After a decade up north, Kate Weekes comes home

Kate Weekes
3 p.m. Sunday, Irene’s Pub, 885 Bank St.
Tickets: $12 advance at eventbrite.ca or $15 at the door.
After more than a decade in the Yukon, where she worked as a dog musher and wilderness guide, Kate Weekes is back in the Ottawa area.The Smiths Falls-born singer-songwriter, who grew up in Ottawa and attended Canterbury High School, has actually been back for about four years, but it hasn’t been an easy transition. Her poignant new album, Taken By Surprise, chronicles the ch