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LILI
LILI is a nehiyaw iskwew (Cree woman) from Sturgeon Lake First Nation whose voice carries the pulse of the Prairies. An award‑nominated singer‑songwriter from Saskatchewan, she moves easily between indie pop, folk, hip hop, and traditional Cree shaker music, creating a sound that feels both contemporary and ancestral. Working with Independent BSS, she shapes songs that uplift First Nations artists, celebrate cultural pride, and encourage a grounded, spiritually healthy way of living. Her newest work leans back into the hip hop roots that first sparked her creativity, blending rhythm, story, and identity into something unmistakably her own.

Mercy Glover
Mercy Glover is a 22-year-old Métis country artist from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, quickly emerging as an artist to watch in the Canadian country music scene. With a haunting, captivating voice and a gift for honest storytelling, Mercy has been performing across Saskatchewan from a young age, building a reputation for heartfelt, down-to-earth performances that connect deeply with audiences. Her debut single, “Ain’t Mine,” released on January 30, 2026, marks a powerful introduction to her sound, with more music planned to release throughout the year.

Beyond her own artistry, Mercy remains deeply rooted in her community. She is the co-producer of the Sunset Country Music Festival, an event that gives back to her hometown of Prince Albert by raising funds for a different local cause each year. Balancing momentum as an emerging artist with a strong sense of purpose, Mercy Glover is carving out her place in country music one story, one song, and one stage at a time.

Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson is a 5X SCMA award-winning Country Rock artist from Saskatoon, SK. Adam is coming off a 2025 that saw him win four Saskatchewan Country Music Awards — Album Of The Year and Songwriter Of The Year — and open for Grammy Award-winning artist Pam Tillis.

Since beginning his career in 2020, Johnson has had three #1's on the Canadian Indie Country Countdown, three top 100's on the Mediabaser Country top 100, and has accumulated half a million streams on his music. Adam continues to release music, with his sophomore album scheduled for the fall of 2026.

Jay Semko
Jay Semko is the bassist with Western Canadian Music Association Hall of Fame members The Northern Pikes, and is an award-winning music composer for numerous film and TV productions, including the syndicated series “Due South”. Jay has released 10 solo albums, has won 2 Saskatchewan Country Music Awards for Roots Album of the Year (2012, 2015), and has been nominated for 5 JUNO Awards as a member of The Northern Pikes. He has performed across Canada, the USA, and Japan. Jay hosts The Songwriters, a weekly radio show on CFCR in Saskatoon, and his first book, “The Poetry & Lyrics of Jay Semko”, was published in 2021. Jay’s most recent project is a new album with his partner Danica Lorer as the duo “Jay & Danica”, released April 6, 2026, on their new Riverbank Crocus Music label.

Megan Nash
Megan Nash’s latest album "Soft Focus Futures" was called "lyrically masterful" by Exclaim! and that was like, really nice of them to say that. She has played shows around the world including Portugal, Germany, Wales, and Estonia (humble brag). Nash has been nominated for four Western Canadian Music Awards, has taken home three Saskatchewan Music Awards, and is a JUNO-losing proud dog mother to geriatric puppies including Max Nash and the late Shiloh Nash. She is managed by a cat named Marfie who takes 10 purcent of all her performance fees. At the time of this short biography submission, Nash is currently reading “Paradise Logic” by Sophie Kemp. 

Jessica Robinson
Jessica Robinson began her country music career professionally at the age of 16 and music has been her life ever since. After training at Grant MacEwan’s esteemed music program, opportunities presented in Nashville. This led Jessica to a successful career as a country music artist/songwriter for the past several decades including two EPs, two award winning albums,11 SCMA awards, a CMT music video shot in Havana and even a cherished collaborative performance at Carnegie Hall. Jessica took a decade long hiatus to raise her three daughters and go through some big life changes including coming out as an identified LGTBQIAA2S+ person. 

During her hiatus she still performed within the province doing numerous shows at the Bassment and with the Free Stage at the Jazz Festival as well as perform with the Saskatoon Symphony and Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra.

In October 2025 Jessica launched her third studio album "The Phoenix Project" and currently her first single release from that album "Thunderstruck" is playing across Canada on country radio. 

Evan Baxter
The tiny rural community of Demaine, Saskatchewan, has a population of less than 50 and is known for its great hunting and fishing. It is also known for Evan Baxter, a young singer-songwriter very much in touch with the rural prairie life. Evan’s songwriting “resonates with both modern country influences and '90s rock music” (Swift Current Online), and he describes his first single, “The Show,” as merging elements of both Chris Stapleton and the Stone Temple Pilots
Evan’s debut EP "My waste of Time" was released in January. Evan is an SCMA award winner in the 2025 emerging artist category. 

