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“A force to be reckoned with.” – Exclaim!
“The next it-girl of folk rock.” – Montreal Mirror
“****” – Le Voir
“Charlotte Cornfield makes misery sound lovely and loveliness sound possible.” – Hash Magazine
“Unpretentious, clever and direct folk rock that’s so big-hearted it hurts, every time Cornfield straps on a six-string, you just know that Joni Mitchell is smiling somewhere.” – CBC
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Somewhere between the plains of North Dakota and the rocky coast of Vancouver Island, Charlotte Cornfield is counting Joni Mitchell’s “white lines on the freeway” and watching the sun come up from the window of a greyhound bus. Just another night Cornfield will spend on the road on an epic 45-date tour of Canada and the US. She’s crossing the landscape with nothing but a guitar and a backpack, bringing her poetic folk rock tunes to the small clubs, cafes and taverns of America. Barely legal, 20-year old Cornfield doesn’t know what she’s gotten herself in to.
Fast forward two years later and Cornfield has under her belt enough experiences to write some of the most emotionally raw, beautiful songs this country has heard in years. She has mastered her potent blend of soulful vocals and stylish guitar playing and it’s no surprise that The Montreal Mirror has named her “The next it-girl of folk-rock.” What makes it all the more enchanting is the innocent pop sensibility that somehow rears its head beneath it all, making her tunes catchier than the new Justin Bieber single, always in the most surprising of ways. Cornfield’s two debut EPs have received critical acclaim and her tunes are staples amongst the CBC listenership and Canadian campus radio. “Cornfield’s got something luminous about her,” scribed Maisonneuve Magazine. Seeing her perform or listening to her recordings, it’s hard to miss.
Born and bred in Toronto, Cornfield escaped to Montreal in 2006 to study jazz drumming. She finished her degree in Spring 2010 and hit the road as the drummer for several bands, including Bent By Elephants, Takk, The Keys (Fr) and Panoramic & True (US). In the fall of 2010 she returned home and buckled down for 4 months in an east-end studio to track her debut full-length effort, Two Horses, released Oct. 25th, 2011. The record, a fleshed-out, conceptual tour de force, reflects the duality of Cornfield’s musical influences: the deep lyricism and raw emotion of Mitchell, Dylan, and Young, mixed with the intense energy and hookiness of late-70’s New York rock and roll.
Cornfield has been handpicked to play festivals such as Hillside Festival, Mariposa Folk Festival, The Montreal Jazz Festival, Ottawa Folk Festival, Pop Montreal, and more. She has shared stages with the likes of The Sadies, Thao & Mirah, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Ron Sexsmith, Dead Prez and Amy Millan.
These days Cornfield calls Montreal home, and in the midst of her hectic touring and recording schedule she can be found poring over her notebook and a coffee in one of Mile End’s many cafes. She is a rock poet, through and through.
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Instrumentation
Charlotte Cornfield - Guitar, Lead Vocals
Ryan Granville Martin - Drums
Kathryn Palumbo - Bass
Sam Rosenberg - Percussion, voice
Theresa Sokyrka - voice
Discography
Two Horses, LP (2011)
Collage Light, EP (2009)
It's Like That Here, EP (2007)
CONTACTS:
General: charlottecornfield@gmail.com
Booking: hgibson@khgmanagement.ca
Publicity: sari@audioblood.com
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In the Shadow of Leonard Cohen: Montreal's Brightest New Songwriters
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She needn’t necessarily be able to string two notes together and fans would still flock on the cutes...She needn’t necessarily be able to string two notes together and fans would still flock on the cutesy-quaint basis of Charlotte Cornfield’s name alone. Fortunate for her growing faithful, the lovely handle comes with a solid grip on the fundamentals of pure and perfect sound and sentiment. Unpretentious, clever and direct folk rock that’s so big-hearted it hurts, every time Cornfield straps on a six-string, you just know that Joni Mitchell is smiling somewhere. Though guitar is her weapon of choice on her two EPs and 2011’s full-length debut, Two Horses, the early 20-something tour de force is a formally trained jazz drummer. Despite her relative youth, Cornfield has toured extensively as a percussionist in numerous bands, which may go some way towards explaining the worldliness of her work.
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Interview in Maisonneuve Magazine
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LAUNCH: INTERVIEW WITH CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD By AMELIA SCHONBEK Montreal folksinger Charlotte Co...LAUNCH: INTERVIEW WITH CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD
By AMELIA SCHONBEK
Montreal folksinger Charlotte Cornfield is crazy busy and totally vulnerable—but she wouldn't have it any other way. She plays Maisonneuve's Issue 36 launch party on July 8.
As soon as you see Charlotte Cornfield play, you know it: she’s the real thing. Whether she’s fronting her own band, drumming for Bent By Elephants, or playing with any of her other numerous side projects, Cornfield’s got something luminous about her. And though she’s the subject of much well-deserved acclaim, you get the sense that she lets it roll off her back, content to focus on honest music-making. Ahead of playing at Maisonneuve’s “The Music We Hate” summer issue launch party, Cornfield spoke with us about Montreal, being honest and—of course—the music she’s not too crazy about.
Amelia Schonbek: You're originally from Toronto, but I think everybody sees you as very much part of the Montreal music scene. Do you look back at your music and see it slowly beginning to change as you worked your way deeper into Montreal?
Charlotte Cornfield: My move to Montreal marked a major life transition—I left home, left Toronto, decided to pursue music intensely, and hurled myself into an entirely new community. I was seventeen when I got here, and though I've performed all my life, I hadn't really done much solo stuff before. This city blew my mind, and at the beginning the songs that I wrote here were strongly influenced by the magic of night streets and new experiences and all the crazy shit that tripped me out. Gradually, as the city became my home, my songs began to reflect the life experience that I was having here—loves and losses, loneliness and growing up. The more I played, the more confident I became in my voice and sound, and through exposure to a wider audience, and a ton of encouragement from like-minded musicians and friends, I was able to develop my style and really become comfortable with it.
I think of Montreal as my musical hometown. It's where I have the biggest network of people and the strongest audience. I sometimes feel like this town has lifted me into the palm of its hand—it's been such an incredibly positive and supportive place to play since day one.
Toronto is a lot more stressful when it comes to making art, because there's a constant pressure to succeed and earn money. I think if I had stayed there I would have been jaded by the bullshit of it. Montreal made it possible for me to really do my thing and make it work. I love it here.
AS: From an outside perspective it seems like you've got so much momentum these days. You're so prolific, playing a lot and with a ton of different people. Does it feel crazy? How do you stay creative in the midst of it all?
CC: It definitely does feel crazy, but that's how I like it. I've always thrived on a busy schedule, and I'm perpetually working on a variety of things at once. For the past four years I've been working on my degree and juggling musical projects and now that I'm finished school my life has filled up with several more bands and I'm still running around like a chicken with my head cut off. A lot of people ask me what my main focus is, and though in a sense my heart is probably closest to my own music, drumming is equally important to me, and I will always be doing both as intensely as possible. Right now I am playing with my band, playing solo, drumming for Bent By Elephants and my jazz quartet Takk, and playing a lot of gigs on the side. I love being able to jump from instrument to instrument and genre to genre, so this is really the ideal situation.
It is sometimes difficult to make time for writing and creation, because those are not things that you can insert into your daytimer—they have to come naturally. I've always found that inspiration strikes out of the blue, and if it's there, the colours whirl and magic happens (as new-agey as that sounds).
AS: You really wear your heart on your sleeve in a lot of your songs—not in a way that's overly sentimental, but in a way that's really honest. That's pretty rare, I think. Is it a struggle to keep doing that when you're writing music?
CC: I always wear my heart on my sleeve. I'd say it's more of a struggle to hold back a bit. It's so natural for me to give it all in a song that sometimes I forget the vulnerability of it. Sometimes I feel like I'm playing with fire, but it's thrilling to be dangling on the edge. I love Joni Mitchell, I love Martha Wainwright, I love Bob [Dylan]—you know? These people give it.
