Taylor Lang
Taylor Lang’s Story
A lifelong multi-instrumentalist, Taylor Lang delivers stories and music in a genre-bending fusion of folk and fingerstyle techniques. Influenced by artists as sonically diverse as Dan Mangan and Halsey, Donovan Woods and Jon Gomm, or The Tragically Hip and Ed Sheeran, he sharpened his skills over more than a decade in bands: first with award-winning grunge rockers Crack the Lens, and then as the frontman of Blaeser, a YYCMA-nominated indie trio based in Calgary.
Emerging as a full solo performer, his latest project is a studio collaboration with JUNO-winning producer and guitarist Russell Broom, best known for his long involvement with Jann Arden, Kyle McKearney, and other chart-topping Canadian artists. His first solo song was "Broke But Never Broken", a slow-burning folk rock ballad that calls back to Lang’s childhood experiences in rural Saskatchewan. But his latest release, "Fun Shirt Friday", is much more upbeat and pointed - an incisive indictment of burnout and corporate frustration, urging the audience to wonder if the portraits of success they see are actually what they claim to be.
Ever evolving and always authentic to his message, with powerful vocals and subtle guitarwork alike, Lang’s fundamental musicianship and carefully crafted lyrics combine into something utterly unique, both in the studio and on the stage.