Kyra & Tully CD release: A smash success!
November 23, 2009

On Saturday, November 21, 2009 Kingston duo Kyra & Tully released their first full-length album. I emceed the CD release show, which featured Kyra & Tully with full band, Bruce Cockburn, and Jenn Grant at Sydenham Street United Church in Kingston, Ontario. The audience was engaged and enthused and it was an incredible evening.

Kyra & Tully's new album is called "Wildlife (In and Out of the City)", and you can snag it from their website. They have a sweet, folk-kissed, mellow sound. Broken Pencil calls their music "sincere". NOW Magazine calls them "stellar", "disarming", and "intimate". Exclaim says their lyrics "employ the vocabulary of nature's ebb and flow" and that "It all just feels like sunshine."

Bruce Cockburn is a Canadian music and social justice icon. He is one of those artists who makes our world a better place to be – an Officer of the Order of Canada, a member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. Bruce performed with Kyra & Tully, Jenn Grant, and played a three-song solo set.

Jenn Grant hails from PEI. She has two albums under her belt: Her debut, Orchestra for the Moon, and her new album Echoes. She earned 4-star reviews for the album from the Globe and Mail and from Harp. She's toured with Great Lake Swimmers, Hayden, Justin Rutledge, Martin Tielli, Danny Michel, the Weakerthans, and other great acts. She just won Best Female Artist Recording for Echoes last week at the Nova Scotia Music Awards. She's up for two Bucky awards right now - so log on to radio3.cbc.ca and vote for Jenn for Best Video and Best Off-Stage Performance.

We are so lucky to have amazing people looking out for us. Artists who, through their music or their poetry, their writings and their teachings, connect us to our history. They wake up every day, create sounds and ideas that never existed before. Then they deliver them to us. It's like magic. Thanks to everyone who attended or sent their best wishes.

Every song has its story.
Krystyn Tully
Lake Ontario Waterkeeper

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