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Jenn Grant

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General Info

  • Genre: Folk / Indie / Pop

    Location Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ca

    Profile Views: 367967

    Last Login: 6/22/2011

    Member Since 10/27/2005

    Website www.jenngrant.com

    Record Label Six Shooter Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Jenn Grant arrived on the scene in full technicolour with her debut Orchestra for the Moon (2007). The album, recorded at CBC Halifax, fused Jenn’s intuitive songcraft with a core of talented musicians who shaped and informed the creative instincts of this emerging talent. Orchestra for the Moon earned immediate attention, a deal with Six Shooter Records and a place atop the East Coast scene, famous for its fictional dreamers and its real world songbirds. Early tours with The Weakerthans and Hayden introduced the rest of Canada to this 2006 East Coast Music Award winner for Best New Artist, a fine arts graduate with a voice like brushstrokes on a canvas. Jenn brought her band and producer/composer Jonathan Goldsmith (Bruce Cockburn) to Puck’s Farm in Southern Ontario to make the follow up, Echoes (2009). The album was a retreat from the city, a departure from modern record-making conveniences, and a recoiling from recent heartaches and breaks. Jenn pressed her wounds to analogue tape, and Echoes is a haunting and melancholic artifact of process and mood. The album topped the CBC Radio 3 chart (March, 2009) and found places on year-end Earshot and ChartATTACK lists as well. In 2009, Jenn performed with Symphony Nova Scotia, headlined the Cultural Olympiad Canadian Tour and showcased during Grammy Week, ECMA, CMW, SXSW and NXNE. Songs from both records have been heard on Grey’s Anatomy, Mercy, Shattered and Heartland. Jenn has performed across Canada, the US and Europe, with Hawksley Workman, Martin Tielli, Barenaked Ladies and others. Her albums have received East Coast Music Award and Music Nova Scotia award nominations. For more information, please contact: Emily Smart Six Shooter Records 416 465 2459 emilysmart@sixshooterrecords.com

  • Members

    Andrew Sisk, Daniel Ledwell, David Christensen, Sean MacGillivray, Mike Belyea, Kinley Dowling

  • Influences

    Pheonix, Laura Veirs, Camera Obscura, Sigor Ros, Beach House

  • Sounds Like

    "something that you would love to dance to just as much as your grandmother" -Broken Speaker

Bio

Love was a battlefield, but with Honeymoon Punch, Jenn Grant raises the white flag high. It’s time for peace, but not for quiet. Honeymoon Punch is a spiked Love Potion No. 9, a frisky concoction of spirited, synth-sweetened songs balanced with muted, natural elements – between “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” and Radiohead’s In Rainbows. “Oh My Heart” is a mischievous opener; with equal parts whirr and purr, Jenn Grant reassures you she’ll only see your good side. “Getcha Good” walks in Nancy Sinatra’s boot steps, but without the brush-off. “How I Met You” and “Parliament of Owls” dabble in dappled brushstrokes, mixing dark and light with an electronic palette. Previous releases resonate in the climb up “Paradise Mountain”, a trip down Moon River, and “All Year”, where the melancholic bass clarinet shakes off its Echoes blues and leads the parade. On the shore of Lake Deception, Nova Scotia, producer and beau Daniel Ledwell (In-Flight Safety), and a cast of familiar characters (Kinley Dowling, David Christensen, Sean MacGillivray, Mike Belyea) reprised their Echoes roles and traded a few seats to make an album that explores the ups and ups of happiness. Exchanging misery for ecstasy in matters personal and musical, Honeymoon Punch drives the dark clouds away.

Members:

Jenn Grant- vocals, guitar
Kinley Dowling- Violin, Viola, vocals, keyboards, tamborine
Sean MacGIllivray- Bass guitar, synth, vocals
Dave Christensen- Bass Clarinet, saxaphone, Keyboards, vocals
Michael Belyea- Drums and percussion

Record Label:

Six Shooter Records

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