Ikuma Siku by Glenn Gear
the director of my upcoming video
Annabelle sings with her lovely friend Rose Polenzani, covering a Mason Jennings tune.
Annabelle Chvostek plays with some incredibly fine musicians in various formations, depending on the occasion. The current power trio consists of Jérémie Jones on bass and Tony Spina on drums.
"...a unique blend of weathered character and lilting ebb and flow." Deanna Radford, Herizons
"Fiercely talented... Chvostek has a sultry voice you can't and won't forget."
Suzy Malik, Xtra, Toronto
"Chvosteks songs are a deep drink. Her vocal range is spectacular, and her playfulness is very evident. ...the melodic splendour of Jane Siberry or a jazzy Ani Difranco."
Fish Piss, Montreal
"mesmerizing... incredibly poetic..."
Anna Maria Stjarnell, Luna Kafé, Norway
"Annabelle doesnt fake the folk. She freaks it."
Tcha Dunlevy, The Montreal Gazette
"Annabelle made the hair on the back of my neck stand up."
"stunning free form folk..." "she can do everything, and does."
The Hour, Montreal
Annabelle Chvostek is one of the proofs of Canada’s continuing ability to turn out superb songwriters in the fifth decade of the singer-songwriter phenomenon.
She first took the stage when she was seven years old and has never left it. The talented child who performed in La Boheme for the Canadian Opera Company grew up in Toronto surrounded by music- mom played, dad played, everybody sang. The precocious child became an equally precocious teen, touring in a children’s theatre troupe, singing and dancing about everything from the Brazilian rainforest to US freedom pioneer Harriet Tubman, and acquiring skills in multiple instruments (guitar, violin, mandolin, percussion). Montreal in the nineties led her to the further shores of experimental music production, dance, art and theatre and her introduction as a performing songwriting. Somewhere amidst the bubbling stew of old-time country, electro-acoustic, East European roots, jazz and pop a strong musical personality was forged- captured on 3 independent CDs of original work. Then came two and a half years with the Wailin’ Jenny’s, touring from Australia to Spain and critical and public acclaim for her songs like Devil’s Paintbrush Road that topped the folk charts in 2006. In February of 2007 Annabelle gave her final performance with the Jennys and returned to her solo career. Her new CD, entitled Resilience, produced by Roma Baran (Laurie Anderson) and Vivian Stoll (Isis) is due out in spring 2008.
***Annabelle!!!!!Yaay! Bienvenue!!!!*** I can't wait to hear all your stories and there are a number of fun events upcomming to go to and a couple being...your Cd Launch and The Lake of Stew!!!! We are going to have a blast!!!!!!!!I will speak to you tomorrow:DxoxoJordi
Heeey heeey whatcha doin today? Just stoppin in to say Thank-you for the amazing performance you did last night here in The Pas. I hope to cross paths with you again sometime down the road. It was a pleasure to have met you. Take care & safe travels.
hey there annabelle, really good to hear from you :) i'm looking forward to you coming over to england. It's been a long while, too long since i heard you perform. i'm off to see the jennys next month in glasgow. looking forward to that but i doubt they will sound the same without you. it should be interesting. i never saw the jennys sing with the original singer you were the first, that doesn't sound good, ha ha you were in the band the first time i saw them and they just blew me away. i have firecracker on my ipod 24/7 it's gotta be the best albumever released! do you miss the band? do you still see them at all? sorry i haven't replied for a while. a friend of mine told me to sign upto facebook! have you been on it yet? it's really confusing... i never know what all these things are people keep sending me?? ha ha well annabelle i could go on for hours ha ha but i won't i'm sure you have loads to do and are tired of me dribbling on. ha ha take care love margaret x
Hi Annabelle! I have to go and meet Molly to poster soon! Happy to hear you have been having so much fun!!!!!!!!!!! Very busy week here! Your CD is fabulous!!!!!!!!!!!! xoxoJordi
Hi there Annabelle Chvostek first of all we'd like to say thanks for being our myspace pal. We wanted to make sure you knew the reason incase we suddenly vanish off of your friends list. The movement we've started for indie artists has grown significantly and consumes all of our time these days. We seldom sign into our myspace account and this is making several people believe that we are ignoring them. We are not ignoring anyone, we wanted everyone to know that. What we're doing has become so busy we just don't have the time for myspace any longer, so in all honesty we are probably going to just close our myspace account.
Many people wanted to use us in the future so if you were one of those people make sure you bookmark the link below so that in the event that we do close our myspace account you won't lose contact with us. I wish you the best of luck in your music career. Thanks again for being our myspace pal.
We have also built a pretty big music community which you are welcome to join if you want to meet new artists like yourself!
Hey Annabelle, Just thought I'd let you know that I reckon the new tunes (choons) are ace. Keep up the fine work and bring your mandoling over here to sunny Britain soon. All the best, James in the UK
Hello there! If I've already been in touch on this please bear with me but I'm trying to get the word out about www. indianapolissongwriterscafe. com
I'm working to create a place that ties together all the people, places & events that are relevant for an Indianapolis songwriter or a fan of this kind of music. There's also a community calendar (that needs a lot of dates added to it) that will soon be a one-stop shop for any songwriterish shows going on around Indy.
If you'd really like to help spread the word I'd be grateful as can be if you copied the little piece of code from either the ISC website or myspace page to display the banner on your page. Just drop me a line if you'd like to but aren't sure how.
I love, love this new song! I had to add it as soon as I heard it. Super catchy and fun. Actually the fall is a great time becasue I will be in 4 weddings this summer (one as far as Scotland!) So this summer is pretty busy. I will be soooo ready for lovely music concerts by then.
