biographical info
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Penny Lang isn't ever gonna be 100% cool, but she is one of the few singers today that evokes thundering accolades that go far beyond the customary comments made about other artists.
As fellow singer/songwriter Jesse Winchester once remarked, "I first heard Penny sing at the Montreal Folk Workshop.. I heard passion, I heard vulnerability, and I heard complete candor about pretty much everything."
Lang’s new album "Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky" was co-produced by New York-based producer Roma Baran and engineer Vivian Stoll and includes backing by her son Jason Lang, as well as by Kate McGarrigle, Ken Pearson, Michael Jerome Browne, Dave Clarke, Bill Garrett, Sue Lothrop, Linda Morrison and Gaston Bernard, among others.
"Stone & Sand & Sea & Sky" caps a remarkable four decade career during which this delightful 63-year-old singer/guitarist has evolved from being a coffeehouse draw in her native Montreal to being one of Canada's leading roots-based artists.
Today, after returning from a stroke six years ago, Lang is again actively touring although at a somewhat different pace. She recently moved to rural British Columbia near Madeira Park.
"This decision took about 20 years to finalize," Lang says. "I have never made any kind of a home, really. Home has always been somewhere I visit. But it is so beautiful here."