www.sarahslean.com BIG updates!

Take a visit to the official home page and you can explore all the many new updates.

Artwork, contest, tour archive, new live and promo photos, restoring of vitamins and journal entries.

The page just went live so some pages might be unavailable such as the store.

Watch the dance inspired by Sarah's Poem, The Abcedarian

In November we wrote to inform you of a poem Sarah had written for the inspiration of a dance routine. The poem titled, The Abecedarian, was danced by Lucy Rupert.

You can now see her performance here:



The words of the poem are not spoken and I can not tell with certainty that the music is by Sarah. The voice in the last few seconds of the clip does appear to be her's.
Publish Post

At the time of posting, the words to this poem have not been published.

Update: 2008-03-04
Lucy kindly advised that the music is Arvo Part, a section of a piece called Lamentate and the words spoken are not by Sarah, but by Lucy herself. Sarah's poem was projected overhead but not visible in this video. The poem may still be published at a later date.

Album Cover Art - View it Now

Looks like the final art work Sarah's fourth coming album has now been uploaded to the sarahslean.com. It looks like the image is from a different shoot from the images we had previously shown and that are used throughout the rest of the official site. The disclaimer regards to not being the final artwork has also been removed alongside the previous image.

The stunning image on the left is from sarahslean.com



Update 2008/15/08: - More new images....
Sarah Slean facebook profile has a new image and it's another stunning shot. Her myspace page has also received a makeover with new banner images, the new cover art and a theme similar to sarahslean.com.

March 11, 2008 Concert in NYC

The official site has confirmed a tour date of March 11, 2008 at Joe's Pub in NYC. This date also marks the album release date of the Baroness.

Tickets are on sale now. link.

Slean to Play for WellSpot , March 29 - Toronto

Sarah Slean is one of the headlining performers for the Women and Wellness event, WellSpot 08, according to their website. The event takes place on March 29, 2008 at the Diesel Theatre in Toronto.

Tickets are currently on sale at a starting price of $129. If you purchase 5 seats, you can get a 6th one free.

Please note that the website states this event is for women only. Please take further note that that the time of posting, this show has not been confirmed on any of Sarah's official pages.

HealthyGirl^TM is proud to present the most anticipated wellness event for women this year. WellSpot 2008 is the ultimate gathering for women, featuring today’s most influential wellness experts. The event will be an interactive and experiential workshop-style one day wellness celebration. On Saturday March 29th, 2008, Wellspot 2008 will be the destination event for women this year. The core focus for the event will be to educate, empower and facilitate incredible workshops on preventive health, work-life balance, leadership, nutrition, fitness and stress management. The event will also incorporate the arts with special performances in both dance and music by two of Canada’s leading entertainment artists. Wellspot 2008 will be the most talked about event for women this year. In support of Rethink Breast Cancer, WellSpot 2008 will bring like-minded women together for one day of education, inspiration and networking. - WellSpot.ca

Tales of the Baroness - DVD Release

The film Tales of The Baroness by Sarah Slean and Nelson Chan is slated for DVD release this month. Last year part 1 of the three part trilogy was shown on television.

Details such as the DVD's costs and features has not yet been made available. At this time your prompted to reserve a copy on the website www.talesofthebaroness.com .



In addition to the film's trailer, animation tests have been added by Nelson Chan to his YouTube account. Nelson Chan is also the video director of Sarah's videos Day One and Mary.

Update, 2008-02-12: The DVD is indefinitely delayed accorded to a recent post on the Sarah Slean forum.

The Baroness - Those That Made the Cut

The official track listing was announced today with the presale for The Baroness. The tracklisiting is as follows:

1. Hopeful Hearts
2. Get Home
3. Euphoria
4. Goodnight Trouble
5. Notes from the Underground
6. Sound of Water
7. No Place at All
8. Please be Good to Me
9. Willow
10. So Many Miles
11. Shadowland
12. Looking for Someone

The 12 track album less any bonus songs is a fair amount shorter then the 16 or more songs first speculated. Some of the songs that didn't make cut or were retitled are:

• Parasol / Sweet Virgina - Availble as digital download with album preorder
  
• 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. Available with Lonely Side of the Moon in a special edition release of the Baroness on iTunes.
  
• Compatriots - is a manic parade through circus-ville... - Played in 2007
• My Song - Played in the Spring of 2005, recorded as part of CBC's FUSE tapping alongside Buck 65.
• Remember (Rescue?) Me - Played in 2007 No Place At All made the album.
  
• Modern Man
• The Right Words
• Please b g time Please Be Good To Me, made the album.
  

The fate for these songs and others that didn't make the cut might not be so grim.
"The singer, 30, had 23 songs to choose from which was later pared down to 18. Now the biggest challenge is paring those 18 down to 12, but Slean says she’ll find a home for all of the tracks.

“There was a lot happening in my life and I was writing a lot when I got back here,” she says. “I think I plan on making a DVD of these songs because there’s so many and having favourites is like having children. So I would like to release that a year down the line.”- Toronto Sun, December 21, 2007

*Updates made 2008-03-07 denoted by Red font.

iTunes Essentials & Get Home (Album version)

On the heals of the new album preorder, the iTune's Canadian store has made a compilation of songs from Sarah's albums, singles and other works to a single album.

All songs are prior to the release of The Baroness.

As stated in the official release from ss.com, Get Home is become the track of the week this week on iTunes. The track is free for those who have an iTunes store account. The song is the album version unlike the free demo version that was previously available through her mailing list.

Album Presale Tomorrow

Sarah Slean's new album entitled, The Baroness, will go on presale tomorrow through the store on SarahSlean.com. The official site syndicated this announcement through the official Sarah Slean mailing list, myspace, and facebook account.

The announcment also revealed further details such as Parasol (Sweet Virginia) being a free digital give away with the preorder and that Get Home will be the single of the week on iTunes starting January 29, 2008. Additional information in regards to Sarah's concert on February 2, 2008 with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra was also included in the release.