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Ken Yates

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Crosstown presents Ken Yates is an award-winning singer-songwriter known for his introspective storytelling and his signature blend of folk, indie, and rock influences. His latest album, Total Cinema (2025), marks a defining evolution in his sound. Working with producer Dan Ledwell in Halifax, Yates explores themes of gratitude and self-awareness with characteristic precision and emotional depth.

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Ken Yates

FolkIndieRock

Ken Yates (born in London, Ontario, on 15 June 1989) is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter who won the Canadian Folk Music Awards for English Songwriter of the Year and New/Emerging Artist of the Year at the 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2017. Yates studied at the Berklee College of Music. He released "The Backseat" EP in 2011, and followed up with his full-length debut "twenty-three" in 2013. He won the Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award in 2014 for his song "The One That Got Away". — via Last.fm

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