Performing
Live Music. Film. Feeling.
I create immersive live experiences where music, film, and storytelling intertwine to move people — heart, mind, and spirit.
Through moody vocals, layered and effected flute, omnichord, electronics, and cinematic visuals, I craft performances that draw audiences in and stay with them long after the lights fade. Each show bridges sound and story, offering a connection that feels intimate, transportive, and deeply human.
Rooted in themes of people, place, and the human experience, my work invites reflection on memory, milestones, and what truly matters. Every performance is carefully curated and often shaped through collaborations with filmmakers and musicians across Canada, the U.S., South America, Europe, and Scandinavia.
Whether performing in a festival, theatre, museum, school, conference, or coastal cottage, I aim to create something that feels personal, powerful, and quietly transformative.
What You Can Expect
A multi-sensory, emotionally resonant live performance
Original music paired with evocative film
Engaged, connected audiences
A collaborative, professional working experience
Optional artist talks, Q&As, or workshops
A distinctive offering for music, film, or educational arts programming
Now Booking: 2026–2027
Festivals · Residencies · Interdisciplinary Programs · Conferences · Schools · Cultural Events
If you’re a presenter, curator, or programmer seeking a performance that stirs the heart and sparks reflection, I’d love to connect.
Rozalind MacPhail
hello@rozalindmacphail.com
Upcoming Events
Rozalind is currently scaling back live performances to focus on completing her upcoming album, PUSH & PULL.
Ways We Can Work Together
Keynote concerts at events focused on wellness, leadership, innovation, creativity and team development
Private and corporate events
House concerts and intimate performance gatherings
Festivals (music, film, arts, wellness and interdisciplinary)
School performances - elementary, high school, college, and university
Heart-Led Sound Bath experiences for yoga, meditation, wellness events and retreats
Live Projects
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Now booking performance opportunities in theatres, festivals, conferences, and schools for 2026/27.
A powerful live music, storytelling and cinema experience featuring Newfoundland’s multi award-winning artist, Rozalind MacPhail.
PUSH & PULL was born out of MacPhail’s Digital Arts Residency with Unscripted Twillingate: Digital Arts Festival, where she connected deeply with the oral traditions of the region. Through conversations with local residents, she witnessed how stories, history, and memory are passed from one generation to the next.
Motivated by a sense of urgency to preserve these voices, she began documenting them through song and film. Using the lens of a singer-songwriter, she brings these stories to life - placing them at the heart of each performance, where live music and cinema meet in an unforgettable celebration of community, memory, and place.
Mode: In-person
Length: Presented as a 90-minute performance: 45 minutes of live music, intermission, and a 30-minute concluding set. -
✨ A 45-minute keynote and audiovisual performance by Rozalind MacPhail
✨ Available in-person or virtually
Join multi award-winning recording and touring artist, inspirational speaker, and innovative Canadian performer Rozalind MacPhail - proudly sponsored by Di Zhao Flutes - for an inspiring and interactive 45-minute keynote experience.
In this engaging session, Rozalind shares her personal journey, from being bullied in school to flunking out of her master’s program and how these pivotal challenges became unlikely stepping stones to a creative life beyond her wildest dreams.
Instead of following the traditional path of an orchestral soloist, Rozalind found her calling as a one-woman orchestra - performing original live music to film around the world. Through story, sound and visuals, she invites participants into a vulnerable and uplifting reflection on how rejection can become a catalyst for clarity, creativity, and resilience.
Attendees will walk away with:
Practical strategies for reframing rejection
Tools for cultivating creative courage and self-trust
A renewed sense of purpose and personal empowerment
YES LIVES IN THE LAND OF NO is perfect for conferences, festivals, schools and organizations seeking a meaningful and memorable keynote that blends storytelling, performance and powerful takeaways.
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INSPIRATION SOUP
✨ A keynote concert experience with Rozalind MacPhail
✨ Available in-person or virtually
✨ Flexible length (approx. 45 minutes)
Inspiration Soup is a dynamic keynote concert blending live music, contemporary silent film and inspirational storytelling. Designed to spark creativity, collaboration and compassionate communication, this interactive experience invites participants into a space of reflection, connection and imagination.
