"It's very important to me that I make people feel something": Meet Bywater Call, your new favourite Canadian jazz-trained blues-rock band

Bywater Call studio portrait.

For many musicians, New Orleans holds a particular kind of magic not found anywhere else. 

“Music is everywhere, the city is steeped in it,” says Meghan Parnell, frontwoman with Bywater Call, a seven-piece Canadian blues-rock band, named after a neighbourhood bordering the area’s French Quarter.