Amanda Rheaume is a powerful vocalist with just a touch of grit and an instantly accessible roots-pop-Americana sound. She emits a character akin to the likes of Blue Rodeo. The cadence and timing in her music produces a sound that is truly her own unmistakable style. Her latest album Keep a Fire is rife with emotion, insight and delicate song writing that characterize a generational journey of her family spanning centuries and thousands of miles, illuminating a brilliant landscape of Canadian history and personal experience. Rheaume pays tribute to her Métis heritage with "Keep a Fire in the Rain," a pulsing piece about her French Great-Grandfather and Ojibway Great Grandmother who lived halfway between the reserve and the mine site in God’s Lake, Manitoba – the mixed-race couple wasn’t welcome in either community. "A.G.B. Bannatyne,", is a sprightly ode to her Great Great Grandfather, a founding father of Manitoba and friend to Louis Riel, who hosted the province’s early legislative sessions in his home – and after whom Bannatyne Avenue in Winnipeg is named. Rheaume tours internationally and has performed in Europe, USA, Canada, Faroe Islands, Central America, Afghanistan and has shared the stage with Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams and Ani Difranco.