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Joanna Chapman-Smith
Acoustic / Folk / Indie

ecstasy::(Gk.)ekstasis "to stand outside oneself".



Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada

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Member Since5/7/2006
Band Websitewww.joannacs.com
Band MembersJoanna Chapman-Smith (main vox, guitar, clarinet, piano)
"The Tryst" Featuring:
Wayne Adams (bgs & percussion)
Dawn Zoe (bgs & accordion)
Justine Fischer (bgs & stand-up "big momma" bass)
And Special Guests:
Dan Chapman-Smith (vocals on "Between the Minds")
Tim Chapman-Smith (whistling on "Between the Minds")
Marc L'Esperance (tenor sax on "Carnival Song")
Carolyna Loveless (bgs on "Carnival Song")
Sarah MacDougall (bgs on "Carnival Song")
Chris Suen (bgs on "Carnival Song")
Ben Rogalsky (stand-up bass on "Closing My Door")
InfluencesArtists:
Hanne Hukkelberg, Ora Cogan, Ane Brun, Jess Hill, Regina Spektor, All the amazingly talented musicians I get to work with - the dancers, actors and students too... for real... not just being corny... Postal Service, Sufjan Stevens, Jason Collett, Ruthie Foster, Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, Jill Barber, Maria Rita, Tom Waits, Fiona Apple, Bjork, Sarah Slean, Laleh, Rufus Wainwright, Tracy Chapman, Ani Difranco, Joni Mitchell, Counting Crows, The Indigo Girls
Things:
The City (Vancouver & its crows & beauty, Toronto & its hustle and bustle), New Zealand, Contraries (William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven & Hell), Amateur Philosophy, Silver Lines, and at least three other things...
Sounds LikeEveryone else... Isn't that what I'm supposed to say?
Record LabelWoundUp Records
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 10 2009 8:00P
July 10-12 Women in the Round @ Islands Folk Fest Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Jul 17 2009 8:00P
July 17-19 Yellowknife Folk Fest (backing T. Nile) Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Jul 24 2009 8:00P
July 24-25th The Mission Folk Fest with T. Nile Mission, British Columbia
Jul 31 2009 8:00P
July 31st-Aug 3rd Artswells Festival w/ Lily Come Down (To be confirmed) Wells, British Columbia
Aug 28 2009 8:00P
20 Shows in August with the Circus...! more info to come Vancouver, British Columbia
Sep 5 2009 2:00P
New Westminster Bandshell Series New Westminster, British Columbia
Sep 10 2009 8:00P
Date TBA - Dunster Show with Lily Come Down Dunster, British Columbia
Sep 10 2009 8:00P
Date TBA - SFU Gig with The End Tree Burnaby, British Columbia
Oct 10 2009 8:00P
October European tour with T.Nile Hmmm... a few, Berlin

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   About Joanna Chapman-Smith
Joanna playfully braids the striking sounds of Vaudeville Folk with the warm flavours of Jazz & Blues. With an exquisite vocal style and artful lyrics - this offbeat singer/songwriter puts on a feisty show!

JOANNA CHAPMAN-SMITH: Contraries

JOANNA CHAPMAN-SMITH: Eyre Corvidae
(While supplies last)

Shawn Conner, Vancouver Courier
Published: Friday, January 30, 2009

Ah, the life of a bohemian artist. Travelling, creating, talking all night about Godard and Kafka at cafés. And living with roommates. Four, in the case of musician Joanna Chapman-Smith--which makes five women (and a female cat) in a Vancouver East Side house, all sharing one bathroom.

No wonder she recently spent a couple of months in Toronto. "No, it totally works out," says Chapman-Smith, reached at home. "We all use it at different times anyway."

Chapman-Smith was raised out east, and then moved to Vancouver to study English at Simon Fraser University. "It was one of my few life attempts to never do music again," she says.

The attempt failed: Chapman-Smith lasted one semester before joining the music program, which offered an education in sounds and techniques from Africa and Indonesia. But the music on Contraries, her just-released second album, is influenced more by styles like Gypsy jazz from Eastern Europe.