I think artists and bands these days have a tendency to get so wrapped up in coolness that they shy away from expressing any real emotion. It's total bullshit. There's so much you can do with the combination of words and music. You can be super-subtle and still say something. For me, songwriting is the perfect place to channel intense emotion and real humanity and let it flood to the forefront.
AS: So tell us about the music you hate. What is it, and why? Or, to think about it from the opposite point of view, what do you particularly value in music? What are the ingredients that make it good?
CC: I think I would rather look at it from the opposite point of view. I don't hate music—I love music. What do I value in it? Well, that's a huge question that I can't even begin to verbalize. Music is one of those magical things that can't be explained in words, no matter how hard people try to do it.
To me it's all about heart and feeling. If it has those two things, then it's working, then it can be great.
These days anybody can pick up a bunch of electronic stuff and make a record in their basement and call it music. Some of the DIY stuff out there is amazing, but so much of it is lacking feeling, groove, and musicality. There's so much hype-based, novelty-based Pitchfork-type stuff that is not going to stand the test of time because there's no heart in it. There's no awesome. Really, there's just a major lack of awesome.
Charlotte Cornfield plays Maisonneuve's "The Music We Hate" issue launch party on July 8 at le Cagibi (5490 St. Laurent) in Montreal, along with Pat Jordache and Carl Spidla. $5 cover includes a copy of Maisonneuve Issue 36 (Summer 2010). Check out the launch party on Facebook. -
Charlotte Cornfield lets go of the reins on new album Two Horses
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Although she’s only in her early twenties, singer/songwriter Charlotte Cornfield has already had to ...Although she’s only in her early twenties, singer/songwriter Charlotte Cornfield has already had to make some tough choices about the direction her life will take. That’s partly why she entitled her debut full-length album Two Horses, explaining that at times it’s felt as if the horses in question were pulling her in two opposite directions.
An example of that in real terms was the Toronto native’s choice to move to Montreal in 2006 where Cornfield studied jazz drumming at Concordia University. Four years later, after switching to acoustic guitar, Cornfield opted to head down the trail blazed by Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, and coming up with a cache of songs inspired by an intense period of writing after earning her degree.
“I definitely feel as though I’ve achieved my vision,” Cornfield says. “This album is very in-depth and conceptual, and it really feels like my first completed work. The lyrics are more developed, the songs are stronger and my vocals are a lot more confident and musical. The musicians who added their pizzazz to the record are incredible and help take the album on an interesting and ear-catching journey. I have always felt like I’m climbing a staircase in my music. Everything I’ve done has been stronger than the last thing and Two Horses is that in the flesh. It’s a real album.”
The other thing that had Cornfield feeling torn was her romantic life, which she admits formed the basis for the album as well. “The songs all took shape around a brief but life-changing romance,” she says. “They all just happened in this flourish and although each song is unique and addresses a separate emotion than the last, they all touch on the push and pull, physical and literal, of this affair.”
The new love of Cornfield’s life now appears to be Montreal itself, as she explains how the city has become her muse. “Montreal for me is magic. It’s about spontaneity and music and people and parties. It’s where I feel totally in my element, creatively on fire. And rent is cheap. Toronto is important for me — it’s home. It’s where things happen and people push to move forward, but I’m still in the midst of a love affair with Montreal. It’s where I really grew up.”
Getting on the road is Cornfield’s primary focus now though, and she anticipates that those experiences will play a big part in the next music she makes. “I think I’m in the process of writing my road album,” she says. “I’ve been touring for the majority of the past year and there are no signs of slowing. I’m about four songs deep into a sort of road opus.
“Developing my live show is very important to me, and I would like audiences to expect great songs, moments of hilarity and an all-round passionate delivery. I like to think of it as a rad experience. Next year is going to be a big year; I want to go everywhere and I want to write hits.”
Who: Charlotte Cornfield w/ Ben Caplan
When: Sunday, Nov. 20
Where: Van Gogh’s Ear, Guelph
Tickets: $10 at the door
Show Time: 7:30 p.m.
More Info: www.charlottecornfield.com
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Charlotte Cornfield at Sneaky Dee's
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By Carly LewisEven without an A string, Charlotte Cornfield puts on a good show. Not much from her d...By Carly LewisEven without an A string, Charlotte Cornfield puts on a good show. Not much from her debut It's Like That Here EP made it into the set list ("In Between Us" made the cut, thankfully), but since those days, she's evolved into a force to be reckoned with. A self-proclaimed "heavier" song was deserving of the disclaimer as her voice descended into a cauldron of slowed-down "Thom Yorke in a bad mood" vocals, and with it, proof that Cornfield is not a simple musician. "Gananoque," a duet with bass player Kathryn Palumbo that's actually about Kingston, ON, was a jazzy show highlight, as was "Construction on the Street."
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Charlotte Cornfield 'Two Horses' - Critique
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Du folk-rock Canadian assez sec qu’elle défendait live, la multi-instrumentiste montréalaise est pas...Du folk-rock Canadian assez sec qu’elle défendait live, la multi-instrumentiste montréalaise est passée à une variante plus fournie et colorée, indique-t-elle avec ce premier opus. Two Horses est placide, rustique et feutré, oui, mais affiche aussi de surprenantes et convaincantes teintes indie rock, blues et soul. La pimpante Construction on the Street évoque Juliana Hatfield, mais avec If You Don’t Pursue et Arc Blues, la demoiselle tombe dans une atmosphère langoureuse et vibrante que ne renierait pas Joni Mitchell, voire Timber Timbre. Couplé à un sens mélodique fort, ce va-et-vient entre un mordant moderne et une charge plus vintage donne du muscle à ce Two Horses.
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Charlotte Cornfield lets music speak for itself
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Posted By Ken Kelley She has been dubbed the “next it-girl of folk rock,” yet there is a unique p...Posted By Ken Kelley
She has been dubbed the “next it-girl of folk rock,” yet there is a unique pop sensibility lurking behind the scenes of much of Charlotte Cornfield’s material. With two EPs, a terrific new full length effort (Two Horses) and a heaping amount of critical praise to her credit, Cornfield’s star is on the rise in the Canadian music scene.
Cornfield will perform at Moncton’s Plan B Lounge on Thursday, Nov. 10. The show is slated to start at 9 p.m.
Cornfield was no stranger to music when she was growing up. Born in Toronto, Cornfield now calls Montreal home. The daughter of a CBC Radio producer, she says that her father helped expose her to classical and jazz music at a fairly early age. Cornfield says that it was her mother that in turn turned her onto the likes of Joni Mitchell while she got into rock n’ roll in her teens. Somehow, Cornfield brings these dynamic and distinct influences to each of her own songs.
A jazz drummer by trade, Cornfield was writing songs on guitar by the time that she was 13 years old. Cornfield says that she had started off playing drums in various rock bands, getting into jazz only after she enrolled in university. She credits her university education as opening her eyes to a number of different things.
“I had wanted to study drums in school and jazz drumming was the ticket into that,” Cornfield begins. “After I got into school, I got into jazz artists like Charles Mingus and that ultimately expanded my musical realm in ways that I could never have expected or anticipated. I really have to credit jazz for helping me develop into the musician that I am today.
“While in school though, I also learned how connected being a singer-songwriter and drumming are. In an academic environment, it is natural to want to separate these two things but at the end of the day, music is music and the approach to music is the same no matter what you’re doing. That ended up being a huge revelation for me.”
Cornfield considers the material contained on her new album Two Horses to be perhaps the most coherent blend of her musical upbringing yet.
