FemmeVox 9
Sun, Sep 28, 2025 7:3PM
Featuring:
Amanda Lowe Warnakulasuriya
Hanorah
Larissa Desrosiers
Yolande Laroche
What is FemmeVox?
A concert series featuring established and emerging singer-songwriters.
Artists work together in pairs to write brand new compositions to premiere at each concert.
Tickets are on a pay what you choose sliding scale of $25, $35 and $45.
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Featured Artists:
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Amanda Lowe Warnakulasuriya
Born in Sri Lanka, raised on Prince Edward Island, and based in Ottawa, Amanda Lowe Warnakulasuriya creates enchanting and heartbreaking experimental-folk music. Blending in her roots - from both islands that raised her, she builds sentient walls of sound that help you grieve and love, making you feel both nostalgic and at home, all at once. With a voice like honey, Amanda breaks your heart open, only to make you feel whole again.
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Hanorah
Hanorah is known for her powerful, emotive voice. Blending soul folk, and shoegaze, she crafts a sound that is both raw and refined. The Montreal-based artist's latest EP, Closer Than Hell, explores the tension between desire and uncertainty through vulnerable and intense songwriting. The project has been featured on CBC Music and Q with Tom Power, among others.
Her debut EP, For The Good Guys And The Bad Guys (2019), garnered over a million streams and won multiple awards, launching a career that has taken her across Canada, The US and the UK. Her first full-length album, Perennial (2022), was named an "Editor's Pick" by Exclaim! and received national radio play across Canada. In 2023, she closed the Montreal International Jazz Festival alongside The Brooks in front of 40,000 people and in 2025, she returned to the festival's main stage. Today, she continues to explore new creative territory between music and visual arts, driven by a constant urge to create and reinvent.
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Larissa Desrosiers
Larissa Desrosiers is an Anishinaabekwe Singer/Songwriter from Couchiching First Nation in Treaty #3. Her music is a blend of folk-inspired sounds and Indigenous issues. Larissa has a Bachelor of Music Honours Undergraduate Degree with a minor in Indigenous Studies at Carleton University. Her new ventures in art have brought her to start her own beadwork business, Bangishimon Beadwork. Her future aspirations include releasing music, touring and growing her business. Whether on stage with her guitar or at her desk with her beads, Larissa’s goal has always been to create space for healing, grieving, imagination and social growth. She was part of the FemmeVox3 lineup in 2020, where she collaborated on an original song with Amanda Rheaume. Whether it’s music, visual arts, or human rights, Larissa moves through life with an unwavering passion to help her people.
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Yolande Laroche
Yolande Laroche, a queer Canadian Taiwanese artist based in Gatineau, Quebec released her debut solo album True Beginning in April 2025 under the name Orchidae. Laroche draws inspiration from her Mandarin name 兰 (Lan), symbolizing the orchid flower, reflecting the artist's cultural heritage and the essence of her music. With a background in classical clarinet, Laroche combines her classical training with avant-pop elements, creating a sound that is both intimate and profound. True Beginning marks the first steps of Yolande’s musical journey as a lead songwriter. Her songs are compelling explorations of self-discovery, transformation, and personal growth, traversing confident electronic pop songs to heartfelt piano ballads.
Beyond her solo work, Yolande Laroche is a seasoned music educator and a versatile multi-instrumentalist, proficient in clarinet, keys, and voice. While she has played as a session musician for over a decade and is part of the art-rock band, Pony Girl, Yolande’s project Orchidae sees the artist in full bloom.