Alberta-born, California-based singer-songwriter CHAPS returns to the Okanagan in support of his debut album, In All Directions. Blending the textures and sensibilities of traditional country and western with folk pop, post-emo indie and more, CHAPS tells finely detailed stories about place, belonging and landscape.

Attuned to the strange folkways of contemporary life, his songs dwell in the places in-between and off the beaten path. Delicate and closely observed, they help us to see the bigness of small feelings and richness of dark corners.

Bee Delores of Rainbow Rodeo calls In All Directions “bedeviling,” a series of “body-altering character studies” that “practically jolts the skeletal system.”