Who: Lynne Hanson w/ Gilles LeClerc & Jonathan Ferrabee
When: 8:00pm Sat. February 4
Where: Westboro Masonic Hall, 430 Churchill
Lynne Hanson brings her unique blend of country, roots, blues and folk to our concert stage on Saturday February 4 at 8 pm. Admission is $20 and are available online here and at the Ottawa Folklore Centre, 1111 Bank St.
One of the mainstays of Ottawa’s roots scene, Lynne has been increasingly busy over the last couple of years. She released a well-received debut album, Things I Miss, in 2006, followed by 2008’s internationally-acclaimed Eleven Months, a CD that scored rave reviews in Q and Maverick. Her latest release “Once the Sun Goes Down” is continuing the trend. She was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award in 2009 and In 2010 she won the Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award, presented by the Ontario Arts Council..
In March she leaves for a UK tour supporting Nashville star Gretchen Peters, and in April she is overseas again for a tour in Germany.
Onstage Lynne is a happy-go-lucky storyteller with a gift for the gab and a wink in her eye, engaging her audience just as much with her stories and one-liners as she can with her music. She’s intimate with her audience, as if she were shooting the breeze with old friends at her kitchen table. Or her front porch. Which brings us back to that Texas red dirt …