Valery Gore

"Gore's Cryptic cabaret-tone poems are a revelation for those who prefer their pop with some assembly required." -Stuart Berman, Eye Magazine
Valery Gore possesses the ability to dissolve the boundaries between age, time, and music. She is as in love with the past as she is obsessed with the modernity of strange, subtle noises and how a piano is meant to sound when its keys fall under her fingers.
Valery began piano lessons at eight years old in a white wooden house on a quaint tree-lined street, by the public school in the small town of Ridgeway, Ontario. She was the girl exposing four-hundred peers to F.E. Vanderbeck, Queen and Chopin at her school assemblies. Classically trained, schooled in Jazz at Humber College, and raised on pop and soul, the young Valery is already a songwriter to be reckoned with.
She has toured and shared shows with acts such as Joel Plaskett, Jorane, Josh Ritter, Peter Elkas, Luke Doucet, Justin Rutledge, Jill and Matt Barber, Tracy Bonham, Lindy, Simon Wilcox, Brian Byrne, Dallas Green, and many others.
In the weeks following its Canadian release, Valery Gore's debut album reached college charts between Fredericton and Victoria.
Gore's self titled debut was released in the Benelux (Six Shooter/Bertus) June 2006, and Germany (Six Shooter/Cargo Records) in September 2006 to excellent reviews. Around the same time, the video for Dancing (VideoFact) spent a few weeks on Bravo Video's Top 30.
Valery recently toured Tokyo and performed with many Japanese artists. Now working away to record her second album in early 2007, more release details are on the way.
Prominent influences for Valery have been Tori Amos, Ben Folds, Elliott Smith, Fiona Apple, Bjork, Laura Nyro, Rufus Wainwright, Van Morrison and Paul Simon.
For booking enquiries please contact Tom Kemp at Feldman & Associates: [email protected]