- Kathleen Yearwood
Kathleen Yearwood is a Canadian experimental
singer-songwriter .From Subterranean Records description of Kathleen Yearwood:
:This powerful and very radical Canadian artist and her music have been described variously as a "folk banshee," "
Joan Baez meetsDiamanda Galás ," and "when angels and demons collide," among many other superlatives, but the descriptions tend to fall flat before the real thing. [http://www.subterranean.org/main/subcat.html]In an 1993 interview with the
Calgary, Alberta newspaper "VOX", Yearwood notes that "what I have for sale are songs about spirit in a culture that denies anything spiritual." [Fisher, Catherine. "First Music, Then Food: Folk Hero for a Modern Age: Kathleen Yearwood", "Vox Magazine", March 1993, p9] She believes that her life and her art have been shaped by familial abuse, poverty, sexism, battering, and the corruption and materialism of the Canadian society in which she grew up. [Fisher, Catherine. "First Music, Then Food: Folk Hero for a Modern Age: Kathleen Yearwood", "Vox Magazine", March 1993, p9]Yearwood has contributed for many years to the
Prison justice movement in Canada. She has also performed throughout Canada and in Europe, including theVancouver Folk Music Festival (1998) and theUnder the Volcano Festival in 2003 [http://volcano.resist.ca/2003/waterfront.html#kyearwood] .References
Discography
*"Great Songs to Empty Rooms"
*"Ordeal"
*"Dog Logic" (2000) CD, Subterranean Records
*"Little Misery Birds" (1995) CD
*"Book of Hate" CD (1994)
*"Universal Incest" EP -, Coloured Vinyl (1992?)
*"Dead Branches Make a Noise"External links
* [http://www.angelfire.com/music/kathleenyearwood/ Official site.]
* [http://www.hrmusic.com/artists/kyart.html Harmony Ridge Music: Kathleen Yearwood]
* [http://ectoguide.org/artists/yearwood.kathleen The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music: Kathleen Yearwood]
* [http://www.thefestival.bc.ca/archive/index.php?perID=630 Vancouver Folk Music Festival: Kathleen Yearwood]
* [http://www.canoe.ca/IndieBands/band1111.html Canadian Indie Band Database: Kathleen Yearwood]
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