Performer Name: Diyet & The Love Soldiers
Show Name: Diyet & The Love Soldiers
Show Description
Diyet & The Love Soldiers is alternative country, folk, roots and traditional with catchy melodies and stories deeply rooted in Diyet's Indigenous world view and northern life. Born in a tent, raised in a cabin on the shores of a glacial lake in the Kluane region of Canada's Yukon Territory, Diyet embodies her Southern Tutchone, Japanese, Tlingit and Scottish roots with a musical presence that is equally diverse and unique. Diyet sings in both English and her traditional language, Southern Tutchone, and plays bass. Backed by Love Soldiers, husband and collaborator, Robert van Lieshout (acoustic guitar, drums & percussion) and Juno Award winning producer, Bob Hamilton (electric guitar, pedal steel & mandolin), this multi-instrumental trio has a sound that can fill a big stage or capture an intimate room. Diyet & The Love Soldiers new music expands across the width of Canadiana music with a focus on lyrical stories taking the listener on a journey through land and time. Each song is rooted in her life in Kluane and her experience as an indigenous woman walking in two worlds. Inspired by vast landscapes, clashing and embracing realities, Diyet's heartfelt lyrics paint a picture of wildness, truth, hope, reconciliation, history and the community that surrounds her.