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Little Whelan’s • Thur 30th November 2023
Toronto pagan-punk-poet Nyssa has put her hands into the lion’s mouth, gathering her performing and songwriting powers to conjure the unruly energy of rock n’ roll. Out from under fear’s thumb, Nyssa now sings about wild things, old gods, romance-beyond-borders, and the exorcism of trauma. She has quested, and she has returned.
With the stage as her altar, the goal is fevered connection, a ritual-sense of music as communal release. Long-listed for the 2021 Polaris Prize for her debut solo album Girls Like Me, Nyssa keens and wails and brings her audience along with her to a place of deep feeling, movement, and joy. Lyrics are poetic and clear, lunar, eerie, angry; Nyssa’s voice is the strong container for all of it. As Dionysus would want it, over-abundance is the way. Guided by the incantation and invocation of the three C’s: Collaboration, Choreo, Covenhood!, Nyssa’s sound and stories run deep into ancient mythos, Celtic lore and back through our modern idols. Re-swaggering, re-wilding hyper-masc night moves and magick hips (think Jagger, Mink Deville, Danzig), Nyssa’s magnetic, elastic ways make satyrs of us all.
Website | Instagram | YouTube | Spotify
€12 available online from Whelan’s. €1 per ticket service charge applies.
Strictly over 18′s, I.D. may be required.
Whelan’s Silent Disco from 10:30pm – 2 DJs, just pick the one you like best (€5 cover charge), plus Late Bar.
NYSSA
plus support
Little Whelan’s • Thur 30th November 2023
Toronto pagan-punk-poet Nyssa has put her hands into the lion’s mouth, gathering her performing and songwriting powers to conjure the unruly energy of rock n’ roll. Out from under fear’s thumb, Nyssa now sings about wild things, old gods, romance-beyond-borders, and the exorcism of trauma. She has quested, and she has returned.
With the stage as her altar, the goal is fevered connection, a ritual-sense of music as communal release. Long-listed for the 2021 Polaris Prize for her debut solo album Girls Like Me, Nyssa keens and wails and brings her audience along with her to a place of deep feeling, movement, and joy. Lyrics are poetic and clear, lunar, eerie, angry; Nyssa’s voice is the strong container for all of it. As Dionysus would want it, over-abundance is the way. Guided by the incantation and invocation of the three C’s: Collaboration, Choreo, Covenhood!, Nyssa’s sound and stories run deep into ancient mythos, Celtic lore and back through our modern idols. Re-swaggering, re-wilding hyper-masc night moves and magick hips (think Jagger, Mink Deville, Danzig), Nyssa’s magnetic, elastic ways make satyrs of us all.
CONNECT
Website | Instagram | YouTube | Spotify
TICKETS
€12 available online from Whelan’s. €1 per ticket service charge applies.
Strictly over 18′s, I.D. may be required.
AFTER THE SHOW
Whelan’s Silent Disco from 10:30pm – 2 DJs, just pick the one you like best (€5 cover charge), plus Late Bar.