“It seems as though I have always had two dueling musical forces, folk and rock music, in my life and to make them come together, I feel it best represents the essence of who I am,” she says. “It is easy to be pigeonholed in the rock scene or the folk scene and honestly, I don’t worry about that. I appreciate that people want to naturally categorize you as a musician but truthfully, I value versatility above all else. It is your ear that decides what sounds good and if that means blending my influences and pursuing different song structures, so be it. I want to let my songs speak for themselves.” -
Montreal singer's new CD a work of rock poetry
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by Molly Cormier Charlotte Cornfield, is that your real name?" We're not the first to ask the ...by Molly Cormier
Charlotte Cornfield, is that your real name?"
We're not the first to ask the singer/songwriter this question. She's heard it before, but has come to terms with how appropriately her folky name suits her when strumming a guitar on stage.
"I think I'm lucky. When you're a kid you think, 'My name's Charlotte Cornfield, there's nothing strange about that.' Until you realize it is a little bit of a strange name and it really works for playing music. People remember it and it's symmetrical. It fits the music I do, so I'm pretty lucky."
Here reached Cornfield in her hometown of Toronto, although she currently resides in Montreal. It was the day after the release of her first full-length album, Two Horses, recorded after she graduated from the jazz drumming program at Concordia University.
"It feels good. It's been a long time coming so I'm definitely ready for it to happen."
Over the course of our conversation with Cornfield, it became abundantly clear that the 23-year-old is completely dedicated to her art, perhaps best described as rock poetry. Last fall, she packed up and moved to Toronto just to work on Two Horses and ended up hunkering down for four straight months.
"I wanted to pull myself away from my distractions and my immediate community and just kind of isolate myself to work on it. I felt like that was the best way to get inside of the songs. They're really emotional, intense songs. I wanted to give them the fullest attention I thought they needed."
Two Horses, Cornfield says, was taken from something someone once said to her about feeling pulled away from another person. The album follows the moody trajectory of a complicated, love affair, through different situations, cities and coming in contact with other people.
"Each song is a different experience that takes you through the story, all the way to the end and you try to make sense of what's happening."
Such a detailed love story can only be autobiographical, which Cornfield confirmed, and documenting it was nothing short of exhausting.
"It drained me completely. I was just like - done - when I finished the record. It was a really intense experience; it wasn't pleasant at all. I was really getting down in the grit of the art and channelling everything. But I'm really glad that I did, because I'm really happy with the result."
Cornfield will play songs from her new album on her East Coast tour this month. On stage she sticks to vocals and guitar, but always keeps her education as a drummer in her back pocket.
"I think in my musical life everything relates to everything else. I knew that if I became a more solid drummer then I'd be writing stronger songs and be introduced to a whole community of musicians in Montreal, which the program did for me."
Cornfield was 17 when she moved to Montreal to start her music career. Five years later, she has no regrets.
"I feel like I've come a really long way...I learned to finesse my craft and what worked and what didn't. There are so many things you learn from hours on the road and hours on stage. I think through my development over the past five years, I've learned so much. I still have a ton to learn but it gave me an early window into the community." -
Taking the Reins
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Taking the Reins Charlotte Cornfield's debut full-length album, Two Horses, finds the musician o...Taking the Reins
Charlotte Cornfield's debut full-length album, Two Horses, finds the musician older, wiser, and with one hell of a love story to share.
by Megan Stewart
02.11.2011
At 23 years of age, traipsing between two cities and across the continent with a guitar in hand, local folkster Charlotte Cornfield has become well acquainted with the thrill and loneliness inherent in love, travel and coming home.
Over the past five years, the Toronto native has proven herself to be a versatile and tireless musician within Montreal’s jazz and folk scenes. She’s a graduate of Concordia University’s music program, where she studied jazz drumming; she plays drums in two other local bands (Bent By Elephants and Takk) in addition to pursuing her solo career. She has previously released two EPs – It’s Like That Here (2007) and Collage Light (2009) – but it’s her new, debut full-length album, Two Horses, which secures her spot among the country’s top folk-rock musicians.
Cornfield’s throaty bray and fearless rock’n’roll style come out in full force on Two Horses. Hers is a voice that can be rough and rollicking one moment, soft and silvery the next. Paired with a strong backing band comprised of both Montreal and Toronto talent, Cornfield has created an album to savour as we drift into shorter days, with leaves on the ground and breath hanging in the air.
Two Horses traces a single love affair through seasons and cities, secrets and dreams, games and lies. But before you turn your nose up in fear of sappy love songs or brokenhearted balladry, take note: This is one of the richest collections of contemporary folk songs out there, featuring commanding arrangements and lyrics that sparkle with the perspective of a young woman who has grown wiser, sharper and more confident with age and experience.
While the affair itself did not end happily, it did produce a huge wave of inspiration that found Cornfield writing constantly, ending up with ten songs and one story of two people navigating through chance and confusion in the city.
The Rover spoke with Cornfield as she was preparing for a slew of album release shows in Ontario. Thrilled to have the album finished after a year of work, Cornfield is ready to spend some time on the road, sharing it with audiences across Canada.
But how much of a challenge is it to share so much raw emotion through her songwriting and performing? Cornfield responds with assurance:
“When I started performing songs on my own, I learned very quickly how to just let go, to let things come out and not hold on to things, because I found that the freer I was with words and with expressing how I was feeling, the more people could relate to the songs and the better I felt about the song being complete.
“I knew as I was writing these songs that they were thematic, they were all related to this one particular affair – and that’s kind of what I wanted. I wanted to look at it from all these different angles, from the highs and lows of it, that’s what I wanted to express. I wanted to get inside of it.
“So I think, because I’ve learned to put myself on the line a little bit, it just kind of flowed out and I’m really happy how it all comes together in these ten songs.”
Was there ever a fear of revealing too much, or of the other person’s reaction to the album?
“In all honesty, I don’t have a huge amount of sympathy for this person, so if stuff gets out there and if it seems to be revealing, then I’m okay with that. In the end, I just need to express what I want to, and I don’t really feel the need to protect anyone. And in the end, it’s just a story, and it comes out the way it comes out, and that’s fine with me, however it gets interpreted.”
It’s still a story with a very local setting – the cities of Montreal and Toronto receive just as much lyrical attention as the lovers do. Cornfield’s ties to both cities complicate her idea of home and exert strong forces on her identity and songwriting.
“Feeling the push and pull of both [Toronto and Montrea], that definitely has a very prominent role in the music I write. ’Cause I grew up in Toronto, and this is where my family is and a lot of people are, but I spent a very important last five years of my life in Montreal and there’s a pull from each city. My mind always trips over things like place and how it relates to the rest of my life… I’m always wondering if I’m in the right place at the right time. So that relationship definitely comes through in the songs. And then there’s a lot of middle-ground imagery like Gananoque and Kingston… it’s just a 401 story, basically.”
Cornfield regularly lists Joni Mitchell as a major influence in her songwriting and style. Both artists share a knack for getting right to the heart of human relationships; deconstructing the games people play, filling their songs with genuine emotion while avoiding puddles of sentimentality.
On the topic of Mitchell, Cornfield starts nattering away excitedly, at once an admiring fan and inspired artist…
“For me, she is a person who puts it all on the line, everything – she gives everything the emotion that she’s feeling but in such an eloquent and poetic way. She’s been able to articulate things that I have never heard anyone else say. …And especially since a lot of her music was written as a young woman in her twenties, being out on the road in this culture of male-dominated singer/songwriterdom and just being an anomaly [in that context]. And it’s a lot different now, but I relate to a lot of her music and I think she is just the strongest writer Canada has ever seen.”
Maybe so, but with this new album, Cornfield proves she’s the young blood set to revitalize the old guard. Armed with a guitar, she’s a force to be reckoned with. -
Pushing and pulling
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The Montreal Mirror dubbed Charlotte Cornfield as the next it-girl of folk-rock. But Cornfield is he...The Montreal Mirror dubbed Charlotte Cornfield as the next it-girl of folk-rock. But Cornfield is hesitant to label herself.
“Folk-rock is the general consensus [of] what my music is,” she said. “There’s a big trend right now in folky-rock stuff with bands like Mumford and Sons and Feist that I could maybe fit into.”
