Listen to Sarah from France (audio)

On April 26, 2006 Sarah played a couple of live songs for Le Fou du Roi on Radio France.

The set is availble on their website in a streaming Real Player format. Click here for the audio link and observe the time's below for Sarah.

	Time (hr.min.sec)											Track
	Start			End
	0.38.34			0.04.20								MC feat Sarah on Piano?
	0.40.48			0.42.12								Lucky Me (partial)
	1.03.43			1.07.18								Lucky Me (full)
	1.15.37			1.18.00								Bullet Proof (Radiohead cover)

I am unable to translate the French portions of the interview to know if Sarah played support for the MC, why she stopped playing Lucky Me and if Richard Lornac played piano during Bullet Proof. The show is also podcasted but I am unable to see if it's still available in that format.

Update (5/7/06):
Aranter on SarahSlean.com forum was able to answer the above questions.

• I really don't think she plays support for the MC as it is actually not a real piece of rap but a sarcastic thing made by an humortist and nothing allow her to think that she plays behind him.

• They stopped Lucky me in such a brutal way as somebody just took the micro away from Sarah (Stéphane Berne, the host, is himself amazed when this happens) because actually, if the sound is good for us, the problem is that the program is recorded (for this particular day) in a theatre and for the people in there the sound is quite bad, most of them almost don't hear anything.

• Finally, Richard Lornac is indeed the one who plays piano during Bullet Proof !

France tour update

The May 4th date in Havre has been cancelled and changed to May 13th in
Nevers.

New Sarah photos (4/28)

An outdoor photo shoot and live photos of Sarah taken yesterday from France can be found, here.

Photos by: Vinciane

Jammin Downtown - On TV Tonight (4/18)

CBC will once again be reairring their Jammin Downtown special featuring a few live songs from Sarah. Sarah played on a grand piano with the band she toured Day One with.

Tune into CBC Television tonight after the National News at 11:25 p.m.

Some notes from a previous broadcast are:

Band:
Guitar - Andrew Aldridge
Bass - Peter "Pico" Picante
Drums - Blake Manning (Shaye)

Track Listing:
01: CBC Introduction [0:44]
02: Lucky Me [3:24]
03: Day One [3:55]
04: Interview [0:21]
05: Mary*
06: Out in the Park*
TOTAL: [7:44]

*Not brodcasted.

Notes:
"The video taped free evening concert, Jammin' Downtown, marked the first-ever TV production in the new Ottawa broadcast centre. The show features Sarah Slean, singer/songwriter/pianist from Pickering, Ont.; Jim Bryson, singer/songwriter/guitarist from Ottawa; Maria Hawkins, "Ottawa's Blues Lady"; and singer Roxanne Potvin, one of the most promising new talents from the Ottawa area."

Submit your photos!

Send us your live photos of Sarah Slean!

The best submissions will be featured on sarahslean.com in the near future.

Please include your first name, as well as the date and city the picture was taken.

Send your submissions to nicole@littleslean.com with the subject line: PhotoSubmission.

Good luck!

Official France Tour Dates & an Interview

France Tour dates are now posted in the "Tour" section of the official sarahslean.com site:

March 21 - La laiterie club - Strasbourg
March 22 - Le Nouveau Vertigo - Nancy
April 8 - La Cooperative de Mail (1e partie Starsailor) - Clermont-Ferrand
April 13 - Bleu Lezard - Lausanne
April 18 - Poste a Galene - Marseille
April 19 - Chabada - Angers
April 20 - Le Grand Mix - Tourcoing
April 21 - Cafe Danse - Paris
April 22 - Scene Nationale - Dieppe
April 23 - Le Ciel - Grenoble
April 24 - Theatre Galli de Sanari - Toulon
April 28 - Theatre Jacques Coeur - Printemps de Bourges
Mai 4 - Agora (1e partie Final Fantasy) - Havre
Juin 16 - Maury (66) - Festival Voix De Femmes
Juin 17 - Maury (66) - Festival Voix De Femmes
Juin 23 - Summer Festival

These dates will be embeded into the littleslean.com unofficial tour date listing on the side bar of the page. Ticket and venue information may be available on her forum and an attempt to provide links here.

Unrelated:
Sylvie Au Contraire posted a fantastic interview she did with Sarah here. I'm uncertain of the exact date of the interview but it would like fall after the Blackwidow showing at the Calagary Film Festival in the Fall of 2005 and Sarah playing in Halifax that December.

Sarah - Photograph submited to the Spin Gallery

*update posted below*
Sarah has donated a photo that is on display currently at the Spin Gallery and to be auctioned of in support of the Aids Committee of Toronto.

Quote from the Spin Gallery:

SNAP Live Auction 2006
Preview at SPIN GALLERY on Thursday 9th from 6-9pm

Preview continues to public on Friday 10th and Saturday 11th open from 12pm to 6pm. Live auction will be held at the brand new National Ballet of Canada (N.B.C).


Curatorial Team :

Maryann Camillery
Juno Youn
David Trevor
Jody Daye
Kelly McCray


Including 9 artists from our gallery :

Kenny Alvin Baird
Bruno Billio
Manuel Bujold
Patrick DeCoste
Nitin Dilawri
Andy Fabo
James Mejia
Sarah Slean
George Whiteside

for further information click on web site : www.snap-toronto.com

Update (March 11, 06)
Since1999 on the SarahSlean.com forum was able provide this update:

Sarah couldn't get her photo/print in on time for the live auction, which as stated above has a preview at Spin until auction night on Sunday... so for those looking online or planning on visiting Spin just to see Sarah's work, it unfortunately won't be there.

I think she's planning on doing an online auction once she submits it though, as her name is still a part of the advertising/promotion and that way her work can still contribute to the charity foundation at a later date.

Sarah on DNTO (songwriter gala repeat)

Sarah playing @ the Song Writters Hall of Fame Galla radio highlight to be played between 3:40 and 4:30 pm today on CBC radio's DNTO.

The TV broadcast is schedualed for this Monday.

Update:
Sarah played sang Powder Your Face wish Sunshine by Carmern Lombardo. She was backed by a big band orchestra with a 40's look. As Sarah danced to the song she did make her way over to the piano to play a few keys.

Cameron

Stunning New Promo Photos

Some of Sarah's new promotional pictures are linked on her French Lycos Profile. The first two photographs may be shots taken by Renaud (Monfourny?) as Sarah had described in one of her January blog entries. The photograph with Sarah holding her red shoe has appeared in smaller sizes on other website in France such their MTV web site.

The promotional pictures coincide with the release of Day One in both France and Switzerland.

Remember that live pictures of Sarah Slean are always being updated in her Flickr Pool that is displayed on the right side of the littleslean news page.

Related links:
Robert Gil promo photos
Image of Sarah and Lousie Upperton
Sarah Slean's official myspace page - contains other photographs