The Goddamsels are all about friendship.
The Edmonton meets Montreal alternative country duo will be playing the Slice, Wednesday, Aug. 17.
The duo, Montreal based Frédrique “Freddi” MacDougall and Mallory Chipman met while playing with the house band of popular Edmonton venue the Blue Chair, and found an instant connection.

MacDougall was playing with the band in 2011 and Chipman joined in 2015. They decided to form the Goddamsels in 2017 , finding common inspiration in modern acts like First Aid Kit and country artists Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton and Emmy Lou Harris plus the Chicks.
“ I also grew up listening to people like Lucinda Williams,” she said.
MacDougall loves singing with Chipman.
“It’s great . It’s a lot of fun. I love the way she can sing harmonies. She sings just the right harmony. She’s so talented,” said MacDougall from Montreal.
“Our voices blend so well together. She sings higher and my voice is lower,” she said.
“For years people said they liked how our voices complemented each other so we decided to start a group together. And then the pandemic happened,” she said, adding they had just started to write music together.
“ It’s challenging, but it also opened up a creative space for new narrative in country music,” she said, adding they started working on new music in fall 2020.
“We started working together around the same time I moved to Montreal. So we did a lot of FaceTime and sending texts with lyric ideas,” MacDougall said.
In August 2021, they got in the studio with producer Scott Franchuk, who has worked with a lot of popular groups including Scenic Route to Alaska.
“ I do a lot of back and forth from Montreal to sing with her,” she continued.