Gwen Swick
   "Vibrant with musical imagination"

    

GWEN SWICK was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and has lived in various parts of Canada, including Edmonton, Ottawa and Toronto. She has now settled with her family in the picturesque village of Elora, Ontario. 

Gwen Swick's
 Love and Gold
1. Amazed mp3 7. Catsong mp3
2. Emily mp3 8. Take a little nap
3. All thing can change 9. I don't care to try love again mp3
4. Call me Juliette 10. Pamela
5. All I know is I want you mp3 11, Middle of a hurricane
6.Faith that I'd find you 12. I want a little tugboat
  13. Call
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Gwen Swick Performances


Her performances include folk festivals, clubs and concerts, Vision TV's "Listen Up", and many CBC Radio shows, including "Swinging On A Star", and "Performance". Her music has been choreographed, performed in a Toronto-staged musical, and is heard in National Film Board, CBC and independent films, and on radio across Canada and Europe. 

 As well as maintaining her active solo career, Gwen has sung, played bass and recorded with CHERIE CAMP and SHIRLEY EIKHARD in THREE MARIAS, MENDELSON JOE, TAMARACK, CATHERINE McKINNON & DON HARRON, ROBERT PRIEST, NANCY SIMMONDS, and COLLEEN PETERSON, and has provided background vocals on many other recordings, as well as maintaining her own career as a performer and songwriter.
 
 GWEN'S music melds elements of folk, country, rock and blues into an unusual and beautiful composite style. Her most recent recording "A PEBBLE OF MERCY" co-produced with RICK HUTT, featured a 'who's who' of talented, committed musicians and singers, including her husband RANDALL CORYELL, DAVID WILCOX, ELLEN McILWAINE, and SHIRLEY EIKHARD. The CD is currently receiving substantial play, particularly in Europe. One of the songs, " I SHOULD FEEL EMPTY "(Real Audio), was picked up b y the L.A. based SCOTTI BROS. label for their soundtrack CD from the movie, "NEVER TALK TO STRANGERS" with ANTONIO BANDERAS and REBECCA DeMORNAY. 

 GWEN joined QUARTETTE as a permanent member in January of 1997. 

Quotes about Gwen Swick
 "With the finely developed lyrical sense of a natural poet, Gwen Swick is able to hone in on the human condition better than any of a thousand better-known writers." 
- MITCH POTTER, TORONTO STAR 

"..(she is) simply one of the most imaginative singer/songwriters in the country." 
- LONDON FREE PRESS "  

Gwen's music is densely textured, with nuance built upon nuance. It doesn't lend itself to performance in (folk festival) beer tents.....Within two songs, however, Swick and company turned the boisterous beer tent into an intimate concert hall. Talk about turning beer into wine!" 
- THE RECORD, Kitchener, Waterloo "  

"'Pebble Of Mercy' (is like) a rich luminous pool of self-revelation, deep with hard-earned wisdom, and vibrant with musical imagination." 
- ALEXANDER VARTY, GEORGIA STRAIT 

The CIUT-FM STAN ROGERS GOLDEN QUILL AWARD
went to Gwen Swick, Guelph ON for
I Don't Believe I Do Believe
(G Swick) Quartette: In The Beauty of the Day, CD, 1998, Outside Music
"Gwen is an amazing performer with charisma to match like no other person I have ever seen. She is an original. But her songwriting skills are what won her this award. Always a little off-side and quirky, full of heart-felt lyrics and easily accessible melody lines, her songs have won her recognition for her solo work as well as her work with Tamarack. She has made a great contribution to the life of Quartette at a time when one of the pillars of their structure fell.."

Gwen Swick's
A Pebble of Mercy


Discography 

CDs & Albums

Produced by
Background vocals on:
CHERIE CAMP
ADDICTED
THE NAME OF THE GAME AIN'T SCHMALTZ
ZERO PATIENCE
JEFF BIRD
NANCY SIMMONDS PROJECT
MEN IN THE MOON
THE KING AND ME
WITHOUT WINGS
THE PAT PAGET PROJECT
WHEN PATHS CROSS
TWENTY YEARS OF RESISTANCE IN EAST TIMOR
UNTITLED 
Cherie Camp
Mendelson Joe
Mendelson Joe
Movie soundtrack
Jeff Bird
Nancy Simmonds
Willard Bond
Jeffrey Hatcher
Terry Odette
Pat Paget
Paul Morin
Aloz
Ex Cathedra 
Lead and background vocals on: 
THREE MARIAS
GWEN SWICK 
TAMARACK
FIELDS OF ROCK AND SNOW
TAMARACK ON THE GRAND
FROBISHER BAY
THE FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
TAMARACK ON THE PRAIRIES
 
CBC Variety Recordings, Voice: Volume #1
CBC Variety Recordings #9
Tamarack
Tamarack
Tamarack
Tamarack
Tamarack
Tamarack
Solo recordings: 
A PEBBLE OF MERCY with  I SHOULD FEEL EMPTY                                            
GWEN SWICK
HERE I STAND  
 

Gudney Eylin Music, 1995 

Gudney Eylin Music,1993
single and video, 1988 
Stage and film: 
NO WAY NOT ME
LAWN ORDER
CRUISIN'
NEVER TALK TO STRANGERS soundtrack
NO EXIT
NFB, original instrumental music
"Pink China Pig" (altered lyrics)
"Human Mobiles"
Scotti Bros., "I Should Feel Empty"
"Make Me Believe" 

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