Go Badlands: Fireside Acoustic Night
SATURDAY NIGHT CONCERT – $39
August 22, 2025
HIDDEN VALLEY
6:00 PM – Guided Hike
7:00 PM – Acoustic Night
Mallory Chipman returns to the Badlands Amphitheatre for a special acoustic night. Surrounded by the ancient hills of the Canadian Badlands, our Hidden Valley venue sets the stage for an intimate concert bringing together some of Canada’s finest artists. Your ticket includes an optional guided hike before the music starts.
🌟 Mallory Chipman & Brett Hansen – an award-winning artist, celebrated for her acrobatic vocals, ear catching melodies, and the expert way she weaves story into song.Brett Hansen is an Edmonton guitarist, composer, and producer who has recorded on dozens of albums across many genres and shared the stage with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Blue Rodeo, and many others.
🌟 Scott Cook & Pamela Mae– Albertan balladeer Scott Cook has toured almost incessantly across Canada, the US, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere, averaging 150 shows and a dozen summer festivals every year, releasing seven albums of straight-talking, keenly observant verse along the way. Pamela Mae tours with Scott Cook playing upright bass, piano and vocals.
🌟 Billie Zizi & Cam Neufeld – is an Edmonton singer-songwriter — guitar and vocals — combining classic soul, contemporary R&B, and avant-jazz guitar into something as accessible as it is experimental. (Calgary Folk Festival). Born to fiddle player Cam Neufeld, music has always been in her blood.
Mallory Chipman
Mallory Chipman is an award-winning artist, celebrated for her acrobatic vocals, ear catching melodies, and the expert way she weaves story into song. Her recent album, Songs to a Wild God, hit #1 on CKUA and #5 on the Folk International Charts, and has been featured on NPR, CBC, and SiriusXM Radio.
She has opened for Jann Arden, Madeleine Peyroux, and has sung back-up for the legendary rock band, Heart, but most notably, she continues to stun with her solo project, described as “profoundly moving” by Celtic Music Radio.
With a vast touring history and new album on the way in early 2027, Chipman crafts songs that feel timeless, placing her firmly within the lineage of great storytellers” (Happy Mag Australia), establishing her as an instant classic in the Canadian roots music scene. In 2026, Chipman was a nominee for Solo Artist of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards and Roots Artist of the Year at the Country Music Alberta Awards.
Scott Cook & Pamela Mae
In 2007, Albertan songwriter Scott Cook quit his job teaching kindergarten in Taiwan and moved into a minivan. He’s made his living as a troubadour ever since, touring almost incessantly across Canada, the US, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere, averaging 120 shows and a dozen summer festivals a year, and releasing seven albums of plainspoken, keenly observant verse along the way. His 2020 collection Tangle of Souls came packaged in a cloth-bound, 240-page hardcover book of road stories and politico-philosophical musings.
Since early 2022 he’s been touring steadily with his sweetheart Pamela Mae on upright bass, banjo and vocals, visiting 45 states, 8 Canadian provinces and a big portion of Australia. In 2025 they’re releasing a new album called Troubadourly Yours with tours of North America, Europe and Australia to follow. Fresh from the open road, these are sturdy, straight-talking songs that see the good in you.
Billie Zizi & Cam Neufeld
“Billie Zizi is not just a studied, accomplished and diverse musician. She is a bridge between the generation before her who have made Edmonton a music centre, and the emerging artists who are developing with her.
When Billie embarks on a project it is not simply another recording or tour. She is a nucleus around which a community forms and grows. Her resume speaks volumes about the respect she has as a musician and the respect she gives to the scene” – Chris Martin Associate producer, CBC Radio
Cam Neufeld is a long-time fixture in the Edmonton music scene, playing his own style of fiddle music in clubs and festivals across the prairies and around the world.
Go Badlands & Hidden Valley
Go Badlands is a celebration of art and music in the Canadian Badlands, where creativity, community, celebration and the land come together.
Our newest venue, Hidden Valley, is nestled in the hills of our 400 acre site — a more personal setting where the land itself becomes part of your experience.
Your ticket also includes an optional guided hike with Moriah and Badger – a chance to see the beauty of the Canadian Badlands before the acoustic concert with Mallory Chipman & Friends.
