The last time I saw Bre McDaniel play her celestial folk music, it was in the jam-packed living room of a century-old, bright pink house that was candle lit and adorned with her art. Tomorrow she'll play the stunning, classic BC foresty beach at Concerts in Cates Park. When she's not finding beautiful, improvised stages across the city to play music on, she's busy going through all of the other behind-the-scenes work. Not just the writing and recording busy work, but also the soul searching, the digging up deeply rooted thoughts and emotions that flavour her art and music.

On a bright and very windy day in Gastown last week, I sat down with Bre (and Christine for a bit too) to get an idea of what she's been up to. I knew she'd just come out of the recording studio with Vancouver's Jordan Klassen as her producer, and that the first song off of that forthcoming record, “Tears of Saint Lawrence” had just come out and it is about the martyr & meteor shower, but I knew there had to be more to the story than that. Here's some of our conversation.