Christine Bauer

Artist Information

Biography

"There is a part of me in every song I write.”

It has been suggested that Christine Bauer is one of Canada's best kept secrets. Her inimitable and unique Canadian East Coast sound is a blend of many genres and her songs are honest, heartfelt and very real.She draws her audience in with her storytelling and then mesmerizes them with her deep, passionate voice, emotional lyrics, and subtle percussive guitar work often embellishing with harmonica
The resulting sound is extremely full and the intense delivery of her stories enthrals audiences of all ages.

Christine was born in England and moved to Canada as a young adolescent. She lived in numerous places such as Winnipeg and Montreal, before settling down in the isolated community of Atikokan, located in the wilderness of Northern Ontario. By fourteen she was playing guitar and writing her own songs. At Age 18 she won a provincial singer songwriting contest. By her mid twenties Bauer had developed her distinctive, throaty voice and began touring the fairs and festivals of Manitoba, Ontario and northern Minnesota. “The Last Ore Train”, was recorded live for the sound track of People Patterns, a T.V.O. documentary series.

She is in the process of recording her second CD "TELEPHONE WIRES" a collection of eight original songs written with a realness only found in grass roots honesty.

Instrumentation

CHRISTINE BAUER, Lead Vocals, Flatpick and fingerpick acoustic guitars, standard and "G" tunings. Harmonica.

Discography

RADIO PLAY
You Are Thunder
Thinking Of You
All I Need
Precious Things
Turn Down
Something Coming Over Me
A matter of Time
That's What I Do
What Will The Next Love Bring
Devil's Hurricane
Run Johnny Run
Honey I Don't Mind
Wish i Could
TELEVISION
"Last Ore Train" for T.V. Ontario documentary series PEOPLE PATTERNS "The Town That Would Not Die"

Official Website

http://www.reverbnation.com/christinebauer

Links

• Facebook
• Twitter
• MySpace
• Reverbnation
• iTunes
• The SPOTLIGHT ZONE
• Sound Cloud

Audio

• Run Johnny Run.mp3
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• Wish I Could.mp3
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• Honey I Don't Mind.mp3
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• Turn Down.mp3
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• Something Coming Over Me.mp3
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• Thinking Of You.mp3
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• That's What I Do.mp3
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• A Matter Of Time.mp3
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• Precious Things.mp3
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• What Will The Next Love Bring.mp3
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Lyrics

• Run Johnny Run
• Wish I Could Feel Your Love
• Honey I Don't Mind
• Turn Down
• Something Coming Over Me
• Thinking of you
• That's What I Do
• A Matter of Time
• Precious Things
• What Will The Next Love Bring

Video

Thinking of You

Photo Gallery

Press

• Nightlife (july 02 2009) [+ Show ]
  

  "With a voice as powerful as the winds that blow across the plains of her native Canada and an arsen..."With a voice as powerful as the winds that blow across the plains of her native Canada and an arsenal of varied and infectious guitar styles, Bauer with her self penned blend of folk rock, jazz and blues, has been charming audiences across Southern Illinois."
  
  

• "Music Monday Christine Bauer" by Aldon Hynes [+ Show ]
  

  "I don’t like comparing musicians to others, especially for someone incomparable like Christine. Ins..."I don’t like comparing musicians to others, especially for someone incomparable like Christine. Instead, I like to think of the stories. When Joni Mitchell sings “A Case of You”, or “The Last Time I saw Richard”, or perhaps when the Indigo Girls sing about stopping at a bar at 3 AM in “Closer to Fine”, I imagine that the unrecognized musician on the stage to be someone like Christine Bauer."
  
  

• Rustle Hill Winery (jan 19, 2010) [+ Show ]
  

  "We always enjoy having Christine play at our winery. She has a stong style and can always be counte..."We always enjoy having Christine play at our winery. She has a stong style and can always be counted upon to put on a great performance, the crowds love it. We're looking forward to having Christine out again in a couple of weeks, come check her out "
  
  

• "That's All Folks" by Chris Weisman (Editor) Dec 18/2010 [+ Show ]
  

  That's All Folks Local singer / songwriter Christine Bauer has several irons in the fire. Directo...That's All Folks
  
  Local singer / songwriter Christine Bauer has several irons in the fire. Director Dan Johnson just shot a video for one of her songs, "Thinking of You," which should be out this week, and she's contributing to the soundtrack of one of his films. She's also recording a new CD at Misunderstudio (the working titles are Unplugged and Out of Nowhere) with a trio that includes multi-instrumentalist Gwen King (on ukulele, sax, clarinet, penny whistles, accordion, and back up vocals) and bassist James Ricks. The trio will perform Sunday, November 21 at Rustle Hill Winery.
  
  Bauer tells Nightlife that she wants the new disc "to sound like the three of us would sound on stage. My thoughts on this are, when a listener hears an artist live and buys their CD, takes the artist home in the CD form, prepares to enjoy them again, and they are greeted by total strangers they had never met, the experience is often unpleasant."
  
