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Check out songs from Opal Blue's new demo CD! All with a full band!

Opal’s early years, growing up in a community of 14 people on Sonora Island, British Columbia, laid a strong foundation for her ideals in life, and provided the rich well of experience from which she would inevitably draw as inspiration in her song writing. No electricity, no phone and no TV were just a few of the every day amenities she grew up without. Laughing, Opal Blue says, “running water meant that you were running with the bucket!”

In 2006, after having moved a few years before, to the more populated island of Quadra Island, British Columbia, Opal Blue went to Seattle to write and recorded her first album. Titled “Live At Kearney’s,” this recording is a compilation of acoustic Folk/Blues songs recorded live off the studio floor.  “I wanted something that was raw and real,” Opal says. Her first CD was about going back to analogue and hearing the heart and soul of the song, just the way it was written with acoustic guitar and voice.

2007 brought about many changes in Opal’s life and in the spring she left the islands to pursue music in the bustling city of Toronto, Ontario. Working as a server/performer at Jeff Healey’s Roadhouse, Opal Blue was able to dive head first into the music scene meeting and performing with many musicians including Juno Award winner, Jack De Kyzer, Blues slide guitarist Pat Rush and the incredible Jeff Healey Blues band.

The work of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Stevie Ray Vaughan and others too numerous to mention, influence and shape Opal’s musical persona, some for their writing, others for their voice and many for their sheer virtuosity.
With some degree of modest difficulty, Opal describes her musical style as something of a hybrid – folk-rock with a bluesy edge. But labelling or pigeonholing her sound wouldn’t be fair, she’s eclectic, and her writing and performance has a far-reaching versatility that transcends classification …  she delights her audience!