Joyful Joyful

Joyful Joyful are a Canadian musical duo, consisting of singer Cormac Culkeen and instrumentalist Dave Grenon.Jesse Locke, [https://xtramagazine.com/culture/music/joyful-joyful-sacred-hymns-exile-church-223359 "Joyful Joyful sing their own sacred hymns after being exiled from the church"]. Xtra!, May 24, 2022. Their self-titled debut album was released in April 2022,Allie Gregory, [https://exclaim.ca/music/article/joyful_joyful_announce_self-titled_debut_album "Joyful Joyful Announce Self-Titled Debut Album"]. Exclaim!, February 22, 2022. and was longlisted for the 2022 Polaris Music Prize.Allie Gregory, [https://exclaim.ca/music/article/heres_the_2022_polaris_music_prize_long_list "Here's the 2022 Polaris Music Prize Long List"]. Exclaim!, June 14, 2022.

The duo's style blends experimental drone music with folk-influenced devotional music, inspired by Culkeen's background as a religious person who was excommunicated from an evangelical church community after coming out as queer and non-binary. Culkeen and Grenon, who knew each other as volunteers at community radio station CFFF-FM in Peterborough, Ontario, came together for the first time as Joyful Joyful in 2016 for a live performance in which they performed the 12-minute track "Sebaldus" improvisationally.