For Bookings in Canada or US contact me. sarah@sarahmacdougall.com
For Bookings in the UK, contact Bob Butler at Grapevine music agency: bob@grapevinemusicagency.co.uk
The band (The Heroes):
Shawn Killaly: drums, bg vox;
Tim Tweedale: dobro, lapsteel, weissenborn, pedalsteel, trumpet, bg vox;
Russell Sholberg: bass, bg vox
Previous band members, current sometimes guests, and people who have played on the records include:
Pierre Davids, Joanna Chapman-Smith, Tyson Naylor, Patrick Brealey, Corbin Murdoch, Christian Almström, Rob Leishman, Zoe Broomsgrove, Sasha Levin, Keith Rathie, Dave Spidell, Justine Fisher.
Hello! I hope you like my songs.
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biography:
Swedish/Canadian songwriter, Sarah MacDougall is a storyteller, entertainer and pop-troubadour with a haunting voice and songs to match. She delivers each song with passion and depth: her music rips your heart out, twists it around and then, gently coaxes it back home. Combining the raw, rustic quality of lonesome country tales with warm folk melodies and a scandinavian sense of melancholy, Sarah writes about love, heartbreak, crows and living in the city. In 2001, Sarah left Malmoe, Sweden, for Vancouver, Canada, to study music composition. She started a band, released a record, played lots of shows, and stayed. Now Sarah tours in Canada, UK, and Scandinavia, and captures her audience with her spontaneous stage presence and a Scandinavian-Folk Americana style that has earned her the reputation as one of the most interesting emerging singer/songwriters of the Canadian West.
Over the last year 2007/2008), Sarah has been touring successfully in Western Canada, Ontario, New York, England, Sweden, Denmark and Poland, both solo and as part of two separate songwriter’s collectives: Women in the Round (with KATE REID and JOANNA CHAPMAN-SMITH) and Atlantic Crossing (with CORBIN MURDOCH and MELISA DEVOST).
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Sarah has just finished her album 'Across the Atlantic', which will be released in the winter of 2009 on Copperspine Records.
Sarah writes, records and produces all her own music.
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When Sarah isn’t touring solo, she plays and records with her band, ‘ The Heroes’. The virtuosic group consists of Tim Tweedale on lapsteels and trumpet, Russell Sholberg on bass, and Shawn Killaly on drums.
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What people say about Sarah MacDougall:
'Sarah MacDougall was mesmerising and gave a truly blinding performance. Her first visit to Swindon went down really well with the audience who raved over her magnificent vocals and delightful songs – many of which were full of quirky lyrics about life as it is today...Sarah's songs mixed traditional country with a dash of folk resulting in a phenomenal sound.' - Sara Hunt, Maverick Magazine (UK)
"Sarah's music is honest, open, and beautiful - it makes an imediate emotional connection with the listener."- Steve Bellamy, Juno-winning Music Producer/Engineer
"a beautiful voice fronting rustic-leaning songs.....the perfect soundtrack to an Appalachian train hopping journey"......- Meeghan Maultsaid, Artistic director, Under the Volcano Festival Vancouver
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HERE IS OUR NEW LAUNDRY-ROOM GUERILLA VIDEO:
FILMED BY TAMA GEMPTON, CINEMATIC IMAGINATION.
Sarah MacDougall (Voice and guitar), Tim Tweedale(dobro), Shawn Killaly(Drum and laundry-machines)
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Hej Sarah - din musik är mycket fint, särskilt 'Across the Atlantic' för mig ocksa! Tack för vänskapen! No, I don't speak Swedish (yet). Love your songs though! You're coming to England...? James x
You'd go down well at The Kilkenny Roots Festival which is the first weekend in May. They are likely still organising artists for next years as they still have the 2008 info at the website, but you'll get the idea.
It has the added advantage of being a shorter drive for me than flying to England ;~)
SWANK played there a couple of years ago. D'you know them? Shiloh Lindsey recommended them and they were on great form.
Hej och tack för adden! Gillar alla dina låtar, men särskilt Across the Atlantic. Den fastnar direkt! Jo jag läste att du är halvsvensk, men visste ju inte att du faktiskt kan språket också!!!! James har inte spelat på Otterton än. Det blir av 12 mars. Om ett mirakel sker är jag med honom där då....:-) Sommar !? i Bohuslän. Kortet tog jag i juli 2007, men det var lika illa i år.... Ha det gott långt därborta!
