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"Aurora Scott Wows Hometown"

It was expected to be a nice welcome home concert at King’s Theatre on Thursday, August 23 with family and old friends coming to see Annapolis Royal native Aurora Scott return to perform as she had started performing here at age 14. But it was much more than family and friends who nearly packed the theatre to hear an Aurora Scott who, ten years after graduating from the local high school, had become a superbly trained, experienced and talented entertainer...
- The Annapolis County Spectator


"Singing For Happiness, Survival"

Singing for happiness, survival
Aurora Scott, who has been on her own since she was 14, has become a successful singer, entrepreneur
Amy Smart, Times Colonist
Published: Thursday, January 12, 2012

Though she typically performs jazz standards and crowd-pleasing classics, singer Aurora Scott says songwriting has always come naturally to her.
"I've been writing since I was a little kid, inviting all my mom's friends over and sitting them down around my keyboard while I performed for them," said the 25-year-old. "Songs have just come to me my whole life."
When a tune pops into her head now, even if she's in the shower, she'll hop out and hum it into a mini-recorder.
"Sometimes it happens when I'm least expecting it - I'll get a catchy melody in my head and it's like, where did that come from? Have I heard it before? No, it's one of mine! OK, I really need to make sure I document this."
The title track on Scott's debut full-length album Dance with You was one of those. While the album features fresh arrangements of songs covering love at every stage, including Louis Jordan's Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby and Ray Charles's Hallelujah I Love Her So, Scott included one of her own - a danceable "dreaming of you" song. It's a smart business decision for a musician finding her footing - a way to let people know what she's capable of creatively and also gain access to funding more easily (the Canada Council for the Arts, for example, is supportive of original material).
For Scott, who has been supporting herself for more than 10 years, being business-minded has not only been an asset, but a necessity.
"I've been living on my own since I was 14, so I've always kind of had that how-do-I-survive thing going on," she said.
Plus, she says, she's a Taurus. So she's practical at heart.
Scott was born in Port Perry, Ont., and moved to Annapolis Royal, N.S., at age 10. As the eldest girl of seven kids, childrearing roles often fell to her.
"Our childhood was not, I guess what you'd say, typical. it was rough for everyone," she said.
"Fish and families smell bad after three days - that's what they say in Nova Scotia - and it's true."
Still, she calls her actress mother her best friend and says her family has been happy for her successes, which have come over the years between her homes in Canmore and Banff, Alta., Chiang Mai, Thailand and finally Victoria.
It seems her hard work is paying off - 2011 saw her career building new momentum. She graduated with a diploma in music from Camosun College, participated in the TD Victoria Jazz Festival for the first time and produced her first full-length album. Putting together “Dance with You”, a follow to Scott's shorter Of the Dawn, involved everything from hiring collaborating musicians to learning copyright laws.
"Every experience I can take on, I take on because I know it will be a good learning opportunity," she said.
In the past, that attitude has meant trying everything from a military-sponsored talent competition that saw her fly to Winnipeg for the finals in 2010, to a trip last month to visit her brother in Iqaluit, Nunavut, where the rough conditions made for good songwriting inspiration. It has also seen her working with likes of Sean Drabitt, Kelby McNayr and Brent Jarvis, who collaborated on the album.
Scott's ambitions for 2012 are equal parts adventure and practicality. She'll reapply to the military competition with encouragement from judges - an opportunity she sees not only for regular performances, but regular income. She'll also put her name in the hat with Cirque du Soleil - having a background in dance and theatre may help her get a gig that would see her travelling the world. Another option is working with a Toronto-based tour manager to put together her first Canadian tour.
But she's also keeping a strong foot in Victoria, topping up her schedule with regular gigs. In addition to her weekly spot at The Office and occasional performances with Neil Diamond cover band Double Diamonds, Scott has snagged a regular Friday and Saturday gig at the Grand Pacific Hotel alongside pianist Ashley Wey beginning Jan. 20.
"If I can sing wherever I go, I'm a happy girl," she said.

asmart@timescolonist.com
© Times Colonist (Victoria) 2012
- Amy Smart, Times Colonist


"Singing For Happiness, Survival"

Singing for happiness, survival
Aurora Scott, who has been on her own since she was 14, has become a successful singer, entrepreneur
Amy Smart, Times Colonist
Published: Thursday, January 12, 2012

