Christine Fellows
Christine Fellows | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | 1968 (age 55–56) Windsor, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Folk rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, keyboards |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Labels | Six Shooter |
| Website | christinefellows |
Christine Fellows (born 1968) is a Canadian folk-pop singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
History
Born in Windsor, Ontario and raised in France and Kelowna, British Columbia, Fellows lived in Toronto, Vancouver, Guelph and Montreal before settling in Winnipeg in 1992.
In 1993, she formed her first group, Helen, with Barry Mirochnick, Paul James, and Chang. Helen broke up in 1995, and in 1996 Fellows teamed up with singer-songwriter Keri McTighe, Barry Mirochnick, Keith McLeod and Peggy Messing, to form Special Fancy. The group released one album, King Me.
In 2000 Fellows released her debut solo album, 2 Little Birds. This was followed by The Last One Standing in 2002, Paper Anniversary in 2005, and Nevertheless in 2007. These albums feature Leanne Zacharias (cello), Jason Tait (drums, vibraphone), Barry Mirochnick (drums, vocals), John K. Samson (vocals, guitar), Keith McLeod (mandolin), Monica Guenter (viola), Greg Smith (bass), Ed Reifel (percussion), and Cristina Zacharias (violin).
Fellows has performed with the Rheostatics, Veda Hille, The Mountain Goats, Kim Barlow, Martin Tielli, Old Man Luedecke and The Weakerthans. She is married to The Weakerthans' lead singer, John K. Samson.[1]
In 2006, Fellows and Samson recorded The Old House, an album intended only as a Christmas gift for friends and family, although they released two songs, "Taps Reversed" and "Good Salvage", for airplay on CBC Radio 3 in early 2007. Fellows and Samson also performed live on the network on 17 March 2007, to mark the final night of the network's terrestrial simulcast on CBC Radio 2.
Fellows also composes music for dance, film, and television. She scored part of Clive Holden's Trains of Winnipeg film series, as well as collaborating with Tait and Samson on the associated album. In 2007, she wrote several songs for a dance piece by choreographer Susie Burpee; they were later included on her fourth solo album, Nevertheless, which was released on 6 November 2007.
Fellows has also toured as a member of The Pan-Canadian New Folk Ensemble with Kim Barlow and Old Man Luedecke,[2] and often collaborates with visual artist Shary Boyle.
She was artist-in-residence at Le Musée de Saint-Boniface Museum in Winnipeg for 2009. Her fifth studio album, Femmes de chez nous includes a live performance film/DVD of the September 2009 premiere of Reliquary/Reliquaire, the commissioned performance work she created for the museum.[3]
In 2011, Samson, Fellows and Sandro Perri participated in the National Parks Project, working with filmmaker Daniel Cockburn to produce and score a short film about Ontario's Bruce Peninsula National Park.[4] She also was the sound designer for the National Film Board of Canada web documentary God's Lake Narrows.[5]
Her 2014 album Burning Daylight was released jointly with a poetry collection of the same name.[6]
She is currently an adjunct professor in the University of British Columbia's creative writing program.
Most recently, Samson, Fellows, Ashley Au and Jason Tait collaborated on the music for For the Turnstiles, a dance performance by Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers troupe inspired by Neil Young's 1974 album On the Beach.[7] In 2016, Fellows and Tait coproduced Samson's new solo album Winter Wheat.[8]
Discography
- 2000: 2 Little Birds (Endearing Records)
- 2002: The Last One Standing (Six Shooter)
- 2005: Paper Anniversary (Six Shooter)
- 2007: Nevertheless (Six Shooter)
- 2011: Femmes de chez nous (Six Shooter)
- 2014: Burning Daylight
- 2018: Roses on the Vine
References
- ^ "John K. Samson and Christine Fellows" Archived 28 September 2011(Date mismatch) at the Wayback Machine. Discorder, 4 December 2009.
- ^ "The Pan-Canadian New Folk Ensemble Fall Tour 2008" Vue Weekly, 23 October 2008.
- ^ Christine Fellows
- ^ "John K. Samson, Christine Fellows and Sandro Perri "Bruce Beckons" (National Parks Project) (video)" Archived 26 November 2013(Date mismatch) at the Wayback Machine. Exclaim!, 17 May 2011.
- ^ "Winnipeg artist Kevin Lee Burton shares surprising glimpse of his hometown". CBC Manitoba. 25 June 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
- ^ "Christine Fellows' latest work evolved from album to multimedia art project". Winnipeg Free Press, 23 September 2014.
- ^ "John K. Samson Scores Neil Young-Inspired Project in Winnipeg". Exclaim!, 29 April 2015.
- ^ "John K. Samson Returns with 'Winter Wheat' Solo LP, Shares New Single". Exclaim!, 15 August 2016.
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- 1968 births
- Living people
- Canadian folk singer-songwriters
- Canadian pop pianists
- Musicians from Kelowna
- Musicians from Windsor, Ontario
- Musicians from Winnipeg
- Six Shooter Records artists
- Canadian indie pop musicians
- Canadian women poets
- 21st-century Canadian poets
- Writers from British Columbia
- Writers from Windsor, Ontario
- Writers from Winnipeg
- Canadian women pop singers
- Canadian women pianists
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- 20th-century Canadian women singers
- 21st-century Canadian women singers
- 21st-century Canadian pianists
- Canadian women singer-songwriters
- 20th-century women pianists
- 21st-century women pianists