With help from:
Clayton Kennedy - bass
Jeremiah Mitchell - drums
Cassandra Norton - violin
Influences
Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Rufus Wainwright, Joni Mitchell, Sarah McLachlan, Ben Folds, Ani DiFranco, Philip Glass, Supertramp, Sufjan Stevens, J.S. Bach, Final Fantasy, Fiona Apple, Elvis Costello, Divine Comedy, They Might Be Giants, An Pierlé
Sounds Like
Music for hippies, hipsters, freaks and intellectuals
I sing songs and play with pianos. When an acoustic piano is available, I like to reach into its body and pluck or strum the strings (in honour of John Cage, Henry Cowell, and other pioneers of extended piano techniques). I am an advocate for the preservation of public pianos. Keyboards just don't have the same soul.
If you're a musician and would like to trade CDs, send me a message!
Quotes "Elizabeth Bruce has a powerful voice that you can tell she's been working to tame. Her compositions don't go the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift. In fact the piano arrangements were delightfully dissonant. The lyric content put her squarely into the emoter category, but there was a dramatic self-awareness... helpful, even necessary to navigating her dark themes." -Marcus McCann
"Elizabeth Bruce is the only person I know who calls herself, 'a molester of pianos.' Which concerns me greatly." -Alan Neal
“Elizabeth was amazing! I had only seen her perform once before, and that was good, but she really blew me away on Monday [October 8 2007]. She has this wonderful on-stage power. She looks very timid, shy, and fragile, but she also radiates power, and when she starts to sing, her voice is strong enough to have stopped the Maenads.” -Daniel Harris
Places I've played Art Matters Festival 2006
Montreal Fringe Festival 2006
UnPop Festival 2007
Dépanneur Café
Zeke's Gallery (a very strange experience)
Barfly
le Cagibi
The Yellow Door
Clyde's (Pointe Claire)
Gert's Bar (McGill campus)
Cameron House (Toronto)
Tranzac (Toronto)
Avant-Garde Bar (Ottawa)
Irene's Pub (Ottawa)
le Petit Chicago (Hull)
Ginger's Tavern (Halifax)
Gus' Pub (Halifax)
The Ottawa Underground has been hosting shows since 2001, and has provided band news online for almost as long.
If you have an upcoming show, new Mp3 or album, or new video/photos, feel free to promote your band news every month or two by posting a brief press release on the Ottawa Underground wall. It will serve as a newsfeed for local bands, so yes I welcome your band news comments on my wall.
Stopping by to say Hi! We'd love if you took a minute to checkout our new video for Here I Am! It's up on our myspace page...Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Elizabeth. I wanted to invite you to a show on Saturday at Exile Infoshop (Ottawa - Bank and Cooper). I'm playing with May Jun (also Ottawan) and Two Kids Running Away (sweethearts on tour from Alberta). I'm really excited for it - think it'll be great fun.
Consider it. We could talk, maybe make connections for shows later in summer?
Whenever you do a show in the Phoenix AZ Area you can put it up for free at www.ThePhxUG.com so everyone can see when it is! No sign up just post it! Hope to see you out doing your thing!
To celebrate the new year, Chaotic Sound Studio is offering a promotion on analog & digital mixing for the month of January.
Break the silence and give your songs that big sound they deserve… Please contact us for more info in regards to this promotion. Offer ends Jan 31st 2009.
All the best for the new year!
Check out our latest releases: Harpoon, Aarsen, Goetia, Headbounce and soon to be released: The Anders Drerup Band.
Hey, Whats Up? Just stopping by to show some love!! Also, if you haven't been to our page lately, swing by and check it out. Comment back and let us know how the hell you've been doing!
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