"Sarah Pound has a knack for drawing the audience in... She gave the impression that we were more than faces to whom albums are sold, indeed she wanted to share with us her most carefully constructed thoughts and feelings. Storytellers are often a powerful bunch, and Sarah Pound can count herself as more than a musician; she's a performer. Her capable hands seemed equally comfortable strolling across the guitar neck as they did twiddling the valves on the trumpet, and effortlessness was the polish that made her voice and stories shine."
- Joshua Fraser, The Grapevine

Sarah Pound & The Sequels

Sarah Pound & The Sequels is a Nova Scotia based band blending Americana, roots, soul, R&B, and jazz. Fronted by powerhouse singer-songwriter Sarah Pound, the band delivers intricate harmonies and richly textured instrumentation. The band is comprised of some of the top East Coast talent with Sarah Pound on lead vocals, guitar, and piano; Richard White on guitar; Mark Adam on drums, Nic D'Amato on bass, and Marcie Clowry on harmony vocals and guitar. The core band members all have extensive national and international experience having performed on stages of all sizes. With original songwriting at its heart, Sarah Pound & The Sequels are establishing themselves as an original sound in the Canadian contemporary music scene.

Sarah Pound

Lead vocals, guitar, piano

Sarah Pound is a Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Nova Scotia, where she began her musical training early on, honing in jazz and folk, and later training in classical voice at Acadia University. Alongside her vocal studies, she developed proficiency in guitar, piano, hand percussion, and trumpet, skills that she integrates into her recordings, live performances, and songwriting. This formal training has provided her with the technical foundation to perform across genres and the versatility to adapt to a wide range of collaborative and solo settings.

Sarah is the lead vocalist for her band Sarah Pound & the Sequels, where she also plays guitar and keys, performing original songs and re-arrangements of folk, soul, and blues material. She has also performed extensively with the bands The Sundries and Bluesmobile, as a duo alongside renowned keyboardist John Ebata, and has been featured as a vocalist with the Big Valley Swing Orchestra. Her collaborative work has extended to opening for internationally recognized songwriter Steve Poltz, and played the pre-concert show in Murphys, California as part of the at the Alison Krauss & Robert Plant 2024 tour.

Over the course of her growing career, Sarah has performed at some of the Maritimes’ most established festivals and community events, including: Main Stage at Stan Rogers Folk Festival (StanFest); Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival; Deep Roots Music Festival (Wolfville, NS); Halifax Jazz Festival (with the Big Valley Swing Orchestra); Apple Blossom Festival; Avon River Days; and Berwick Gala Days. In addition to these, she has performed in countless concerts across Nova Scotia, both as a solo artist and as part of larger ensembles.

Sarah Pound's innate skill, extensive musical training, and experience make her equally at home on intimate folk stages, festival mainstages, or in jazz and blues ensembles. Her professionalism and sense of collaboration have made her a sought-after presence at festivals, concert series, and musical events throughout Atlantic Canada.

Marcie Clowry

Harmony vocals, guitar

Marcie Clowry is the artistic eye behind the band’s ever-evolving sunshiny image. She studied film at Ryerson University and has followed her passion for music production, songwriting, and harmony, making her powerhouse vocals an essential colour in The Sequels’ soulful, uplifting sound, and a driving force behind the band’s creative vision.

Long before Sarah Pound and The Sequels manifested in April of 2024, Clowry and Pound had been collaborating as close friends and musicians since the early 2000s. Clowry sang for each of Pound’s album releases and also filmed and produced the music video for Sarah Pound’s “Swing on Your Swing”, which came out on Pound’s Capacity album in 2015.

Clowry often plays acoustic guitar and occasional auxiliary percussion in the band and joins Sarah in the creative nuance to many of the arrangements. You can hear Marcie Clowry on the live recording of their August, 2025, concert at The Port’s outdoor stage, featured on the Music Page. 

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