Ana Miura to Headline Acoustic Waves at GCTC

February 25, 2010 · Filed Under Festival News, News

Ottawa Folk Festival, in partnership with the GCTC is pleased to present the fourth of five shows in the 2009-10 Acoustic Waves concert series on March 14th, 2010 featuring hometown darling Ana Miura, a mainstay of the Ottawa music scene.

Well-known on Ottawa’s festival stages, Miura was invited by Bruce Cockburn to share the stage with him, Joel Plaskett, & Steven Page as last summer’s Ottawa Folk Festival, and has also opened for Sarah Harmer and Jeremy Fisher.

Her new album, “The Kindness of Years” is her first full-length recording, a much-anticipated follow-up to her debut EP “Tenacious Heart” in 2005 and limited release “Mercury Rising” in 2007.

This time out, Miura was recorded and produced by Ross Murray (Mighty Popo, Lynn Miles, Lynne Hanson), whom she describes as a brilliant mindreader. “Ross created the sound I always heard in my head but never knew how to express,” says Miura. “He took my songs and shaped them into a sonic picture.”

Miura’s “folky style is reminiscent of artists such as Sarah McLachlan, Joni Mitchell and Jewel,” writes Lynn Saxberg, Ottawa Citizen music critic. “At each performance, [she] charms a few more people with the delicate power of her songs. She specializes in bittersweet love songs, singing them in a voice that shimmers with cool beauty and accompanying herself with a sure hand on acoustic guitar.”

Miura recently took on a new role as General Manager of the Ottawa Folk Festival, but continues as Chair of Babes for Breasts, an organization she founded that takes female singer-songwriters across Canada to raise money for breast cancer charities. To date, the “Babes” have raised more than $45,000 dollars.

The diminutive singer-songwriter with the big voice and even bigger heart will take to the stage of the Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre (1233 Wellington, at Holland) at 8 pm on Sunday, March 14th. Tickets are $22 and available at the GCTC box office. The fifth show in the series will be James Hill and Anne Davison on April 25th.

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