Jack Semple
Jack Semple is a JUNO Award-winning blues guitarist and singer from Regina, Saskatchewan. Renowned for his virtuosity, he won MuchMusic’s "Guitar Wars" and fronted the legendary funk band The Lincolns. With ten solo albums, Semple masterfully blends modern blues with soulful vocals and exceptional fingerstyle technique. 

Josh Stumpf
Saskatchewan-born, award-winning country artist Josh Stumpf brings a raw, soulful energy to his music, captivating audiences with its authenticity and emotion. Drawing influence from a wide range of styles – outlaw country, 80s two-step, and country rock to name a few – Stumpf’s voice and songwriting continue to uphold a sound that is uniquely his own. A skilled multi-genre writer, Stumpf has already made his mark in the music scene by winning the 2024 Emerging Artist of the Year award at the Saskatchewan Country Music Awards, as well as, through dynamic performances and as the co-founder of the Sunset Country Music Festival, a small but mighty Saskatchewan-based grassroots festival that raises funds to give back to the community. First introduced to listeners in 2023 with his debut single, “Drink Me A Lullaby,” Stumpf celebrated his signing with MDM Recordings Inc. last year, and his debut single with the label, “Highway Money,” which currently sits in the top 10 at Canadian Country Radio.

Taya Lebel
Taya Lebel is a country/rock artist from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, with a powerful voice that has been described as haunting, captivating, and soulful. Singing since she could talk and stepping on stage by the age of 8, Taya quickly grew into a dynamic performer known for her smooth voice, a hint of rasp, and an impressive vocal range.

Her sound draws influence from a wide mix of artists—ranging from Ella Langley and Taylor Swift to Nickelback and Paramore. Resilient and determined, Taya carries a “watch me do it” attitude and isn’t one to back down from a challenge. She has already performed across Saskatchewan at events including the CCMA’s, SCMA’s, the Prince Albert Winter Festival, and the Tralapa Music Festival. In 2022, she was nominated for Emerging Artist of the Year at the Saskatchewan Country Music Awards.

In 2025, Taya began recording her original music at OldSchool Recording. Taya’s debut single “Life We’re Livin’,” earned a spot on the top 60 Billboard Canada Country Chart peaking at #54 and reached #10 on the Canadian Indie Country Countdown. It is out now on all streaming platforms.

Alex Runions
After taking his first industry steps with his debut self-titled 2009 album, which was produced by CCMA-winning Bart McKay, the Canadian artist broke through in 2013 as Big Dog 92.7 and Astral Media’s choice for “The Next Big Thing”.

Through the decade, Runions enjoyed a string of charting Canadian country radio singles like “Passenger Seat”, “FM Dial”, “Little Bit of Sunshine” and a second album, “South of the City”, to go along with the collaboration track, “Just Watch Me” – with Dean Kush and JJ Voss – that served as a cornerstone to a fundraising campaign for the Canadian Cancer Society. Runions was rewarded with Saskatchewan Country Music Association Award nominations every year between 2013 and 2019 – winning 2016 honours for Fan’s Choice, Entertainer of the Year, and Male Vocalist of the Year.

Runions matched this success on stage, playing at some of the most iconic venues in the country, including Big Valley Jamboree, Country Thunder Saskatchewan, the Grey Cup, and the CCMA Awards Week Songwriters’ Series.

Tommy John Ehman
Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Tommy is faithful to his rural roots in his music and in his life. He raised his family, with his wife Tallie and their two children, on their fifth-generation farm at Craik in a “catalogue” house built by his great grandpa more
than 100 years ago. His son has now taken over the farming operation and continues the family tradition on the land. Tommy has a degenerative eye condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP for short), which forced him to take a step back from day-to-day farming, but didn’t deter him from writing songs, performing live and pursuing his musical passion with the same commitment and drive as in his younger days, when he toured Western Canada with his bands Midnight Highway and Idle Rains. With six studio albums and a handful of single recordings to his credit, Tommy has had multiple radio singles that cracked the top 100 country music charts, several Saskatchewan Country Music Award nominations, a long, long list of live performances that include opening for Doc Walker and Michelle Wright, among others, and eight years as a full-time touring musician.

Add it all up; the years, the songs, the shows and the miles and you have a singer-songwriter who has a passionate, intense and blazing hunger to write, record and perform his music, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that!