Thanks to our friends at The Georgia Straight, Vancouver’s Alt Weekly magazine, you can win tickets to see Elizabeth at a rare matinee show at The Havana Theatre in Vancouver. If you win, you also get a signed copy of her brand new album REWIND. To enter the contest, click here. Contest closes April 20.... Read More
CBC Music’s Li Robbins interviewed Elizabeth about Rewind and how the album came to be. Here’s the piece that ran on the CBC Music site: Elizabeth Shepherd is known as a maverick when it comes to jazz singing – someone who sings her own, original material. (Not something you can say of too many jazz... Read More
The new album is here! Souljazz innovator Elizabeth Shepherd is best known for her original material but on her 4th studio album Rewind she shows off her skills as an arranger and interpreter, breathing new life – and soul – into songs both familiar and forgotten. Some of them are well-known standards; others are obscure songs or French tunes that... Read More
Time is speeding up. Ever since the arrival of my daughter, Sanna, I’ve noticed that whether I’m relishing watching her perform the most simple task with increasing precision or waiting for her to fall asleep (please God) so I can catch a few more winks myself, the underlying truth of the matter is this: the... Read More
Elizabeth wrapped up her spring tour and 14 months of globe-trotting in support of her much acclaimed third album Heavy Falls the Night with a memorable show at the beautiful Trinity St Paul’s church in Toronto this past Sunday. The Globe and Mail, Canada’s leading national newspaper, dispatched music writer J.D. Considine to cature the... Read More
Elizabeth will wrap up her Spring Tour at Trinity St Paul’s United Church in Toronto on April 17 with her first big hometown show since her sold-out CD release at Glenn Gould Studio in March 2010. The two-time JUNO nominee spent much of the past 14 months touring in Japan, Europe, Canada, and the US,... Read More
Elizabeth Shepherd has again been nominated for “Jazz Artist of the Year” by The Canadian Independent Music Awards, known as “The Indies”. Elizabeth won the award in 2007. The winners of The Indies are determined by a combination of fan and industry voting. In other words, you can help Elizabeth win by going here to... Read More
Thanks to the good folks at Exclaim (that’s our leading national music magazine for you non-Canadians), you can win a copy of Elizabeth’s latest album Heavy Falls the Night and, better yet, tickets to any show on her Canadian Spring Tour. Tickets are on sale now but many of the shows will definitely sell out... Read More
The Indies, the 11th annual Independent Music Awards, have nominated Elizabeth Shepherd for Jazz Artist of the Year. This Grammys-of-the-Indie scene, the closing party of Canadian Music Week, has quickly become a media flashpoint and major trolling ground for music fans and tastemakers searching for the next wave of music superstars. This year, Arcade Fire and The... Read More
Elizabeth Shepherd spent much of 2010 touring in Japan, Europe, Canada, and the US, selling out legendary clubs from Tokyo to Detroit. Having had a few months off, Elizabeth will soon be hitting the road again in support of of her hugely successful 2010 album Heavy Falls the Night. In March, Elizabeth and her band will set out on... Read More
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