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Colleen Rennison, Steve Dawson

Thu. July 31st 2014 St. James Community Hall Vancouver BC $20-$24

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Colleen Rennison, Steve Dawson

At any given moment, there are so many sounds competing for our attention that i...
Event can be attended in person In-Person Event
Thu. July 31st 2014 + Add to Calendar St. James Community Hall (All Ages)
8:00pm $24 ($20 members)

Artists

Colleen Rennison
Steve Dawson
acoustic eclectic from Vancouver BC
Unknown

Presented by:

The Rogue Folk Club
The Rogue Folk Club is a registered non-profit Society in th...
3214 West 10th Avenue Vancouver BC
Open / Operational

Hard-copy tickets

Physical tickets at: http://www.roguefolk.bc.ca/concerts/ev14073120, Rufus Guitar Shop, Highlife Records

Event Description

At any given moment, there are so many sounds competing for our attention that it’s easy to get overwhelmed and hear nothing. But, every now and then, a voice comes along that cuts through all the random noise and clatter, a voice that makes you stop and really listen because whatever you were doing up until that point isn’t as important as listening to it and letting it take you where it wants to go.

Colleen Rennison has a voice like that. A voice that channels power, tenderness and a range of emotions that seem like they couldn’t possibly come from a singer who’s only 25 years old. Colleen has a voice that can floor you, and envelop you, and bring all of the pain and struggles of your life crashing down on you like a tidal wave. It’s a voice and phrasing that took Etta James decades to properly control, that Aretha Franklin had to go to Hell and back to even go near. Yes, it can hurt to listen to Colleen sing, but it’s a hurting you’ll want to go through over and over again because of how much you feel better, lighter, cleansed, every time you hear it.

For the past few years, when she’s not acting in movies and television, Colleen’s been the lead singer of No Sinner, a raucous Vancouver band whose legendary gigs have given her the chance to holler, belt and shimmy like a church on fire. For her debut solo album, ‘See The Sky About To Rain’, Colleen had something a little different in mind. She wanted to back away a bit from the wild and shambolic intensity of ‘No Sinner’ and take it down a notch or two and take the opportunity to sing some of her favourite songs from childhood that have stayed with her. In her words, ‘the album gave me the chance to really go back to the time when a singer was a singer and a songwriter was a songwriter and a musician was a musician. I am in awe of each of these songs and have done my best to honour them and find the truest way to sing them.’

And she has succeeded in doing that beyond anyone’s wildest expectations. By going back through the great Canadian songbook and selecting iconic songs from Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell and the Band, aside from totally nailing each performance, she shows us that no matter how many times we’ve heard a particular song, in the hands of a master interpreter, there’s always something new to experience. When Colleen sings lyrics that you’ve heard a thousand times before as she does in ‘Stage Fright’ or ‘Coyote’, she reveals new shades and colours in her phrasing and inflection that make these standards sound as if they were written yesterday.

Colleen will be backed up by Steve Dawson and The Black Hen Band: Jeremy Holmes on bass, Darryl Havers on keys, and Liam MacDonald on drums.

Venue

St. James Community Hall
3214 W. 10th Ave.
Capacity364
Open / Operational

Event Poster

Colleen Rennison, Steve Dawson @ St. James Community Hall Jul 31 2014 - Mar 28th @ St. James Community Hall

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