Tracey Savein brings an incredible eye (of the lens) capturing special moments in time. Because as the saying goes – A picture is worth a thousand words. “Any kind of photography, as I see it, is all about capturing motion and emotion. Whether the subject is raucous and rockin’ or the location is silent and still, if you can transport the viewer into a moment in time with an image and relay the energy of that moment, well, there’s your photograph.” 

BEATrio - April 25th @ George Weston Recital Hall, Meridian Centre, Toronto

International all-star band, BEATrio featuring Béla Fleck, virtuoso Colombian harpist, Edmar Castañeda and sensational, Mexican jazz drummer, Antonio Sánchez dazzle all at Meridian Centre’s George Weston Recital Hall in Toronto

Jane Siberry has always lived in the liminal space between the practical and the mystical. To hear her describe songwriting is to glimpse a process that is both everyday work and divine unfolding.

“Sometimes it takes years,” she reflects, noting a recent recording that stretched across four years of stop-and-start sessions. The long pauses, far from interruptions, became fertile ground. “Every now and then I get one word that was missing. It’s like tick — and slowly it fills in. Maybe I should just finish it the day before I die.”

 Working on her new 3 disc offering titled “In the Thicket of Own Unconsciousness” with dialogue included as well, marks the next chapter in her artistic journey. “I feel like I’m inching myself toward my prime”, she says.

Her approach is marked by patience, an openness to inspiration, and a refusal to force. She admits there’s “the drudgery of it sometimes,” but she is guided mostly by inspired words and the faith that songs will arrive in their own time. For Siberry, songwriting is less about control than about trust — in herself, in the process, and in the mysterious timing of art.

You hear a lot of loose talk about stepping away from success and getting back to the roots of it all. Of the few who actually walk that walk, put T.Dot's enduringly hot folk eminence Jane Siberry at the top of the list. Early in 2006, Siberry closed her music label and sold or gave away nearly all of her possessions, including her Toronto home and her musical instruments. She changed her name to “Issa” and retained one traveling guitar. “I felt I had to change or die.”Three years of spartan living later, she began using the name “Jane Siberry” again and resumed international touring and recording in 2009.

A disinclination to follow fads, trends and fashions has been Siberry’s signature from the earliest days of her musical career. An unending desire to find and describe the essence of human experience has led her through numerous musical inventions in a multitude of forms, earning her the passionate loyalty of music-lovers world-wide. Siberry is known for her original, adventurous musical vision and her independent journey has contributed to new models for operating as a musician.