  "Musically, we are like three soulmates," Bauer says of the trio. "I am so lucky to have them in my musical life. There are absolutely no egos that revolve around our music."
  
  "I met Christine recently through Gwen King, with whom I share a performer's slot in Cabaret Decadance," Ricks tells Nightlife. "Christine had asked Gwen if she knew of any available upright players who would be open to trying out her material for a recording project. As Gwen doesn't really know my past musical transgressions, she felt that I might be a good candidate. So far, what I'm doing for Christine seems to be agreeable.
  "Ricks became a fixture on Carbondale's music scene back in the 1980s with pioneering hardcore band Diet Christ, and in the next decade with punkabilly band the Bottletones, among many others since then.
  
  "I knew [Bauer's] style isn't often associated with my past playing styles, but actually I've been a singer/songwriter fan for years-- I first started listening to Nanci Griffith, Townes Van Zandt, John Prine, and the like in high school."
  As with Ricks, King isn't well known for a folk-music side, but she's admired Bauer from the first listen.
  "'Thinking of You' was the first of Christine Bauer's songs that I ever heard, and I was very impressed with her performance," King says. "I hadn't listened to much music from the acoustic-folk and singer / songwriter genres, but I was very attracted to Christine's work. Then, seemingly out of the blue, Christine asked me to try playing my pennywhistle on an original song entitled 'Hermit of White Otter Lake.' My experiences with collaborative improvisation up until that point had been mostly jazz-related through Cabaret Decadance, so I was eager for the opportunity to explore other styles. Christine was pleased with what I came up with, and since then we've just been having a great time delving into her repertoire and experimenting with different instruments. I love being able to enhance the music's character and expression by choosing an accompanying instrument or vocal harmony to suit the song. From my biased point of view, adding an instrumentalist to the traditional folk/acoustic guitar and vocals gives the music a fuller and more distinctive sound. And everything's gotten so much richer now that James has brought his excellent bassmanship into the mix."
  
  "Besides the various instruments that Gwen brings, she has a good ear for music and also reads music and understands musical terms, so [she] is able to communicate quickly to James what I am attempting to say as far as [the] bass [parts] I want," says Bauer. "She understands my music and knows what would embellish the songs without taking away the soul of the song.
  
  "James is such a wonderful addition to the group," adds Bauer. "His sweet electric bass complements the music for an extremely full sound.... James also plays a strong standup bass with driving percussion and unique, mood-evoking sounds."
  
  The three have not yet decided to form a permanent group. As for King, "I intend to play and sing with Christine Bauer for the foreseeable future, whenever and wherever I can. Christine is always developing new music and writing new material, so I'm grateful for the chance to get involved in that process. And now that James is here, there's even more potential-- it's very exciting! I'm definitely hooked."
  
  Bauer, for her part, wants to keep the trio together-- Ricks says that Bauer asked them about band names when recording last weekend at Misunderstudio. "The three of us are very intense musicians and lose ourselves while playing," Bauer says. "They both love playing with my music, and I hope it will be a permanent thing-- for around this area, anyway.... I feel privileged to be playing with such great people. We revert to preadolescence during rehearsal-- it is absolute pure fun and wonderfully intense. Sometimes I can't believe there are only three of us."...

• TIM BUTLER
  

  Christine is an awesome songwriter, a female BOB DYLAN.

Setlist

A typical set list would consist of 1/2 covers and 1/2 original, depending on the venue. 10 songs for an average set. The length of set depends on the venue, I may perform one 20 song set. I sometimes perform with other musicians. The Audio recordings reflect my live stage sound with two musicians. I perform mostly solo.

ORIGINALS
A Matter Of Time
All I Need
Dancer
Devil's Hurricane
Hermit Of White Otter Lake
Hold On Tight
Last Ore Train
Precious Things
Sweet Sally Anne
Something Coming Over Me
Strike of 78
That's What I Do
Thinking Of You
Tumbleweed
Turn Down
Two Butterflles
What will The Next Love Bring
When I Come Home
You Are Thunder
Run Johnny Run
Honey I Don't Mind
Wish I Could
My Love
Sun's Going Down


COVERS
Leroy Brown.....Jim Croce
Bobbie McGee...Kris Kristofferson
Cat's In The Cradle...Harry Chapin
Circle......Harry Chapin
City Of New Orleans...Steve Goodman
Down In The Easy Chair....Dylan
Did She Mention My Name....Lightfoot
Forty Five Years...Stan Rogers
Town Oh.... kid's song
Garden Party.....Rick Nelson
Gentle On My Mind...John Hartford
Green Sleeves...English folk
Horse With No Name....America
Jolene......Dolly Parton
L and N.......
Paradise....John Prine
Please Come To Boston.....Dave Loggins
Proud Mary.......J.C. Foggerty
Against The Wind
Scarborough Fair....English Folk
Sloop John B.
Virgil Cain........ Robbie Robertson
Wreck of the Edmundfitzgerald .....Lightfoot

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