Like a truck driver on the radio, Winnipeg’s FONTINE is a road warrior logging shows all year. And while that trucker-hat-wearing, big-rig-wielding archetype might not usually be associated with soft sensitivity, that middle zone is exactly where FONTINE folk, rock, and introspective sing-a-longs live. Indigenous, queer and a self-proclaimed “real goofy guy” these things all inform her art. She is the life of the party, her magnanimous laugh and smile filling up any room. But there’s also struggle behind all that. Navigating through relationships beginning and ending, identity exploration, self-doubt, activist frustration, people pleasing and friendship – all rooted in a real sense of place.