“Due to circumstances that are beyond my control we have to reschedule our upcoming dates for next year. I look forward to seeing you in March!” – Haley
All previously purchased tickets will be honored, if you have questions please reach out to the box office 716-852-3835 or info@babevillebuffalo.com
DSP Shows presents Haley Blais live in the 9th Ward w/ WORMY
7pm Doors, 8pm Show
Tickets: On sale 7/26@10am – General Admission Standing tickets: $15 advance / $18 day of show, available at TixR.com
or in person at the Babeville Box Office (M-F 11a-5p) fee free cash sales, 3% credit card fee.
“But if you see me out, know I’m the coolest fucking bitch in town,” sings Haley Blais on her self-effacing first single about acting like you’ve got it all together while being an emotional wreck. The song is a defining track from her recently released album Wisecrack. Funny and raw at the same time. Tongue-in-cheek lines like I want my therapist to think I’m cool give the melancholic mood a biting edge.
All of Wisecrack is like this: textured and wryly poetic, oscillating somewhere between a cherished childhood memory and the creation of a new self. Concerned with conscience, morality, “being stuck between two mindsets” — the old self and what the future holds — and the superego. It’s “bleak but true,” as Blais puts it. “Am I a good person or not? Are we all doing okay? Am I a good daughter? Sister? Partner? Friend?” The existential, everyday worries we all contain but rarely share are laid bare across eleven songs exquisitely performed with profundity, grace, and humour.
Conceived as a conceptual piece about the formation of new families amidst the dissolution of her parents’ relationship, Wisecrack is more mature, confessional, focused, and darker, than anything Blais has yet produced.
The Vancouver-based singer-songwriter started developing a community and fanbase as a teenager almost a decade ago with her diaristic YouTube videos and tender ukulele covers. Since then, Blais, who sang classical opera for ten years, traded in the solo ukulele for a guitar and a five-piece band. In 2020, Blais released a debut full-length album of jangly pop anthems, Below the Salt, produced with indie staples Tennis and Louise Burns, featuring the vocally powerful, complex slow-burn favourite “Be Your Own Muse.” The self-released Below the Salt amassed millions of streams and avid support from publications like NPR, NYLON, and i-D and led to a North American tour with Peach Pit and headline tours throughout North America, Europe and the UK. Now signed to iconic indie label Arts & Crafts, Blais released her sophomore record Wisecrack in the fall of 2023.
WORMY opens the show!
Wormy is the solo venture of Noah Rauchwerk, Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and touring drummer for Samia. With Wormy Rauchwerk seeks to tell moment-to-moment stories backed by a dynamic orchestration that mimics the scattered nature of daily life. It combines the simplistic songwriting of folk music with catchy, bouncy and largely electronic arrangements that are impossible to resist moving to, even after being trapped in your tiny apartment for a year.