Playing a show in Milwaukee in February, Bella White introduced a song by saying it was a sad one. Then, “Well, they’re all sad songs.” 

That they are. So why would a few hundred mostly 20-somethings come out on a cold night to hear a young woman from western Canada sing sad, old-timey Appalachian songs? 

Because they’re really good songs. Songs that give voice to the difficulties we all face in a way that’s both classic and yet undeniably of-the-moment. Listening to Bella White is like discovering Mother Maybelle Carter on TikTok. 

Releasing April 21, White’s second album, Among Other Things, extends the stellar start to her career. She’s stocked the new album with observations carefully wrought and deeply thought – about love and loss, doubt and fear, and wonder about what life has brought and what is yet to come.