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Alison Notkin

About Me


Alison Notkin is a singer-songwriter based in Montreal. She has been into music since the age of five, when she started playing ukelele, singing harmonies and writing funny little songs. She has since developed into a talented guitarist, composer and singer and now writes songs that are no longer funny nor little, but are nevertheless, still quite good.
Alison is currently working on a body of acoustic pop songs which she plans to record in 2009. The sound is a unique blend of pop, bluegrass, and groove music. She has been joined on recent recordings by Solon and Jeremiah McDade on upright bass and fiddle/whistles respectively.
NEWS:
* Check out Eccodek's remix of Pull The Anchor here
* Alison is currently working on her Master's thesis on the communication power of political popular songs. Click here to go to the related blog.
* Check out Alison's July 31st interview on CKUT's Folk Directions archived here.
* Check out the Winter 2008 issue of Sing Out! magazine for the lyrics/chord chart and Alison's recording of her tune "Pull The Anchor."
* "Pull The Anchor" has been recorded by Celtic/World group The McDades and is featured on their 2007 Juno-winning album "Bloom!"

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 30/01/2006
Band Website: www.alisonnotkin.com
Band Members: "Pull the Anchor" and "It's Atypical":
Alison Notkin: guitar and vocals
Solon McDade: upright bass
Jeremiah McDade: fiddle and whistles

"Son of David":
Alison Notkin: guitar and vocals
Influences: The Beatles, The Police, Bjork, Chet Baker, Bonnie Raitt, Alison Krauss, XTC, Mark Knopfler, Edie Brickell, Ed Bickert, Bill Frisell, Ella Fitzgerald, Adrian Belew, Arlo Guthrie, Wayne Shorter, The Grateful Dead, Cannonball Adderley, Kate Rusby, The Brand New Heavies, Andy Summers, Paul McCartney, Neil Young.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

The first post

Hallo!Welcome to my site! Feel free to listen to some tunes or post messages or whatever else all you folks do around these parts. It would be great to hear from you! Been working on some new tunes...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:35:00 GMT