Cornfield said she borrows from a mix of artists, including Neil Young, Talking Heads, the Ramones and Bob Dylan.
“I started playing music when I was really young. I took piano lessons and I got interested in other instruments — I switched around from piano to French horn,” she said.
“In high school I played in a band and started writing my own songs and playing guitar.”
Cornfield graduated from Concordia University in 2010 with a BFA in jazz drumming.
The 23-year-old’s full-length debut Two Horses, was released on Oct. 25.
Cornfield, a Toronto native, said the album focuses on a complicated, long-distance relationship.
“There’s a lot of push and pull between two people and two cities,” she said. “Toronto and Montreal are two cities that really push and pull me. There’s a lot of Kingston imagery, because it’s the halfway point.”
Cornfield started the writing process in 2009 and began recording in 2010, but said the album has been in development since she was a child.
“I’ve been working on it since I started music,” she said.
Cornfield plays bass, drums and piano on the record. She said she’s been performing in Montreal since she was 17.
“[I] have this romanticized view of Montreal,” she said. “I totally fell in love with the city. It’s a really magical place.”
Cornfield is currently on a North American tour in support of the new album. She last went on tour after finishing her degree in 2010, as the drummer for several bands, including Brent By Elephants and the Keys.
“It was insane. I had no idea how I balanced. I spent so much time outside of class working. I’m really glad I did it, but it was super stressful. I did assignments backstage and on the bus.”
She said the new album shows the growth from her previous EPs, 2007’s It’s Like That Here and 2009’s Collage Light.
“This is my strongest work,” she said. “I’ve had consistent development as a writer and artist.
“Sound wise, there’s a really nice rock and roll and also introspective folkier stuff.” -
Up From Downstairs: Noisemaker 2010
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http://www.montrealmirror.com/2010/010710/music3.html by DAVID LEVITZ Before I knew that she w...http://www.montrealmirror.com/2010/010710/music3.html
by DAVID LEVITZ
Before I knew that she was the next it-girl of folk-rock, Charlotte Cornfield was the tall, slightly dishevelled Concordia music student from downstairs whose drumming pissed off my roommates to no end. Then one day, a friend played me her album, and when I put two and two together, Charlotte from downstairs suddenly became Charlotte Cornfield, singer/songwriter extraordinaire.
Cornfield grew up in Toronto in a musical family, playing piano and French horn from a young age and taking up drums at 13. In the summer after Grade 11, Cornfield had her first songwriting breakthrough. “I remember going to a party and sitting on a trampoline and playing that song, and everybody was crying,” she says. “I realized then that I could be powerful using guitar and voice.”
Now 21 and with two impressive independent EPs under her belt, Cornfield plays a different gig nearly every day—solo, with the Charlotte Cornfield Band, on drums for Bent by Elephants or with any of several other projects and friends. Recently, she opened for Lake of Stew, and shared a stage with Amy Millan this past summer.
Of her second EP, Collage Light, Cornfield says, “I started listening to a lot of old Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley and Joni Mitchell, and so I was interested in more swooping melodies and bigger sounds. This EP comes from a more painful place. It’s more on the theme of people coming and going and drifting apart,” she says, adding “it also didn’t help that while we were recording the album, the bass player and I were breaking up.”
This past summer, after recordingx, Cornfield took her show on the road, Greyhounding across North America with friend Boris Paillard, who plays under the name the Keys. “Our coolest show was in this tiny town called Bruno, Saskatchewan,” Cornfield recalls. “It’s like 400 people, and the whole town came.”
Still unsigned, Cornfield is waiting until she graduates this year to think about label representation and the more commercial end of her music career. “Being on tour opened my mind up to the desire to explore different things musically,” she recounts. “When I got back here, I said, ‘Instead of booking 10 shows immediately, I’m going to put together a band that I really care about that’s doing something really unique and work with them, and we can discover things together.”
While she already plans to hit the road again soon, Cornfield doesn’t see herself leaving Montreal for good. “I’ve been able to find a really cool community here in fellow musicians,” she says. “I’m really excited about music that’s happening in Montreal right now, and I think we’re on the brink of some really cool discoveries.”
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Review in Penguin Eggs Magazine, Autumn 2009
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"Montreal's Charlotte Cornfield understands the importance of an examined life. Collage Light captur..."Montreal's Charlotte Cornfield understands the importance of an examined life. Collage Light captures fragments of the human experience and creates a musical mosaic. From the passage of time, scattered coffee grinds, shadows, love and actor Humphrey Bogart, Collage Light is a collection of well-crafted indie-pop songs.
The Pages is a meta-poetical ode to life's various chapters. Someday (To the Birds) alludes to a songwriter repairing her heart after the walls have been torn down. Haunt of Mine is an ode to lost love, building on a larger narrative. The Colour kicks up Cornfield's rock 'n' roll sensibility, while Canadian regional representation arrives in North of Superior. Humphrey Bogart closes the album with the famous line - 'here's looking ar you, kid' - portraying a tale of growing older and into oneself."
-Shannon Webb-Campbell -
The Hour: Charlotte Cornfield dropping new EP, then chasing the bus, May 2009
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"Face it, when you were twenty, you weren't really all that focused or put together. It's okay, thou..."Face it, when you were twenty, you weren't really all that focused or put together. It's okay, though. Neither were we. That's why we (should) salute people like Charlotte Cornfield.
Montreal-based multi-instrumentalist Cornfield, at twenty, has already released an EP (It's Like that Here) and is preparing to release another one and then hit the road playing her new material all across this fine country of ours (with some American dates sprinkled in there) with a helping hand from France's The Keys.
Collage Light drops on May 14th, and Cornfield will be playing a release show in her adopted home of Montreal on that wonderful date. If you're in/capable of getting to Montreal, it's at Green Room and costs five bucks.
If you're not in Montreal, Cornfield and The Keys are doing 30-date tour in support of Collage Light (and, well, other things). To see if this young but very promising artist is going to be in your neck of the woods, you'd do well to check at myspace.com/charlottecornfield, where you can also check out "The Colour" off of Collage Light, which is purportedly going to feature Cornfield's folk and roots-tinged music mediated by some NYC rock soul. So yeah. It's acoustic, but not.
Also, from a prepared release: "With its live-off-the-floor sound, Collage Light also captures the deep connection Cornfield has to her band-mates Stephen Tchir, Daniel Foreman-Mackey and Noah Barer. Special appearances by prolific musician/poets Boris Paillard, Peter Nevins and Leif Vollebekk spread her roots in the Montreal music scene even farther."
-Dave Jaffer
http://www.hour.ca/music/music_news.aspx?iIDArticle=15743&rssIDArticle=199 -
Feature and Review on iheartmusic.net, May 2009
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Charlotte Cornfield, Collage Light (Self-released) WHO Feist-y Montreal singer-songwriter. ...Charlotte Cornfield, Collage Light (Self-released)
WHO
Feist-y Montreal singer-songwriter.
DISCOGRAPHY
It's Like That Here (Self-released, 2007)
Collage Light (Self-released, 2009)
IN A NUTSHELL
With Collage Light, Charlotte Cornfield makes a strong argument for being one of the best unsigned acts in Canada.
THE STORY
I really wish that I was going into Collage Light without ever having heard Charlotte Cornfield before. It's not that I didn't love her debut -- because I most definitely did -- but every so often I come across a musician like Cornfield who's go good that I wish I could just go back and keep rediscovering how great they are over and over and over again.
But, sadly, I'm not going into Collage Light with fresh ears. I heard and adored her debut, It's Like That Here, loving every minute of her outstanding voice and finding that she did an outstanding job of coaxing beautiful melodies out of the simplistic acoustic arrangements.
