Sarah Jane Scouten (CAN/SCOT) - Missy Sippy

Four-time Canadian Folk Music Award nominee | International Folk Music Award nominee | Western Canadian Music Award nominee Sarah Jane Scouten is a Canadian folk and Americana songwriter. Her songs pay their respects to 60s and 70s country songwriters Willie Nelson, John Prine, Bobby Gentry and weave in British folk revival elements with a continuous thread leading back to her roots in bluegrass and old time music. After a transformative four years, training as a herbalist in southwest Scotland, Sarah Jane has released her fifth album Turned to Gold (Light Organ Records).

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Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry: new song and video out Nov 11 in honour of Remembrance/Armistice Day.

“Women made the soldiers with their own bodies.”

2 years ago I was on my way to the western corner of Belgium, to Dranouter Musiekcentrum. I’d received an odd request. Part of their Modderland Project, female-identified artists from Belgium, France, UK, Canada and the USA were asked to write a song from a woman’s perspective about the First World War. I don’t usually write to a brief, but I discovered it was an unexpected way to write an unexpected song.

Dranouter is 14 kilometers from Ypres, and was ground zero for trench warfare in the First World War. The memory of the war is palpable among Flemish people, with war graves mingled among cabbage crops. The land was so churned up that entire air planes were swallowed in the fields. Today 900 tonnes of unexploded munitions are extracted annually from the surrounding intensively farmed area, coining the term "the iron harvest". Since WW1, 260 people have been killed by munitions left in Flemish fields. Not only does the physical impact of a war which ended over 100 years ago make itself known, war itself is not going anywhere. My grandfather was an RCAF Lancaster bomber pilot in WW2, who won the Distinguished Flying Cross (1st bar), an experience which shaped him and our family. The impact of war and intergenerational trauma is something for which I have a curiosity and compassion, especially for victims of ongoing wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.