It's been a quiet quite while for this thread,
ok.. for some more music..
One of Saskatchewan's vocal treasures, Melanie Hankewich who sings under the name
Belle Plaine, has toured from coast to coast with her honey voiced jazzy, folky, honky tonk sound.
Belle Plaine began career singing when overheard while slinging java in coffee shops in Victoria & Australia and working in lighting booths in theatres..
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.."one of the many lighting designers who said, ‘Do you have a radio on in there, could you shut it off?’ And I’d tell them I was singing, and they’d say, ‘That’s you? Why are you in a booth? You should NOT be in a booth!’,” she says with a laugh."..
http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslif...rairie-to-town
Belle Plaine toured Western Canada last December plus performed with the oldest continueously operating Symphony Orchestra in Canada,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_Symphony_Orchestra, for their inaugural 'Candlelight Christmas', as well she teamed up with Blake Burglund at
Village Guitar in Saskatoon for one of the best versions of
Mercury Blues I've ever heard live recording, & done in only one take.
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https://www.saskmusic.org/main/news/...western-canada
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