One of Canada’s greatest songwriters, Juno Award winning and internationally acclaimed will be playing for us at the Art House Music Series. Lynn Miles joins hosts Mel and Don Bray for an unforgettable evening of music surrounded by fabulous Ottawa area art. What could be better?
Lynn Miles has the kind of voice that is impossible not to fall in love with. She’s been blessed with such a drop-dead beautiful honey smooth voice that rides along the ebb and flow of a gifted sense of melody. She’s the kind of lyricist that renders whatever heartache you feel into something both beautiful and aching. She also is extremely funny. Like she’s carrying an antedate to inject you with between songs to cure you of the snake bite.
Lynn Miles is an award-winning singer-songwriter, record producer, teacher, writer, public speaker. Lynn has 16 albums to her credit. She won a Juno award (Canadian Grammy) in 2003 for Roots Traditional Album of the year, and went on to be nominated in the same categories in 2011 and 2006. She is also the recipient of 6 Canadian Folk Music Awards including songwriter of the year and a #1 hit on the Euro/americana chart. Lynn estimates she’s written about 900 songs; she’s never done an official count.
Here’s what James Diaz of Anti-Heroin Chic has to say:
The music of Lynn Miles is truly one of a kind. Not only is she one of Canada’s best singer-songwriters, she’s one of the best, period. Folk music has many voices but hers is a voice that stands out, it’s a voice that knows the ways and long twisting back roads of the world, a voice that has lived and conveys that living through every song. It’s a voice we all know. It sings of love, loss, coping, travel, sense of place and purpose, broken promises, what gets us through, what doesn’t, how we defy the odds, making a perfectly beautiful human mess of things along the way. As she sings in one of her songs, “It’s not the hurt, it’s what you’ve built around it, it’s bitter and it’s tall, you practice being cool and confident for so long now, you got yourself a wall, not everybody’s gonna understand, so that’s why they might say, try not to be so sad.” Lynn’s is a music that understands, that breaks through the wall around our hearts and speaks truth to our lives. New York Times music critic, John Pareles wrote that Miles’ music “makes forlorn feel like a state of grace.”
Show your e-ticket at Stalwart Brewing Company (10 High St.) between 5 an 6 pm on concert night, for a free half-pint. Local tastes will be sold by The Orange Berry Company at the gallery before the concert.
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