LYNN MILES25 YEARS IN SONG

Presented with CBC Radio's All in a Day

In Person Music

Friday

Oct , 2012

8:30pm

Eastern

Knox Presbyterian Church

120 Lisgar st. (at Elgin) • Ottawa

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Lynn’s music often draws on her love of literature and poetry, but her magic as a songwriter is also in her ability to take life experiences and interpret them in a way that people relate to.

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Alan Neal, host of All In A Day on CBC Radio One, 91.5 FM in Ottawa, will join Lynn on stage to chat about 25 years of making music. Listen to Lynn perform her songs, and learn about the stories behind her music. There might even be a surprise guest or two.

It’s an evening of music, memories, and a whole lot of fun. It’s your chance to tell Lynn Miles what her music means to you. And if you feel really inspired, listen to All In A Day for a special songwriting competition. The winner will join Lynn on stage to perform! Vote for the winning song here!

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Here's Lynn Miles on CBC Music
Alan recently spoke with Lynn about her new album Black Flowers Volume 3

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Lynn Miles

The music of Lynn Miles is truly one of a kind. Not only is she one of Canada's best singer-songwriters, she's one of the best, period. Hers is a voice that stands out, it's a voice that knows the ways and long twisting back roads of the world, a voice that has lived and conveys that living through every song. It's a voice we all know. It sings of love, loss, coping, travel, sense of place and purpose, broken promises, what get's us through, what doesn't, how we defy the odds, making a perfectly beautiful human mess of things along the way. As she sings in one of her songs, "It's not the hurt, it's what you've built around it, it's bitter and it's tall, you practice being cool and confident for so long now, you got yourself a wall, not everybodys gonna understand, so that's why they might say, try not to be so sad." Lynn's is a music that understands, that breaks through the wall around our hearts and speaks truth to our lives. New York Times music critic, John Pareles wrote that Miles' music "makes forlorn feel like a state of grace.” Lynn has 14 Albums to her credit, has won a Juno and four Canadian Folk Music Awards. She teaches song writing at Carleton University and has produced four albums for other artists. American singer songwriter and Grammy nominee Claire Lynch recently recorded Lynn’s song “Black Flowers” on her new CD “North by South”. http://www.lynnmilesmusic.com/biography.html