Terra Spencer
Wed, Mar 18
|Rocky Mountain House
Raised on the mud banks of the Avon River, Nova Scotian funeral director-turned-songwriter Terra Spencer charms audiences with her butterscotch voice, crackling wit, and wood-paneled warmth, catching the eye of collaborators including David Francey, Ben Caplan, and Matt Andersen.
Time & Location
Mar 18, 2026, 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Rocky Mountain House, 5107 49 St, Rocky Mountain House, AB T4T 1B8, Canada
About the event
Bad ideas, VCRs, crumbling factories, hairy dogs, questionable tattoos...all are fair game for Nova Scotian funeral director-turned-songwriter Terra Spencer. And the songs are good ones, judging from the accolades her four albums have received, and from the caliber of collaborators like Ben Caplan, Dave Gunning, and David Francey, who welcomed Terra as a co-writer and performer on his JUNO-winning album 'The Breath Between'. Cinematic storytelling is a hallmark of many great Canadian folk songwriters, but in Terra's case, it is charged with the wood-paneled '70s warmth of Elton John, Carole King, and Jackson Browne. An only child, Terra grew up surrounded by country music, but took refuge as a shy teen in her grandparents' basement, where she played Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals on a battleship upright piano, learning guitar in secret from her granddad's Chet Atkins records. Her passion for songwriting came much later, after being hired on as a…
