concert Belle Plaine - Girls Are Back In Town

“If Patsy Cline and Blossom Dearie had a love child she would sing like Belle Plaine. Belle's voice is old timey and jazzy. It has twang, crystal bells and swing. You listen to this voice, and all of a sudden your cheatin' heart has a very dry martini in hand, and you're hearing something both timeless and brand new.” - Kelley Jo Burke, CBC Radio One host

Belle Plaine has just released her first full length feature album, Notes from a Waitress, and this concert showcases many of the songs from this offering. Belle says she "wanted the songs to read as a travelogue from the other side of the world and back. They're like souvenirs from each journey. It's my throwback to the vocal jazz of the 1960s. Think of Peggy Lee and Julie London. I created Notes From A Waitress in the spirit of these artists."

Belle's journey has taken her from classical voice lessons as a child to jazz studies at Edmonton's Grant MacEwan College, and she found her songwriting voice during a year spent in Australia.

This concert took place in the CBC Regina Galleria. The evening featured four Saskatchewan songstresses in a show we called ‘The Girls are Back in Town!'. Our house band for all 4 artists was led by guitarist Kris Craig with pianist Jonathan Dyck, and
Kory Gibbs on drums. For this set they were joined by Elizabeth Curry on upright bass.

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