Arts Alive Concert:
Sarah Vanderzon

With the arrival of Sarah Vanderzon’s new EP, Fortune Teller, and her riveting first single “Are You With Me?,” the world is being introduced to a fresh, insightful and enjoyable new voice in the annals of Americana, folk and country. Newly signed to the RLive Management roster, it’s now time for Sarah to hit the road with her VanderBand and for you to discover her talent.

The doors and bar will open at 7:00 p.m. General admission.

The Artist

Sarah Vanderzon writes music the way some people tell the truth—carefully, and with an incontestable conviction that compels you to lean in. Rooted in a reflective strain of Americana, the Québec-born singer-songwriter turns life’s in-between moments—uncertainty, devotion, the push and pull of love—into something intimate and immediate. Her sound is shaped as much by intuition as experience, grounded in a creative life that began on the outskirts of Montreal, where music was less a career path than a steady, private companion.

Raised on a quiet stretch of road, Vanderzon gravitated early toward songs as stories, developing a songwriting approach built on emotional clarity and narrative detail. After winning the Boots & Hearts Emerging Artist Showcase in 2024, it marked a turning point for Sarah. Soon after, an offer from Universal Music Canada accelerated a long-building trajectory.

In the months after the release of her 2025 major label debut EP, Fortune Teller, Vanderzon travelled to Seattle to work with Grammy-nominated producer Ryan Hadlock, best known for his work with The Lumineers, Brandi Carlile, and Zach Bryan, spending several weeks at the storied Bear Creek Studio.

For Vanderzon, Americana is a feeling of proximity—music built on restraint, intention, and emotional truth. Increasingly, her focus has turned toward music built for performance and connection. What comes next for her is more open in sound, unguarded in its storytelling, and more closely aligned with who she’s becoming as an artist.

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The Album

Produced by Jordan Honsinger (Patrick James Clark, Morgan Griffiths) at his Nashville home studio and mixed by Jordan Oorebeek (Kalsey Kulyk, Sully Burrows), Fortune Teller weaves through six heartfelt narratives about love, attraction, loyalty and heartbreak: all delivered with potent melodies that underscore her universally relatable lyrics.

The stylistic versatility showcased by Vanderzon on Fortune Teller also reveals a lot about the dedication to Universal Music Canada recording artist’s craft: there’s the rollicking folk elation of “Fortune Teller,” an affirmation of lifelong love and devotion fueled by a noticeable banjo propellant; the bluesy bluster of “Give Me One Reason” that’s highlighted by a tour-de-force Vanderzon vocal delivery of a love-me-or-leave-me ultimatum- and the cheeky, country-flavoured “Hey Partner,” which tells a tale of a cowboy in a singles bar hitting on the wrong type of girl.

This concert is presented as part of the Arts Alive Festival, made possible thanks to the support of the Government of Canada and Caisse Desjardins.