GrassRoots Regina is pleased to present Juno award winner and East Coast Music Award nominee Amelia Curran in concert.
Curran is an evocative singer-songwriter with a delicate and sensitive voice. A voice which meshes perfectly with her guitar work. Her songs feature storytelling and lyrics that keep you enthralled line by line.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
The Club, 2431 8th Avenue, Regina
Opening set by Erin Costelo
Show starts at 8:00 p.m.
Admission: $12 at the door.
Click here to see poster.
Amelia Curran was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland. She started playing guitar and writing songs as a teenager and went on to hone her skills on the local bar circuit before relocating to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
A songwriter by trade, but a writer at heart, Curran believes language is everything. She describes the craft of song-writing as an act of “expressing the inexpressible, a means of describing the indescribable.” Her songs have a crisp and melodic tone that leave the songs humming through your head as much as her lyrics echoing through your conscience.
Curran released her first album Barricade in 2000. Since then she has released four more albums. Her latest release Hunter, Hunter (2009) won the 2010 Juno award in the Solo Roots and Traditional Album of the Year category and garnered four East Coast Music Award nominations. In addition to being a musician, Curran is also a playwright and an actor.
“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.”- Spinner Canada
“Curran’s music is a bit like Leonard Cohen being channelled in a dusty saloon by Patsy Cline.” - National Post
The Dozens clip:
The Mistress clip:
Bye Bye Montreal clip:
Web site: www.ameliacurran.com
Erin Costelo blends rich, layered, piano-driven compositions with lyrics as often searing as they are sweet. Nominated for a Music Nova Scotia Award and an East Coast Music Award, Costelo has captured the strength and fragility of her distinctively low, smokey voice in moody, unique arrangement. She blends barrelhouse blues, boogie-woogie and 60′s soul with her truthful melody-driven ballads to create a sound that is all her own. Erin currently makes her home in Halifax.
Weak Link Like Us clip:
Web site: www.erincostelo.com