Glenna Garramone

Artist Information

Biography

According to Monday Magazine, Glenna Garramone crafts “raw, emotional, and utterly captivating” songs; using anything from piano to her tap shoes, or a shaker made from lentils in a film canister. And that voice.

Keith Jarrett, Bach, and Tori Amos hop into a time machine, have a threesome, and give birth to a piano player who sounds a lot like Glenna. Guitar influences include Ms. Ani Difranco and Martin Sexton. Lyrically, Glenna’s honesty reflects early years spent listening to Leonard Cohen. She pursued her love of words by earning a B.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Victoria.

Whether moving people with her dramatic piano ballads, transforming an audience into her rhythm section for a vocal improv, or inviting folks to sing along, Glenna Garramone thrives on stage. From the main stage of Victoria's Folk Fest to an intimate show in a Montreal art gallery, Glenna’s performances earned her the title "Favourite Female Performer" by readers of The Record in 2000. In 2001, Glenna was one of 15 emerging songwriters selected to attend the BC Festival of the Arts. In 2002 she was nominated for “Best Female Vocalist” at the Victoria Independent Music Awards. In 2004, Glenna toured the west coast of the U.S.A., adding a musical element to the indie press touring circuit, The Perpetual Motion Roadshow. Her song “Bear Scat” was Grand Prize Winner of the 2010 ArtsWells Songwriting Contest.

Recorded in a solar-powered yurt on Molokai’i, Hawaii, her newest album, Thank You Half Moon will be released in the fall of 2011.

Instrumentation

Glenna Garramone: piano, guitar, vocals, tap shoes

Discography

Opus- 1998
Singing- 2001
i am the eye EP- 2003
mouth wide open EP- 2005
Seasky-Starsong- 2008

Links

• Facebook
• MySpace
• CBC Radio 3 Profile

Audio

• Bear Scat
  Listen  
• Mountain Man
  Listen  
• Honey So Sweet
  Listen  
• K-I-S-S Me
  Listen  
• Anemone
  Listen  

Video

Photo Gallery

Press

• Glenna Garramone "Seasky-Starsong" Review [+ Show ]
  

  One of the best things about following the career of any recording artist is listening to their musi...One of the best things about following the career of any recording artist is listening to their musical growth—and you’ll find growth a-plenty on this, the fourth release from local singer-songwriter Glenna Garramone. While her earlier albums—Opus, Glenna Singing, i am the eye—were piano-heavy offerings (no surprise there, given that it’s her primary instrument), Seasky-Starsong finds Garramone at times stepping away from the keyboard for more full-band numbers featuring the likes of Kim Barlow’s drummer Jordy Walker, Outlaw Social bassist Oliver Reuben Swain, cellist Christina Zaenker (who adds a hauntingly aquatic level to the opening track, “Anemone”) and co-producers Wynn Gogol and Corwin Fox on a variety of instruments. There’s a number of stand-out tracks here that deserve radio play—notably the country-inflected “Maple Syrup” and the plucky rootsy twang of “Broken Bottle”—but while it may be Garramone’s haunting voice that initially pulls the listener in, it’s her songwriting skill that makes for repeat listenings. Definitely an artist who isn’t shy about showing her influences (note the decidedly Tori Amos/Veda Hille-esque “Empty Room”), I’ve long held that Garramone is a talent to watch and Seasky-Starsong only cements that opinion.
  
  —John Threlfall

• GLENNA DO GOOD [+ Show ]
  

  Soundbites Matthew Harrisson and John Sekerka Glenna: good to be back in Ottawa GLENNA ...Soundbites
  Matthew Harrisson and John Sekerka
  
  
  
  Glenna: good to be back in Ottawa
  
  GLENNA DO GOOD
  Self-dubbed "indie princess" Glenna Garramone talked over the phone from Montreal about her latest self-produced folk album and title track, I Am the Eye. Unabashedly, she began singing over the phone and I sat mesmerized by the magic of her lyrical honesty. To put it into perspective, and I'm not exaggerating, think Tori Amos, or Leonard Cohen. The authenticity shines through even via long-distance. At 22, Glenna has toured across North America, and self-produced three albums. Now she returns to the Ottawa where she grew up to play a show at Rasputin's Folk Café on Friday, July 16. Glenna's promising to deliver "experimental folk music and maybe some tap dancing depending upon the surface area and how precious the stage floor is."
  
  Yes, she has a predilection for thrashing stages with her ferocious tap dancing and will share the stage that night with Athena Reich and Kyla Dowden. The show starts at 8 p.m., and tickets are $6 in advance or at the door.

Setlist

Basic Requirements

Calendar