Leela Gilday - Blue Feather Festival 2019 - One Thing YT

Leela Gilday performing One Thing from her album North Star Calling live at the Blue Feather Festival in Whitehorse, Yukon in 2019.

Lyrics:
It’s been a long time
Since you & I’ve seen each other
Well how’s your son, baby?
Have you talked to your mother?
And that girl you’re with, does she treat you right?
Do you laugh your heads off?
Do you stay up and talk through the night?
I know we said goodbye
But Darling, I really don’t know why
Chorus:
But there’s one thing you should know
It’s that I won’t let go
Til we’re done for sure
Or never baby
I know we’ve both moved on
I know my right from my wrong
But this flame’s still burning
And I hide it, I hide it cause I don’t wanna hurt
I know you feel the same
But Darling- no one’s to blame
Chorus
Cover me, cover me darling
Cover me dear…..
I know this can’t go on
So Darling, Darling please come home
Chorus

A passionate singer/songwriter and soulful performer, Leela Gilday has a voice that comes straight from the heart. Confessing her stories to her audiences with a gutsy voice and open stage presence, Gilday weaves her experiences as a northerner, a member of the Dene nation, and a traveler into a beautiful world that transports the listener.

If you’re from the North, Leela’s music is home. If you’ve never been, it will take you there. Born and raised in the Northwest Territories, she writes about the people and the land that created her. The power in her voice conveys the depth of her feelings of love and life in a rugged environment and vibrant culture, as if it comes straight from that earth. Leela’s family is from Délįne on the shore of Great Bear Lake and her rich vocals dance across the rhythmic beats of traditional Dene drumming as smoothly as a bass line onstage the largest venues in the country. And she has played them all.

Leela has toured festivals and concert halls with her four-piece band through every province and territory in Canada. She has played in the United States, Greenland, Australia, New Zealand and several countries in Europe. Her live shows are where she connects with fans who have followed her on a 20-year career and where new fans are born. She reaches into their hearts and feels the energy of every person in front of her as she guides them on a journey through song and experience. She believes music has an inexplicable effect on people. It is a place where she can share light and dark and the most vulnerable moments, with a clarity and genuine purpose that reassures her listeners through every word. She is a storyteller, and through this, reflects the world onto itself.

Five years after her last album was released—five years of growth, healing and head-down work—Leela’s fifth album was released September 6 2019. It is more raw, more intimate and more Leela than anything you’ve heard from her before.

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