Though she typically performs jazz standards and crowd-pleasing classics, singer Aurora Scott says songwriting has always come naturally to her.
"I've been writing since I was a little kid, inviting all my mom's friends over and sitting them down around my keyboard while I performed for them," said the 25-year-old. "Songs have just come to me my whole life."
When a tune pops into her head now, even if she's in the shower, she'll hop out and hum it into a mini-recorder.
"Sometimes it happens when I'm least expecting it - I'll get a catchy melody in my head and it's like, where did that come from? Have I heard it before? No, it's one of mine! OK, I really need to make sure I document this."
The title track on Scott's debut full-length album Dance with You was one of those. While the album features fresh arrangements of songs covering love at every stage, including Louis Jordan's Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby and Ray Charles's Hallelujah I Love Her So, Scott included one of her own - a danceable "dreaming of you" song. It's a smart business decision for a musician finding her footing - a way to let people know what she's capable of creatively and also gain access to funding more easily (the Canada Council for the Arts, for example, is supportive of original material).
For Scott, who has been supporting herself for more than 10 years, being business-minded has not only been an asset, but a necessity.
"I've been living on my own since I was 14, so I've always kind of had that how-do-I-survive thing going on," she said.
Plus, she says, she's a Taurus. So she's practical at heart.
Scott was born in Port Perry, Ont., and moved to Annapolis Royal, N.S., at age 10. As the eldest girl of seven kids, childrearing roles often fell to her.
"Our childhood was not, I guess what you'd say, typical. it was rough for everyone," she said.
"Fish and families smell bad after three days - that's what they say in Nova Scotia - and it's true."
Still, she calls her actress mother her best friend and says her family has been happy for her successes, which have come over the years between her homes in Canmore and Banff, Alta., Chiang Mai, Thailand and finally Victoria.
It seems her hard work is paying off - 2011 saw her career building new momentum. She graduated with a diploma in music from Camosun College, participated in the TD Victoria Jazz Festival for the first time and produced her first full-length album. Putting together “Dance with You”, a follow to Scott's shorter Of the Dawn, involved everything from hiring collaborating musicians to learning copyright laws.
"Every experience I can take on, I take on because I know it will be a good learning opportunity," she said.
In the past, that attitude has meant trying everything from a military-sponsored talent competition that saw her fly to Winnipeg for the finals in 2010, to a trip last month to visit her brother in Iqaluit, Nunavut, where the rough conditions made for good songwriting inspiration. It has also seen her working with likes of Sean Drabitt, Kelby McNayr and Brent Jarvis, who collaborated on the album.
Scott's ambitions for 2012 are equal parts adventure and practicality. She'll reapply to the military competition with encouragement from judges - an opportunity she sees not only for regular performances, but regular income. She'll also put her name in the hat with Cirque du Soleil - having a background in dance and theatre may help her get a gig that would see her travelling the world. Another option is working with a Toronto-based tour manager to put together her first Canadian tour.
But she's also keeping a strong foot in Victoria, topping up her schedule with regular gigs. In addition to her weekly spot at The Office and occasional performances with Neil Diamond cover band Double Diamonds, Scott has snagged a regular Friday and Saturday gig at the Grand Pacific Hotel alongside pianist Ashley Wey beginning Jan. 20.
"If I can sing wherever I go, I'm a happy girl," she said.

asmart@timescolonist.com
© Times Colonist (Victoria) 2012
- Amy Smart, Times Colonist


"Singing For Happiness, Survival"

Singing for happiness, survival
Aurora Scott, who has been on her own since she was 14, has become a successful singer, entrepreneur
Amy Smart, Times Colonist
Published: Thursday, January 12, 2012

Though she typically performs jazz standards and crowd-pleasing classics, singer Aurora Scott says songwriting has always come naturally to her.
"I've been writing since I was a little kid, inviting all my mom's friends over and sitting them down around my keyboard while I performed for them," said the 25-year-old. "Songs have just come to me my whole life."
When a tune pops into her head now, even if she's in the shower, she'll hop out and hum it into a mini-recorder.
"Sometimes it happens when I'm least expecting it - I'll get a catchy melody in my head and it's like, where did that come from? Have I heard it before? No, it's one of mine! OK, I really need to make sure I document this."
The title track on Scott's debut full-length album Dance with You was one of those. While the album features fresh arrangements of songs covering love at every stage, including Louis Jordan's Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby and Ray Charles's Hallelujah I Love Her So, Scott included one of her own - a danceable "dreaming of you" song. It's a smart business decision for a musician finding her footing - a way to let people know what she's capable of creatively and also gain access to funding more easily (the Canada Council for the Arts, for example, is supportive of original material).
For Scott, who has been supporting herself for more than 10 years, being business-minded has not only been an asset, but a necessity.
"I've been living on my own since I was 14, so I've always kind of had that how-do-I-survive thing going on," she said.
Plus, she says, she's a Taurus. So she's practical at heart.
Scott was born in Port Perry, Ont., and moved to Annapolis Royal, N.S., at age 10. As the eldest girl of seven kids, childrearing roles often fell to her.
"Our childhood was not, I guess what you'd say, typical. it was rough for everyone," she said.
"Fish and families smell bad after three days - that's what they say in Nova Scotia - and it's true."
Still, she calls her actress mother her best friend and says her family has been happy for her successes, which have come over the years between her homes in Canmore and Banff, Alta., Chiang Mai, Thailand and finally Victoria.
It seems her hard work is paying off - 2011 saw her career building new momentum. She graduated with a diploma in music from Camosun College, participated in the TD Victoria Jazz Festival for the first time and produced her first full-length album. Putting together “Dance with You”, a follow to Scott's shorter Of the Dawn, involved everything from hiring collaborating musicians to learning copyright laws.
"Every experience I can take on, I take on because I know it will be a good learning opportunity," she said.
In the past, that attitude has meant trying everything from a military-sponsored talent competition that saw her fly to Winnipeg for the finals in 2010, to a trip last month to visit her brother in Iqaluit, Nunavut, where the rough conditions made for good songwriting inspiration. It has also seen her working with likes of Sean Drabitt, Kelby McNayr and Brent Jarvis, who collaborated on the album.
Scott's ambitions for 2012 are equal parts adventure and practicality. She'll reapply to the military competition with encouragement from judges - an opportunity she sees not only for regular performances, but regular income. She'll also put her name in the hat with Cirque du Soleil - having a background in dance and theatre may help her get a gig that would see her travelling the world. Another option is working with a Toronto-based tour manager to put together her first Canadian tour.
But she's also keeping a strong foot in Victoria, topping up her schedule with regular gigs. In addition to her weekly spot at The Office and occasional performances with Neil Diamond cover band Double Diamonds, Scott has snagged a regular Friday and Saturday gig at the Grand Pacific Hotel alongside pianist Ashley Wey beginning Jan. 20.
"If I can sing wherever I go, I'm a happy girl," she said.

