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Elaine Taylor

oh the leaping! the leaping!

About Me


{Reviews and Such:}
"...The first thing that I noticed about Elaine Taylor is her incredibly unique, full-bodied voice. Sometimes it's very low, sometimes she swings up to a high lilt. She sings with a very well-enunciated quality, rolling R's out and spitting out hard vowels, and tells grand stories through her songs...it's easy to tell she's well-spoken and well-educated in all things 'art'."
Andy Scheffler, Cord Magazine
"At times, her voice seems as fine as the most subtle chords produced by her acoustic guitar. Her ability to brilliantly turn these around into the most vibrant, unexpected, yet welcoming of lyrical delights, is only superficially explored in what is sure to be the first of many passionate albums.
Taylor's twenty-two and a half minute set featured in solo portends of great things to come, and is refreshingly non-repetitive as the work of one artist. Being too short to showcase her entire repertoire of abilities is the only fault of this album not surmounted by her musical stylings."
Ben Li, Calgary University Gauntlet
"I want to let you know that I enjoyed your performance last night very much. Your music flowed impressively from you with an effective balance of conviction, sensitivity and control. I also found your song introductions to be very captivating and very well delivered indeed. Your stage presence came across as calm, sincere and magnetic."
David Hayes (aka Slagter), 10 time Juno nominee, Vancouver recording veteran
{Thoughts and Quotes:}
"Amazement is the beginning of all knowledge." Plato
"Do what makes you happy. Those who matter won't mind, and those who mind don't matter." Dr. Suess
"The unexamined life isn't worth living." Socrates
"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread." Mother Teresa"
"I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal." Calvin

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/9/2006
Band Members:
Elaine Taylor

{Today's Favourites:}

...banter between songs, singing "Miss Ohio" with greg monforton doing harmony, the ocean, hiking, toasts, clan gatherings, magic tricks, clever lyrics, travelling new places, talking about ideas, lifting my silver weights, all things homesteadish, figuring out the "why" in a situation, justice for the powerless, The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, The UN Charter of Human Rights, sociology and countering manipulation, running into old friends, obsessing over whether to cut my hair, pretty string, studying how Empires (large and small) rise and fall, studying how social agreements work, climbing in the woods, growing roses and other pretty flowers, scatting over weird chord progressions, healing through music, sound and rhythm, dressing in a pretty black dress with heels, dressing in jeans and hiking boots, laughing, studying economics and electromagnetic energy, making blackberry jam, looking at the future by studying a country's past, preparing for the coming winter, watching consecutive LOST episodes until the eyes go blurry...

{Today's Favourite Music:}

early Neil Young, Coldplay, Robert Plant with Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch, Ryan Adams, The Who, old Beatles, 70s singersongwriters sometimes, Jack Johnson, Leonard Cohen, Chili Peppers, Sonny Stitt, Bob Marley, Mother Mother, Erica Mah, Jess Hill

{Current and Recent Reads:}

"A Time is Born" by Gerit Gerrit, "Gods of the Copybook Headings" by Rudyard Kipling, "A Bubble That Broke the Wolrd" by Garet Garrett, pub.1939, "Gold, Gemstone & Mineral Sites of British Columbia" by Rick Husdon, the Ice and Fire fiction series by George R.R. Martin, "Life of Pi" Yann Martel, "Great Expectations" Charles Dickens, "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, "The Universe and the Teacup" by K.C. Cole, "Hotsprings of Western Canada" by Jim Mcdonald, The Poems by Shakespeare, "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

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