Jonathan Anderson
Steve Davis
Jeff Boulton
Michelle Masters
Andrew Masters
Publicist: Ken Beattie
Killbeat Music
Management: Scott Andrews
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Influences
rainy days in Langley, countless authors, travelling the globe, parenting, and dealing with our eternal restlessness.
Sounds Like
I guess we are somewhat comparable to the likes of....Innocence Mission, Kings of Convenience, Mojave 3, Maplewood Lane, and Sixpence None the Richer. With that said...we hope we sound like ourselves!!
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Kensington Prairie began as a solo project of Rebecca Rowan of Vancouver's Indie Pop darlings Maplewood Lane. Kensington Prairie's debut full length album "Captured in Still Life" was released April 2008. The album was recorded, mixed, engineered and produced by Jonathan Anderson at Buena Vista Audio. Noah Mintz (Broken Social Scene, The Dears, The National, Wintersleep) mastered the album.
HISTORY | Rebecca Rowan began her musical endeavors , globe-trotting with her family across Africa and India, where she attended british boarding schools and was influenced by a wide-range of cultures. She moved from India, to attend college in British Columbia and a year later was the forming member of Maplewood Lane in 1999 with her sibling Joel and her husband-to-be, Nate. A few years later she added a couple friends Ryan, and Alana and the five of them went on to record 2 full length albums and 2 ep’s. Maplewood Lane licensed a large majority of their songs to film and television. Their songs appeared in Radio Free Roscoe, The Dark Oracle, Life with Derek, Degrassi High the Next Generation, and Atom Egoyin’s “Sabah”. They were featured in the soundtrack of Radio Free Roscoe and appeared in Top 30 College Radio Charts across Canada and the U.S. MWL has performed shows ranging from local concerts to music fes tivals such as NXNE (Toronto), New Music West (Vancouver), Woodsong Festival (Orcas Island), and Tomfest (Portland).
In the Fall of 2006, Rebecca began to work with husband Nate on a much anticipated solo-project which developed into Kensington Prairie’s Captured In Still Life. They brought in the genius of Jonathan Anderson (Jonathan Inc.) and along the way discovered Michelle Masters and fell in love with her harmonies and mandolin. KP has quickly followed in MWL’s footsteps, by already licensing three songs, A Million Skies, Disappear from View, and Photographs to CBC’s prime-time show, Heartland.
Two exceedingly auspicious events occur today... One: The release of the Beatles' RE-MASTERED stereo and mono Lp's....and... Two: The first anniversary...to the day...of Kensington Prairie's arrival in Ontario. Well done KP on surviving (in spades) your first year in the Big Smoke...we are fortunate to have you with us! and I just can't wait to pick up my Beatles box sets today. Truly Bob. www.bobbryden.com
Hey, I've got a new acoustic demo up of my song "Snapshot Chronicles" up now. Feel free to listen, comment, and if you like it tell your friends. If not, that's cool too.
Kensington Prairie destroyed me with their gentle melodies at the Cameron House in Toronto last night. (Especially that last song!) Before the Flood were very good, too. Bob www.bobbryden.com
thanks so much for the add, friend! love the little sparrow on yr picture and am digging yr sound! would love to remix you guys if you were down sometime! God bless, pip
Great show last night! A much better audience as well. I threw a couple new songs up on my myspace a few days ago, I'd love to get your opinions. Talk soon
Hey Guys, Congratulations on your move to Toronto - looks like you're in full swing there! Check out my new EP; we recorded with Ryan at Echoplant Sound. Whoot-whoot. Hee-yaa.
It was my pleasure to play "Bluebirds" on my weekly, 30-minute podcast featuring mainstream, independent music. The direct link to the show is: http://indiemusicsampler.com/2009/04/03/ims-127/
In a few days, the song will also be added to Indie Music Sampler radio which plays out some of the best in independent music commercial-free 24x7.
Thanks for the add! I came by Kensington Prairie on the NPR list, y'all sounded like the most interesting band there. I'm not disappointed. "Disappear from View" is a particularly gorgeous song, I love what you've done with the banjo in the middle of it.
