Album Notes

Reviewers comments: "Le Bel is a musical instrument linked to a soul."
"This is stop-you-in-your-tracks singing."
"Rescue Joy reflects Le Bel's ability to absorb life's painful moments, reflect upon them, and send them back into the world with a note of hope attached."

Rescue Joy, a CD with heart and soul, is a joyful companion into the unknown. The songs were inspired by the courage and spirit of black gospel music which continues to zestify us at a time when we most need to maintain our zest for life.
Stirring vocals are enhanced by acoustic and electric guitar, piano, organ, harmonica, bass, and drums.

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.

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.
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In 1999, Pauline recorded her first CD of original songs, Dancing With the Crone, a tapestry of world beat, celtic, and gypsy music, reviewed as “haunting”, “mystical”. Her vocal improvisations evoke a deep, earthy, female wisdom, and her evenings of French music continue to enchant both anglophone and francophone listeners. La tendresse, her second CD, is a passionate romantic collection of songs made famous by Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel, and Pauline Le Bel.





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