Cara Luft

Cara Luft is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and clawhammer banjo player, born May 27, 1974, and a founding member of the Canadian folk trio The Wailin' Jennys. Luft was raised in Calgary, Alberta, to folk-singing parents. She was brought up in the city's vibrant folk music community and began playing dulcimer and autoharp at the age of four, and started singing with the family band. Her guitar self-studies began at age 11. After spending four years living in British Columbia, she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the fall of 1999 to further pursue her music career. In her early twenties, Cara began her career recording two EPs and the Prairie Music Award-nominated album "Tempting the Storm," which signaled the arrival of a major talent. Luft co-founded and performed with the Wailin' Jennys in the early 2000s, which released a self-titled EP and an album "40 Days" in 2004. "40 Days" was awarded a JUNO Award for Best Roots Album (Group) in 2005. Luft left the band soon after and set out once more on a solo career. She released the album "The Light Fantastic" in 2007, which was produced by Neil Osborne of the Canadian rock band 54-40 and mixed by Warne Livesey. In 2012, she released another album, "Darlingford," on the Blue Case label. She's an award-winning musician, singer and songwriter, a plucky performer with an impish sense of humor, and a founding member of two Canadian folk super-groups: The Wailin' Jennys and The Small Glories.

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