Sarah on the Govenor General Awards 2006 (TV)

Update: Sarah did not play the 2006 Govenor Gerneral Awards this year. The quote CBC provided for this year's Award show reflected 2004.

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Sarah made a second consecutive return to the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Gala that took place on November 4, 2006 at National Arts Center in Ottawa.

"A glittering evening of entertainment honours seven outstanding Canadian performers at the 13th annual Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Gala, hosted by Gregory Charles. The Gala, taped at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa in early November features performances by Emmylou Harris, Jackie Richardson and her daughter Kim Richardson, singer/songwriter Sarah Slean, The Drums of Arashi Daiko, George Gao on the erhu an ancient Chinese instrument accompanied by the National Arts Centre Orchestra, sopranos Marie-Josée Lord and Lyne Fortin with baritone Gino Quilico and Gregory Charles in a rousing finale with a 50-member choir." - CBC

"Airs Thurs January 4, 2007 - 9:00 on CBC" CBC

Image credited to the CBC from last year's Governor General Awards where Sarah played The Score backed by a full orchestra.

New Concert Date - Kingston ON

Rockcrew who have promoted some of Sarah's past visits to Kingston, are currently selling tickets for a February 2, 2007 date at the Sydenhem Church, Kingston ON.

The image above is from when Sarah played this venue in her Fall 2005 Intimate and Solo tour.

Update Jan 12, 2007
I have been advised the following..

*Deleted* - Essentially the show has not been confirmed, for confirmed shows see the official site.

I would recommend people hold off on further ticket purchases until the situation can be clarified. Hope to have some updates Monday evening.

Update Jan 13, 2007
Information has been updated on the promoter's site and the proposed show date will likely change. At this time everything to do with the show should be considered tentative. Visit sarahslean.com for confirmed tour dates.

Sarah on Canada AM - Dec 11'06

Sarah will be playing live on Canada AM this Monday at 8:50am. She will be playing Lucky Me with the Blue Spruce Quartet. Earlier in the year she did a solo perforamce for Canada AM live from Paris. Sarah also played Mary on Canada AM last year.

Later in the day on Monday, Sarah will be playing a free show for MTV Canada. She is schedualed to play 3 songs for that show.

Free Toronto MTV Show - Dec 11, 06

Taken from Sarahslean.com:
Sarah will be playing a free show for MTV Canada on December 11, 2006 in Toronto.

"For free tickets call: 1.888.491.6888
email: liveaudience@mtv.ca

Show up by 5:30pm at the Masonic Temple
888 Yonge St, Toronto"

I currnetly do not get MTV Canada and am unaware if these Live shows are actually broadcasted on it. I do know for earlier live events such as Sam Roberts and K-OS MTV Canada could show excerpts, CTV doing a weekend 1 hr show, and MTV US picking it pieces for a special too. They do archive the shows on www.mtv.ca (overdrive) that requires Exploer among other requirements.

For those under 18, you can try use this release:
http://www.mtv.ca/cadata/pdf/mtv_guestrelease.pdf


Sarah was recently interviewed in this venue, The Masonic Temple, for CTV's Etalk daily and has played a concert here when the venue was used for the Mike Bullard show.

New Slean Interviews! (4)

Sarah's new tour has started and serries of interviews are now starting to emerge.


She landed the cover of The Scope in St. John's doing a great question and answer session. Read the full article here.

Andpop also released a recent interview with Sarah featuring some great quotes. She comments on that her next album will have a different approach taken to it then that taken with Day One.
Read that article here.

Update November 28, 2006
Chart Magazine did an article where Sarah talks about loving baking among many other things. Could this mean another apperance on the Food Network? Link.

"Bellstristic Impressions" did an interview which quotes Sarah on having some new poetry from France, Ravens v. 2? Link.

Tour Openers

We have been able to uncover some Sarah's openers for her upcoming tour.

Christian Hansen - http://www.myspace.com/christianhansen

Nov 26 2006 7:00P

Myer Horowitz theatre

Edmonton

David Myles - http://www.myspace.com/davidmyles

Dec 1 2006 8:00P	Rebecca Cohn Auditorium (Opening for Sarah Slean)	Halifax, Nova Scotia
Dec 2 2006 8:00P	The Playhouse (Opening for Sarah Slean)	Fredericton, New Brunswick

No news on the other openers and if these shows will be formated with a band, strings, or be solo.

Sydnicated Slean News

Update Nov 13, 2006 - Short lived, the service hosting the translation of the SarahSlean.com home page to a sydnicated feed has shut down its free service for the time being. "They are working hard to overcome this". (Several Weeks)

Nov 11, 2006 post:
Last year littleslean offered its news service in a variety of sydnicated links. That is, when news s is published on http://littleslean.blogspot.com you can automatically receive the posted message by Windows Live Messenger (MSN), Email, cell phone, Firefox, Live Journal, news readers, etc.

I have now sydnicated Sarahslean.com as a RSS feed.

http://feed43.com/sarahslean.xml

The above services for viewing littleslean news can also be used with the Sarah Slean sydnicated link. You can now stay intune with what's new on Sarah's home page without having to constantly browse it. To avoid redundance news posted to Sarahslean.com may not always be repeated here, but you can always subscribe to both feeds.

The 5 most recent headlines from Sarahslean.com will also always be viewable in the sidebar of the littleslean news page. (Links back to sarahslean.com are broken). The most recent posts to Sarah's blog is also viewable. The next step is to update the tour dates in a simular fashion.

Sarah covers the Stones with Razorlight on French TV

Update: Nov 9, 2006
Sarah and Razorlight on Taratata should be shown this weekend on France TV with an internet video stream to follow. The program website has been updated to show showtimes. This weekend Sarah Slean with also be on Bravo TV. See sarahslean.com for more info on that program.

Related news: Oct 8, 2006
As mentioned on Sarahslean.com, Sarah will be on French TV this month on a program called Tartata.

The original recording took place on September 9, 2006 (not the 11th) and featured a duet with the current charting UK # 1 single band, Razorlight.

1. Philippe Katerine : "Louxor"
2. Sarah Slean : "Lucky me"
3. Sarah Slean et Razorlight : "Play with fire" (Rolling Stones cover)
4. Vincent Delerm : Sous les avalanches
5. Vincent Delerm et Franck Monnet : Si maman si"
6. Fabien Cahen : "C'est beau la vie"
7. Razortlight : "In the morning"

Setlist thanks to Peggy

Sarah described how it took many tries for her to recorde the duet with Razorlight as playing face to face each other she found it hard compose her laughter. According to sarahslean.com the air date is sometime this month on France 3 and France 4.

Orphan Music - on iTunes

Sarah Slean is in the Canadian iTunes music store. Links to the album are featured on the iTunes Canada page. I have noticed any of the international iTunes sites or Puretracks selling it as of yet.