Bird by Karyn Ellis

Released with minimal marketing fanfare, Bird has achieved attention across Canada, airing nationally on CBC and receiving spins on campus stations across the country. Karyn has been featured on the homepage of NewMusicCanada.com (an online CBC affiliate), as well as on Zed.cbc.ca, and she was featured on the DigYourRoots.ca website, an initiative of the National Association of Campus Radio (NCRA/ANREC) to promote Canadian indie talent in the Roots genre.

"If you haven't heard this woman sing, you are missing out....what a refreshing new voice!"

--NewMusicCanada.com

Bird's physical packaging itself reflects Karyn's creative grassroots approach to her musical career, each cover of this limited edition release is hand silk-screened and block printed by Karyn herself in "Mathilde's Home Productions headquarters", aka: her living room. Finished with hockey tape, each copy is uniquely numbered.

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WEE BIO:

KARYN ELLIS' FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE was in a singing contest while on vacation with her family in Guadeloupe. Nine years old and with microphone in hand, she chirped out an acappella version of "Hey Little Bird" (Sandy Oppeheim): 'hey little bird sitting in a tree. Let's have lunch together you and me--how about pizza?' The only person under eighteen in the show, she took first place. But she opted out of the prize--a 12-year old bottle of single malt scotch--and instead ordered a round of chocolate ice cream bars for all her new vacation friends.

LATER, KARYN STUDIED OPERA for two years at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. The department frowned on the singing of popular music, however, and in this more formal environment Karyn found it difficult to ignore her musical tastes. When an elective in guitar gave her a way to accompany herself while singing, she took this newfound freedom and flew away from school to travel. She flitted about the streets of Europe busking for train fare and hostel fees, and it wasn't long before she started adding original songs to her repertoire.

SINCE THEN KARYN ELLIS' CREDITS include performing shows with other notable singer/songwriters such as Ann Vriend, Rae Spoon, Justin Rutledge and Jill Barber, and has made appearances at such events and places as the Peterborough Music Festival - mainstage, Edmonton's NextFest, Ontario Council of Folk Festivals showcasing artist, Hugh's Room (Toronto, ON), The Grand Theatre (Kingston, ON), Empress Theatre (Fort MacLeod, AB).

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