Listen "Zoe Ackah"
Episode Synopsis
This Hen released May 2023.
"This album is about how we view our past," shares Zoe. "I dedicated it to my grandmothers to pay homage to my own Southern roots. Every song has a story to tell - literally. "I Miss You (But My Aim is Getting Better)" started with a collection of horrible jokes my mother found in my grandfather's personal effects after he passed away. "Just a Trickle, Just a Nickel" is a reflection of my own experiences with homelessness and a recent experience with a mentally ill friend who disappeared into the streets. "What’s a Little Fire?" is about me burning down the cabin in the woods I lived in as a child. But just as they did in my grandmothers’ time, I talk about many heavy subjects with the tenderness and lightheartedness still expected of women."
https://www.zoeackah.com/
BIO – Zoe Ackah
Zoe Ackah is a genre defying and imaginative singer/songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Toronto, Canada.
Known on the Toronto scene as a singing drummer and studio backup vocalist,
Ackah is now forging a solo path with fierce determination and a trunk full of creative
ideas. In late 2020, she released her debut album, The World Inside, and is now
readying the May 2023 release of a second full-length, This Hen, a record steeped in
classic country. “I wrote This Hen for my mother and grandmothers, true ladies of the
South,” Zoe explains.
https://www.youtube.com/@ZoeAckah
"This album is about how we view our past," shares Zoe. "I dedicated it to my grandmothers to pay homage to my own Southern roots. Every song has a story to tell - literally. "I Miss You (But My Aim is Getting Better)" started with a collection of horrible jokes my mother found in my grandfather's personal effects after he passed away. "Just a Trickle, Just a Nickel" is a reflection of my own experiences with homelessness and a recent experience with a mentally ill friend who disappeared into the streets. "What’s a Little Fire?" is about me burning down the cabin in the woods I lived in as a child. But just as they did in my grandmothers’ time, I talk about many heavy subjects with the tenderness and lightheartedness still expected of women."
https://www.zoeackah.com/
BIO – Zoe Ackah
Zoe Ackah is a genre defying and imaginative singer/songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Toronto, Canada.
Known on the Toronto scene as a singing drummer and studio backup vocalist,
Ackah is now forging a solo path with fierce determination and a trunk full of creative
ideas. In late 2020, she released her debut album, The World Inside, and is now
readying the May 2023 release of a second full-length, This Hen, a record steeped in
classic country. “I wrote This Hen for my mother and grandmothers, true ladies of the
South,” Zoe explains.
https://www.youtube.com/@ZoeAckah
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