"It's been around me the entire time growing up," says the dark-featured singer. "I don't know this for sure, but I imagine it's also part of how I look. People presume I'm already part of their culture, or want to share it with me. Anyway I've had a lot of Latin and Eastern European music thrown my way. I totally love it, the scales drive me wild."

Is there enough room in Vancouver for two klezmer musicians--i.e. Chapman-Smith and accordion player Geoff Berner? "There's more than two, so there better be," she says. "There are tons. But Geoff Berner came first, and he's one of the people I'm influenced by. We share the same drummer [Wayne Adams]."

On her album of mostly lighthearted, intimate-sounding folk-pop songs, Chapman-Smith spices up Contraries with accordion, cello and whistling. It also offers some thoughtful lyrics by Chapman-Smith, such as on "Arbitrary Lines," a song about easy categorization: "So what is pure/And when is right... Where do these lines first come from/Who marks them down and why?"

Her CD release show at the Ukrainian Hall Jan. 30 promises to blur a few lines with its multimedia format. For instance, one of the opening acts, Maria in the Shower, has "a demonic mime thing going on," according to Chapman-Smith. A local company called Mind of a Snail will "jam along" to her music with shadow puppets. And Chapman-Smith has drawn on her connections with SFU's dance program.

"I worked as a dance accompanist for three years, and it influenced the kind of music I was writing," she says. "So I'm excited some of the dancers have choreographed two of my songs."

Whatever happens, the evening is bound to be, in a term used by Chapman-Smith on her website, "radsauce."

"Just the word 'rad' is very West Coast," she says. "I remember in first year university hearing people say 'That's rad,' and I was like, 'Oh man. That's rad that you say 'rad'!"

"Radsauce," she says, is a recent addition to her vocabulary. "'Sauce' and 'bone' are my favourite suffixes," says the musician. So she'll make up words like "sweetsauce" or "sweetbone" or "damnsauce."

Does this mean she'll throw a few bones and sauces to the audience between songs at her CD release party? Chapman-Smith says, "I do not vouch for anything I might or may not say."

© Vancouver Courier 2009

Joanna also appears as a collaborator and accessory in the following projects:

Joanna Chapman-Smith
Lily Come Down
The Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret
Women in the Round
T. Nile
Madu Sari Gamelan

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Joanna Chapman-Smith's Friends Comments
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Dr. Joey Only





Jul 6 2009 11:28 PM

Hey, spread the word on this one pretty pretty please!! See you soon.
Spirathon





Jun 10 2009 8:08 PM

great to see all the shows you're doing
looks like quite the adventure - happy trails
Cassandra Robertson





Jun 10 2009 5:15 PM

you've got quite an epic summer coming up, enjoy!

So glad to see success. Peace
Spirathon





Apr 27 2009 9:27 AM

spring rain torment love
Erik Bleich





Apr 11 2009 4:41 AM

lame...i'm totally going to be in vancouver while you're here.
Spirathon





Apr 3 2009 9:42 AM

listen, love
love to listen

love, listen
listen to love
Spirathon





Mar 27 2009 6:54 PM

Hey Jo Jo
Congrats on your review in the Straight!!!!!!!!!!

Get Back Get Back Get Back to where you once belong

peace
Spirathon
Pessi Parviainen





Mar 26 2009 8:02 PM

Yo Jo!
... from Helsinki! Hope '09 has been good to you. I recall seeing a line in your gig list, something about Sweden... does this mean you'll be playing over here, too?
Mandippal





Mar 26 2009 6:05 PM

I'm a wee bit sad that we never got to do any writing while you were here a few months ago! Still find myself listening to you stuff when I'm online!

keep in touch!

Your friendly neighbourhood brown-man,
Mandippal.
Tiana Kaczor





Mar 23 2009 6:12 AM

I think that whenever I feel like singing and bouncing around to a tune I'm going to visit your site and listen to "Arbitrary Lines". It's one of my new favourite songs.
Thanks for the IWD concert at the Railway Club. I hope to catch you live again sometime.
Tiana
Camille





Mar 23 2009 3:20 AM

You know,
I think I heard you on CBC or something... and I really liked your music... and I was like, "I have to remember that name" so I wrote it down on a napkin. That's why I added you to myspace.
Quest Poetics





