Keith Jolie Bio
Blues and roots inspired City-Folker
Keith Jolie is a Hamilton based blues and roots influenced city-folker, at once singing frantic pleas about life in the city, then sweet ballads about moving on. For fans of Gord Downie, John K. Sampson, Joel Plaskett and Ike Reilly.
Keith started performing in Windsor and in the Brantford area in the 1990s. For about a year, a Wednesday night residency at punk music venue 'The Turnaround' gave him a venue to test out his own material. Playing acoustic guitar in a punk bar was also where he figured out how to earn the attention of an audience.
In the 90s he played shows in Brantford, Toronto, and across Ontario with bands like Transistor Sound and Light Company, Made, and By Divine Right.
He recorded his first solo album City So Cold under the name KEiTH
Soon he moved to Toronto and starting at open mics in the Kensington Market area before branching out into gigs across the city where he could hold his own as a solo act on a bill with full bands. After a couple of years playing pubs 6 nights a week in two Irish Folk Bands he moved to Calgary where he spent some time writing, and performing before heading back to Toronto.
In 2005 Keith formed the band Endsville and released the album Sidewalk Stories under the Endsville name before returning to his solo roots.
Keith continued to write and release new music including his 2015 release The Beauty and his 2017 album twenty three
His December 2024 release Younger than that now is now available everywhere.
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About Younger than that now
Younger than that now, is the 5th full length album from Singer-Songwriter Keith Jolie and is an album that looks at the role of art in the current climate and that aspires to provide meaningful commentary on where we are going. From “Song About Love” that wonders about the role music plays in difficult times, and “Mother of Exiles” a song about hypocrisy and mistreatment of immigrants and the deceivingly upbeat “Younger” that questions what we’ve lost as we get older, the status quo is questioned.
The album also tackles every day life with songs like “Sweet little Georgia”, a tale of two cities and two relationships that rides the rails between Montreal and Toronto, “Wading into the Water” an autobiographical song about the challenges of raising a family and “Home” that was written simply to tell his children that no matter what, they can always come home.