Haley Bonar (born 1983, Brandon, Manitoba[1]) is a Canadian-born American singer-songwriter who was raised in Rapid City, South Dakota.[2] She has lived in Duluth[3] and St. Paul, Minnesota. She currently lives in St. Paul.[4] In 2009, she moved to Portland, Oregon,[5] where she spent a year writing songs for her album Golder,[6] which was released April 19, 2011.[7] She plays acoustic guitar, baritone electric guitar, electric guitar and rhodes or wurlitzer organ, either solo or with her Twin Cities-based band, including Jeremy Ylvisaker, Robert Skoro, and Jacob Hanson.