Alison Garwood Jones

When you start here, as the singer Emma-Lee did back in the early noughties …

… and end up here, on the billboard at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto:

You know the reversal in the music industry is complete. I wrote about Emma-Lee’s rise to prominence — starting on My Space, then YouTube — in this profile last December. At the time, she was on a cross-country tour with Jesse Cook. Now she’s back on the road with Peter Katz, hitting venues across Canada. Katz most recently performed with The Swell Season, the legendary Garth Hudson, from The Band, as well as with members of Levon Helm’s band.