BIO : Rae Spoon
Rae Spoon est un jeune artiste qui suit fièrement la longue tradition des chanteurs qu'il respecte. Armé d'influences comme Woody Guthrie et Hank Williams, il continue d'exploiter le territoire qui s'étend entre sa vénération pour les grands et de sa voix originale mettant en avant son propre point de vue. Son côté cowboy-folk-nasillard à l'imagerie des Prairies vient de son histoire en tant qu'Albertain et ses paroles proviennent de son expérience de vie unique en tant que personne transgenre.
Rae Spoon is a non-binary performer, composer, music producer, visual content producer/director and author. Rae supports other artists in forging their own spaces through industry workshops, sound recording, mentorship, grant writing and music production.
In 2015, Rae founded Coax Records in the hopes of using their experience as a marginalized artist to create more space in the music industry. They aim to build community where artists from lots of backgrounds can share their music on their own terms while learning how to support each other.
Rae’s first book, First Spring Grass Fire, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2012. The book was a finalist for a Lambda Award in the Transgender Fiction category and was shortlisted for an Expozine Alternative Press Award. In the spring of 2014, Rae was a finalist for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for their body of work. The award is presented by the Writers’ Trust of Canada to emerging LGBTQ2S writers in Canada. Rae’s second book, co- written with Ivan E. Coyote and titled Gender Failure, was published in 2014. Gender Failure was on the 2015 Over The Rainbow Reading List and was translated into German. In 2017, Rae also published a humorous song-writing instructional booklet, How To (Hide) Be(hind) Your Songs. In 2021, Rae’s first novel, Green Glass Ghosts, was illustrated by Gem Hall and published by Arsenal Pulp Press.