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Anne Schaefer CD release "The Waiting Room…"
Award - winning singer/songwriter, Anne Schaefer follows up her critically acclaimed debut album, “Twelve Easy Pieces” with the much anticipated sophomore album, “The Waiting Room.”
"...a great musician..." Andre Rheume - Radio Canada
"...an exceptional voice, a poet's eye, a courageous heart..." Greg Quill - Toronto Star
"...she breathes talent, rigor and taste..." Alain Brunet - La Presse
“There is no one like Anne Schaefer , she truly is a one of a kind talent that will take you on a fabulous journey with her haunting and colorful melodies, and brilliant lyrics. Her newest album, The Waiting Room, is a beautiful insight into Anne's playful imagination and her musical virtuosity.” – Joby Baker - Producer, Engineer, Musician
Nominated for Album of the Year, 2012 (VIMA) and generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, “The Waiting Room” is a concept collection of songs that sing the internal dialogues and personal sound tacks of a number of colorful characters sitting in a waiting room. Each character sits and waits for change. All are suffering from the human condition.
Recorded with award - winning producer, Joby Baker (Alex Cuba, The Bills, The Cowboy Junkies, Mae Moore) and fleshed out with a stellar lineup of musicians including, Kevin Fox, Scott White, Kelby MacNayr and Adrian Dolan, “The Waiting Room” is a near theatrical ride that takes listeners through the absurdity, loneliness, passion and piss-off’s of life and everything in between. From Dinah, who imagines herself as the superheroine, Black Canary and little Lily who wistfully wishes she could walk through walls and meet some aliens, to Beth who poignantly remembers a lost lover and Jacob who is shocked at the realization that his is suddenly very old even though he still feels like a boy, “The Waiting Room” seems to touch virtually everyone with it’s wit, wisdom, grace and grandeur.
Anne Schaefer
CD Release Concert
The Waiting Room
Thursday, March 1st
Alix Goolden Hall
907 Pandora Avenue
doors 7:30 show 8pm
Anne Schaefer – voice, piano, guitar
Sean Drabitt – upright bass
Kelby MacNayr - drums
Sara Marreiros - voice
Brooke Maxwell - voice
Adrian Dolan – violin, accordion
Zavallennahh Huscroft - fiddola
$20/$18 VJS and UJAM/$15students and seniors
tickets at Larsen Music and Lyle's Place
If none of that info grabs you, Schaefer has also got some pretty good stories about life as a single parent, self employed, independent Canadian musician and the potholes involved in choosing the music industry as a lifestyle.
for more information, media comps or to book an interview, please contact Anne
Listen to a sample from The Waiting Room : Fragile
