Tag Archive for the term: singer

Before Joni Mitchell was Joni Mitchell she was Joni Anderson of Saskatoon, the fair young maid of Canadian folk music singing on the Oscar Brandt Hootenany show, Let’s Sing Out. We were watching these old Let’s Sing Out! episodes at our last meeting of the Ladies Aux - our jam band burbling with anarchist stew [...]

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 [...]

Strictly Acoustic ran it’s 9th edition last night and I trundled out, not just to see and support James Finnerty…

…and OK Giraffe…

…but also to take in the show’s logic and concept, to meet the organizer and see if I could pass along some perspective here for musicians looking to get involved.
The night runs on [...]

Been craft fair-ing all day? Want my advice? It’s cold out there! Cozy into Dave Cool’s venue tonight if you want bodyheat and great singer songwriters as it’s launching up with much gladness and neighborhood vibes and some true happiness for Cool, plus some good media! See: Gazette, Natasha Hall.
Tonight’s performers Paul Cargnello [...]

In review: Tori Amos at Place Des Arts, Montreal QC, October 21.
The music we discover as teenagers never leaves us. By the time I turned 13, I was shamelessly addicted to “No Need to Argue” by the Cranberries and “Jagged Little Pill” by Alanis. Parts of those albums still make my heart jump [...]

Last Wednesday I went down to the new weekly singer/songwriter night at the downtown Ye Old Orchard Pub (1189 De La Montagne) for the first time. I had a great time with host Ben Griffin whose music I have always loved, and I felt a glow from the warm and serious supportive vibe he [...]