Award-winning American Bluegrass pioneer, Claire Lynch, has been on her first tour through the prairies, with the final stop being the Dekker Centre for the Performing Arts in North Battleford.
"This is our first organized and extensive tour of Western Canada. I imagine we will meet up with friends and acquaintances from Alberta and Manitoba, but I've never been to Saskatchewan or Calgary,鈥� says Lynch, who makes her home in Nashville. 鈥淚鈥檓 really looking forward to exploring more of such a vast and beautiful place."
North Battleford鈥檚 performance will take place Sunday, Oct. 25.
Lynch has had two Grammy nominations, three International Bluegrass Music Association Female Vocalist Awards and a United States Artists Walker Fellowship. Recently, she received two trophies at the 2014 International Bluegrass Music Association Awards: Song of the Year, Dear Sister, a co-write with Louisa Branscomb; and Recorded Event of the Year, Wild Montana Skies, a collaboration with Rob Ickes and Special Consensus on their Compass Records Country Boy tribute to John Denver.聽
While Emmylou Harris hails Lynch as having the 鈥渧oice of an angel,鈥� Dolly Parton, whom Lynch has lent harmonies on several records, believes it鈥檚 her solo material that truly stands out. Parton says, 鈥淪he has one of the sweetest, purest and best lead voices in the music business today. I鈥檓 so happy to see her shine on her own.鈥�
Named by HYPERLINK "http://DigitalJournal.com/"DigitalJournal.com as one of the 鈥�10 best angelic voices of our time鈥� alongside icons like Judy Collins, Sarah McLachlin and Alison Krauss, Lynch is a legend in her own right.
On tour, Lynch will be backed by the members of her white-hot Claire Lynch Band, which features soulful, young gun Bryan McDowell (fiddle-mandolin), 20-something virtuoso Jarrod Walker (mandolin-guitar) and A-Lister Mark Schatz (bass-banjo).
In addition to North Battleford, Lynch will play Dauphin, Man., Saskatoon and the Alberta venues of Sherwood Park, Grande Prairie, Athabasca, Rocky Mountain House, Calgary, Red Deer and Turner Valley.
