New: Song to download, site, mailing list, promo pics, and more.

Lots of news has recently generated regards to Sarah Slean and more updates and stories will be forth coming.

Sarah Slean website has gone through another slick overhaul (edit). The new site uses Edwin Tse's photography that we had noted in April. That post has been updated to note 3 more promo photos that have now surfaced and respective links.

At this time, some pages have been removed on the official page such as Sarah's vitamins (recommended arts), her blog entries, lyrics, and fan pictures. These changes have also disabled the syndicated links used on the side of this news page.

With the launch of the new site, Sarah has made available a demo version of her new song Get Home. She recently described the song as being regards to another relationship gone sour which the lyrics are rather clear about. To hear the song join her new mail list and receive an mp3 link or head over her to her myspace page to stream it.

The launch date for the new album has also been confirmed for March 2008. I have updated the post to Everything Currently Known on the New Album to reflect 5 additional song titles, the record producer, and tracks that have been showcased.

Sarah provides Poetry to Dance Work

Sarah wrote a poem, "The Abecedarian", for dance choreographer and artist Lucy Rupert's. The work was premiered as part of Wrecking Ball IV shown November 8-11 at the Theatre Centre

The Abecedarian (world premiere) choreographed by Lucy Rupert
Award-winning artist and artistic director of Blue Ceiling Dance, Lucy Rupert uses email, webcasts and film footage to create a duet from afar with dancer Kyle Abraham (New York/Pittsburgh). Songstress and poet Sarah Slean provides the words which are captured along with Abraham’s dancing in projected images which provide the sound score for Rupert’s live dancing. - The Wrecking Ball (retrieved Nov 13, 2007)

An entry from Lucy Rupert's blog seems to indicate that words to the poem might be added to sarahslean.com at some point in the future. At the time of publishing, no updates were noted to Sarah's official website, blog, or myspace.

Sarah plays @ Cavalcade of Lights

Sarah is scheduled to play at this year's Cavalcade of Lights opening celebration at Natahan Phillips Square in Toronto on Saturday November 24. Thanks to Sweetone's on the Sarah Slean forum that posted regards to the show being announced via a Chum news letter earlier today.

For those that can not make it down, City TV has announced that they will broadcast this year's event starting at 7:00pm. Sarah is scheduled to play after 7:25pm.

In other news, the Sarah Slean Peterborough concert has now been confirmed on the official tour page of sarahslean.com.

Update (Nov 23, 2007) - Sarah is set to play two seasonal songs.
Update (Nov 24, 2007) - CP24 will be showing the event live. CityTV may show it at a later date as the program is set to repeat.

Update (Dec 16, 2007) - CP24 did air the broadcast but Sarah's performance was not shown to TV viewers as they cut away to air a montage of the days news and commercials. Sarah was shown partially in group number of Walking in a Winter Wonderland. The non aired songs were What Child Is This? (Available on Women and Songs Christmas album) and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. I could not find any re-air dates.

November Tour

A few tour dates confirmed and unconfirmed have been announced.

• 2007 - November 21 - The Wall, North Bay, ON (unconfirmed)
• 2007 - November 22 - Hamilton Place Studio Theatre, Hamilton, ON (confirmed)
• 2007 - November 23 - Market Hall, Peterborough, ON (unconfirmed)

Note that the format of these shows are still unknown. Sarah's last known public performance was with with a Trio opening for James Blunt on October 1, 2007. Suggestions have been requested on sarahslean.com to be emailed to Sarah with regards to what format you would like to see at this year's December shows at Harbourfront.

12/16/07 upate: Sarah did play the 3 above dates. No news has surfaced regards to the set lists of the Peterborough or North Bay shows.

Sarah's New Album - Everything We Know (12/16/07)

While Sarah continues to work on her new album, blog and play a few shows; I have put together what is known about the new album. This information has been updated with noted changes.

Working Title: The Baroness

A glance at cover art and promo images was previously posted in our news entry of April 24, 2007. Sarah's website, myspace, and blog have had new imagery supporting the Baroness and replacing the imagery seen with Day One. 12/16/07 upate: Sarah's official site now has been overhauled once again, this time reflecting the promo images taken from April. These Changes have also disabled any of her blog entries.

Tracklisting: (not sequenced and not final)

• The Rose - "This string arrangement will break your poor heart into tiny bite-sized pieces." An earlier version of this song was recorded with Sarah's show with the Art of Time Ensemble as part of the Schubert 'Source and Inspiration Show" - Audio, Lyrics.
  
