Open Mike Eagle I Factor Chandelier I Eekwol (Winterruption YXE 2026)

Thursday, January 22, 2026
8:45 PM / Black Cat Tavern

Offsite Event

Doors: 8PM. Showtime: 8:45PM
Venue: The Black Cat Tavern
19+

Proudly presented by Prairie Records.

Open Mike Eagle found comedy in contemporary American horrors on albums like 2014’s Dark Comedy and catharsis in exposing his past on 2020’s Anime, Trauma, and Divorce. Now, the incisive, hilarious, and idiosyncratic purveyor of art rap praised by The New York Times, Pitchfork, and The New Yorker manipulates time like Dr. Strange on his new album, Component System with the Auto Reverse.

Factor Chandelier’s production combines melodic moods and live instruments over immaculate drums put together seemingly effortlessly to create a distinct sound. Factor is always trying to create original, thought-provoking music that pushes the envelope of traditional hip-hop and has drawn attention to this innovative Canadian artist.

Eekwol aka Lindsay Knight is an award-winning hip-hop performing artist and activist who has dedicated years to the culture and craft of hip-hop to create something unique and astounding to give back to the community. She is half nehiyaw (a status member of Muskoday First Nation) and half immigrant (Russian/Polish) with lived experience as an urban Indigenous person in Saskatoon, Treaty Six Territory. Eekwol uses her music and words to spread messages of resistance and revolution and keep Indigenous language, land, and culture alive for the next generations. 

Along with her own creative work, she is a mom of two, a PhD Candidate and lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan and is frequently invited to work with young people across Turtle Island as a mentor and helper. She achieves this through performances, workshops, speaking events, conferences and programs. In 2024, Eekwol released her 9th studio album titled, TMRWS, which is on all streaming sites.