Noah Derksen is one of Canada’s most distinctive voices, a singer-songwriter whose luminous blend of folk, country, and indie defies easy categorization. Emerging from Winnipeg’s indie scene — an isolated city in the heart of North America — Noah was named a finalist in SiriusXM’s Top of the Country competition and awarded Canadian Folk Music’s Emerging Artist of the Year. An observer of the subtle and the mundane, Noah's genre-defying music will pull you through the portal for just a moment: one where you can feel the music rising above the noise of everyday life.Noah’s fourth album, Mercy on the Skyline (May 2026 via AWAL), is a soulful and reflective work exploring themes of self-realization, healing, and the quiet cultivation of inner strength. Grounded and down-to-earth, his songs point out the little mercies that emerge even in a world full of heartbreak. A city-dwelling wanderer moving between Winnipeg, Montreal, Nashville, and life on the road, Noah turns his keen and kind blue eyes on the people he meets along the way. "I get on the bus to join the dreamers and wanderers/On their quest for a place to do their laundry." Mercy on the Skyline captures an everyday life in motion — packing up boxes, riding transit, chatting with tearful strangers, driving away from cities (and a love) for the last time. With lyrics that feel both intimate and universal, delivered with a voice that is at once tender and soaring, Noah’s music is fearless in its sincerity. Warmly flickering in a heartfelt space between folk, country, and indie, his songs are rooted in the everyday complexity of being human.“Life is about being in community,” says Noah. “I want my music to be a reflection of that.” Written and recorded in a spirit of collaboration, the album features some of Noah’s musical heroes — Lori McKenna, May Erlewine, and FONTINE — alongside a backbone of Winnipeg’s finest musicians recorded all together, live in a room.