Then again, it's thanks to this past experience that I'm able to see how much Cornfield has evolved. And make no mistake, as good as she was on that debut EP, Collage Light shows that she's made substantial strides forward. Where before she just sounded like a folkie girl with a guitar (albeit an extremely talented one, with a knack for writing very catchy pop songs), this time around she's evolved her sound into something a lot more fuller and more complex.
Take "North of Superior", for example. It's easy to imagine something like it appearing on It's Like That Here...provided it didn't have the backing vocals and extra guitars that help to turn it into something more complete. Similarly, it's hard to imagine that the Cornfield of old would've been able to throw in a guitar solo the way she does this time around, on "Someday (To The Birds)". And the surprisingly aggressive "The Colour" starts off with a squawking guitar that sounds totally unlike her past work, yet also totally works -- both on its own and within the broader context of the album.
I don't want to give the impression that the album is perfect, of course. The added maturity means that there's nothing here that's quite like "The Fawn", the last album's high point, a truly outstanding bit of folk-pop that added in some sexual tension and vulnerability to an absolutely perfect degree. As as an EP, of course, it's hard for Collage Light to not feel a little short. But really, both of those things are pretty minor when you consider how strong the album is overall -- it's nice to see the emotional maturity from one album to the next, and, EP or not, the whole thing fits together quite nicely within the constraints of six songs and twenty-five minutes. It was pretty easy to imagine Charlotte Cornfield becoming a star after her first EP, assuming a few things went her way; now that her second one is out, her success seems virtually guaranteed. -
Review in Now Magazine, February 2008
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CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD It’s Like That Here (independent) Rating: NNNN By Bryan Borzykowski "Debut ...CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD
It’s Like That Here (independent) Rating: NNNN
By Bryan Borzykowski
"Debut independent EPs are hit and miss, so it’s a pleasure to listen to a new artist who succeeds on her first try. Montreal’s Charlotte Cornfield is 19, which wouldn’t be huge deal if her record didn’t sound like it came from a seasoned folkie.
Equal parts Kathleen Edwards and Leslie Feist, Cornfield traverses indie rock and folk, accompanied by mandolin, cello and violin. Rollicking track The Fawn shows off the multi-instrumentalist’s top-notch harmonies and handclaps." -
Loving It's Like That Here - iheartmusic.net February 2008
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"LOVING IT'S LIKE THAT HERE Part of me wishes my review of It's Like That Here, the debut EP from..."LOVING IT'S LIKE THAT HERE
Part of me wishes my review of It's Like That Here, the debut EP from Charlotte Cornfield, could consist solely of exclamation marks and randomly typed capital letters. Something like "!!G!J!BUK!!!!HKJSJG!G!!!YTYUT!!!!", followed by a link to where you could buy the album.
While that would come close to conveying my enthusiasm, it wouldn't really explain why it's important that you stop whatever you're doing right now and go get yourself a copy. So here's why you should do that: because Cornfield is amazingly talented. Because she sounds like a folk-singing cross between Feist (minus the success, though it's hard to imagine success isn't in her future, if there's any justice in the world whatsoever) and Billie Holliday (minus the depression). Because she backs that astoundingly expressive, gorgeous voice up with pretty spare instrumentation, but every song is a testament to the power of songwriting economy. Because "The Fawn" is an awesome song, and because "Adrienne Probably Knows" is an awesome song, and because the other four songs on here are just as awesome, too. Because I wish I could post every single track from the EP, just so that I could share its amazingness with everyone I know and don't know...but I won't, because Cornfield is so great that she deserves to sell as many copies of It's Like That Here so that she can make a living doing this music thing, because the world can always use another great artist.
And I'll say it again, for all the reasons above and more: go get yourself a copy. You'll be very glad you did." -
Review in Spill Magazine, Feb. 2008
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"If there is any justice in the music industry, 19 year old Charlotte Cornfield will be the next big..."If there is any justice in the music industry, 19 year old Charlotte Cornfield will be the next big thing in indie folk/rock. Her quirky voice, layered music and clever lyrics fit in right along with Leslie Feist, Kathleen Edwards and Martha Wainwright as well as folk/pop legends Joni Mitchell and Carole King. Cornfield's debut EP has six very catchy and memorable songs that sound like they are being performed by a seasoned pro. œLike A Traveller and œThe Fawn are brilliant and showcase her clever way with words. Considering Cornfield began studying piano at five, writing songs at thirteen and is currently studying jazz drums/percussion at Concordia University in Montreal, her musical expression is only going to get better with time. She is certainly a talent to watch."
- Diane Foy
Setlist
Construction on the Street(Charlotte Cornfield)
North of Superior (Charlotte Cornfield)
Harbord and Grace (Charlotte Cornfield)
Arc Blues (Charlotte Cornfield)
All of the Pretty Mistakes (Charlotte Cornfield)
Gananoque(Charlotte Cornfield)
Circumstance and Winter (Charlotte Cornfield)
In Between Us (Charlotte Cornfield)
The Fawn (Charlotte Cornfield)
If You Don't Pursue (Charlotte Cornfield)
approximate running time: 45 minutes
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| Date | Time | Venue | City | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2012 Saturday | 9:00 PM | The Whitehaus | Jamaica Plain, MA, US | |
| May 15, 2012 Tuesday | 8:00 PM | The Living Room, NYC | , NY, US | |
| May 14, 2012 Monday | 7:00 PM | LIC Bar | Long Island City, NY, US | |
| May 12, 2012 Saturday | 8:00 PM | The Skinny Pancake | Burlington, VT, US | |
| Apr 29, 2012 Sunday | 10:00 PM | tba | Sackville, NB, CA |  |
| w/ The Weather Station | ||||
| Apr 28, 2012 Saturday | 9:00 PM | Wilser's Room | Fredericton, NB, CA | |
| w/ The Weather Station | ||||
| Apr 27, 2012 Friday | 8:00 PM | The Company House | Halifax, NS, CA | |
| w/ Willie Stratton | ||||
| Apr 26, 2012 Thursday | 9:00 PM | Plan B | Moncton, NB, CA | |
| Apr 25, 2012 Wednesday | 9:00 PM | The Red Herring | St. Andrews, ON, CA | |
| w/ The Weather Station | ||||
| Apr 24, 2012 Tuesday | 9:00 PM | Baba’s Lounge | Charlottetown, PE, CA | |
| w/ The Weather Station | ||||
| Apr 15, 2012 Sunday | 8:00 PM | Casbah | Hamilton, ON, CA | |
| Apr 13, 2012 Friday | 9:00 PM | The London Music Club | London, ON, CA | |
| Apr 13, 2012 Friday | 8:00 PM | The Bees Knees | Morrisville, VT, US | |
| Apr 12, 2012 Thursday | 9:00 PM | The Mansion | Kingston, ON, CA | |
