Tannis'
next shows: Winnipeg Folk
Festival (Birds Hill Park, MB), Home County Folk Festival
(London, ON), Hillside Festival (Guelph, ON), Lunenburg
Folk Harbour Festival (Lunenburg, NS).... (see shows)
Malian friends Jah
Youssouf and Abdoulaye Kone have arrived in
Canada and will be staying until September,
playing
festivals and shows with The
Woodchoppers Association
(June 28/09)
Photos
of recent show with Harry Manx (June 13/09)
The song "Edmonton" from Lucky
Blue was chosen as CBC
Radio3's Track
of the Day (June 17/09)
Sweet news: Tannis won the 2008 Canadian
Folk Music Awards Contemporary
Vocalist of the Year at the awards ceremony in
St. John's, Newfoundland (Dec/08).
More sweet news: Tannis has been honoured with
her second 'Porcupine
Award', this time the 'Golden Quill' award for
Songwriting. The first Porcupine Award was given for
'Oak
Lake'
Lucky
Blue was selected as one of the
top 10 'Critics' Albums of the Year' for 2007
by Canadian
Folk and World Music magazine Penguin
Eggs!!
Lucky
Blue's first cut "Ernest, Charlie & Allan" won
an Independent
Music Award for best song!
The
album was also listed as a finalist for best album
in the Folk/Singer-songwriter category.
Lucky
Blue's producer Lewis Melville was nominated for "Producer of
the
Year" Canadian
Folk Music Awards!
~Lucky Blue reviews~
~Songs on Myspace~
~Live shows~
~More lucky news~
Tannis' trip to Africa:
"
Road To Baleya", the documentary film about Tannis
and friends' trip to Mali, West Africa, premiered at the Montreal
World Film Festival in August/08 and was shown
at the Peterborough
International
Film Festival (Jan/09). The
shorter
TV
version
also
airs
occasionally
on Bravo! (Keep
watching here for
rebroadcast date!) (Read more about
trip to Africa)
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distributed through Outside Music! Ask for it by name at your local music store. 
DESIGN:
CHRIS MacLEAN / 