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SPINCOUNT ARTIST OF THE WEEK: THE OLYMPIC SYMPHONIUM

Crafting delicately arranged folk-pop that drips with bittersweet melodies, soaring harmonies, and an awful lot of passion, The Olympic Symphonium have been sharing their quiet world with us since 2005. They are and always have been a collaborative effort between three multi-instrumentalists, songwriters, and friends: Nick Cobham, Kyle Cunjak, and Graeme Walker.

After piecing together each of their first two albums from sporadic recording sessions stretched out over many months, The Olympic Symphonium have opted this time for a change of pace. A much quicker pace.

The band locked themselves away in a large, empty, secret location in Fredericton, free of distractions, with longtime engineer Brad Perry and gave themselves a week to record an album. With the clock ticking away, the band went to work.

Sketches of songs were prepared beforehand and then developed in the studio with all members being on hand at all times; a new experience for the Olympic Symphonium and one they feel has created a cohesive feeling for their third full length album.

"The City Won’t Have Time to Fight continues the Olympic Symphonium’s exploration of the divide in our souls between urban and rural, cerebral and spiritual, with its finely tuned contrast of electric and
acoustic instruments." - Stephen Cooke, Chronicle Herald

The Olympic Symphonium CD Release: Saturday, January 29th 8pm-10pm @ Wilmot United Church = The Olympic Symphonium + Catherine MacLellan + Isaac & Blewett, as part of The Shivering Songs festival January 29-30 in Fredericton, NB.

Shivering Songs Festival - January 29-30 in Fredericton, NB Annouce David Myles & Grant Lawrence are added to the line-up!

Forward Music Update...11/01/11

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Shivering Songs

Grant Lawrence and David Myles added to the lineup of artists

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We're very excited to announce some great new additions to the Shivering Songs festival:

David Myles, a Fredericton hometown hero, is currently touring on his 4th album Turn Time Off, which was produced by Joel Plaskett and recently picked up two Nova Scotia Music Awards. David will be hosting the Saturday afternoon songwriters circle at Wilmot Church, entertaining folks with hisperfectly-timed comedic delivery and breaking hearts with his beautiful songs.

Grant Lawrence, author/broadcaster/musician, will also join the Saturday afternoon songwriters circle as a storyteller. Adventures in Solitude, his first novel, was just recently released and is a collection of amazingly-digestible Western Canadian history lessons tied with hilarious anecdotes. Grant will be captivating the audience with stories of the sunshine coast and will bring an interesting twist to the format of the song-circle.

For years, the gregarious and encyclopedic Lawrence has hosted the top-rated CBC Radio 3 Podcast with Grant Lawrence, a weekly showcase of Canadian independent music. Grant also hosts Grant Lawrence Live, a live and interactive daily program on CBC Radio 3′s popular web radio station, also airing on Sirius 86. Grant can be heard throughout the week on various CBC Radio One programs such as DNTO, Spark,All Points West, On The Coast and has been a frequent past contributor to Q and Sounds Like Canada. Grant also hosts many major music events, such as the Polaris Music Prize Gala, the Western Canadian Music Awards and various festivals around North America, and conducts music industry seminars and keynote addresses on music and media related topics.

“By turns hilarious, terrifying, profound and strange, Adventures in Solitude is the great lost Canadian adventure story; Swiss Family Robinson as if rendered by Ken Kesey in his youth, a kind of Lord of the Flies through a fog of BC chronic.” - Dave Bidini, author of On A Cold Road, and Tropic of Hockey.

The addition of David Myles and Grant Lawrence to the festival will complete the lineup for 2011 and bring booking to a close. The Shivering Songs festival will run January 29-30 in Fredericton, NB at Wilmot United Church, the Capital Bar and Snooty Fox:

Songwriters Circle: Saturday, 3pm-5pm @ Wilmot United Church = David Myles + Snailhouse + Grant Lawrence + Tim Walker + Gianna Lauren

The Olympic Symphonium CD Release: Saturday, 8pm-10pm @ Wilmot United Church = The Olympic Symphonium + Catherine MacLellan + Isaac & Blewett

(not so) Late-night Show: Saturday, 10:30pm-2am @ The Capital Bar = Belle Comedians + Jon McKiel + Olenka Krakus

Bluegrass Brunch: Sunday, 11am-2pm @ Snooty Fox = Alan Jeffries' Bluegrass Brunch

Day-passes for the Saturday shows will be limited to 100 and come with a copy of the new Olympic Symphonium CD The City Won't Have Time To Fight as well as a 10% food discount at the Snooty Fox. They are $35 and are available with individually-priced show tickets at Backstreet Records, Picaroon's Brewtique, Read's Newsstand and online through www.shiveringsongs.eventbrite.com

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