Live concert photography of Dominique Fils-Aimé with Ori Dagan Quartet at Le Poisson Rouge.

Live Concert Photography: Dominique Fils-Aimé with Ori Dagan Quartet at Le Poisson Rouge 1/11/24

Earlier this month, I caught Juno Award-winning and Polaris Music Prize shortlisted, Montréal-based singer/songwriter Dominique Fils-Aimé play a headlining set at Le Poisson Rouge to celebrate and support her latest album, last year’s Our Roots Run Deep.

Our Roots Run Deep follows a trio of albums that were loosely a chronological conceptualization of African American music. The album sees Aimé turning inwards, reflecting on her own emotional and spiritual landscape while sonically continuing to mesh jazz, R&B and soul into something distinctly her own — and entirely contemporary. As she says it stems from “a desire to shed light on our intergenerational treasures rather than intergenerational trauma, using these treasures to address and heal trauma.”

The set featured some of the most mesmerizing, introspective and genre-defying material that I’ve heard live in some time rooted in Fils-Aimé’s gorgeous vocal.

Opening the night, Toronto-based Ori Dagan Quartet, led by singer/songwriter Ori Dagan played a set of standards and originals backed by a wildly talented batch of players.

As always photos are below.