2]
Biography
[edit]Buckley was born in Calgary, Alberta.[3]
Buckley recorded an EP in 2012, and her first album, Motorhome, in 2014.[4][5] The album was produced by Derek Pulliam, and featured mainly acoustic music. Buckley was accompanied by a string trio[6] with Charlie Hase on pedal steel, Scott Duncan on fiddle, and Pulliam on bass. Buckley was a finalist in the 2014 All-Alberta Songwriting Contest.[7]
In 2018, she recorded a second album, the alt-country Driving in the Dark.[8][9] The album was produced by Leeroy Stagger. In August that year the album rose to #2 on the !earshot National Folk/Roots/Blues Chart.[10] Also in 2018 Buckley performed at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival.[11][12]
Her sophomore commercial release, Everywhere I Used to Be, was released in August 2022 on Winnipeg-based label Birthday Cake Records.[13] [14] It was longlisted for the 2023 Polaris Music Prize.[15]
In December 2022, Buckley and her brother released a cover The Tragically Hip's "Bobcaygeon" as a single.[16] The two have also continued to perform together as a duo at other times, performing a set that includes duet versions of their own songs as well as covers of material by other artists.[17]
Her second release on Birthday Cake Records and most recent full-length album, Strange Trip Ahead, was released in October 2025. It was recorded in Nashville, TN, with her Edmonton-based band members and produced by Jarrad K (Ruston Kelly, Weezer)[18] at Chateau Noir Studios.
In 2026, she won the Juno Award for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2026, for Strange Trip Ahead.[19] The album was also longlisted for the 2026 Polaris Music Prize,[20] and the song "Vending Machines" was longlisted for the SOCAN Polaris Song Prize.[21]
References
[edit]- ↑ Alger, Anna (February 27, 2016). "Mariel Buckley - Ironwood Stage & Grill, Calgary AB, - February 26". Exclaim!. Toronto, Ontario: Exclaim! Media Inc. Archived from the original on July 5, 2017. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
- ↑ "Calgary artists of 2018: It was a good year for these wild roses". Calgary Herald, Eric Volmers, January 4, 2019
- ↑ "King Eddy opens for Stampede with country musicians from across Canada". CBC News, July 7, 2017
- ↑ "Mariel Buckley – Driving In The Dark ". BeatRoute, 11 May 2018
- ↑ "Hawksley Workman and Mariel Buckley ponder the open skies of North Country Fair". Edmonton Journal, Fish Griwkowsky, June 18, 2019.
- ↑ "Mariel Buckley Shares a Part of Herself with Each Song on ‘Driving In The Dark’". Vue Weekly, May 2, 2018, by Stephan Boissonneault
- ↑ "Mariel Buckley – Motorhome CD review". BC Music Magazine, September 29, 2015, by Gillian Turnbull
- ↑ "Mariel Buckley bucks Nashville trends with personal, alt-country sounds on sophomore record". Calgary Herald, Eric Volmers, May 2, 2018.
- ↑ "Canadian Mariel Buckley Takes a Rugged Journey on ‘Driving in the Dark’ (Album Review)". Glide, May 3, 2018 by Jim Hynes
- ↑ "The National Folk/Roots/Blues Chart For the Week Ending: Tuesday, August 28, 2018". !earshot.
- ↑ "41st Vancouver Folk Music Festival still true to tradition, still young at heart" Archived 2019-07-13 at the Wayback Machine. July 14, 2018, Vancouver Weekly, Paul Hecht and Elmira Kuznetsova
- ↑ "Vancouver Folk Fest Photo Diary". The Vancouver Arts Review, July 2018.
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- ↑ "Summer 2022 guide: 14 albums you need to hear". CBC Music, June 20, 2022.
- ↑ "2023 Polaris Music Prize long list: Feist, Jessie Reyez and more". CBC Music, June 13, 2023.
- ↑ Martin Noake, "Single Release: T. Buckley & Mariel Buckley, "Bobcaygeon'". Great Dark Wonder, December 8, 2022.
- ↑ Stephen Hunt, "The Buckleys added to Calgary Folk Festival lineup". CTV Calgary, July 25, 2024.
- ↑ Jarrad K (Ruston KellyWeezer, Weezer)https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/tracks/mariel-buckley-vending-machines
- ↑ Fish Griwkowsky, "Mariel Buckley and Axios Men's Ensemble and Pro Coro Canada bring Junos home to Edmonton". Edmonton Journal, March 31, 2026.
- ↑ Sydney Brasil, "Polaris Music Prize Shares 2026 Long List". Exclaim!, June 11, 2026.
- ↑ Natalie Harmsen, "2026 SOCAN Polaris Song Prize long list: Begonia, Cadence Weapon, Charlotte Day Wilson and more". CBC Music, June 24, 2026.
- Canadian women country singers
- Living people
- Musicians from Calgary
- Canadian country singer-songwriters
- Canadian women singer-songwriters
- 21st-century Canadian women singers
- Canadian LGBTQ singer-songwriters
- 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people
- 21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters
- Singers from Alberta
- Juno Award for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year winners