Identical twin sisters, Carli Kennedy plays guitar and Julie plays violin, while they both sing and write songs. They recently were the grand prize winner in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and have had nine BCCMA award nominations since 2012. The country duo has performed during the likes of Canadian Music Week, the Live at Heart Festival in Sweden, the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, as well as Florida’s Listening Room Festival. They had a video get played on CMT in Canada, got their first Canadian Country Music Award nomination last year, and Julie was nominated for Fiddle Player of the Year (this year). They even talk about visiting 60 radio stations across Canada to do promo.
“I think, this career, it really attracts people who have an adventurous, sort of, lifestyle – spirit – for sure.”
“We joke, like, if you want to film, like, driving on the open road and stuff, you could, like, hire a bunch of people to close down the road, or, you could go way out to the boonies, which is what we did!”
“That’s such an important thing to do as an artist, to start out in your hometown area and to build your local following and to get experience doing that.”
“I remember the first tour. The car was packed to the brim and we just started. And I think that was, we got the bug, and after that first tour we were, like, ‘Okay, how can we make this a career? How can we make this our living?’”
“For artists that are looking to tour it’s good to figure out what your smallest scale version of your show is, compared to the eight-piece band – you know what I mean – for the bigger fairs.”
“Anytime you receive any type of recognition from your peers and people that are recognizing the music in your area it’s so encouraging. And I think it’s a really nice thing ‘cause it does push you, it inspires you to think, ‘Okay, people are liking what we’re doing. Let’s keep going.’”
“Any time you think, ‘What’s the reason to write this song or make this video,’ all those things we talk about, it’s because you’re connecting with people and that is just magical.”
“To have that person that really just understands you, thinks like you do, and also musically really connects with you is very unique and very special.”
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