As an award-winning performer, coach, music educator and artist advocate, I guide participants through powerful insights on creative flow, resilience, and empathetic leadership - sharing tips and tools gathered from a lifetime of persistence, reinvention, and saying “yes” even when the road looked uncertain.
This keynote is a perfect fit for wellness events, leadership gatherings, education conferences and creative industries seeking a fresh, emotionally resonant experience that moves both heart and mind.
Inspiration Soup was developed through the Business and Arts NL Creative Edge program and has been featured at CB Nuit, Positive Thinkers Club NL, MusicNL Week and the Unscripted Twillingate Digital Arts Festival.
Whether shortened for a conference setting or expanded for an arts-focused event, the format is fully customizable to fit your audience and your goals.
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A special live music and cinema event featuring Newfoundland’s multi award-winning performer Rozalind MacPhail.
It tells a timeless story of self-discovery experienced by a young woman navigating her way through a vulnerable period in her life. Haunting, lonely, dreamy and deeply honest. The film adapts the Indigenous tradition of the vision quest and explores themes of attachment, loss and longing.
MacPhail’s music score features moody vocals, electrifying flute loops and driving electronics reminiscent of Pink Floyd, Mazzy Star and New Order.
Mode: In-person or Virtual Keynote Length: 30 minutes with optional 15 minute Q&A by Rozalind after the performance
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Flute Loops & Film is a mesmerizing live experience that blends music, short film and storytelling into a rich tapestry of people, place and the human experience.
Featuring Rozalind MacPhail’s original live scores - crafted with layered sound looping, traditional songwriting, field recordings and her signature effected flute - this multimedia performance invites audiences into a deeply moving, immersive world.
✨ Available In-Person or Virtual
✨ 60-minute performance + optional 15-minute Q&A with Rozalind
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A heart-led journey through sound.
Blending layered flutes, voice, and ambient loops, I create a space to reconnect, release, recharge, and rise — inviting listeners to soften, breathe, and come home to themselves.
Each sound bath is improvised in the moment, shaped by the energy of the room, and designed to nurture psychological safety, calm the nervous system, and restore inner balance.
Gentle waves of melody and vibration open the heart and guide participants into a grounded state of peace and renewal.✨ Mode: In-person — for select classes, retreats, and wellness events
✨ Length: Available in a range of formats — from 30-minute immersions to full 75-minute journeys .
Performance Highlights
TEDx St. John’s, National Flute Convention, Radio Sweden, CBC Radio, First Night Raleigh, Banff Centre, Live at Heart Sweden, Unscripted Twillingate Digital Arts Festival, NewFest, CB Nuit, Cameron Art Museum, Contact East, The Rooms, Cat's Cradle, Cat Fly Film Festival, Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Canadian Flute Convention, Cucalorus Festival, NPR, Ashland Independent Film Festival, Nickel Film Festival, Festival of Small Halls, Stephenville Winter Jazz Festival, St. John’s International Women's Film Festival, Gros Morne Summer Music, Sound Symposium and MusicNL Week.
The Gaze -
Live in Halifax
Of the film, Shona Thomson says “The Gaze” is an experimental film inspired by a 1947 civic film I found during an artist residency at Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington, North Carolina. Fascinated by reactions to the camera, I picked out every moment a citizen gazes directly at us.”
TEDx St. John’s
A live performance of two films
from my Head First DVD project,
”Dempster Highway” and “Victoria Street”
Technical Requirements
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Rozalind - vocals, flutes and electronics mixed through Rozalind’s laptop while video is being projected through an HDMI projector
Rozalind provides her own vocal microphone
No stage monitors required
Audio goes to the soundboard from Rozalind’s audio interface (2 balanced quarter-inch cables in stereo from an RME Babyface Pro)
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Rozalind + laptop located on stage left or right to avoid blocking the audience view of the visuals
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PA system with a soundboard that has a stereo input
AV technician receives 2 inputs (stereo mix from RME audio interface) to the soundboard
2 power cords
1 boom mic stand
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1 Projection Screen (preferably a 16 foot x 9 foot screen or whatever is the most appropriate size for the performance space)
Projector with HDMI capability
1 HDMI Cable from laptop feed from the stage to the projector
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Lighting should be able to be dimmed in the performance space so that the visuals can be seen clearly on the screen.
Spotlight lighting provided on Rozalind (if possible in venue)