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"Album of the Year"

April 23, 2007


CHRISTINE EVANS
WINS “ALBUM OF THE YEAR”
AT THIS YEAR’S ISLAND MUSIC AWARDS


Christine Evans’ music career continues its steady rise, and, on Saturday April 21 Christine won the coveted Album of the Year award during the 6th Annual Island Music Awards held at the Queens Hotel, Nanaimo, B.C. In 2004 and 2005 she received Song of the Year awards.

Christine, who, due to school commitments was unable to attend, says, “I am so proud of receiving this award. As you know, although I am at school on the east coast, my heart is definitely in my home town and I truly wish I had been able to celebrate with my friends. It means a great deal to be honoured at home, particularly since there were so many other great nominees.” Two of the world’s most successful artists - Diana Krall and Nelly Furtado – also hail from Vancouver Island.

This week Christine will be in Nashville, Tennessee attending the GMA Dove Awards and will present a showcase of her music on Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. at the 3rd and Lindsley Bar & Grill.

Christine continues her complimentary work as an Artist Ambassador for Canada’s Kids Help Phone, a position she has held for over two years. She recently accepted the role of Artist Ambassador in the United States for the Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) anti-bullying initiative, Operation Respect whose mandate is to teach tolerance. Peter congratulated Christine on her new recording of the organization’s flagship song, Don’t Laugh at Me - “I could not be more proud and blown away. The vocals are extremely moving and compelling.”

She is thoroughly enjoying her new school, Blair Academy, which is considerably closer to New York City, thereby enabling her to further her studies with vocal coach Bill Riley in Manhattan.

“Christine is an impressive singer but what ultimately is her ace card is her songwriting. Other artists should be beating down her door to record her songs. Truly a gem.” – Larry LeBlanc, Canadian Bureau Chief, Billboard Magazine

“The potential displayed on Christine’s debut disc, Take Me Home, is now fully realized on Push, a sparkling collection of melodic pop-rock songs that possess real lyrical depth.” Kerry Doole

“…a pop prodigy with a second CD brimming with smart, well-crafted lyrics and a polished, hook-driven sound.” Joseph Blake

Watch for Christine’s summer concert dates.

www.christine-evans.com
www.myspace.com/islandmusicawards
www.kidshelphone.ca
www.operationrespect.org

Jane Harbury Publicity • Jane Harbury
tel: 416-960-1568 • e-mail: jane@harbury.ca
- Press Release


Discography

2007: Push 2007 Bonus CD
Give It Up (radio mix)
Surrender
Gloria (raw)
Gloria
Single: Don't Laugh at Me

2006: Push
A Nation Redeemed
Push
Believe
Give It Up
Only with Time
Let Me Be
I Know What I Want
Show Me the Way
Break Me
Now I Sing
On and On
Now I Sing
Xmas Single: River

2005: Take Me Home
If Only
I'm So Alone
All That I Am
Crazy Inside
Take Me Home
Heaven's Door
My Biggest Mistake
Let Me Go
Time for Me
Close Your Eyes
Where I Live
Forever's Gone
Xmas single: Mary Did You Know

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Coming off her nation-wide Canadian tour last summer, singer-songwriter Christine Evans has produced a second CD that builds upon the critically acclaimed strengths of her recording debut. Push features a song cycle of the young musician's well-crafted, whip-smart original songs driven by a dozen, organic and pulsing soundscapes.

Christine co-produced the new CD with veteran studio wizard Tom Hall, who has worked with a Pantheon of pop, rock and jazz stars. Hall says, "Just when I think I have a grasp of Christine's talents, she surprises anew. Each time we work together she reveals exciting new facets of her craft." He goes on to say, "Her music is compelling, powerful and timeless."

"I learned so much watching Tom produce my first CD, Take Me Home, and that allowed me to be much more involved in the production of my new album." Christine explained from her dorm room at Interlochen Academy, an arts school in Michigan with famous alumni including opera star Jessye Norman and jazz-pop diva Norah Jones. "The title, Push comes from my belief that, in order to effect change, we all need to Push the boundaries and ourselves to the limit."

As with Christine's brilliant debut CD, (the title track was chosen Vancouver Island Music Awards Song of the Year and included on Women & Song Volume 8 along with recordings by Madonna, Sarah McLachlan, and Jewel, who studied theatre, writing and art at Interlochen in the 1990s.), the heartfelt lyrics on Push are vivid, revelatory narratives of surprising maturity and wisdom. The young musician has been studying Jane Eyre at school (while listening to the music of Ani DiFranco, U2, and Switchfoot), and her new songs bristle with searing honesty and strength.

The recording opens with A Nation Redeemed, Christine's ethereal vocals soaring over a driving beat that hammers home her most political message. The title track follows with an even more dramatic, octave-spanning reading framed by a richly orchestral rock arrangement. There's an undertow-like pull behind her stark, emotive songcraft on the achingly sweet Believe.

Give It Up might be the most masterful and compelling composition from a collection of a dozen, beautifully shaped original songs. A liquid guitar intro and Christine's most vulnerable vocal shift into overdrive, riding a Stones-like rhythm riff through an anthemic chorus that rings like a clarion call between the song's ruminative verses: "...This temporary place, this momentary phase is smaller than we see..." Evans goes on to explain, "I think that this world is only one piece of a much larger picture, so it's always important to look beyond ourselves and our own lives."

An Artist Ambassador for Kids Help Phone, the 24-hour hotline for children and youth, Evans spent last August touring Canada from Vancouver to Montreal in support of the agency. She also donates $1 from the sale of each CD to Kids Help Phone.

The young musician wrote all of the songs on her debut recording, many before she was a teenager. She's been writing songs since she was seven, and her songwriting continues to develop by leaps and bounds. On Push her songs reveal a depth of feeling and insight with concise, pop poetics and delicious melodic hooks.

Called "a very gifted singer-songwriter" by one of her mentors, Peter, Paul & Mary folk great Peter Yarrow, Christine continues to work on her singing with famous, New York-based vocal coach Bill Riley. Riley has coached Celine Dion, Faith Hill, and members of the Metropolitan Opera, and Evans has taken his instruction and her studies at Interlochen to heart on Push. Dazzling displays of vocal pyrotechnics punctuate her haunting, powerful readings.

Push is a triumph.