VideoPop songstress Demetra Penner answers five fast questions

Just back from a Western Canadian tour, Winnipeg's Demetra Penner has decided to spend a bit of time in the great outdoors. 

She's playing (indoors) at the Urban Forest on the 31st, will be headlining Cabaret Night at the Manitoba Goddess Festival on September 1st and will also perform in mid-September at the Harvest Moon Festival in Clearwater.

She has also released a new video for the song "Lone Migration," and in an effort to get to know her a little better, SCENE asked Demetra Penner to answer Five Fast Questions. 

Easiest question ever...Daniel Lanois. 

I meet new people and they happen to know my family, a bunch of my friends, my landlord, my producer, and maybe even some details about my personal life...Winnipeg is very tight knit!

The Thunderbird House sweatlodge. Winnipeg is the heart of the continent. When you enter the lodge it is as if you are inside the heart of it all. They play a drum that symbolizes the heartbeat, it is such a special place.

 It is nice to be able to go and ground out, purify the body and spirit and send out good energy to the surrounding area and beyond. It is a place of healing. My studio is five minutes away. 

                                                                      

I just got home from a tour of Western Canada. Our staples were Daniel Lanois' Shine for quiet prairie mornings, Bry Webb for afternoon drives through the mountains, and Bjork and Radiohead for the crazy drives through the night.

To mix it up we'd throw in some Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Lake Forest, Dance Mix '95, Simon and Garfunkel, Jane Siberry, and Lhasa de Sela. Also notable was an eight hour stretch in which my childhood best friend joined us and hours were passed listening to oudist Yurdal Tokcan as we drove through mountains covered in sage.

 

I had the idea to shoot a very simple video of me just walking through diverse landscapes. I take little trips to The Fort Whyte Center when I need a quick retreat from the city and feel like spending time in the forest or by some water. I thought that this would be a perfect place to shoot the video!

The video was shot in one evening and the weather was perfect. The sky was preparing to storm, the clouds were wild and we even got a shot of lightning in one frame.  My favourite part about Fort Whyte is the bison and regrettably they were not able to get them in the video. They were far away having dinner...