Album Notes

"Pauline Le Bel sings with all the heart and soul and visceral intensity that the best French chanteuses are famous for. There is love and joy and generosity in her outpouring, but pain and anger and heartbreak too." London Free Press.

Le Bel, a musical instrument linked to a soul." Victoria Times

Pauline Le Bel’s soulful voice has thrilled audiences in theatres and concert halls across Canada, in the U.S. and the U.K. She writes songs, plays, novels, and is an award-winning screenwriter who believes it is through the telling of our stories and the singing our songs that we transform our world.

Her passionate portrayal of chanteuse, Edith Piaf, in Piaf: Her Songs, Her Loves, (a play she co-wrote) continues to resonate in the hearts of her audiences. Critics hailed her performance, calling her “a musical instrument linked to a soul.”

Her original screenplay for the magical Showtime family movie, The Song Spinner, about the transformative power of music, won a CableAce Award for Best Writing. The film was also nominated for 3 Emmy Awards (including Best Writing in a Children’s special). Her novel, The Song Spinner, in third printing, won the Canadian Children’s Book Centre “Our Choice” Award.

In 1999, Pauline recorded a CD of her original songs, Dancing With the Crone, a tapestry of world beat, celtic, and gypsy music, reviewed as “haunting”, “mystical”. In 2001, she performed her show, The Way of the Goddess: Songs Honouring the Divine Feminine, at Vancouver’s Sacred Music Festival. Her vocal improvisations evoke a deep, earthy, female wisdom, and her evenings of French music continue to enchant both anglophone and francophone listeners. In La tendresse, her second CD, she sings the songs of Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel, as well as her own songs. Her CD, Voices in the Sound, contains the songs from her cosmological musical of the same name. Her most recent CD, Rescue Joy, is a joyful companion into the unknown - original songs about love and loss and starting over with a great band and background vocals by male gospel trio, The Sojourners. For more information, please visit her website: www.suncoastarts.com/paulinelebel.html

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