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Jenn Grant

orchestra for the moon

About Me

Purchase Jenn's 2005 debut EP at Maple Music.
Jenn Grant, born in Prince Edward Island, now lives in Halifax where she is a singer/songwriter and painter.Jenn was invited to record her first full length album at CBC's Studio H in Halifax. It was produced by Glen Meisner of the CBC along with Jason MacIsaac and Dave Christensen of "The Heavy Blinkers". There are many special guests on the recording, (Jill Barber, Ron Sexsmith, Matt Mays, Rose Cousins, Dale Murray and many others) and Grant has also been fortunate enough to share the stage with some of her favorites like Feist, Julie Doiron, Ron Sexsmith, Josh Ritter and most recently toured this fall with The Great Lake Swimmers and then The Weakerthans.Last year she completed a month long tour in Germany as well other dates in France, England, Switzerland, Luxembourg and most recently Northern Ireland. The summer brought a special invite to the Edmonton Folk Festival and then some performances in NYC. She returns this fall for more US dates to follow.Grant continues to write songs and tour in support of "Orchestra for the Moon" and looks forward to recording her next album. She thrives on the artistic beauty of all her friends.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/27/2005
Band Website: jenngrant.com
Band Members: Jenn Grant- Guitar and vocals The Night Painters are: Sean MacGIllivray- Bass and backing vocals/ Dave Christensen- Electric organ and Flute/ Kris Pope- Slide and electric guitar/ Kinley Dowling- Violin Glen Nicholson. sometimes.- drums
Influences: All kinds of artists and ideas and towns and people. Oceans and friends and family.
Sounds Like:
Record Label: Paris 1919
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

O HOLY NIGHT on the myspace jukebox

Hi everyone, To help everyone get into the spirit of christmas, I recorded a wee christmas E.P. the other night. Perhaps it will be part of a much larger christmas album in the years that follow, per...
Posted by Jenn Grant on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 06:07:00 PST

Pictures from the casbah show

http://new.photos.yahoo.com/mligon/album/576460762373928923 ..
Posted by Jenn Grant on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 06:43:00 PST

new Casbah review on FOR THE 'RECORDS'

http://mligon08.blogspot.com/ Snoeshoe Song  --> permalink code -->  concert review: Jenn Grant and The Night Painters @ The Casbah(Toronto, Ontario), December 13, 2006With the multiple ...
Posted by Jenn Grant on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 06:42:00 PST

new acoustic songs now on line!

Hi everyone, recently I did a radio session for Trish Turliuk! Click on the link below to hear acoustic versions of new songs "Dancing In The Wind", "Rainy Day", and "In A Brown House" -Jennhttp://tri...
Posted by Jenn Grant on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 06:40:00 PST

COUNTRY PINBALL MACHINE REVIEW

Tuesday, December 19, 2006 Based on the recommendation of Frank over at chromewaves and looking for something to do I headed down to the Alex P. Keaton on Friday night to check out Jenn Grant. Jen...
Posted by Jenn Grant on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:12:00 PST

new CHROMEWAVES review with lots a pictures!

http://www.chromewaves.net/     Dreamer So yeah, that was it. The streak ends at 1050 days. Mark it. Felt good. Now let's get on with our lives.It's been a while since I was last at the Dra...
Posted by Jenn Grant on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:18:00 PST

Six Eyes reviews new single from ORCHESTRA FOR THE MOON

http://sixeyes.blogspot.com/   Jenn Grant The honeyed-warmth of Haligonian Jenn Grant's vocals will be enough to garner her fans wherever her music is played and she performs. A recent gra...
Posted by Jenn Grant on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:51:00 PST

CHART ATTACK: Jenn Grant Takes Symphonic Sounds To The Moon

Halifax's Jenn Grant is a philharmonic maestro by day and an ardent painter by twilight. The kittenish songwriter recently took home Best New Artist and Best Female Artist at this year's Nova Scotia M...
Posted by Jenn Grant on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 08:27:00 PST

Sometimes people say the nicest things..

Friday, November 17, 2006Dreamer Jenn Grant-Ever since I saw Prince Edward Island native Jenn Grant perform last year in Hamilton, Ontario at The Casbah as vocalist of a trio configuration of The Hea...
Posted by Jenn Grant on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 07:22:00 PST

That's Fucking Dynamite -By Matt Charlton

This song is from Jenn Grant..s forthcoming debut, full-length album..and holy f..in moses it..s good.I..ve never been one for hometown pride when it comes to music. If it..s good I..ll listen, if it....
Posted by Jenn Grant on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:55:00 PST