Mar 19 2009 9:46 PM

Yo...I got this last minute show at Raw Canvas in Yaletown Sat. night Click this link for a brief promo of me playing a track for you! WATCH BELOW... Who: Quest Poetics & Sidestreet Reny (From Brooklyn) When: Sat. Mar.21st 2009 approx.9.30pm till wheneveah Where: Raw Canvas (Yaletown) 1046 Hamilton Vancouver, BC V6B 2R9 (604) 687-1729 Here's a MAP http://...com/cn3jls
Sammy





Mar 19 2009 3:20 AM

Hello hello...really liking "Between the Minds"! :)
Spirathon





Mar 17 2009 9:44 PM

All things good and green!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SandyBone





Mar 8 2009 7:09 PM

I really enjoy your music. I'll try catch you at The Rail tonight. Thanks for hooking up with me and all the best.
Erik Bleich





Feb 27 2009 12:37 AM

Warm and sunny is fun, it's not too bad here today, popped above the zero mark, but it has been a bill chill as of late. Nothing too extreme. And yeah, it seems we're going through a regime change of sorts, but I got a gig out of it. Should be good times. Heading back into the studio soon, hopefully get another track or two doneish. We'll see...

Hope all is swell with you, can't wait to rock some jams upon your return.
-erik
p.s. you still lurk above us.
the Catastrophists





Feb 26 2009 1:01 AM

thank you for connecting..how ..bout a poem?To be connected...part 1

to be connected is to drink world class wine before filtration.alive,in flux,euphoric Baccus buzz.
sitting on floors that were once a tree just outside the door.

to be connected is to drink water filtered by nature into handmade cisterns.
feeling the heat at midnight from two tons of stone.heated by yesterdays sunshine.

to be connected is to eat fresh vegetables grown on the roof.a beacon of life between you and the cosmos.
to live without chemistry or bureaucracy,embraced by natural order.

to be connected is to compose a masterpiece on an out of tune piano.
and diconnect the media

to be connected is haveing universal empathy through the realization of natures inherant violence and chaos.
and refusing politic and it..s mob mentality.

to be connected is to refuse the industialization of the planet.
and realize that the best of all things are done slowly.

to be connected is to wear vintage clothes once cherished by a passed on soul.
and abandoned on a dirty step by thier children.

to be connected is to swim naked in a lake.
with no bottom.
to make love with aims at procreation.
to sleep in peace.................................
Ryan Trew





Feb 25 2009 11:26 PM

Hi Joanna,

Guy shouting "Hey, I know you!" to a confused looking woman with a guitar at a bus stop on Main St. 2 weeks ago = me.
Thanks for saying "hi" as well.

Sincerely,
Ryan Trew
Megs





Feb 22 2009 8:14 AM

Hey darling... So I guess our hanging out time just hasn't worked out yet.
I'm busy all next week, but maybe the one after?
Spirathon





Feb 11 2009 2:52 AM

Hey Jo Jo
Congrats on a great CD RELEASE
You sounded absolutely smashing!!!!
lots of love
Spirathon
Piero Fabrizi





Feb 5 2009 1:47 AM

That was just the truth..Joanna!!
Thanks for the mail...I really loved your songs..and your..tasteful songwriting/style.
Your voice cacthed me!
huhgs and rainbows...to you
P.
Cassandra Robertson





Feb 4 2009 5:25 PM

Taking a listen again today, you sound so lovely, I appreciate what is coming out of Canada.
Greatest of things!
Ryan Trew





Feb 1 2009 11:56 PM

hi - just a quick note to say that I (and everyone that I was with) really enjoyed your show on Friday. Thanks for signing my CD (*your CD)

All the best!
Ryan Trew.
Quest Poetics





Jan 25 2009 4:40 AM

Check it! I'm playing a show at Nyala on Main st. Tues. night Jan 27th. Here's a preview of what you'll see..Peace and lets hook up if you're there...Wicked! Randy http://www. questpoetics. com
Melodies in Mind





Jan 18 2009 12:50 AM

It's the March 3rd episode, you feature and the song circle is Johanna Chapman-Smtih, Pasquel Goodrich Black, Clark Graham, and a sfu band that does not have a name yet but sounds folking good.

I got mail today, and it was so inspiring! Wow! How did it get there?
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