Northern Ontario Music Awards - 4 Nominations!!!

Helloooo!!!

I've been nominated for 4 upcoming Northern Ontario Music and Film Awards 2010!!!

Nominations include:

Best Album by a Solo Artist
Faye Blais – Two Pieces

Best Vocal Performance on a Recording
Faye Blais – Canvas
Faye Blais – Something’s Changed

Best Songwriter
Faye Blais – Something’s Changed

Performances include:

Friday, April 30th - The Townehouse - 10:30pm

Saturday, May 1st - Awards Ceremony - The Great Hall (Laurentian University) - 8pm

Check out more of the nominees and more info about the Awards at www.thinknorth.ca!!!

yipeeeeee!

f:)

faye blais music mail - Album/DVD Launch - Friday, May 14th, TORONTO - The Gladstone Hotel

helloooo!

hope you are all doing fabulously well in your corners of the globe. it's launching time here in torontooo!!!!!

i just returned from a lovely east coast mini-tour with miss sarah burton - we hit halifax, yarmouth, fredericton, st andrews...and back to halifax. a week and a half filled with full band fun, dancing crowds, east coast hospitality and via rails. the kind souls we met out on the east were a delight. i can't wait to go back! ...already mustering another eastern escape :) (new photos have been posted on all of my sites - check 'em out!)

...until then, though - there's a new album/DVD to launch!

you have been patient in waiting on more details of the recordings and the release date, and you have just generally been wonderful in sending me kind words and support - and i appreciate it so much. sooo, i've decided to let you in on a little sneak-peak! a song from the DVD is available for download on my site...which means you can watch anytime ;) check out the link below.

...and pass along the good news!

see you sooooooon!

muah!

f:)

free video download

here is song "Sleepy Hollow" from the new album/DVD...just for you. download it free at www.fayeblais.com/gladstonetix.html

launch details

here are the details for the show - tickets are available pre-sale at www.fayeblais.com. tickets are VERY limited - this will be an intimate show (like the DVD!) so get them fast!! tickets are $10 or FREE with DVD at $25.

Faye Blais Album/DVD Launch

The Gladstone Hotel

*Art Bar*

Friday, May 14th

doors 8pm

tix: $10/$25 with DVD

with support Josh Turnbull and art by Donna Koster

facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=110283172344922

the album/DVD was filmed and recorded at notable sing sing studios in melbourne australia. "Here in the Shade - A Night at Sing Sing" features 8 fresh tracks, solo live in the studio. the bundle includes an audio disc, dvd, lyric and picture booklet, as well as a behind the scenes reel and photo gallery. north american and australian DVD formats are both available at www.fayeblais.com.

the project has already mustered attention from "audio technology magazine", with a full feature spread - read full article at www.fayeblais.com/press.html

the album will be launched across the country on summer tour (w/ australian female folk trio "Jungal") over august/september 2010. australian, new Zealand and taiwan tour dates to come!!!!!

check out more info on the making of the DVD at www.anightatsingsing.com

sneak-peek video youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A49wI1Q-qJY

faye blais music mail - "music for the mind" tomorrow (!) and early april east coast tour!

hellllloooo friends!


just a quickie to let you know that the big-bad charity concert "music for the mind" is taking place tomorrow night (saturday, april 3rd) in sudbury, ontario at the lovely cathedral-ceiling-ed sanctuary in st andrews place downtown (111 larch st). the fabulous female lineup includes sarah craig, cindy doire, jess lee, kristen brutto and myself - with all proceeds going to canadian mental health. tickets are selling fast - so go get'em (poster w/ details and ticket locations attached)!!! 'twill be a lovely event....i can't wait :)

alsoooo - it's touring time again! though we've only been back from cherry pickin' madness a whole two weeks, sarah burton and i will be heading east on east-er monday, to cover the whole dang country over this season - on our "kickin' the stars east coast tour", with beats and basslines by the little stinkers (pat phillips and del cowsill on drums & bass). wooohoooo! we will be getting ourselves there via rail again - performing for passengers all the way out - so look out for more supa-fun videoblogs :) (the cherry pickin' videoblog finales will be out of the bag soon too!!!). kickin' the stars tour poster attached :) the tour will run from april 6-13th....spread the word!

hope you all have a very happy holiday weekend!!

muah!
f:)



music for the mind

charity concert for canadian mental health
saturday, april 3rd
st andrews place, sudbury (111 larch st)
7-10pm
tix $17-advance, $20-door
lineup - sarah craig, cindy doire, faye blais, jess lee, kristen brutto



kickin' the stars east coast tour

Show details:

Faye Blais and Sarah Burton (with the Little Stinkers Band)

-- Yarmouth, N.S. --
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Haley's Cafe
417 Main St
9pm

-- Halifax, N.S. --
Wednesday, April 7th
The Company House
2202 Gottingen
9pm

-- Fredericton, N.B. --
Thursday, April 8th
The Snooty Fox
66 Regent St
9pm

--St Andrews, N.B. --
Friday & Saturday April 9 & 10th
The Company House
211 Water St
9pm

-- Halifax, N.S. --
Tuesday, April 13th
Just Us Coffee - intimate show!
8pm




there you have it! see you on the east side!!!!
f:)