| w/ The Gertrudes | ||||
| Apr 10, 2012 Tuesday | 9:00 PM | Horseshoe Tavern | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| Apr 5, 2012 Thursday | 9:00 PM | Amigos | Saskatoon, SK, CA | |
| Apr 2, 2012 Monday | 8:00 PM | Ironwood Stage & Grill | Calgary, AB, CA | |
| w/ Rose Cousins | ||||
| Mar 30, 2012 Friday | 8:00 PM | The Haven Social Club | Edmonton, AB, CA | |
| w/ Rose Cousins | ||||
| Mar 29, 2012 Thursday | 8:00 PM | Broken City | Calgary, AB, CA | |
| Mar 25, 2012 Sunday | 8:00 PM | The Banff Centre | Banff, AB, CA | |
| Part of Anais Mitchell's Hadestown Folk Opera | ||||
| Mar 24, 2012 Saturday | 7:00 PM | Ironwood Stage & Grill | Calgary, AB, CA | |
| Part of Anais Mitchell's Hadestown Folk Opera | ||||
| Mar 23, 2012 Friday | 7:00 PM | Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre Museum | Medicine Hat, AB, CA | |
| w/ Anais Mitchell's Hadestown Folk Opera | ||||
| Mar 22, 2012 Thursday | 7:00 PM | The Arden Theatre in St. Albert, Alberta | St. Albert, AB, CA | |
| Part of Anais Mitchell's Folk Opera Hadestown | ||||
| Mar 21, 2012 Wednesday | 7:00 PM | The Arden Theatre in St. Albert, Alberta | St. Albert, AB, CA | |
| Part of Anais Mitchell's Folk Opera Hadestown | ||||
| Mar 17, 2012 Saturday | 9:00 PM | SXSW | Austin, TX, US | |
| Mar 8, 2012 Thursday | 8:00 PM | Hotel Indigo | , ME, US | |
| Mar 5, 2012 Monday | 9:00 PM | La Sala Rossa | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| w/ The Wooden Sky | ||||
| Feb 10, 2012 Friday | 10:00 PM | Il Motore | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Passovah Party | ||||
| Dec 9, 2011 Friday | 8:00 PM | Elmdale House Tavern | Ottawa, ON, CA | |
| w/ The Gertrudes | ||||
| Dec 2, 2011 Friday | 8:00 PM | The Drake Underground | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| w/ The Gertrudes | ||||
| Nov 24, 2011 Thursday | 9:00 PM | Phog Lounge | Windsor, ON, CA | |
| Nov 23, 2011 Wednesday | 8:00 PM | APK Live | London, ON, CA | |
| Nov 21, 2011 Monday | 8:00 PM | Cafe Pyrus | Kitchener, ON, CA | |
| Nov 20, 2011 Sunday | 8:00 PM | Van Gogh's Ear | Guelph, ON, CA | |
| Nov 19, 2011 Saturday | 7:00 PM | Pearl Company | Hamilton, ON, CA | |
| Nov 14, 2011 Monday | 9:00 PM | L'Agitee | Quebec, QC, CA | |
| Nov 13, 2011 Sunday | 4:00 PM | "Fusion Cafe" | Woodstock, NB, CA | |
| Nov 12, 2011 Saturday | 9:00 PM | pepper's pub | Saint John, NB, CA | |
| Nov 11, 2011 Friday | 9:00 PM | Capital Complex | Fredericton New Brunswick , NB, CA | |
| Nov 10, 2011 Thursday | 8:00 PM | Plan B | Moncton, NB, CA | |
| Nov 9, 2011 Wednesday | 8:00 PM | Struts Gallery | Sackville, NB, CA | |
| Nov 8, 2011 Tuesday | 8:00 PM | Bunker's | Sydney, NS, CA | |
| w/ Ben Caplan | ||||
| Nov 7, 2011 Monday | 8:00 PM | STFX | , NS, CA | |
| w/ Ben Caplan | ||||
| Nov 4, 2011 Friday | 8:00 PM | La Sala Rossa | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Album Launch w/ The Youjsh, Theresa Sokyrka | ||||
| Nov 2, 2011 Wednesday | 8:00 PM | The Grad Club | Kingston, ON, CA | |
| w/ The Gertrudes | ||||
| Nov 1, 2011 Tuesday | 8:00 PM | The Spill Cafe | Peterborough, ON, CA | |
| Oct 27, 2011 Thursday | 8:00 PM | The Dakota Tavern | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| Album Launch w/ The Pinecones | ||||
| Oct 26, 2011 Wednesday | 10:00 PM | Casbah | Collingwood, ON, CA | |
| Oct 20, 2011 Thursday | 8:00 PM | Halifax Pop Explosion | Halifax, NS, CA | |
| w/ Ben Caplan, Snailhouse, Kim Churchill | ||||
| Sep 21, 2011 Wednesday | 12:00 PM | Pop Montreal - BBQ Notman House | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Sep 3, 2011 Saturday | 3:00 PM | The Sunshine Music Festival | Powell River, BC, CA | |
| w/ Danny Michel | ||||
| Aug 28, 2011 Sunday | 9:00 PM | The Railway Club | Vancouver, BC, CA | |
| w/ The Wilderness of Manitoba | ||||
| Aug 17, 2011 Wednesday | 9:00 PM | Mississippi Studios | Portland, OR, US | |
| w/ Sam Cooper (Horse Feathers) | ||||
| Aug 14, 2011 Sunday | 9:00 PM | The Voodoo Lounge | Penticton, BC, CA | |
| Aug 13, 2011 Saturday | 8:00 PM | STREAMING CAFE (www.streamingcafe.net) | Kelowna, BC, CA | |
| Aug 12, 2011 Friday | 9:00 PM | Art We Are | Kamloops, BC, CA | |
| Aug 9, 2011 Tuesday | 9:00 PM | Fort Cafe | Victoria, BC, CA | |
| Aug 8, 2011 Monday | 9:00 PM | The Pearson Seminar on Youth Leadership | Metchosin, BC, CA | |
| Aug 7, 2011 Sunday | 8:00 PM | Montmartre Cafe | Vancouver, BC, CA | |
| Aug 6, 2011 Saturday | 8:00 PM | The Main | Vancouver, BC, CA | |
| w/ The Abramson Singers | ||||
| Aug 2, 2011 Tuesday | 7:00 PM | House Concert | Edmonton, AB, CA | |
| Aug 1, 2011 Monday | 7:00 PM | Higher Ground Cafe | Calgary, AB, CA | |
| Jul 31, 2011 Sunday | 9:00 PM | The Marquee Room | Calgary, AB, CA | |
| Jul 30, 2011 Saturday | 4:00 PM | Empress Ale House | Edmonton, AB, CA | |
| Jul 29, 2011 Friday | 9:00 PM | Lydia's | Saskatoon, SK, CA | |
| Jul 28, 2011 Thursday | 9:00 PM | Times Change(d) High And Lonesome Club | Winnipeg, MB, CA | |
| w/ The Crooked Brothers | ||||
| Jul 25, 2011 Monday | 4:00 PM | The Hillside Festival | Guelph, ON, CA | |
| Jul 24, 2011 Sunday | 3:00 PM | The Hillside Festival | Guelph, ON, CA | |
| Jul 23, 2011 Saturday | 2:00 PM | Hillside Festival | Guelph, ON, CA | |
| Jun 29, 2011 Wednesday | 8:00 PM | Hugh's Room | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| w/ Mary Margaret O'Hara, Dan Hill, Jesse Cook | ||||
| Jun 18, 2011 Saturday | 3:00 PM | Skeleton Park Music Festival | Kingston, ON, CA | |
| w/ Julie Doiron, The Gertrudes | ||||
| Jun 17, 2011 Friday | 2:00 PM | Live in Bellwoods | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| Jun 16, 2011 Thursday | 4:00 PM | Rooftop Show | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| Jun 15, 2011 Wednesday | 7:00 PM | The Bellevue | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| Jun 13, 2011 Monday | 9:00 PM | Casbah | Hamilton, ON, CA | |
| Jun 11, 2011 Saturday | 9:00 PM | The Mansion | Kingston, ON, CA | |
| Jun 10, 2011 Friday | 9:00 PM | Cafe Dekcuf | Ottawa, ON, CA | |
| Jun 5, 2011 Sunday | 9:00 PM | Lee's Palace | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| w/ Thao and Mirah | ||||
| May 23, 2011 Monday | 9:00 PM | Casa del Popolo | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Apr 23, 2011 Saturday | 12:00 PM | Rialto Theatre | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jack Layton Rally w/ Takk | ||||
| Apr 20, 2011 Wednesday | 9:00 PM | Horseshoe Tavern | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| w/ Joe Pug | ||||
| Apr 10, 2011 Sunday | 9:00 PM | Casbah | Hamilton, ON, CA | |
| w/ Daniel Romano | ||||
| Apr 9, 2011 Saturday | 9:00 PM | The Mansion | Kingston, ON, CA | |
| w/ Daniel Romano | ||||
| Apr 8, 2011 Friday | 9:00 PM | Raw Sugar Café | Ottowa, CA | |
| w/ Daniel Romano | ||||
| Mar 26, 2011 Saturday | 8:00 PM | Black Sheep Inn | Wakefield, QC, CA | |
| w/ Katie Moore | ||||
| Mar 22, 2011 Tuesday | 9:00 PM | The Mansion | Kingston, ON, CA | |
| w/ Katie Moore | ||||
| Mar 10, 2011 Thursday | 9:00 PM | Sneaky Dee's | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| Feb 3, 2011 Thursday | 8:00 PM | Cabaret du Mile-end | Montréal, QC, CA | |
| w/ Katie Moore | ||||
