About

Michael Munnik is a Canadian singer-songwriter living in Cardiff, Wales. Driving Though America at Night is his first new album in 14 years. His music infuses indie folk and Americana with a background buzz of 90s grunge and 70s songwriter. They say, “They don’t write songs like that anymore”, but Munnik gives attention to well-crafted lyrics, nesting them in music with guitar, ukulele, or bouzouki at their acoustic heart, embroidered with more wide-ranging elements. Each song takes you on a journey to the places he’s lived and travelled – a dark American highway, an ancient pilgrim trail in Spain, or a second-floor apartment looking out onto a rainy Bronson Avenue.

New music is here! Driving Through America at Night streams most places and is available for purchase as download and CD. Munnik has released two previous albums of original music – 2006 EP Long Shadows in the Afternoon and 2009 full-length I Am with the Hunters. Both are available to buy and download at Bandcamp or stream on your service of choice. You can hear his writing, bouzouki and backing vocals as a member of Ottawa Celt-punk sextet Siobhan. The early, raw demos of his high school grunge band Gone, from Nanaimo, BC, are Creative Commons-licensed at archive.org.