Touted as an engaging songwriter and gifted storyteller, Carleton alum Jay Aymar has certainly made waves in the Canadian folk music industry.
A Toronto-based country-folk musician, Aymar has been busy at work over the past year on his fourth studio album, entitled “Halfway Home.”
He speaks fondly of his days at Mike’s Place and cites it as the place he truly got his start.
“It was just a really great place where I could express myself and my poetry. I also was able to grow so much as a performer.”
It was also at Carleton that he got discovered.
“I’d always been playing music at Carleton which gave me great exposure and allowed me to develop my performance style. The CBC really picked up on me at that point and did a feature on me. . . . It really gave me the push I needed to keep plugging away at it.”
It has been 15 years since then but Aymar will be returning to that place of inspiration, performing at Mike’s Place on Oct. 12.