biographical info
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Jenn Grant arrived on the scene in full technicolour with her debut Orchestra for the Moon
(2007). The album, recorded at CBC Halifax, fused Jenn’s intuitive
songcraft with a core of talented musicians who shaped and informed the
creative instincts of this emerging talent.
Orchestra for the Moon earned immediate attention, a deal with
Six Shooter Records and a place atop the East Coast scene, famous for
its fictional dreamers and its real world songbirds. Early tours with
The Weakerthans and Hayden introduced the rest of Canada to this 2006
East Coast Music Award winner for Best New Artist, a fine arts graduate
with a voice like brushstrokes on a canvas.
Jenn brought her band and producer/composer Jonathan Goldsmith (Bruce
Cockburn) to Puck’s Farm in Southern Ontario to make the follow up, Echoes (2009).
The album was a retreat from the city, a departure from modern
record-making conveniences, and a recoiling from recent heartaches and
breaks. Jenn pressed her wounds to analogue tape, and Echoes is a
haunting and melancholic artifact of process and mood. The album topped
the CBC Radio 3 chart (March, 2009) and found places on year-end
Earshot and ChartATTACK lists as well. In 2009, Jenn performed with
Symphony Nova Scotia, headlined the Cultural Olympiad Canadian Tour and
showcased during Grammy Week, ECMA, CMW, SXSW and NXNE.
Songs from both records have been heard on Grey’s Anatomy, Mercy,
Shattered and Heartland. Jenn has performed across Canada, the US and
Europe, with Hawksley Workman, Martin Tielli, Barenaked Ladies and
others. Her albums have received East Coast Music Award and Music Nova
Scotia award nominations.
For more information, please contact:
Emily Smart
Six Shooter Records
416 465 2459
emilysmart@sixshooterrecords.com
lineup
Jenn Grant singer/songwriter
influences
pheonix
laura veirs
camera obscura
sigor ros
beach house