FridayFolk Concert
September 25, 2009
"The Amy Campbell Show"
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FridayFolk Concert September 25, 2009 "The Amy Campbell Show" |
Orillia Folk Society presents
“The Amy Campbell Show” — our two favourite Amy Campbells
Friday, September 25, 7:30 pm, Swanmore Hall
The Orillia Folk Society opens its FridayFolk season with “The Amy Campbell Show”, featuring Nova Scotia’s “Best Female Artist”, Amy Campbell, and local singer-songwriter Amy Campbell, leader of The Gnomes. This combination was inspired by some happy accidents with name confusion — and we’re thrilled to be able to present our two favourite Amy Campbells, together for the first time! Two talented artists with beautiful voices — and fabulous taste in names. The show takes place Friday, September 25 at 7:30, at the Leacock Museum’s Swanmore Hall, 50 Museum Drive, Orillia.
Season’s Tickets are now sold out, so your best bet is to hurry and reserve the remaining $12 EarlyBird tickets. These are available through the Mariposa Office at 37 Mississaga St. W., or 326-3655 (cash, credit card or cheque — reservations upon payment only). Once the EarlyBirds are gone, regular-priced tickets are $15 for adults, $7 for ages 16 and under — these are also available through the Mariposa Office, AND (new this year) online at http://takenotepromotion.com/store/. Any remaining seats will be available at the door (cash or cheque only).
Doors open at 6:45 for our dinner Bistro — yes, it’s back this year! This month’s offering is Chicken Cacciatore: chicken legs in a tomato, mushroom, onion and herb casserole, served on a bed of rice. The vegetarian option will be a veggie chili. Our dinner prices have gone up slightly, but it’s still a mere $6 per person — where else can you get fresh, healthy food for that little? To help our Bistro co-ordinators plan their cooking, we’d appreciate receiving dinner reservations by September 18 — later bookings and walk-ins are welcome, but early-bookers will be guaranteed their meal of choice. Bistro reservations may be placed when you reserve your tickets, or by contacting the Orillia Folk Society at fridayfolk@orilliafolk.ca or 259-0157. The bar will be open before the show and between sets; cookies, coffee & tea will also be available.
Amy Campbell (http://amycampbell.ca)
"Simply put, Campbell is well poised to one day inherit Joni Mitchell's place as Canada's quintessential female singer-songwriter."
Cindy Filipenko, Herizons
"Campbell's voice is warm and inviting, her guitar-playing deft and her lyrics emotionally naked."
NOW Magazine
Listen to a sample of "This Poetry" from "Oh Heart, Oh Highway": here
Amy Campbell brings together classical training and folk sensibilities to create music that reaches into human experience and comes back with stories written from the soul. Devoted equally to lyrical craft, innovative musicianship, and engaging performances, Amy's dozen years of writing, composing, and touring have cemented her position in hearts and playlists across the world.
Her songs are at once infinitely personal and instantly relatable, painting moody emotional landscapes over spare open tunings. Releasing two live albums in the last five years, Amy’s career has steadily built momentum through commitment on a few fronts: her own, to professionalism and publicity; other artists who are eager perform with her; and her listeners who want to share her music with as many people as they can. After a decade of these promotion streams building momentum, Amy is riding this trajectory to the release of her solo studio debut with release parties in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and at the Halifax Pop Explosion.
Oh Heart, Oh Highway is a double album with accompanying book of illustration and prose that will take listeners on a multidimensional, fragmented, and ultimately meaningful journey. Playing nearly every instrument herself, Amy has created a challenging first-person travelogue of reaching out and letting go, with rhythms that evoke the trees zooming by a car window on long highway drives. The songs are mourning serenades of to lost loves and family members. Existing fans will relish an opportunity to hear layers of violin, upright bass, and organs behind Amy’s trademark intricate guitar work and warm vocals. New fans will be drawn in by the album’s cinematic narratives, and ambitious artistic vision; as evidenced in March 2009, when Oh Heart, Oh Highway reached #1 on CBC’s coveted and influential Galaxie Folk/Roots chart.
Equally at home at a low-fi Ladyfest gig, an upscale songwriter’s circle, or a sunny festival stage, Amy’s live show is disarming and engaging. She wins over the audience with her dry wit, and then lets them in on every thought her heart has ever had. This approach has charmed crowds big and small across North America. A typical Amy Campbell performance is followed by several grateful fans shyly approaching her to share stories from their own lives, confessing that her music has helped them crystallize and articulate their own experiences.
A regular at Club Passim [Boston], Rasputin's [Ottawa], the Yellow Door [Montreal] and the Blacksheep Inn [Wakefield, QC], touring highlights for Amy include appearing as opening act for Penny Lang, Thea Gilmore (UK), Veda Hille, Richard Bruckner, Mary Lou Lord, The Scrappy Bitch Tour, Emm Gryner and Old Man Luedecke.
Exalted by one reviewer as "well poised to one day inherit Joni Mitchell’s place as Canada’s quintessential female singer/songwriter”, Amy's catalogue is available through iTunes, and online or via mail-order at www.amycampbell.ca.
Amy Campbell (http://www.myspace.com/stopgnomeslavery)
Listen to The Gnomes here
“Our” Amy Campbell is known to many who’ve attended the OFS Song Circle — a beautiful person with a beautiful voice and some beautiful songs. She’s also the voice of The Gnomes, a duo also well-known in this community, which she shares with Brad McIsaac. Brad will be joining Amy on this performance, but it was so much more fun to call it the Amy Campbell Show — we’re sure he’ll understand… right, Brad?
Brad wears Dickies workwear pants, plays the bass, and rarely smiles. He fancies the Muskoka suit jacket and instant mashed potatoes. Amy crimps her hair, plays the guitar and writes mostly sad songs. She loves pugs and curry chicken.
Together, they are known as The Gnomes, the super-folk duo hailing from Beaverton. They are known for dishing out hearty servings of catchy toe-tappers and heart-wrenching ballads. Their song Route 51 has been featured on the CBC Radio 2 program Deep Roots, hosted by Tom Power.
Download the Concert Poster here
Get your tickets now:
Online ***NEW***
Reserve tickets online at the Take Note Music Store, and pick up your tickets the night of the concert. (Regular-priced adult and youth tickets only)
At the Mariposa Office
EarlyBird and Regular-priced tickets can be reserved at 37 Mississaga St. W., or 705-326-3655 until September 24
At the door
Remaining Regular-priced adult and youth tickets will be available the night of the concert (cash or cheque only)