asmart@timescolonist.com
© Times Colonist (Victoria) 2012
- Amy Smart, Times Colonist


"Aurora Scott - Live and Lovely"

Aurora Scott – Live and Lovely
August 24, 2012
By sixstring

Aurora Scott is a Jazz, Blues and R&B singer currently based in Victoria, Canada. However, for a heavenly few hours last night she blessed a crowd at King’s Theatre in Nova Scotia with her vocal styles, smiles and soul.
From the minute Aurora steps on stage — wearing a dress that makes her look like a misplaced angel dipped in diamonds – and beams at the assembled crowd it is obvious we are in for a treat. Then, following a warm greeting, she opens up and lets loose with a delightful, soul warming rendition of “Angel From Montgomery”. From then on Ms Scott had us, her captive audience, eating out of the palm of her hand (figuratively, of course). She, along with her band of three instrumentalists (Bill Stevenson, Tom Easley and one other mystery man whose name doesn’t appear on the programme) led us through a range of covers from Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Louis Jordan & Billy Austin and many more. Aurora does perform her own compositions and shows her impressive talents there, but what resonates with this reviewer the most is her ability to take classics, songs we’ve all heard a dozen times, and make them her own. She takes familiar songs, modernizes them, dusts them off, holds them up and polishes them in the light until they shine as brilliantly as ever, not new, but from an angle we haven’t heard before.
Aurora Scott is, on stage and off, the life of the party. Throughout her performance she smiled, danced, made jokes and dedicated songs to friends and family in the audience. She has both a stage presence and a voice which speak of many more years of experience than it is possible for the young musician to have. Throughout the room people were tapping their feet, snapping their fingers and, between songs, clapping their hands sore. And loving it.
Alas, all good things must come to an end and so this night did. However, I left the theatre with a much lighter and happier heart than when I went in, feeling alive and blessed to have seen Ms Scott perform. Should you have the opportunity I highly recommend seeing her live, but if not then Blues and Jazz fans should check out her album Dance With You, a lovely eleven track CD of covers and original work.
More information on Aurora and her music can be found at her website and on her Facebook page.
Rockin’ Out,
Johnny Sixstring

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Discography

Dance With You - 2012
Of The Dawn - 2012

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Bio

Like the beautiful northern lights after which she was named, Aurora Scott possesses a rare and magnetic presence that has been captivating audiences since she was a child. She has been pursuing her multi-faceted dreams as an actress, dancer and singer since she was 14 years old, and it wasn’t long before the rising star honed her talents performing in lead roles on stages from Nova Scotia to Alberta to Thailand. Aurora has performed for the Premier of British Columbia, and the Canadian military saluted her talent when she was a finalist in their national talent search in 2010. Deciding to focus exclusively on her love of jazz, blues and R&B, Aurora studied at Camosun College in partnership with the Victoria Conservatory of Music, and independently released her first full-length album, “Dance With You” in January of 2012. After returning from Nova Scotia where she received rave reviews for her recent performances with The Bill Stevenson Trio, winners of multiple East Coast Music Awards and Maple Blues Awards, Aurora’s busy schedule now includes performing at festivals, clubs, and private corporate engagements, as well as writing songs and collaborating with the many excellent players in B.C.’s jazz scene.