DATE: Wednesday - March 24, 2010
TIME: 8:00PM

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BIOGRAPHY:

Miriam Jones has a way of singing the soul back home without putting it to sleep, a feat not easily accomplished in the world of the woman singer songwriter. Poppy and memorable? Yes. Soulful and reflective? Indeed. Folky and human? Absolutely. Jones has a particular gift for writing earth and angels side by side, and a voice suited to sounding them so.

Jones’ carefully crafted songwriting is unusually balanced by an ability to surprise the listener with schmaltz-free vulnerability, passion, authenticity, and originality in everything she writes. Her voice, at once full of character, substance, and beauty, has been compared to that of Sandy Denny, Patti Smith, Melanie, Norah Jones, Shawn Colvin, Jonatha Brooke and Alanis Morisette.

Jones’ debut album, Sign & Semblance, simply produced and intimate, was followed 2 years later by Being Here, a folk/pop record produced in Nashville under Grammy award-winning, multi-format songwriter and record producer Charlie Peacock. Her most recent release, a five-song EP entitled Inside Free, was recorded in England with a bass-drums-piano trio of jazz musicians. The result is piano-driven folk with a jazz sensibility.
In April, Jones began The Solitary Songs a project for which she writes, records and releases for free download one new song every month.

A Canadian, Jones has been featured on CBC Radio and has licensed several songs to North American indie film makers, as well as a song to Global Television’s ‘Falcon Beach’ series. Jones recently moved to Oxford, UK, is regularly gigging in London, and is already a favorite at the Greenbelt Festival in Cheltenham.

“I defy anyone not to be charmed by the sheer naturalness of the melodies… ”
- Colin MacKinnon, Oxfordbands.com Review (Jul 04, 2008)

“Miriam’s got some fresh ideas, rhythmically and harmonically… beauty and surprise all in one package. Which is a lot like life, right? ”
- Charlie Peacock Sr. A&R Consultant-Sony/ATV

"Move over KT Tunstall, there’s a new singer songwriter in town. Miriam Jones brings a breath of fresh Nashville air to the UK music scene in songs that are both touching and catchy in equal measure. ”
- Matt Baskerville, Channel 4Music

“‘Being Here’ is a fun, sometimes poignant, and entirely enjoyable effort from one of the West Coast’s rising young artists. ”
- North By Northwest, CBC Radio One