• Compatriots - is a manic parade through circus-ville... - Played in 2007
  
• Good Night Trouble
• Notes from the Underground 12/16/07 upate: Played live in 2007
  
• No Place At All - Played live in 2007
  
• Willow
• Looking for Someone - Sarah has played this song a few times live dating back to Fall of 2006 and with the addition of Strings at the December Toronto show. The song was recorded and played on CBC radio as part of their recording of the Socan Songwritters Circle at this year's ECMA.

The above song titles and quotes were excerpted out of Sarah's July 21, 2007 blog entry. The italicized notes and links were inserted by myself.

Additionally considered tracks:

• My Song - Played in the Spring of 2005, recorded as part of CBC's FUSE tapping alongside Buck 65.
• Parasol / Sweet Virginia - Played in 2006
• So Many Miles - Played in 2006
• No Place At All - Played in 2007
• Remember (Rescue?) Me - Played in 2007
• Get Home - Played in 2007. 12/16/07 upate: A rough demo is now available through her new mailing list and can be streamed on Sarah's myspace page.

12/16/07 upate: The five (4) following songs were listed on her Novermber 22, 2007 setlist although they have been yet to be played live.

• Modern Man
• The Right Words
• H Hearts
• Please b g time

These are just some songs that stand not to be 'orphaned' for the new album. In Sarah's blog entry of June 28, 2007 she mentions having 18 songs set for the album. In that same entry it indicates that this is a home recording. The co-producer mentioned is Jag, who I presume is the Jagori Tanna from the band I Mother Earth. Jag also did the engineering and mixing on Sarah's latest release, Orphan Music.

12/16/07 upate: The album is being mixed David Bottrill (Tool, Muse) according to Sarah's December site message.


Release Date:

12/16/07 upate: Updates to SarahSlean.com announce the release date of March 2008. I have been made aware that other projects are set to be released around the same time.

Rumoured to be February 2008. In Sarah's July 5, 2007 post entry she references 5 songs at stage near final completion.

Her score book and book of poetry, Raven's volume 2 are both scheduled for November of this year according to another of her blog entries. Do take these dates with a grain of salt things do tend to slide around.


Unrelated:

• Sarah's blog is far more then just news on her new album and daily musings. Some very poetic and personal posts are contained there. Her myspace page syndicates most of the blog posts but at times it will have separate entries such as "Moan Hall".
• At the time of publishing the parent site to this news page, www.littlelsean.com is down. I don't know anything else regards to that other then new entries will still be available on the littleslean news page as it is hosted independently.
  

Unconfirmed Show - July 27 (BC)

I have posted unconfirmed show for July 27, 2007 at Gibson Auditorium (Camosun College - Landsdowne), British Columbia to sarahslean.com forum.

Please review the information, supporting links and any updates in that thread.

Watch Sarah Slean on AOL Sessions (Canada)

AOL Sessions Canada latest session is a concert with Sarah Slean and is available for viewing (for those in Canada?). Sarah is joined by Blue Spruce Quartet with Mary-Katherine Finch substituting Alex Grant on Cello.

The setlist is made up of all songs featured on Orphan Music including the along awaited bside of Last Year's War. The session also includes Q & A and backstage video where members of the Quartet are interviewed.

Sweet Ones Covered on Canadian Idol

The promo for next Monday's Canadian Idol performance shows a clip of one of the 200 contestants who made their way to Toronto covering Sweet Ones, by Sarah Slean. The clip showed one of the male competitors playing it on the piano in a way that sounded simular to Sarah's. You can check for TV times here.

If your interested in hearing two great and unique takes on Sarah's Sweet Ones now, the following two really stood out for me:

1. Dan Hardin plays an accoustic guitar version accompanied by a very smooth voice. Watch it hear and let him know what you think.
2. The second video comes to us from South of the Canadian boarder where "Case Western Reserve University's all female acapella group, Solstice" perform their arrangement of Sweet Ones. View it here.

Interested in doing your own cover? Sarah's Sheet Music is being compiled for release. If your interested in lyrics, including two of Sarah's new songs of this year; The Lonely Side of the Moon and The Rose are up on the official site.

ECMA Awards Songwriters Circle - CBC June 9, '07

The songwriters circle that Sarah participated at this year's East Coast Music Awards will be played on CBC radio for those out East and available worldwide online. The stated broadcast time is Saturday, June 9, 2007.

Mark Bragg, Sarah Slean, Amelia Curran, Stephanie Hardy and Bruce Guthro trade songs and stories in Round Two of the ECMA/SOCAN Songwriter's Circle, recorded live at the 2007 East Coast Music Awards in Halifax.

- CBC

Sarah played songs from her album Day One and a new song, Looking for Someone, if your interested in the titles you can view this thread.

Update: June 13, 2007
The showed played 2 songs of Sarah, Looking for Someone and Pilgrim.