Tara MacLean
Presented by: Kitchen Garden| 0 | BIRMINGHAM: Kitchen Garden Cafe (info) |
|---|---|
| P | Tuesday 29th April, 2025 |
| N | Door time: 7:30pm Start time: 8:00pm |
| . | All ages |
| C | Music - Folk/blues/world |
Event information
Canadian singer/songwriter Tara MacLean has been an internationally renowned and award-winning recording and touring artist for 25 years. She released her first album with the Nettwerk Music Group in 1996 and Sony Music Publishing Canada. Since then has been signed with Capitol Records and EMI Canada with her band Shaye. She has made six solo albums and two with the band.
Tara has recently received the Senate of Canada Medal for her activist work in her community. She finished a run of three summer seasons with her hit theatre show that she wrote, produced and directed called, "Atlantic Blue" - The Stories of Atlantic Canada’s Iconic Songwriters in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The summer of 2019 saw "Atlantic Blue" produced by the world-famous Charlottetown Festival playing three nights a week to sold out crowds.
Tara received the SOCAN songwriter of the year award as well as Solo Recording of the Year for her latest album, "Deeper" at the PEI Music Awards in 2020. Deeper was nominated for Pop Album of the Year at ECMA 2020. Her duet with Catherine MacLellan, "This Storm", received the award for Song of the Year. She performed "Songs from Atlantic Blue" in Concert with the PEI Symphony Orchestra. She received the Stompin' Tom Award for outstanding contribution to music in the region at the 2021 ECMAs.
Tara MacLean is an environmental and social justice activist, a zen student, a poet, a playwright, an author, releasing releasing her first book with HarperCollins in 2023 about her life (so far) in music.
“inspiring, painfully honest…funny and heartbreaking” (DIDO).
