Serena Postel

"Serena Postel is the real deal....unbridled soul, bottomless energy and captivating intensity, it's what they call real talent. You can't teach what she's got at the core of her music; you either have it or you don't. She has it in spades." - Aaron Garner (singer-songwriter, Toronto) Riddled with a manic propensity for introspection, this Winnipeg born and raised singer-songwriter began her musical journey by grabbing an abandoned back-lane guitar and going toe-to-toe poetically with her own reflection and imagination.

Soon after, local film producer Kevin Doherty discovered Serena busking the streets of Winnipeg. Surprised and verily impressed with her fire, he invited her to provide some music for a project he was casting. Not only was her song Lullaby used in Doherty's 2007 film release, Wild Turkeys, but sensing a certain je ne sais quoi, he later cast her as the bitchy store clerk in the film (Cinderella happily wore the slipper).

Serena has lent her voice to other Manitoba musicians such as Jet Set Satellite for an acoustic remake of a song from their first record also featuring Martha Wainwright. She also provided backup vocals for renowned multi-talent Scott Hinkson's 2006 full length release of Tracking Outside In.

Hinkson and Serena's mutual respect and appreciation for each others music led to his producing her debut release entitled Spare Change (November 2006). Hinkson truly captured the essence and haunting elements of the many moods of Serena's music on this EP. Spare Change offers rich textures of fierce guitar riffs, e-bow leads, smooth arrangements which never overshadow Serena's powerful voice that together is pleasing to a broad spectrum of genres.

Serena is an intense performer and tears into her songs. Her disarming sense of humour, playful wit and teasing nature, balance her deeply contemplative and raw lyrics. "Serena is a hurricane force vortex of emotion, her ferocious performances are something to behold and be reckoned with." - Dan Frechette Serena endures in the mind of anyone who has had the pleasure of experiencing her live and are left with a personal sense or relationship to her and her songs, no matter what the venue size.

Home recently from a successful tour in Canada's West Coast, Serena is preparing for the festival season with summer ending and fall beginning on an extended Canadian Tour. Serena's homecoming will take her back to the studio where plans for her second, full length, release are already underway.

"Serena Postel possess a raw, feminine talent of which the music world in in dire need. Her rapier wit is a formidable weapon in both her lyricism and her stage banter. She is Winnipeg's firecracker." - Nathan Rogers