Gabrielle Cadiang | Top 20 Under 20 2025

Age: 19

Growing up, Gabrielle Cadiang thought Calgary was boring and had no intentions of staying after high school. Then she tumbled down the rabbit hole of the city’s arts and music scene. Now she’s a political science and communications major at the University of Calgary, working part time at Calgary Co-op, and devoting all of her free time to making sure Calgary musicians get their due. In 2023, she was CJSW’s youngest programmer, and, in 2024, she helped Sled Island launch the “All-Ager Rager” — a smaller-scale version of the festival designed especially for young people to go see live music and get an introduction to Sled Island. She was also an early contributor to Reverie, a quarterly music magazine and daily blog that exposes readers to the city’s best new music.

“I love writing, and I love hearing about people’s stories and learning from their experiences.”