Tag Archive for the term: piano

This is the first album from Elizabeth Bruce (a.k.a. me), an Ottawa-based singer-songwriter. It was recorded at Montreal’s Treatment Room on an old, but well-tempered piano way back in the fall of 2006. It also features singing, handclaps, drums, bass, violin, banjo, organ and handclaps. Dark, moody folk-rock with classical flourishes. Suggested for fans of Tori [...]

Part Two of The Single and The Music Industry, read Part One.
In the beginning, there was the piano.
In the year 1800, the first true upright piano was invented in Philadelphia by John Isaac Hawkins, and this smaller and cheaper (in comparison to the full grand piano) instrument grew to become a required item [...]

Here are the lyrics to 2 of the original songs we sing with the LadiesAux…
Bones
by Risa Dickens
[You can check out a recording of this one done in a different style altogether here.]
Said the diver to his bride
“I’ll be back tomorrow on the 3:45”
those are the pearls,
those were his eyes
All we are are our goodbyes
and [...]

If it were not for the title of Hélène Blackburn’s new choreographic work, Suites cruelles, the beginning of the piece would lead one to believe that we are in for an evening with a casual feel. As we walk in the room, the performers are already warming up onstage. The walls are completely bare in [...]

Lately I’ve been digging up old traditionals that I’ve grown up with - songs I sang in choirs, folk songs my mom used to sing at bedtime, melodies from films I grew up with and never forgot, American Spirituals I picked up along the way. The bulk of my recreational piano-playing/singing has been to these [...]

Patrick Watson is wonderful. His voice is well-trained and evocative and while I find his music somewhat ordinary, the addition of electronic elements and a complete sincerity in the delivery of it all turn him and his band into a really amazing musical experience. Piano helps. Talent too.
I only saw the end of his [...]

So I was to head back to where I made my first steps on this mortal coil and figured I would get in touch with some artists there. I knew that Jenny Dalton played out a good amount and that in fact a bunch of my friends from yester-yore were going to be in [...]