Val Halla (Valerie McLeod) is a Métis and Canadian singer-songwriter born and raised in the Métis Homeland, within Treaty 4 Territory. She is the daughter of a hot air balloon pilot, fiddle playing father, and a motorcycle riding, visual artist mother. Val left for the big city of Vancouver at the young age of 17 to pursue a career in music which would later take her all the way to performing, writing, and living down in Nashville, Tennessee by the age of 25.
Val Halla has toured and performed for over 20 years and shared stages with acclaimed acts such as Alice Cooper, Burton Cummings, Ted Nugent, Streetheart, Eric Burdon, Rob Thomas, Jennifer Batten, and many more. She has been recognized for her unique approach to composition and arrangement, coupled with strong autobiographical & storytelling lyricism. Her energetic and percussive guitar playing with nods to blues, grunge, classic rock, and a variety of folk styles has been recognized with features in both Guitar World and Guitar Player Magazine. An audio engineer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, Val Halla has performed, recorded, and written with many local plains musicians over the years for their own projects and she continues to produce and coordinate events locally with a heavy focus on elevating the local music scene and supporting community building.
