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Nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award for her album Sky with Nothing to Get in the Way for both 'Best Songwriter - English" and "Best Singer - Contemporary" in 2005 at the 1st Canadian Folk Music Awards. Hosted the 2nd Canadian Folk Music Awards. Nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award for her children's album Poodle in Paris at the 2nd ...
It includes Canadian people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Canadian women folk singers" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.
Canadian folk singer-songwriters (241 P) Pages in category "Canadian folk singers" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total.
Phyllis Virginia Sinclair was born and raised in Churchill, Manitoba.The eldest of three children, she was raised by her Cree grandmother and mother. Her love for music was developed as a child through singing in the church and elementary school choirs, but none more than singing and jigging and at local gatherings where spoons and toe-tapping were often the only available instrument.
Curran released her first album in 2000, and since then she has released seven more. Curran's lyrics have been described as "evocative" by Spinner Canada who, referring to Curran's song "The Mistress", wrote "like the best poets, Curran packs so much meaning into each line that the listener barely has time to register each clever lyric before the next zinger comes along."
She began her musical career as a child, recording with Canadian children's musician Raffi along with her brother Dan. In the 1990s she performed with the bluegrass band Heartbreak Hill. [ 4 ] Just prior to that band's breakup, she released her self-titled debut album in 2001, [ 5 ] and followed up with Hopetown in 2004.
Mary Jane Lamond (Scottish Gaelic: Màiri Sìne Nic Laomuinn, born 1960) is a Canadian Celtic folk musician who performs traditional Canadian Gaelic folk songs from Cape Breton Island. [1] Her music combines traditional and contemporary material.
Murray was the first Canadian female solo singer to reach No. 1 on the U.S. charts and also the first to earn a Gold record for one of her signature songs, "Snowbird" (1970). [4] She is often cited as one of the female Canadian artists who paved the way for other international Canadian success stories such as k.d. lang , Céline Dion , and ...