Elora Festival Date - July 16 (confirmed)

A summer festival date has been added to Sarah's tour page. Sarah will be playing the Elora Festival on July 16th.

Tickets are $40. More information can be found on:

http://www.elorafestival.com/index.cfm?page=2011WeekTwo

2 New Concerts - Global Cabaret Festival in Toronto

Sarah is returning back to the Global Cabaret festival this year after playing the festival in 2008.

Tickets for the Friday October 1st and Saturday October 2nd concerts are currently availble here:

http://www.globalcabaret.ca/information.aspx?concert=sarah_slean

It does not appear that Sarah is currently schedualed to play any of the festival workshops at this year's festival. The Saturday's concert falls on the same day as the dusk to dawn city wide arts festival Nuit Blanche.

New Concert, Sault Ste. Marie

Fresh off the Rescessionista tour, new concert dates are to be found.

Sarah Slean is scheduled to play at the Algoma Fall Festival on October 9th. The venue in Sault Ste. Marie, ON has yet to be announced but tickets are $30 while festival passes are priced at $49.00.

At the time of publishing this show has yet to be published or confirmed on sarahslean.com.

Sarah plays Kitchener April 17th

Sarah is returning to the Gig Theatre in Kitchener on Friday April 17th headlining as part of the Go Festival. Tickets are on sale and this show has been confirmed on Sarah's official site.

Mike Evan and Meredith Grant open the show.

Sarah played the Gig Theatre as part of the 2008 Baroness Tour, Books and Ballgowns.

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 added to the BC Roots and Blues Festival

Following performances at the Montreal Jazz Festival and Guelph's Hillside Music Festival, Sarah has been added to the Roots and Blues Festival according to the festival site.

The Festival takes place August 15-17th.

At the time of publishing, this date has not been confirmed on SarahSlean.com. This show has been confirmed on SarahSlean.com as of August 1st.

SarahSlean.com has confirmed that Sarah will be playing at the Niagara Grape and Wine Festival in St. Catharines, ON on September 21, 2008.

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 @ The Hillside Music Festival

Sarah's back at the Hillside Music Festival in Guelph Ontario this weekend. In addition to her Saturday night main stage show, she will be playing hosting lullaby workshop on Sunday.

Sunny Stage Lullabies Sarah Slean (host) with Nabi Loney, Hayley Sales, Sheila Gruner & friends. - Hillside 2008 Program (PDF)

Tickets for the festival have now been sold out.

CBC Radio 2 in the past has played back some of the sets from Hillside in the weeks after the festival and have hosted some of the concerts online.

I will update following the festival.