[CANCELLED: November 11, 2026] Jessica Lea Mayfield / Rachel Bobbitt
I saw Jessica Lea Mayfield in 2018 and really enjoyed her set. Since then, I have been following her on Instagram and I enjoy her social media presence. I genuinely have no idea if she has released any new music since 2018 (when I loved her song Sorry is Gone). Huh, since then she has put pout an EP and now has a new album:
When I was recording what would become “Miss Obliteration” with Day Wave I started to get the eerie sense that I was writing more than lyrics, but predictive themes. I was married to my second husband but could see the writing on the wall, a metaphorical tornado was about to tear through my life I denied it. The record kept getting pushed back for various reasons, and I kept thinking it was getting pushed back by a greater force, now 3 years later my life is entirely different and I am radically changed as a person. From my spiritual beliefs, to my person goals and dreams and just in general, nearly everything. I had a feeling this album wouldn’t see light until that chapter of my life complete.
But anyway, this tour was cancelled for an exciting reason (for a change)
Heya! So I’ve been keeping a secret for the past 5+ months!! I was very excited to take this little bub out on the road in utero, and get some cute rock n roll bump pictures, but unfortunately my fetal specialist thinks that such an intense schedule so close to my due date could have me giving birth in the parking lot of a Dennys truck stop, and I’ve been advised to stay home. For now the Nov/Dec tour to promote my new album is cancelled and will be rescheduled for next year. I’ve been touring my whole entire life and have done more tours than I can count. I’m very happy to take a break while @actuallyitsnathaniel and I work on what seems to be the biggest and most important project of our lives.
Rachel Bobbitt is from the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia.
“The ocean does not care about you at all,” declares Rachel Bobbitt. “That’s what makes something truly awesome—it could and will exist, with or without you.” The ocean looms, uncaring yet vital, conceptually and actually on Bobbitt’s debut full-length LP, Swimming Towards the Sand. Bobbitt roots herself in the memories and milestones of home more than a decade after her voice first found an audience through the lens of internet virality. Growing up in a musical household, where her mom’s side hosted kitchen fiddle parties, Bobbitt was surrounded by music from the beginning. At just 16 years old, she’d amassed a large Vine following, performing covers and originals to an audience of 400,000 strong, leading to Shorty Award nominations and being crowned by Buzzfeed as one of “13 Amazing Singers You Should Follow On Vine.” She now looks back at that time with nuance, feeling both reinforced in her abilities by the response and, at the same time, overwhelmed by the onslaught of opinions—opinions on her career, appearance, voice, image—at an age when she was still figuring out what those things meant for herself. A dozen years later, after studying Jazz and Vocal Pedagogy at the renowned Humber College, learning the rules of the road, and navigating the music industry from her home base in Toronto, Bobbitt arrives at Swimming Towards the Sand with an unwavering sense of purpose. It’s an album that revisits her roots with the clarity of perspective, the wisdom of experience, and the lessons of resilience that can only come with time. It looks back with an eye both clear and nostalgic and reflects her memories via sharply contemporary music.
She’s a quiet singer with a lovely voice.
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