Creative Living with Jamie: Tanya Davis

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This podcast is 25:35.

This week’s guest: Tanya Davis, poet, storyteller, musician & singer-songwriter

Website: Tanya Davis.ca
Facebook Fanpage: Tanya Davis Facebook Fanpage
How to be Alone Videopoem: How to be Alone
Subtlety: Subtlety
Sonic Bids: Sonic Bids
Twitter: @tanyadavismusic
Myspace: My Space

Tanya Davis is a poet. She is a storyteller. She is a musician and a singer-songwriter and she fuses these elements together in a refreshing matrimony of language and sound, side-stepping genre and captivating audiences in the process. With the release of her third album, Clocks and Hearts Keep Going (Nov 2010), she affirms her well-earned place in the ranks of thoughtful and hard-working Canadian Artists.

Since bursting onto the Halifax music scene in 2006 with her debut, Make a List, Tanya has garnered praise from industry, audience, and peers, as well as multiple award nominations, including one for her sophomore release, Gorgeous Morning, for the 2009 ECMA Female Recording of the Year. She is a 2 time winner in the CBC National Poetry Face-off as well as the Canadian Winner of the 2008 Mountain Stage NewSong contest. In 2009, with support from Bravo, she collaborated with independent filmmaker Andrea Dorfman to produce a short videopoem entitled How to Be Alone; 8 months after being posted on Youtube it has over 3 million views and has been posted on countless websites and blogs around the world, from Brazil to China. It’s also been featured at numerous film festivals, including The Worldwide Short Film Festival and the VideoPoetry Festival (Berlin) and recently won Tanya the Video of the Year Award from Music Nova Scotia.

Hearts and Clocks Keep Going, was produced in collaboration with celebrated artist Jim Bryson. This album, like those before it, features strongly Tanya’s unique and vulnerable style, full of poignant lyrics, catchy melodies, and expressive, if unconventional, arrangements. She is currently at work on a feature-length show based in music and performance poetry, as funded by The Canada Council for the Arts and was recently commissioned to write and perform an original piece for the Opening Ceremonies of the 2011 Canada Winter Games. Her first book, At first, lonely, will be published in June 2011 by Acorn Press.

Show Notes…

I talked about being at Chris Guillebeau’s World Domination Summit. I mentioned that I’ve made a slide show of both my experience in Portland (all the places I name are linked to in that post) and also at the opening night party.
I also shared observations inspired by Jonathan Fields and Karen Walrond
I mentioned the Year of Dreams and Circe’s Circle.
Tanya spoke of being named Poet Laureate in Halifax.
Tanya talked about her friend artist and filmmaker Andrea Dorfman.
She mentioned her video How to Be Alone.
I referred to creating your Crazy Wild Ass Budget.

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