Ru Rose is a woman, her life is her art, and her art is born from the homestead.

Ru sings, catches songs, and plays acoustic guitar, shruti box, and native drum to accompany her voice within the Sinixt təmxʷúlaʔxʷ of British Columbia. She is a devoted mother to a son & daughter, an off-grid mountain homesteader, an intricate esoteric artist, a contemplative writer of existential seasonal musings, and a re-wilding Creatrix inspired by growing regenerative culture. Ru shares her intimate journey of creating, homesteading, and cyclical living as a woman and mother upon a mountain with community on Patreon. 

With the support of Creative BC and the Province of British Columbia, the debut Spirit-Folk album 'Revival' was released in 2025. The creative outpouring of ‘Revival’ features a deeply sincere full length conceptual debut album of 12 original sacred folk songs recorded live-off-the-forest-floor in the mountains of the unceded and ancestral territories of the Sinixt and Ktunaxa nations, also known as the Kootenays of British Columbia. Interwoven with the songs of the album is a series of 12 intricate paintings created with hand-made inks, dyes and paints. The project is also accompanied by a series of videos showcasing the recording of each song of the album. A feature documentary, produced by Ru and her life partner, Kai Cabodyna, will be released later this year as a compendium of all 12 Live-Off-The-Forest-Floor music-videos, behind-the-scenes footage, interviews and story telling. This album was awarded for Album Artwork of The Year at the 2026 Canadian Folk Music Awards.

15 years ago Ru taught herself guitar as therapy while steeping in the pang of heartbreak during an era of working as an Architectural Designer in NYC. Teaching herself acoustic guitar and quietly singing to herself during the wee hours of sleepless nights became her catharsis and way to heal. This was the beginning. 

A sensitive soul, wild creature, and literal treehugger, Ru was quick to feel her life force energy draining while living and working in large cities. She decided to travel around the world while deepening her relationship with her music. She immersed her self with natural building, permaculture, community living and growing food. She lived in Nepal for a year setting up gardens and painting large public art murals among locals. Upon returning to Canada she met her life partner Kai, a fellow lover of all things regenerative and an artist/musician himself - they began painting murals and jamming together, and planning their urban exodus. Two soon became three and they were devoted to walk steadfast in the direction of simplicity and resiliency in stride with nature - thus they began creating an off-grid family homestead to raise their son in the backwoods of the Kootenays of British Columbia.

While Ru was pregnant with their son, the songs began to come. The following many years she would catch songs, sing to the woods, to her son, and to the goats she would shepherd. She began gathering with woman and singing earth-based circle songs and it was in those moments of rapture with woven harmonies with other women that Ru knew her voice as her most sacred gift and offering. Stewarding the songs and bringing them to life became part of her initiation, part of her healing journey, part of the uncovering her innate worthiness to be so bold to sing and share the songs that chose her, for they spoke loud and clear that they were not only for her and the goats. The songs that Ru has midwifed into this world are a prayer for this Earth, they hold her grief and her praise and encompass the grounded and initiatory journey of building their house and homestead from the ground up. The songs of Ru Rose are a precious treasure, a somatic experience and call to be shared for the future generations to come. Her haunting, quivering, mountain-folk voice and visionary lyrics call you to remember, to return to the land, and to your own indigenous soul.

The journey continued, a home was built of logs and clay, gardens grew, and so did another baby within the womb of Ru Rose. The songs had grown, ripened, matured - they were ready. With love for the Creative and the rhythms of the seasons, and life as ceremony, the album ‘Revival’ was recorded outdoors with each song live-off-the-forest-floor to the tuning of 432Hz. With each song of the album recorded, Ru was either pregnant or had her infant daughter sleeping upon her. Her devoted partner Kai Cabodyna helped hold the fruition with sound recording, videography, instrumentation of drum, bass, and banjo, and holding roles of father and partner. Their talented son would add steadiness with a drum and the sweetness of his voice, while musical friends would accompany this muse upon violin, native flute, strings and support vocals.. as well as the birds, insects, squirrels and elementals weaving in their magic of the moment. 'Revival' is now available to the public as of Spring 2025.