New Album - Metaphysics

It has almost been 5 years since my last post here. My departure has not been for lack of interest, rather a focus to supporting Sarah in an official capacity. I hope visitors to this site have kept well and informed on Sarah via her mailing list, facebook, twitter, facebook, instagram, etc.

For those that have lost touch, since Sarah's last album Land & Sea, she released a live DVD and has new album titled Metaphysics out April 7, 2017. This new album release is unique as Sarah has pre-sold the album on PledgeMusic with a ton of exclusives. For $10 you get the new album, previews of all the songs before the release, a ton of updates that include some goodies from the littleslean vault. The lead single "Sarah" is out on YouTube now and the demo "Real Love" that didn't make the album.

The first concert announced after the new album's release is at CBC's Music Festival held Sat, May 27th 2017 at Echo Beach, Toronto.

For those that have been following all her updates, the above all comes to no surprise.  Here are some extras that I have turned up.

Posters with never seen before artwork for the new album are available in Toronto
http://kidicarus.ca/2017/02/22/posters-for-sarah-slean/

Also saw a new press photo with the red backdrop and cover art available in high resolution available via SIX media http://sixmedia.ca/communiques/sarah-slean-2/

Lastly, pre-orders are up on Amazon with their sticker price of $15.25 CDN, with free shipping on items over $30.  Doesn't have all the bonus content you get with Pledge.
https://www.amazon.ca/Metaphysics-Sarah-Slean/dp/B06XFZT71J/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489207900&sr=8-1&keywords=sarah+slean

Lastly, Sarah another upcoming show with the Art of Time Ensemble at the end of this month.  Perhaps we will review it here alongside her previous performance with them.

New Concert @ Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery

On August 27, 2010 Sarah Slean will be playing a Songwriters Circle at Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery.  An official statement should be fourthcoming about this year's festival according to a post on their Facebook a few hours ago but these details have been posted by a user to their page.

For ONE NIGHT ONLY, the Jackson Triggs Niagara Estate open-air amphitheatre will play host to the second wine country Canadian Songwriters’ Circle, ROOTSTOCK! The evening will be an intimate and interactive experience with four of Canada’s top musical artists: Steven Page, Joel Plaskett, Sarah Slean, and Hawksley Workman. Call the Jackson Triggs Box Office at 1-866-589-4637 x 2 for tickets and more information.

August 27, 2010 5:30pm

Steven Page also posted that Sarah would be playing this festival with this event page on Facebook.

Details such as prices have not been posted online yet, but the event info from last year is available here.  I will update this post when more details on this year's festival.  This concert has not been confirmed on Sarah's official site at the time of publishing.

Update: 2010-08-04
Wines in Niagara have posted the details for this year's event here.

Get The Dress - Auction for Sarah's Tour Dresses

The Recessionista Tour dress are all on sale on ebay now. The interactive widget below will allow you to follow 10/11 Sarah Slean tour dresses from each of the designers. Please note that bid prices are shown in US dollars. Clicking through to the ebay site will show you the converted Canadian amounts and allow you to place a bid.



Please feel free to copy this widget to your site and help encourage bidders to those who would love to own one of these dresses and support the David Suzuki Foundation.

More information on the designers and larger images of the stunning photos of Sarah in the dresses can be found on the official site. We also highlighted the tour designers in this post.

Best of luck to all the bidders. Feel free to comment on the dresses you like the most and thoughts about the tour.

Sarah an 'Immovable Force', Canada Reads (Audio and Video)

It's the week of Canada Reads and if you missed day one on the radio, it's really easy to follow on CBC Canada Reads site. They are doing a daily podcast of the debates that you can stream from their site plus more. Aside from all the text on the CBC page, Sarah has some interesting words in her journal under "Shut up about the Book Already".

CBC has put these 2 videos on YouTube today, the Pre-Debate and the Post-Debate (embedded below)



If your interested in buying the book Sarah is supporting, Mercy Among the Children, a few links can be found here.

Sarah recordes with the Art of Time Ensemble

Sarah Slean played 2 concerts with Sarah Slean in 2007. The first show was the Schubert Source and Inspiration concert and the second show was Sarah covering her favourite Toronto song writers with the backing of the classical musicians.

