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About Me

TORONTO SINGER/SONGWRITER IS KNOWN FOR FOLKISH CABARET-ISH CONCERTS THAT MIX A LOT OF COMEDY IN WITH THE MUSIC. NANCY PLAYS GUITAR AND BANJO, AND USUALLY WORKS WITH THE WITTY PIANIST BOB JOHNSTON. BOB AND NANCY ARE TWO THIRDS OF THE WRITERS (ALONG WITH NEW YORKER JEFF HOCHHAUSER) OF THE MUSICAL"ANNE AND GILBERT" SO IT'S NOT SURPRISING THAT THEIR SHOWS HAVE A KIND OF CHAOTIC THEATRICALITY.A FEW FACTS ABOUT NANCY WHITE:Most popular c.d.: "MOMNIPOTENT:SONGS FOR WEARY PARENTS/ CD with most erotic cover: "STICKERS ON FRUIT"/ Most surprisng c.d. to be included on: "The World's Greatest Hockey Hits: Vol.1". Native name: Arrives Cranky/ Best old project: Fifteen years writing and singing topical songs for CBC radio's "Sunday Morning"/ Best new project: "ANNE AND GILBERT" - first produced in 2005. This summer there are productions in Summerside,PEI, and in Kingston,Ontario. In the fall, the Kingston production (staged by the 1000 Islands Playhouse in Gananoque) will tour to seven Ontario towns, and there will be a community theatre production, by the Goya theatre group, at the Centrepointe Theatre in Ottawa.(Info at anneandgilbert.com and MySpace.com/anneandgilbertmusic). Uncalled-for talent: ability to whistle through her tongue. Family oddity: She and her three brothers were all born in leap years. Most astonishing honour: Being crowned Miss Manure at Puck's Farm/ Most humbling experience: Trying to do comedy on stage with Wendell Ferguson and the mysterious Roger James/ Best folk festival trick: Organizing Leonard Cohen tributes/ Longtime fear: Putting an eye out while changing guitar strings/ Best children: Suzy Wilde (StoneFox) and Maddy Wilde (Spiral Beach)/ Troubling question: Is being a band mom as embarrassing as being a musician's chick?

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 04/11/2006
Band Members: Nancy White- Vocals, Guitar, Banjo Bob Johnston- Piano, Vocals, John Deere Imitation
Record Label: Borealis Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

MARIPOSA PREVIEW MAY 24,TO.

Please do a little vocal warmup before coming to the MARIPOSA FESTIVAL PREVIEW at the Tranzac, May 24. We will not be held responsible for achy breaky throats! Yes. Those of us planning the Marip...
Posted by on Mon, 18 May 2009 08:16:00 GMT

'ANY OTHER WAY' and Ron Nigrini

I thought it would be fun to put up "Any Other Way" - on the off-chance that country duos looking for duets would stumble upon it and record it and perform it and always fill in a SOCAN form.Ron Nigri...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:51:00 GMT

IN LOVE WITH THE LEAD

I had some special guest singers on the demo of "In Love with the Lead" (2008).Jody Osmond plays the young actress who has a brief monologue at the beginning, and ends the song. Jody is a fabulous New...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:40:00 GMT

MY GOD MY MOM

The mother of teenagers has only one weapon: the power to embarrass, just by being.It's so great. I wrote "My God My Mom" in 1999 when my daughters , Suzy and Maddy Wilde, were thirteen and ten, and p...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:25:00 GMT

BALLERINA IN THE WINGS

"Ballerina in the Wings" was the most expensive song I ever recorded. It's a co-write - something I've rarely done. I was thinking about dancers - the image of perfection they present on stage vs. how...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:39:00 GMT

NANCY SILVERMAN AND R.J.PETERS ARE SENSATIONAL IN NEW SMILE SHOW

I just went to see a preview of The Canadian Comedy Cabaret, the show that's about to do a tour of seniors' residences in Ontario. And since shows like this rarely get reviewed, I wanted to say here ...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:52:00 GMT

LAST CHANCE FOR CANOE SONGS!!!!

CANOE SONGS VOL.1, CANOE SONGS VOL.2: These are great compilation cd's about, well, canoeing, with songs by a bunch of Canadian writer/performers, like James Gordon, Shelley Posen, Ian Tamblyn, Yael ...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:55:00 GMT

Guess how many women won Leacock awards!

This Saturday evening (June 7) I'm hosting the Leacock Awards banquet in Orillia. The Leacock Award goes to the writer who wrote the best humour book the year before. This year's winner is Terry Falli...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:34:00 GMT

Gordon Belsher producing Anne-inspired cd!

Prince Edward Island producer Gordon Belsher is hard at work on a cd I'm sure will have legs, as they say. It's tentatively titled "Believing in Anne", and invited artists were asked to write a song i...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:58:00 GMT

AnneandGilbertmusic MySpace

I’ve just put up a MySpace page for the music of "Anne and Gilbert". It’s a musical written by Bob Johnston, Jeff Hochhauser, and me, and it’s been produced three times in PEI, once ...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:59:00 GMT