A concert by Juno-Award winner Connie Kaldor will be held this Sunday (Sept. 14) at 7:30 p.m. at the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center. General admission is $15; $12 advance sale.
Connie lives in Montreal and was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. Her nine albums tell stories of heartache and joy on the Canadian prairie, but always with an energetic and sweetly undercutting sense of humor.
"Just when you think you've got it all figured out, something roars in and it turns you about."
Connie Kaldor wrote this and more about the unexpected twists and turns of life and love for her latest album Love is a Truck. She could well have been writing about her personal artistic complexities. Music pundits have tried to define the essence of the prairie-born acoustic performer for over two decades but even the most eloquent have fallen short of perfection.
Fact is, Connie Kaldor is a performer without borders. A contradiction in terms. She is a Juno-award winning (the Canadian grammy) singer who has flourished on the folk music scene for over two decades yet her repertoire of original material blurs musical boundaries, embracing elements of gospel, rock, country and western, folk, blue grass and adult contemporary.
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Like many prairie girls in the 50's and 60's, Connie grew up singing in the church choir and listening to Patsy Cline and The Beatles on her record player. But it wasn't until the 1980's after four years spent performing with an avant garde theatre company in Toronto that Connie turned to music full time and was welcomed by the folk scene.
A musical bard whose music and lyrics have diverse appeal-appropriated for everything from anger management workshops for men to economic news letters to soundtracks for film. "She's tough and she's tender. She sings with love and with anger...indecently talented. " Toronto Star
