Please join us on Zoom, Sunday Sept 26 at 4 pm, for a conversation with Vancouver singer/teacher/force-of-nature Dawn Pemberton.  Dawn will perform for us, talk about her life in music, and answer any questions you may have about her work. A quick read of her bio will show you just how diverse a skill set she brings to the Vancouver music scene:

Vibrant, genuine and soulful, Dawn has deep musical roots that take her powerful voice from gospel and soul to jazz, funk and world music. She is a graduate from Capilano University’s Jazz Studies Program and has become a staple of the Vancouver music scene and can often be found tearin’ it up as a vocalist, teacher, adjudicator, choral director, and “go to girl” for live performances and studio sessions. Currently, Dawn is the host of her own funk, soul, and r&b on the CKUA Radio Network, called “Get on The Good Foot”. Prior to March 2020 she spent her time touring with her own original music project as well as, Moira Smiley + VOCO, Vox.Infold, The Bluesberries, and Canadian blues juggernaut,The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer. Dawn has toured extensively throughout Canada and Europe and has performed with musical greats such as  Betty Levette, John Boutte, Kenny Werner, Kurt Elling, Robert Randolph &The Family Band, Randy Bachman, Ruthie Foster, The Hamiltones, Linda Tillery and has opened for musical heavyweights Maceo Parker, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, The Philosopher Kings and Lee Fields. Dawn is the founder and Artistic Director of Roots ‘N’ Wings Women’s Choir and teaches masterclasses and workshops all over North America. She is certified in all three levels of Somatic Voicework™ The LoVetri Method. In past years, she directed the Voice Ensemble and Youth Choirs at the Sarah McLachlan School of Music. Her debut solo album, Say Somethin’,  released on DoRight! Music won Best Urban Recording at the 2015 Western Canadian Music Awards and has received praise from around the globe forecasting her as “…the  new queen of Canadian soul.”  A passionate educator and performer, Dawn approaches music with a sense of adventure, quirkiness, and serious groove and shapes it into her own unique and dynamic package. Tight, expressive and bold, Dawn will hit you where it counts, funk you up and make you say “Go ‘head!”.

So “Go ‘head”, look for the zoom link the week before the meeting  and invite your friends to come along. Zoom link also available from groberts@capilanou.ca the day of the meeting.