Sarah Slean Played New Songs on CBC

Sarah Slean's interview and live performance from earlier this week was aired today on CBC Radio 1.  Half of the 1 hour show was dedicated to Sarah combing interviews and music from the new album.  The 3 news songs played live by Sarah where done solo on a baby grand piano.

Unfortunately it does appear that this show is podcasted or will repeat but I hope some of the littleslean twitter followers got the live tweet reminders.

• Sarah spoke fondly of her 10 great years with Warner.  
• The origins of her family piano where revealed as belonging to an aunt who deceased died in her mid 40s.  Sarah wouldn't share the name she had given the piano.
• She came back to the "woosh" factor just like in in the Harbourfront interview.

Music

1. Life (Album recording)
2. Attention Archers (live)
3. The Day We Saved the World (live)
4. Your not Alone (live)

Video of Sarah covering Queen with the Art of Time Ensemble

The Art of Time's  Ensmble have posted an HD video to their facebook page of Sarah covering Queen's The Show Must Go On.  The video was recorded from the songbook of covers Sarah did with them in May of this year at Toronto's Harbourfront Theatre.

Update: The Art of Time have now posted also posted the video in HD to their YouTube account.
No details have been released if CBC will be playing this concert or a studio recording of the album will be released like some of the past concerts of the ensemble.

Sarah Slean and Jorane Create New Music Together

On April 2nd Sarah Slean and Jorane played together for a CBC special that airs May 10th. Jorane who plays chello toured across Canada sharing headling roles with Sarah in 2005. On the day of this recording Sarah tweeted "Created melancholy music on-the-fly today with the wonderful @Jorane chez Maison Radio-Canada. How I love Montreal..."

The following information comes from CBC's Rendez-Vous who have a video trailer and pictures of the event up. After May 10th they will be adding videos, songs and interviews.

"Sarah Slean and Jorane seem to have a mutual artistic connection. They both create very expressive, evocative and sometimes theatrical songs. So it is no surprise that when we hear them performing together it feels so natural.

For this session, the wonderful Jorane delivers new versions of her songs, accompanied by a string quartet and piano, in arrangements created especially for this recording.

The very talented Sarah Slean was also quite courageous to accept to perform some of Jorane's songs and to go where no other singer has dared gone before! And this is where Sarah Slean's passion for French culture pays off as we hear her sing in French for the first time ever.

Together, Jorane and Sarah create a brand new song, inspired by one of Sarah's personal experiences in Paris. The result is extremely touching.

Let yourself be carried away by this dreamy, friendly, wondrous and luminous Rendez-Vous session.

Check back after 4 p.m. ET on May 10th to enjoy videos, songs and interviews from this episode."

Sarah Slean & Damhnait Doyle's - Not for Sale (HD Video)

On June 14th, Sarah Slean returned to Canada AM in promotion of Rwanda Rises Up! Sarah and Damhnait Doyle performed the song written by Sarah, Not for Sale. The album is currently availble on iTunes. 

To view video in full HD, visit YouTube. There is a sync issue with the first half of the video.



This is the first video uploaded by littleslean.  The video is not searchable on YouTube but can be found through here and as posted to social media networks by Song for Africa.

Beautiful Noise (TV - Brazil)

In 2008 Sarah Slean performed a filmed concert in Toronto's Berkley's Church. Bravo aired a 30 minute of the program under the title, The Berkley Sessions that featured a handful of the live songs.

This past Saturday Sun TV aired a 1 hour program of this concert under the title Beautiful Noise. The broadcast on SunTV was in high definition and featured all songs of the concert with the exception of No Place at All. Fortunately 'No Place at All' was one of the songs that had been shown in The Berkley Sessions broadcast on Bravo.

It appears that the full hour program may be airing in Brazil on June 8th. The guide information can be found here. Multishow also has it listed here.

For those in Canada who missed it. The one hour concert for the Berkley Session may be picked up on repeat again on Sun TV or CBC Bold.

Sarah covers The Right Thing (audio preview)

At 2008's Canwest Cabaret Festival Sarah was involved in multiple work shops including Toronto Sings Breithaupt Brother Songbook. In the fall of 2009 that concert was put out as a live album with Sarah singing the lead track, The Right Thing.

You can find the song on Amazon.com and iTune's Canadian store.

Thanks to reader Sean for giving me this tip sometime ago.

If you're able to visit the Canadian iTunes Store, they do have an 8 minute long video interview with Sarah likely recorded on 2006-12-11 where Sarah played live on MTV Overdrive. The interview discuses why she did Orphan Music as a live album/bside album, how she ended up cover Pink Floyd and what she thinks of blogging. You can download it free from iTunes here.

PS- Sarah's official site has been lively with news the last few days.

Sarah to Tribute Neil Young @ Massey Hall

On June 10th Sarah joins a strong line up of artists set to tribute Neil Young at the historic Massey Hall concert venue in Toronto.

Ticket's go on sale to 'friends' on March 13th here:
http://www.roythomson.com/eventInfo.cfm?E=287&YearMonth=2009,6

Tickets go on sale to the public in April.

Sarah's name has yet to be confirmed on her site or the event page at the time of publishing but her name has been shown in other press releases.

The article below is from yesterday's Toronto Star:

The event, which will recreate Young's legendary 1971 Toronto concert, will feature 18 songs and up to 18 bands, with a star-studded lineup including Holly Cole, Steven Page, the Cowboy Junkies, Jason Collett from Broken Social Scene and Sarah Slean. The list of performers also includes the Bill Frisell Trio, Issa (formerly Jane Siberry), Stevie Jackson, Colin Linden, Harry Manx, Danny Michel, Carole Pope and Roxanne Potvin.

Organizers say that Neil Young has been invited to the concert, and are hopeful he'll come.

Playing Massey Hall is somethhing Sarah admited to looking forward to in her Q&A session last fall. (pt.2 q.2)

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.

Sarah Played on CBC Go (MP3)

On Saturday April 12th, Sarah was the musical guest on CBC Go. Thankfully CBC has podcasted the 4/12/08 show and you can catch it now. Sarah played Get Home (26 min mark) and Looking for Someone (58 min). Sarah also got in on the shows theme of jingles chiming out a couple after playing Get Home. Sarah also had the opportunity to meet Margaret Atwood once again.

Sarah has included Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood under her Vitamins page.