Juno-Nominated Singer/Songwriter Lisa Hartt Releases Heartfelt New Single “Best Friend”

Fri Jan 23, 2026
Lisa Hartt

Lisa Hartt is Montreal-born, Canadian singer/songwriter and a Juno Nominee in the 70’s when she as the lead singer of The Lisa Hartt Band, which garnished her a hit single with ‘Old Time Movie’, which put her name into the Canadian music industry archives for eternity. She was awarded the Cashbox Legacy Award in 2023 at the Canadian Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, while she was on tour there. 
Now Lisa Hartt is about to release her new heartfelt song dedicated to her “Best Friend”.

We caught up with Lisa Hartt at her home in Toronto, Canada.

"‘Best Friend’ began as a conversation I wasn’t yet ready to finish.”

Juno Nominated Singer Songwriter Lisa Hartt Releases New Single “Quiet Spaces” from Upcoming EP Hiraeth

Fri Oct 17, 2025
Lisa Hartt

Juno-nominated, acclaimed singer-songwriter Lisa Hartt returns with “Quiet Spaces”, a soul-stirring new single from her forthcoming EP Hiraeth. Following the hauntingly beautiful “Nobody’s Wife”, this new song deepens the journey of love, loss, and spiritual connection that Hart began after the death of her beloved husband Michael in 2022.

"The lyric for "Nobody's Wife" came to me fully formed out of a dream in those early nightmarish days when I still awoke at 2 am, thinking I heard Michael coughing or moving about, and then realizing in a moment of clarity that he is gone."

Don Graham and Lisa Hartt: Full Circle at Café Mariposa

Fri Aug 29 2025
Don Graham and Lisa Hartt

Who says you can’t go home? Veteran troubadours Lisa Hartt and Don Graham will return to the city where it all started. On Saturday, September 13th the two native Montrealers, are set to share the bill at Montreal’s premier listening room, Cafe Mariposa in NDG.

They both started off at the same time and played and hung out at a lot of the same coffee houses, and small clubs like Café Andre. Later, they both had careers as recording artists, Lisa with The Lisa Hartt Band, “Old Time Movie” and Don with Graham County, “Colorado”, performing with bands. They both toured extensively, soaking up experiences that would serve them well in developing songwriting craft down the line. As the years went by they both developed into singer/ songwriters and solo performers.

 In recent years they’ve done numerous shows together in Toronto, Oakville, and other spots in Ontario and most recently in Sweden over the last couple of years at the Lilla By Festivalen in Rinkaby. This will be the first time performing in Montreal together, so it’s a real homecoming and full circle moment.

Lisa Hartt Releases Hypnotic New Video Offering for Release of “The Night I Learned to Dance.”

Sat Mar 23, 2024
Lisa Hartt
(l-r) Lisa Hartt & Pat Nunn at the Pyramids 1971
(l-r) Lisa Hartt & Pat Nunn at the Pyramids 1971

Lisa Hartt has had quite a whirlwind year, launching her career back full steam ahead with single releases, an EP release, 2 tours to Sweden, the first being the amazing time she was greeted at Lilla By Festivalen as the Canadian legend she truly is. She deserves that recognition for a story long untold about her collaboration with Sweden’s hero, Ted Gardestad.

The Second Round of Cashbox Radio Christmas Indie Pick Hits Added to Rotation

Fri Dec 01 2023
Cashbox Radio

As the season is upon us, Cashbox Radio, like most stations at this time, is busy putting the rotation list together of the old standards as well as the 2023 Indie Releases that we feel deserve airplay and attention.

The Second Cashbox Radio Christmas Pick Hits are:

(in alphabetical order)

Don Graham –Make Every Day Like it Was Christmas Day

Don Graham –Make Every Day Like it Was Christmas Day

Len Mizzino – It’s Christmas

Len Mizzino – It’s Christmas

The Canadians Are Coming

Fri Jul 21 2023
Barry Stagg

Look out Rinkaby, Sweden, the Canadians are coming! They say good things come in threes and this summer three seasoned Canadian recording artists are setting sail for Sweden to prove that axiom true.

Canadian-born Lisa Hartt, Barry Stagg and Don Graham are packing their stories, songs and six strings and heading across the sea to hit the stages at the Lilla By Festival in Rinkaby on the Baltic Sea. This is the 3rd year of this festival, founded and produced by Jonas Tancred and Malin Östh, both performers in the successful Swedish duo Bara Jonson and Free.

Don Graham performed at last year’s 3rd Annual Lilly By Festivalen and it will be the first time for Hartt and Stagg to experience the magic of the “little festival” by the bay. This is Don’s second year playing at the event and he is thrilled to be joined stages this year with both Lisa and Barry who has known for most of his early musical career days in Canada.

Iconic Artists from Canada and Sweden to Celebrate Legendary Artist Ted Gärdestad

Fri Jul 07, 2023
Ted Gärdestad

Rarely Seen Footage of Sweden’s icon Ted Gärdestad and Canada’s Treasure Lisa Hartt Resurfaces

Ted Gärdestad
Ted Gärdestad

No stranger to success, and the challenges of mental health and wellness that come with being in the spotlight, Lisa Hartt was recently asked to perform in Rinkaby, Sweden for the Lilla By Festivalen, a small boutique festival nestled in a family friendly setting. As well, Lisa will appear on a panel as an Ambassador for the Drive Foundation Canada to discuss mental wellness in the music industry.

Canadian Singer/Songwriter Lisa Hartt Releases “Tell the Truth” From Upcoming Arrival Album

Fri Mar 10 2023
Lisa Hartt

Lisa Hartt's new EP, "Arrival," is a deeply personal and heartfelt collection of songs that has been 40 years in the making. The second single, "Tell the Truth," is out now. Check it out on YouTube here:

 Lisa was born in Montreal but grew up in La Tuque and Dorval, Quebec. At the tender age of 10, she embarked on a long music career, taking her to many parts of the world, which included London and Cairo. During the 1960s and 1970s, Lisa toured extensively with various established musicians before returning to Canada, where she founded The Lisa Hartt Band. Throughout the 80s and 90s, Lisa explored multiple genres of music before eventually combining her vocal talents with world instruments and the ancient practice of reiki. As a result, she became a reiki master and developed her music into a holistic and transformative experience.

What the World Needs Now is Love

Fri Feb 03, 2023
What the World Needs Now is Love

What a truly strange and stressful few years we have all experienced! COVID, wars, tragedies, hurricanes, tornados, short of locusts we have experienced it all. (Maybe I shouldn’t have mentioned locusts and invited that one in!)

But throughout it all we have had music. There is a song for every moment, every memory we have had in our lives. Artists carried on providing us with new songs to keep us going. Legendary artists are touring reminding us about the soundtrack of our lives.

So with music always there – what else do we need? Love. It always ends up as important as breathing and our hearts beating.

What better way to celebrate February the month of love with Cashbox Canada and Cashbox Radio than to create a Pick Hit list of what we love as our favourite songs.

We kick it off with an amazing rendition of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David-penned song, What the World Needs Now is Love. Released in 2018 this cover features

Burt Bacharach, Steve Tyrell, Martina McBride, Rod Stewart, James Taylor & Dionne Warwick and truly is remarkable.

Check it out on YouTube here:

Lisa Hartt Arrival

Fri Nov 11, 2022
Lisa Hartt Arrival

Cover Photo Credit: Michael Spillane

Canadian treasure Lisa Hartt is back on the airwaves with a moving tribute to her late brother, Christopher, with a song entitled "Don't Tell Me How I Feel".

Watch and listen to "Don't Tell Me How I Feel" on YouTube here: