Rae Spoon
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Rae Spoon is a Canadian transgender[1] folk/indie singer/songwriter from Calgary, Alberta.
Spoon's breakthrough album, 2008's Superioryouareinferior, was recorded in Calgary and introduced some electronic music elements into Spoon's style.[2]
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[edit] Biography
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Spoon has performed with such artists as Annabelle Chvostek, Ember Swift, Kinnie Starr, Melissa Ferrick, The Be Good Tanyas, Bitch & Animal, Natalie Merchant and Earl Scruggs.
Spoon has performed at festivals including North Country Fair, South Country Fair, Under the Volcano Festival, and the Vancouver, Regina, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, Brandon and Winnipeg folk festivals.
Spoon's 2008 album, Superioryouareinferior, was a longlisted nominee for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize.[3]
[edit] Discography
- Honking At Minivans (2001)
- Throw Some Dirt On Me (2003)
- Your Trailer Door (2005)
- White Hearse Comes Rolling (2006)
- Trucker's Memorial (2006, with Rodney Decroo)
- Superioryouareinferior (2008)
- Worauf Wartest Du? (2009, with Alexandre Decoupigny)
- Love is a Hunter (2010)
- I Can't Keep All of Our Secrets (2012)
[edit] References
- ^ "He said/she said?", SEE Magazine, 2003-05-08, http://www.seemagazine.com/Issues/2003/0508/mus1.htm, retrieved 2007-09-22
- ^ Rae Spoon's Long View. Exclaim!, October 2008.
- ^ http://exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx?csid1=147&csid2=4&fid1=49036
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