Jason Unrau
Northern News Services

Yellowknife (Aug 29/05) - Thanks to a $6,500 NWT Arts Council grant, Inuvik singer/songwriter Leanne Goose is on the way to cutting her first demo with her band Snowblind.

"My goal is to get steady work in music," Goose said.

Her love of performing began at the age of 12 when she sang Blue Moon of Kentucky from the back of a flatbed truck during Inuvik's Midnight Madness festivities.

Since then, the 30-year-old has continued singing, occasionally with her father's band.

Dad is Louie Goose, who is well known in the music business around the Delta.

"I still have so much to learn from my dad, he's an excellent showman" she said.

Leanne Goose's musical influences include the likes of Stevie Nicks and Janis Joplin, two female rockers with amazing pipes.

The other members of Snowblind are Whitehorse musicians Rob Hunter on guitar and Alex MacKay on bass, and Inuvik's Ryan Chalupa on drums.

The band recently opened for Canadian glam rockers Sweeney Todd, of Roxy Roller song fame, at the Farrago Music Festival in the Yukon and performed at the End of the Road Music Festival in Inuvik.