By Will McGuirk
On his latest album singer/songwriter Julian Taylor reflects on his Indigenous and West Indian heritage. Titled ‘Beyond the Reservoir” the album is a consideration of dualities, the balance of the urban and the rural as well as his own roots in two communities. The latest single ‘SEEDS” is Taylor’s way to come to terms with ongoing discovery of graveyards at residential schools across Canada.
2022 marks his Hillside debut.
Julian Taylor - “I’m ecstatic to be performing at Hillside this year. My younger cousins are coming and so is my daughter who is ten which makes the festival experience a family experience and what could possibly be better than that.
“This will be my first time playing Hillside in person. In 2020 during the height of the first wave of the pandemic I did do a live stream for Hillside and broadcast from my backyard. “