| Feb 2, 2011 Wednesday | 9:00 PM | Supermarket | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| Jan 29, 2011 Saturday | 8:00 PM | The Company House | Halifax, NS, CA | |
| w/ C.R. Avery | ||||
| Dec 10, 2010 Friday | 9:00 PM | The Rivoli | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| Audioblood 2-night stand. | ||||
| Nov 27, 2010 Saturday | 8:00 PM | Black Sheep Inn | Wakefield, QC, CA | |
| w/ Leif Vollebekk | ||||
| Nov 25, 2010 Thursday | 9:00 PM | The Garrison | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| w/ Donlands and Mortimer and T H O M A S | ||||
| Oct 13, 2010 Wednesday | 9:00 PM | Casa del Popolo | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Sep 30, 2010 Thursday | 9:00 PM | Pop Montreal | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Aug 13, 2010 Friday | 9:00 PM | Terrasse St-Ambroise w/ The United Steelworkers of Montreal | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jul 28, 2010 Wednesday | 9:00 PM | Il Motore | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| w/ The Felice Brothers | ||||
| Jul 24, 2010 Saturday | 4:00 PM | Hillside Festival | Guelph, ON, CA | |
| Jun 29, 2010 Tuesday | 4:00 PM | Montreal Jazz Festival | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jun 27, 2010 Sunday | 9:00 PM | Le Divan Orange w/ Donlands and Mortimer | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| May 23, 2010 Sunday | 8:00 PM | The Black Sheep Inn w/ Trevor and Steve Tchir | Wakefield, QC, CA | |
| May 20, 2010 Thursday | 8:00 PM | The Spill w/ Trevor and Steve Tchir | Peterborough, ON, CA | |
| May 14, 2010 Friday | 8:00 PM | C'est What w/ Donlands and Mortimer | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| Apr 30, 2010 Friday | 8:00 PM | Raw Sugar Cafe w/ Purple | Ottawa, ON, CA | |
| Apr 29, 2010 Thursday | 9:00 PM | Le Divan Orange w/ Horse Feathers and Royal bangs | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Apr 17, 2010 Saturday | 8:00 PM | Il Motore w/ Bent By Elephants | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Apr 9, 2010 Friday | 8:00 PM | Green Room w/ old Man Luedecke | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Mar 19, 2010 Friday | 10:00 PM | L'Escogriffe w/ Lake of Stew | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jan 31, 2010 Sunday | 8:00 PM | STFX Art Gallery | Antigonish, NS, CA | |
| Jan 30, 2010 Saturday | 8:00 PM | Cafe Ampersand | Charlottetown, PE, CA | |
| Jan 28, 2010 Thursday | 8:00 PM | In the Dead of Winter Festival | Halifax, NS, CA | |
| Jan 23, 2010 Saturday | 12:00 AM | Hillside Festival w/ Bent By Elephants | Guelph, ON, CA | |
| Jan 19, 2010 Tuesday | 10:00 PM | Casa Del Popolo | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Nov 25, 2009 Wednesday | 10:00 PM | Le Divan Orange w/ The Youjsh | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Nov 13, 2009 Friday | 10:00 PM | Il Motore w/ The Most Serene Republic | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Nov 12, 2009 Thursday | 10:00 PM | Sala Rossa w/ Lake of Stew | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Oct 23, 2009 Friday | 10:00 PM | Nepean Sportsplex w/ Dead Prez | Ottawa, ON, CA | |
| Aug 22, 2009 Saturday | 12:00 PM | Ottawa Folk Festival w/ The Sadies and Amy Millan | Ottawa, ON, CA | |
| Jun 30, 2009 Tuesday | 8:00 PM | The Airliner | Los Angeles, CA, US | |
| Jun 26, 2009 Friday | 9:00 PM | The Plough and Stars | San Francisco, CA, US | |
| Jun 23, 2009 Tuesday | 8:00 PM | The Stork Club | Oakland, CA, US | |
| Jun 16, 2009 Tuesday | 8:00 PM | Le Voyeur | Olympia, WA, US | |
| Jun 13, 2009 Saturday | 8:00 PM | The Main on Main | Vancouver, BC, CA | |
| Jun 12, 2009 Friday | 8:00 PM | The Duncan Garage Showroom | Duncan, BC, CA | |
| Jun 7, 2009 Sunday | 8:00 PM | Fibonacci's | Penticton, BC, CA | |
| Jun 5, 2009 Friday | 8:00 PM | The Minstrel | Kelowna, BC, CA | |
| Jun 4, 2009 Thursday | 8:00 PM | The Marquee Room w/ The Keys | Calgary, AB, CA | |
| May 29, 2009 Friday | 8:00 PM | The Red Raven | Fargo, ND, US | |
| May 27, 2009 Wednesday | 8:00 PM | Big V's | St. Paul, MN, US | |
| May 25, 2009 Monday | 8:00 PM | Trumbleplex | Detroit, MI, US | |
| May 22, 2009 Friday | 8:00 PM | The Freeway | Hamilton, ON, CA | |
| May 20, 2009 Wednesday | 8:00 PM | The Rivoli | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| May 19, 2009 Tuesday | 8:00 PM | The Spill | Peterborough, ON, CA | |
| May 17, 2009 Sunday | 4:00 PM | The Black Sheep Inn | Wakefield, QC, CA | |
| May 16, 2009 Saturday | 8:00 PM | Zaphod's | Ottawa, ON, CA | |
| May 14, 2009 Thursday | 9:00 PM | The Green Room | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Mar 29, 2009 Sunday | 12:00 PM | Le Divan Orange | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Mar 10, 2009 Tuesday | 8:00 PM | The Green Room | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Mar 8, 2009 Sunday | 9:00 PM | ESCO w/ Leif Vollebekk | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Mar 1, 2009 Sunday | 8:00 PM | Le Divan Orange w/ James Lamb, The Keys, Bud Rice | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Feb 27, 2009 Friday | 7:00 PM | The Artel | Kingston, ON, CA | |
| Feb 9, 2009 Monday | 9:00 PM | Grumpy's | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jan 29, 2009 Thursday | 8:00 PM | Sala Rossa | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jan 14, 2009 Wednesday | 8:00 PM | Casa Del Popolo | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jan 9, 2009 Friday | 9:00 PM | Casa Del Popolo | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Dec 12, 2008 Friday | 8:00 PM | Weewerk 6th Birthday Bash | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| Nov 23, 2008 Sunday | 8:00 PM | Le Divan Orange w/ Caroline Keating | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Nov 12, 2008 Wednesday | 8:00 PM | Sidewalk Cafe | New York, NY, US | |
| Oct 26, 2008 Sunday | 4:00 PM | The Black Sheep Inn | Wakefield, QC, CA | |
| Oct 23, 2008 Thursday | 8:00 PM | OCFF | Ottawa, ON, CA | |
| Oct 22, 2008 Wednesday | 8:00 PM | Brass Taps Campus Pub | Guelph, ON, CA | |
| Oct 21, 2008 Tuesday | 8:00 PM | Divan Orange | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Oct 10, 2008 Friday | 8:00 PM | Centre St - Ambroise Rob Szabo CD release | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Oct 3, 2008 Friday | 8:00 PM | Pop Montreal at Quai Des Brumes | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Sep 21, 2008 Sunday | 8:00 PM | Sala Rossa | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Aug 27, 2008 Wednesday | 9:00 PM | Club lambi | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Aug 25, 2008 Monday | 9:00 PM | Long Island City Bar | Queens, NY, US | |
| Aug 23, 2008 Saturday | 8:00 PM | Banjo Jim's | New York, NY, US | |
| Aug 22, 2008 Friday | 8:00 PM | Centre St. Ambroise | montreal, QC, CA | |
