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Kyrie Kristmanson
songs — visual art — essays
Kyrie's direct yet otherworldly style seems like folk music from some isolated mountain or urban canyon. It will take you places you've never been.
— THE GLOBE AND MAIL
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Song
Six albums on NØ FØRMAT!, Naïve, Sony and Evidence Classics — plus a new solo show in development.
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Visual art
Paintings, collages, and animations — including the ongoing Birds of Pleasure series. Select works available.
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Essays
Exploring the creative process through real and imagined encounters with collaborators and historical figures such as the courtesan-poet Veronica Franco, alongside medievalist scholarship.
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Kyrie Kristmanson is a Franco-Canadian singer-songwriter, visual artist, medievalist scholar, and essayist who divides her time between Paris, Normandy, and Canada.
In 2024, she was named Chevalière de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture, honored for a musical vocabulary infused with both the folk traditions of her native Canada and the songwriting culture of medieval France. She is also a recipient of a Canadian Folk Music Award.
full bio + press kit (coming soon)From Kyrie
latest update
September 2026
Dear Dreamers,
I'm back in France after a summer in Canada, where I was buried deep in the woods for a writing residency and emerged for a handful of festival appearances. Now I've plunged heart-first back into the Lynch repertoire to prepare for the Brasswood Festival in Poland, and a constellation of shows at beautiful venues across France. It's my first time in Poland, and I'm thrilled to be performing at the enchanted Opera Leśna — the Forest Opera in Sopot. Then it's back to France for a fall of writing and residencies, deep in the midst of creating a new show.
As always, I hope to meet you kindred spirits somewhere along the way.
Love that says let's keep dreaming a little while longer,
Kyrie
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