Summer Kicks - Madeleine Roger

Every summer, the world comes to play in Golden, and so does the community at Summer Kicks.

Presented by Kicking Horse Culture, Summer Kicks is a FREE outdoor concert series featuring touring artists from across Canada alongside amazing local performers. Bring a blanket or lawn chair and enjoy live music, dancing, and community under the mountain sky.

Madeleine Roger Band

Madeleine Roger (she/her) is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Canada. While deftly accompanying herself on acoustic guitar, it is her artistry as a songwriter that can silence a room, uniting her lyrical prowess with breathtaking melodies and a crystalline voice that lingers long after the last note. Featuring local Tweener: Sarah Osadetz

Madeleine Roger’s newest collection of songs examines every nook and cranny of love and loss. It is unflinchingly honest – Madeleine has poured over every word, and the mastery of her craft shows. Nerve, the album created in the process (out August 2024 on Birthday Cake Records) was produced by Josh Kaufman (Anaïs Mitchell, Bob Weir, Bonny Light Horseman) is an uplifting gut-punch; an uninhibited account of risk, longing, regret, grief, and love. It touches on a breakup with a long-term lover and musical collaborator, the death of a soul-friend, the secret of an unrequited love, months of caring for a dying grandparent, and finding a curious peace in spite of it. Madeleine bravely exposes the delicate and private moments in life that are universal and sets them adrift on melodies and arrangements that make us feel like nothing is insurmountable.

Sarah Osadetz

With a lifetime of singing under her belt, Sarah has explored many genres of music over the course of her musical journey. Those genres include: rock, pop, folk, country, grunge, blues, and musical soundtracks from the 60’s to now. She is constantly exploring and challenging herself; Songwriting, bar chords, reading tab and deepening her challenges with harder songs, more complex songs to play and sing. She has taught herself djembe drumming, plays the bass, and built her own Indigenous drum for sacred ceremony with the local Metis of Golden.