| Aug 14, 2008 Thursday | 12:00 PM | Barfly | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jul 31, 2008 Thursday | 8:00 PM | Centre St - Ambroise | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jul 29, 2008 Tuesday | 9:00 PM | Jello Bar | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jul 27, 2008 Sunday | 7:00 PM | Artscafe | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jul 26, 2008 Saturday | 9:00 PM | The Silver Dollar | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| Jul 24, 2008 Thursday | 8:00 PM | Pages | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jul 20, 2008 Sunday | 7:00 PM | Artscafe | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jul 17, 2008 Thursday | 8:00 PM | Cagibi | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jul 14, 2008 Monday | 10:00 PM | Grumpy's | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jul 13, 2008 Sunday | 7:00 PM | ArtsCafe | Motnreal, QC, CA | |
| Jul 6, 2008 Sunday | 12:00 PM | Mariposa Folk Festival | Orillia, ON, CA | |
| Jul 5, 2008 Saturday | 12:00 PM | Mariposa Folk Festival | Orillia, ON, CA | |
| Jul 4, 2008 Friday | 12:00 PM | Mariposa Folk Festival | Orillia, ON, CA | |
| Jul 3, 2008 Thursday | 12:00 PM | Jupiter Room w/Laurent Bourque | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jun 21, 2008 Saturday | 8:00 PM | Centre St-Ambroise | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jun 21, 2008 Saturday | 12:00 PM | Folk Festival on the Lachine Canal | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jun 5, 2008 Thursday | 8:00 PM | Jupiter Room w/Young Galaxy | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jun 5, 2008 Thursday | 8:00 PM | The Jupiter Room | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| May 27, 2008 Tuesday | 12:00 AM | Mitzi's Sister | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| May 23, 2008 Friday | 12:00 PM | Terra Nova w/The Keys | Touloluse, Not Applicable, FR | |
| May 22, 2008 Thursday | 9:00 PM | Brasserie Pierre w/ Phosphorescent | Toulouse, Not Applicable, FR | |
| May 1, 2008 Thursday | 8:00 PM | Baba's | Charlottetown, PE, CA | |
| Apr 29, 2008 Tuesday | 9:00 PM | Gus's Pub | Halifax, NS, CA | |
| Apr 27, 2008 Sunday | 8:00 PM | The Mersey House w/ Ben Spencer | Liverpool, NS, CA | |
| Apr 26, 2008 Saturday | 2:00 PM | The Wired Monk | Halifax, NS, CA | |
| Apr 25, 2008 Friday | 9:00 PM | The Session | Moncton, NB, CA | |
| Apr 21, 2008 Monday | 8:00 PM | The Spill | Peterborough, ON, CA | |
| Apr 20, 2008 Sunday | 5:00 PM | 5-7 at the Tranzac | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| Apr 20, 2008 Sunday | 2:00 PM | Mariposa Showcase Audition | Orillia, ON, CA | |
| Apr 20, 2008 Sunday | 12:00 PM | TBA | April 20-May 1 East Coast Tour, NS, CA | |
| Apr 19, 2008 Saturday | 9:00 PM | Kaffe 1870 w/ Purple! | Wakefield, QC, CA | |
| Apr 19, 2008 Saturday | 8:00 PM | Art Night!! | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Apr 19, 2008 Saturday | 12:00 PM | NAC Fourth Stage | Ottawa, ON, CA | |
| Ottawa Folk final audition! | ||||
| Mar 30, 2008 Sunday | 7:00 PM | ArtsCafe | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Mar 29, 2008 Saturday | 9:00 PM | McGill Environment Festival | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Mar 28, 2008 Friday | 9:00 PM | Le Cagibi | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Mar 23, 2008 Sunday | 7:00 PM | ArtsCafe | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Mar 22, 2008 Saturday | 9:00 PM | Club Lambi | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Full band show with Darling Demaes and Laurent Bourque | ||||
| Mar 16, 2008 Sunday | 1:00 PM | OttawaFolk Audition at Rasputin's | Ottawa, ON, CA | |
| Mar 14, 2008 Friday | 8:00 PM | Centre St-Ambroise | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Mar 7, 2008 Friday | 9:00 PM | March 7-8 GO! Music Festival | Waterloo, ON, CA | |
| Mar 6, 2008 Thursday | 9:00 PM | Les Mentheurs w/ Brie Neilson and Aspen Switzer | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Feb 28, 2008 Thursday | 8:00 PM | Club Lambi | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Amnesty International Malaria Benefit | ||||
| Feb 21, 2008 Thursday | 8:00 PM | Bistro Double Dose | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Cabaret night | ||||
| Feb 17, 2008 Sunday | 6:30 PM | ArtsCafe | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Feb 15, 2008 Friday | 8:00 PM | The Yellow Door | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Feb 13, 2008 Wednesday | 12:00 PM | Rockette Rock Club | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Feb 2, 2008 Saturday | 12:00 PM | Cameron House | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| Toronto EP release! | ||||
| Jan 29, 2008 Tuesday | 8:00 PM | Sala Rossa | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jan 25, 2008 Friday | 8:00 PM | Indyish Monthly Mess | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jan 24, 2008 Thursday | 8:00 PM | Barfly | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jan 20, 2008 Sunday | 12:00 PM | Cafe des Arts | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jan 17, 2008 Thursday | 8:00 PM | Bistro Double Dose | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jan 6, 2008 Sunday | 7:00 PM | Cafe des Arts | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jan 5, 2008 Saturday | 8:00 PM | Centre St-Ambroise | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Dec 6, 2007 Thursday | 8:00 PM | L'Utopik | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Dec 1, 2007 Saturday | 8:00 PM | Le cagibi | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Nov 30, 2007 Friday | 8:00 PM | The Pound (EP Release) | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Nov 23, 2007 Friday | 9:00 PM | Shaika Cafe | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Nov 20, 2007 Tuesday | 9:00 PM | La Sala Rossa | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Nov 10, 2007 Saturday | 4:00 PM | Royal Vic Enviro Festival | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Nov 1, 2007 Thursday | 10:00 PM | Le Barfly | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Oct 11, 2007 Thursday | 8:00 PM | The Pound | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Sep 30, 2007 Sunday | 8:00 PM | Le Cagibi | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Sep 20, 2007 Thursday | 12:00 PM | Artscafe | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jun 25, 2007 Monday | 8:00 PM | Mitzi's Sister | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| Jun 6, 2007 Wednesday | 8:00 PM | The Renaissance Cafe | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| May 26, 2007 Saturday | 12:00 PM | The Tranzac | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| May 4, 2007 Friday | 8:00 PM | Ellington's Cafe | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| with The Keys (from France) and Ivy Mairi | ||||
| Mar 30, 2007 Friday | 8:00 PM | Live on Choq FM | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Feb 24, 2007 Saturday | 8:00 PM | Rialto Theatre | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Rock pour Parc benefit | ||||
| Feb 2, 2007 Friday | 8:00 PM | O Patro Vys | Montreal, QC, CA | |
| Jun 23, 2006 Friday | 12:00 PM | Ellington's Cafe | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| Mar 3, 2006 Friday | 8:00 PM | Ellington's Cafe | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| Jan 14, 2006 Saturday | 8:00 PM | Holy Joe's | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| Dec 13, 2005 Tuesday | 8:00 PM | The Drake Hotel | Toronto, ON, CA | |
| Oct 21, 2005 Friday | 8:00 PM | Holy Joe's | Toronto, ON, CA | |