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Susan Crowe
Often described as a “writer’s writer”, Susan Crowe is one of Canada’s most respected singer songwriters in the folk genre. At once complex, challenging and accessible, Susan’s intelligent and moving songs have captivated audiences and reviewers from coast to coast, continent to continent.
She possesses, in the words of Britain’s Folk Roots magazine, “that rare ability of crafting a lyric that bears scrutiny on its own terms.” That rare ability has earned her two Juno nominations, and nominations from both the West Coast and East Coast Music Awards.
In 1994, after being away from music for more than a decade, Susan returned to writing. That led to her first album, This Far From Home, which was chosen by Vancouver’s Georgia Straight as one of the top albums of the year. It was subsequently nominated for a Juno award in the Roots/Traditional category. Now established as a recording artist of note, Susan returned to the festival circuit and recorded a second album in 1996, The Door to the River, receiving more high praise from critics. Dirty Linen magazine described the two albums as “lyrically sparse but telling, conveying a deep sense of emotion, very subtly but very powerfully…both are rewarding works, both strangely compelling in ways that will move you.”
Susan’s growing reputation as a recording and performing artist was further solidified in 1999 with the release of her third album, A Pilgrim’s Mirror, which received more plaudits from the critics and a West Coast Music Award nomination.
In October 2003, Susan released her fourth CD titled Book of Days (Corvus/Festival). Produced by Danny Greenspoon at Toronto’s Canterbury Sound studios, Book of Days met with rave reviews across Canada and garnered her nominations from the East Coast Music Awards and the 2004 Juno Awards, for Best Roots/Traditional Solo Recording. It also won her Music Nova Scotia’s award for Best Female Artist.
Her recent CD Greytown (Corvus 2009), also produced by Danny Greenspoon, features 10 original songs, all crafted with the elegance and substance that has become the hallmark of Susan’s work.
The Georgia Straight described Susan’s work as offering “a sense that the singer has tapped into the collective unconscious in a way that what she is singing about is not only true for her but true for all of us.” Adds the Vancouver Sun: “With one of the most distinctive voices in Canada today, she is destined to become one of our lasting folk heroines.”
Cindy Church
A stellar presence in the Canadian music scene, Cindy Church has crafted a body of work that is at once artistically successful and culturally significant, sought after by fellow performers and treasured by listeners. Drawing set lists from her own catalogue and exceptional covers of tunes in performances to appreciative audiences internationally, Church has become renowned for the clarity and emotive precision of her voice and the subtlety of her approach to song interpretation and songwriting.
Weaving influences from east to west, she has blended styles effortlessly to create her own singular sound. Originally from Bible Hill, Nova Scotia, Church’s early sense of music was infused with acoustic country and folk traditions of the maritimes.
Building upon these roots, during the 1980′s she made forays into country music while living and recording in western Canada, developing her repertoire within the Turner Valley, Alberta based trio Great Western Orchestra and touring and recording with Ian Tyson as part of the Chinook Arch Riders. Church has continued to perform with Tyson, providing vocals for four of his contemporary cowboy albums.
Embarking on a solo career in the 1990′s with Love on the Range, Just a Little Rain and the self titled Cindy Church recorded on the Stony Plain label, Church proved herself to be a superb singer and songwriter with a distinctive voice and interpretive technique. All of these albums received extensive airplay across the country. Church was also a recurring musical guest at this time on Morningside with Peter Gzowski.
These vocal stylings became a key element in the formation of Quartette, the striking collaboration of Church, Sylvia Tyson, Caitlin Hanford, the late Colleen Peterson, and later Gwen Swick, that would reshape the Canadian musical landscape.
Now living in Toronto, she has acquired national acclaim as one of the best singers in the country and an international reputation for her musical adeptness across country, jazz, blues, gospel and swing styles, and as one of the finest song interpreters. From 2001 through 2003, she worked and recorded with George Koller and Joe Sealy as part of “The Nearness of You : A Tribute to the Music of Hoagy Carmichael ” which toured extensively across Canada. Currently, she continues to work and record with Quartette, and is also a core member of the powerful creative collaboration, Lunch at Allen’s, writing, recording and performing with fellow singer songwriters Murray McLauchlan, Ian Thomas and Marc Jordan.
contactunionstreet@gmail.com
902 5387787
Doors open at 6pm
Susan Crowe
Often described as a “writer’s writer”, Susan Crowe is one of Canada’s most respected singer songwriters in the folk genre. At once complex, challenging and accessible, Susan’s intelligent and moving songs have captivated audiences and reviewers from coast to coast, continent to continent.
