“Here is acoustic, rock, bluesy, torch, indie jive, country psychedelic, soul-baring beautiful music that those with a need to hear a new point of view ought to get off their butts and obtain. This album matters.”
(John C. McClure, Victory Review Nov. 2011)
She's a rambler, a gambler, a lover and a fighter; Sarah Burton's adventurous sounds connect you to her journey, rolling with the steady pace of a train down the tracks and rocking like your favorite juke joint on a Friday night. Her steady and soulful voice tells the tales of life with beauty, strength and weariness, and an ever-present sense of excitement. Sarah has been spreading this excitement throughout North America since 2006, marked with such successes as having her music featured in the Lions Gate feature film "Cabin Fever 2", opening for pop sensation Kate Voegele at Toronto's Opera House in 2009, and receiving recognition for her song Then Run Away, being named Best Folk Song by Toronto Exclusive magazine in 2009. She released her debut EP Love is for Pussies in 2007, with Juno-award winning producer John Switzer, and is now releasing her new full-length album Mayflower;
"a country dusted folk album of steel guitars and sweet sorrow"
(Brad Wheeler, The Globe & Mail)
Mayflower is a powerful collection of alt-folk music that forays into country and rock rhythms, its driving acoustic folk is showcased in such tracks as How Good You Are and Gravity, and the steel and electric guitars make their mark on If This is a Sin and What To Bring. Themes of travel, luck and love affairs are dispersed amid the collection, ranging from edgy and independent, to vulnerable, sweet and romantic. Accompanying the Mayflower release is a video for the album's single How Good You Are, thanks to the folks at The Next Element, and a grant from Videofact, released in February 2011. Like the livin' lovin' road warrior her music atones to, Burton hit the road with the new album in February 2011 in western Canada, and crossed the Canadian countryside and into the US last spring and summer in support of her release.
Born in Ottawa, Sarah Burton has considered many a Canadian city home through her life, feeling most at home when on the move. Her career travels have seen her play NXNE, Canadian Music Week, Winterfolk (Toronto), We Are Many Festival (Saskatoon), the Brandon Folk Festival, Alberta's North Country Fair and British Columbia's Music on the Mountain, in addition to the many live music venues across the country. She's enjoyed radio play on many stations across Canada including the CBC and into the US, being heard in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Classically trained on the piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Burton didn't make the connection from classical music to rock until she was introduced to the sounds of Tori Amos by a piano teacher, and later discovered her fathers old Spanish guitar, kicking off the songwriting history of the inimitable Sarah Burton.