Terra Spencer in Concert

Bad ideas, VCRs, crumbling factories, hairy dogs, questionable tattoos…all are fair game for 2026 Canadian Folk Music award winner (for English Songwriter of the Year) Terra Spencer.  

Terra’s butterscotch voice, deft fingerstyle guitar, and gospel-charged piano make her a formidable musician who brings the 70s warmth of Elton John, Karen Carpenter and Jackson Browne to the cinematic storytelling style of Canadian folk music.

As a fun-loving and fearless solo performer, Terra has played some of Canada’s most renowned festival stages, including Mariposa, Stan Rogers Folk Festival, and Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival, where her Maritime waltz “Lunenburg Moon” has become an unofficial anthem. Think Steve Poltz and Carole King’s East Coast cousin.

Terra’s fourth album ‘Sunset’ was named the 2024 Penguin Eggs Roots Music Canada Critics’ Choice Album of the Year (alongside Julian Taylor’s ‘Pathways’) and 2025 Music Nova Scotia Folk/Roots Recording of the Year, and a Canadian Folk Music Award nomination for Solo Artist of the Year.