She possesses, in the words of Britain’s Folk Roots magazine, “that rare ability of crafting a lyric that bears scrutiny on its own terms.” That rare ability has earned her two Juno nominations, and nominations from both the West Coast and East Coast Music Awards.
In 1994, after being away from music for more than a decade, Susan returned to writing. That led to her first album, This Far From Home, which was chosen by Vancouver’s Georgia Straight as one of the top albums of the year. It was subsequently nominated for a Juno award in the Roots/Traditional category. Now established as a recording artist of note, Susan returned to the festival circuit and recorded a second album in 1996, The Door to the River, receiving more high praise from critics. Dirty Linen magazine described the two albums as “lyrically sparse but telling, conveying a deep sense of emotion, very subtly but very powerfully…both are rewarding works, both strangely compelling in ways that will move you.”
Susan’s growing reputation as a recording and performing artist was further solidified in 1999 with the release of her third album, A Pilgrim’s Mirror, which received more plaudits from the critics and a West Coast Music Award nomination.
In October 2003, Susan released her fourth CD titled Book of Days (Corvus/Festival). Produced by Danny Greenspoon at Toronto’s Canterbury Sound studios, Book of Days met with rave reviews across Canada and garnered her nominations from the East Coast Music Awards and the 2004 Juno Awards, for Best Roots/Traditional Solo Recording. It also won her Music Nova Scotia’s award for Best Female Artist.
Her recent CD Greytown (Corvus 2009), also produced by Danny Greenspoon, features 10 original songs, all crafted with the elegance and substance that has become the hallmark of Susan’s work.
The Georgia Straight described Susan’s work as offering “a sense that the singer has tapped into the collective unconscious in a way that what she is singing about is not only true for her but true for all of us.” Adds the Vancouver Sun: “With one of the most distinctive voices in Canada today, she is destined to become one of our lasting folk heroines.”
Cindy Church
A stellar presence in the Canadian music scene, Cindy Church has crafted a body of work that is at once artistically successful and culturally significant, sought after by fellow performers and treasured by listeners. Drawing set lists from her own catalogue and exceptional covers of tunes in performances to appreciative audiences internationally, Church has become renowned for the clarity and emotive precision of her voice and the subtlety of her approach to song interpretation and songwriting.
Weaving influences from east to west, she has blended styles effortlessly to create her own singular sound. Originally from Bible Hill, Nova Scotia, Church’s early sense of music was infused with acoustic country and folk traditions of the maritimes.
Building upon these roots, during the 1980′s she made forays into country music while living and recording in western Canada, developing her repertoire within the Turner Valley, Alberta based trio Great Western Orchestra and touring and recording with Ian Tyson as part of the Chinook Arch Riders. Church has continued to perform with Tyson, providing vocals for four of his contemporary cowboy albums.
Embarking on a solo career in the 1990′s with Love on the Range, Just a Little Rain and the self titled Cindy Church recorded on the Stony Plain label, Church proved herself to be a superb singer and songwriter with a distinctive voice and interpretive technique. All of these albums received extensive airplay across the country. Church was also a recurring musical guest at this time on Morningside with Peter Gzowski.
These vocal stylings became a key element in the formation of Quartette, the striking collaboration of Church, Sylvia Tyson, Caitlin Hanford, the late Colleen Peterson, and later Gwen Swick, that would reshape the Canadian musical landscape.
Now living in Toronto, she has acquired national acclaim as one of the best singers in the country and an international reputation for her musical adeptness across country, jazz, blues, gospel and swing styles, and as one of the finest song interpreters. From 2001 through 2003, she worked and recorded with George Koller and Joe Sealy as part of “The Nearness of You : A Tribute to the Music of Hoagy Carmichael ” which toured extensively across Canada. Currently, she continues to work and record with Quartette, and is also a core member of the powerful creative collaboration, Lunch at Allen’s, writing, recording and performing with fellow singer songwriters Murray McLauchlan, Ian Thomas and Marc Jordan.
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