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| The Very Best of Sylvia Tyson |
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Were On My Mind I Walk These Rails River Road Pepere's Mill - (with Lucille Star) Driftwood Gypsy Cadillac The Sound Of One Heart Breaking Denim Blue Eyes Walking On The Moon |
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Sylvia Tyson's (half of Canada's famous folk duo Ian
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| Woman's World | Big Spotlight | ||
| Regine | Last Call |
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| Denim Blue Eyes | (Lyrics) | Poor Old Rose |
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| Spring of '45 | Hazel's First Ride |
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| Bill, Won't You Please Take Me Home | Donegal Tavern |
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| I'm Leaving, Elaine | Bitter Pride |
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| Same Old Thing | Gypsy Cadillac |
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| The Night The Chinese Restaurant Burned Down | River Road | ||
| Driftwood | You Were On My Mind |
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| Sylvia
Tyson to receive The 2004 Estelle Klein Award June 30, 2004 - This October, the Ontario Council of Folk Festival (OCFF) will present Sylvia Tyson with the 4th annual Estelle Klein Award to honour her immense and significant musical legacy. Sylvia Tyson is credited with helping to create Canada's classic folk sound and shape Canadian musical history. Sylvia Tyson is a recipient of the Order of Canada (1995) and was inducted into Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1992 and The Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2003. She has graced recordings for four decades, writing classic songs and making music that has made her an international star and a Canadian treasure. As one half of the folk country duo "Ian & Sylvia," she recorded 13 albums and helped change what the world was listening to. The album most revered today, "Great Speckled Bird," is acknowledged as the beginning of a country rock sound that led to an evolution, and is still at the core of Country radio playlists. Ian & Sylvia played at the Mariposa Folk Festival for the first time in 1961, and parted ways in the mid 1970s. Sylvia established an impressive solo career, hosting the award-winning CBC Network radio show "Touch the Earth" and a national CBC Television show "Country in My Soul." She has released several solo albums, including the most recent "River Road and Other Stories." Sylvia continues to have great success with her songwriting and is known today as one of the Canadian vocal divas within the award winning group "Quartette". The Estelle Klein Award honours those who have played a considerable role in shaping and inspiring the folk music scene in Ontario. The Estelle Klein Award winners must have resided in Ontario, and be someone who has made an outstanding contribution to folk music in Ontario as an artist, academic, organizer, or presenter. This is a particularly poignant year for the award: sadly, Estelle Klein recently passed away in June, 2004. The Estelle Klein Award will be presented to Sylvia Tyson at the Ontario Council of Folk Festival's 18th Annual Conference, held in Guelph, October 14-17, 2004. More information is available by contacting the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals, Toll Free at 1-866-292-6233, by email at info@ocff.ca, or online at www.ocff.ca. |
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Country Music Hall of Fame 2003 |
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TYSON “Magical” is the word that most people use to describe Sylvia Tyson. Very few artists have created a musical legacy that has achieved long-standing international success. Sylvia became one of the music world’s most recognizable and respected names in the early 1960’s as half of one of the biggest music acts in the business. She then established a distinguished solo career, and is also known today as one of the Canadian vocal divas within the award winning group “Quartette”. She has graced our country’s recordings for four decades, writing classic songs and making music that has made this Chatham, Ontario native an international star, and a Canadian treasure. As one half of the Folk Country duo “Ian & Sylvia”, she recorded 13 albums and helped change what the world was listening to. The album most revered today: “Great Speckled Bird” is now acknowledged as the beginning of a Country Rock sound that led to an evolution, still at the core of Country radio playlists. Sylvia Tyson is a recipient of the Order of Canada. She treasures many awards and is a member to the Juno Awards Canadian Music Hall of Fame. In the mid 70’s, Sylvia Tyson went on to release many critically acclaimed solo albums and host award winning radio and television programs such as the Roots series “Touch The Earth”. With three of Canada’s purest voices today, (Caitlin Hanford, Cindy Church, Gwen Swick), Sylvia performs as a member of “Quartette” and also continues with solo projects, including her much lauded one woman theatrical tour: “River Road & Other Stories”. Sylvia Tyson is credited in helping give Canada its classic ‘Folk’ sound and this wonderful (Canadian) singer songwriter has helped shape our incredible Canadian musical history. Thousands of fans throughout the world grew up with her beautiful image and her sweet voice. She is a testament to Canada’s cool, laid back, County-Roots beginnings. Sylvia Tyson’s induction to the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame is in recognition of her outstanding achievements as an artist and her tremendous contribution to the music industry internationally. |
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queen of folk gets her due Amy Cameron in ‘Closing Notes' for Mcleans Magazine - September 8, 2003 Pictures of crows crowd the wall of Sylvia Tyson's dining room. They are stark images - paintings and drawing that are all inky black and grey shadows, mysterious and somehow exquisite. "I think of them as the bikers of the bird world," jokes the internationally renowned Toronto-based folksinger and songwriter. It's an unusual fixation. But since the breakup of her marriage to Ian Tyson in the mid-70's, and the dissolution of their powerhouse folk due, Ian & Sylvia, Tyson has been diligently going her own way. And this December at the 27th annual Canadian Country Music Awards, Shania Twain will present Tyson with the Hall of Fame Award. "People thought it odd that we (Ian & Sylvia) didn't receive it together," said Tyson, 62, "But we've been apart much longer than we were together." A
striking woman, Tyson - who is also a member of Quartette which includes singer-songwriters
Cindy Church, Caitlin Hanford and Gwen Swick - is more uncomfortable
under scrutiny than one might expect from a seasoned performer. Slow to divulge
details of her life, Tyson admits that she's "scaling back" on touring
for her own music in order to work on a book of fiction she's been writing for
six months. "I thought that things were going to slow down at this age but
they're not," she says. "So now I'm being more selective and self-protective."
But as quiet as she is Tyson offers no illusions about what she loves. "I
think of myself as a writer first," she says. Her favourite part of the day
is composing songs or sentences in her mind while on early morning walks through
Toronto's ravines. Like the crows she adores, Tyson paints and exquisite picture.
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Other Sylvia Tyson Items
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| Gypsy Cadillac | CD available from http://www.rediscovermusic.com |
| You Were On My Mind | CD Available from Stoney Plain Records |
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RIVER ROAD and OTHER STORIES
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new Sylvia Tyson emerges in"River Road and Other
Stories", opened August 9, 2000 at Canadian Stage's Berkeley Street
Theatre, the third stop on her cross-Canada tour. "River Road" brings
together the many diverse aspects of Sylvia's four decades as a Canadian entertainment
icon. It's a theatrical presentation incorporating songs, stories and personal
anecdotes. She sings and tells her stories from many perspectives - as a precocious
and observing child, as an individual fallen on hard times, as an elderly person
battling loneliness and fighting for dignity. They have names like Rose, or Violet,
or Earl, or Maggie. The names are important. They evoke friends and relatives
the audience would have grown up with - people we have either met or known intimately.
She can move you from laughter to tears in the space of one song or story. Since attaining international stardom as half of the sixties folk duo 'Ian & Sylvia', she has successfully turned her hand to many career challenges as a writer, producer and TV and radio host. In 1993, the same year she was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, she teamed up with three sister singer-songwriters in 'Quartette'. Within two years they had received a Canadian Country Music Association award, and a Juno nomination. In 1995 Sylvia received the Order of Canada. The concept for her present undertaking came to her during the celebrated 1997 national tour of Timothy Findley's "Piano Man's Daughter", in which she shared billing with Findley, Veronica Tennant and Joe Sealy. |
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We are often asked for the lyrics
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