When this year's similar concert was being done with Steven Page, Andrew Burashko,
the director of Art of Time was quoted in the June 20th Globe and Mail saying:

"We did it last year with Sarah Slean, which worked like a dream, and we just recorded that." - Globe and Mail

A follow up on that quote revealed that Sarah recorded the "Toronto Song Book" songs with the Art of Time Ensemble in February with the album release date for 2009.

I'm sure more information will be available closer to the release. We have seen release dates of projects come and past without releases for The Tales of The Baroness DVD, Black Widow DVD, and Sarah's score book. Keep an eye on littleslean news for more information.

Both Concerts Sarah did with the Art of Time Ensemble were commissioned by the CBC and were played on CBC Radio 2 and hosted online. The links to those concerts have been removed but here is the text for the Toronto Song Book.

1 Hey That's No Way to Say Goodbye - Leonard Cohen (songwriter), Gavin Bryars (arranger) 4:21
2 Lodestar - Sarah Harmer (songwriter), Roberto Occhipinti (arranger) 5:56
3 Dandelion Wine - Ron Sexsmith (songwriter), Aaron Davis (arranger) 6:26
4 To Cry About - Mary-Margaret O'Hara (songwriter), Bruce Cassidy (arranger) 6:13
5 Stride - Hayden (songwriter), Finn Manniche (arranger) 4:23
6 Monarch - - Leslie Feist (songwriter), Cameron Wilson (arranger) 6:07
7 Old Photographs - Christos Hatzis (composer) 10:58
8 Tango a la Burashko - Phil Dwyer (composer) 10:36
9 I Don't Need More - Kathryn Rose (songwriter), Phil Dwyer (arranger) 5:59
10 Black Flowers - Lynn Miles (songwriter), Kevin Fox (arranger) 5:16
11 Eyes Are the Flowers - John Southworth (songwriter), Michael Occhinpinti (arranger) 7:21
12 No More Named Johnny - Hawksley Workman (songwriter), Shelly Berger (arranger) 6:22
13 I'll Never Tear You Apart - Martin Tielli (songwriter), Johnathan Goldsmith (arranger) 6:22
14 Dress Rehearsal Rag - Leonard Cohen (songwriter), Jim McGrath (arranger) 9:01
15 Lonely Side of the Moon - Sarah Slean (songwriter) 5:05

Montreal Interview with Sarah Slean (Video)

A video of Sarah playing and being interviewed at Club Soda during the Montreal Jazz Festival has been put online.

You can view the video here in English or the version en Francais.

A show a charitable show she did later that day was played live on Q92 FM in Montreal.

Secondly, it does not appear that Sarah Slean's sets at Hillside are part of CBC Radio 2's presentation from Hillside being played this Friday.

Sarah Slean - Hillside 2008 Set Lists

hillside 200
Originally uploaded by Flare

As promised, here is a review for both of Sarah's Hillside sets this year.

Saturday 2008-07-26, 5:45 Main Stage Show

1. California
2. Euphoria
3. Get Home
4. Hopeful Hearts
5. Lucky Me (Jazz ver.)
6. When Another Midnight (Jazz ver.)
7. No Place at All
8. Notes From the Underground
9. Sound of Water

Sunday 2008-07-27 - 4:00 The Sun Stage

1. All My Trials (Bahmian lullaby, v. Joan Beaz)
2. Looking for Someone
3. Untitled (A minor, G, F, A minor) - Sheila Grunner with Sarah on Piano
4. Abide With Me (Henry Francis Lyte, 1847)

Both sets seemed to end very shortly and Sarah appeared to be ready to play another song during her Sunday set but was out of time. For Saturday's set Sarah sat at mini grand piano and was joined by the same band that joined her on the Books and Ballgowns tour. For the Sunday workshop she played an electric piano and was sometimes joined by Sheila Grunner (Black Cabbage) playing violin.

Saturday's main set was filmed in entirety by a professional camera. I was not able to confirm with the camera man how the recording will be used as he was always busy recording other sets when I saw him. There was no mention of CBC presenting either of Sarah's sets but all stages are recorded and CBC Radio 2 will be doing a highlights special on I believe August 22.

More photos of Sarah at Hillside can be found on Flickr. The photo featured, hillside 200 was Originally uploaded by Flare

Sarah's Notes on Each Album Track

What was Sarah thinking? Who was doing background vocals on Looking for Someone?
Well you can gather answers from Sarah herself on the official page.

Click on the song titles and more information will be displayed for each track.

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.