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Canadian musician

Heather Dale
Dale at Ohio Valley Filk Fest, 2009

Dale at Ohio Valley Filk Fest, 2009
Background information
Genres
  • Celtic
  • Folk
  • Filk[1]
Instruments
  • Singing
  • piano
  • bodhran
  • mountain dulcimer
Years active 1999–present
Labels Amphisbaena, MapleMusic, Sound & Video Labs
Associated acts S. J. Tucker

Musical artist

Heather Dale is a Canadian Celtic folk musician, author, entrepreneur, and filker who was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Clan's Hall of Fame in 2020.[ii] Much of her music draws on Celtic and Arthurian fable, but she besides incorporates influences and instruments from other genres, including earth music. She runs her ain independent record label, Amphis Music, from its office in Toronto, Ontario.

Personal life [edit]

Heather Dale is the daughter of Peter and Nancy Dale. Her female parent's family comes from Cornwall, though Dale describes herself equally a "Celtic mongrel", with Scottish, Irish, and Welsh ancestry in addition to Cornish.[3] [4] She too has "family roots" in the west side of Ottawa.[v] Every bit of 2004, Dale was a member of the Toronto/Cornish Association.[3] As of August 2020, she was married to a man named Peter.[ citation needed ]

She was raised in Scarborough, and graduated from the Academy of Waterloo with a degree in environmental studies in the early-mid 1990s.[4]

Dale's musical passion began with taking pianoforte lessons and writing poetry as a child. This early exposure led to a familiarity with a wide variety of classical and folk instruments.[iii]

Career [edit]

At the age of eighteen, while a pupil at the University of Waterloo,[4] she discovered Medievalism through the Club for Creative Anachronism, and began composing songs inspired by Arthurian fable and other fantasy books she had grown up enjoying. Soon afterward, she began going to science fiction conventions in Toronto, and there found a welcoming customs. She fabricated her very first recordings in 1992, and released her first album The Trial of Lancelot in 2000. Trial included her almost popular song, "Mordred's Lullaby", which went viral afterward release and counted over 20 million views on YouTube every bit of Baronial 2020.[3]

As a teenager, she developed aspirations of living an independent, entrepreneurial life, modelled afterwards what she could see Loreena McKennitt doing with her career.[vi] Dale founded Amphis Music (officially Amphisbaena Music) in 1998, and information technology has been her primary record label throughout her career.[3] [7]

As of 2004, she was touring with a iv-slice backing band and giving solo shows.[3]

Since around 2005, Dale has worked closely with multi-instrumentalist Ben Deschamps, who has co-written and co-produced with her for much of her career, equally well as performing and touring with her as duo and every bit part of the "Heather Dale Band" (occasionally the "Heather Dale Trio") and providing instrumentation on her recordings.[v] [8] Dale and Deschamps spent a decade on the road together before moving dorsum to Toronto in 2019, the year which marked xx years every bit a professional musician, co-ordinate to an interview Dale did to promote the release of her 20th album, Sphere (2019).[6]

In 2006, Dale produced a songbook, The Legends of Arthur, which re-tells some Arthurian legends and provides canvass music for her songs from The Trial of Lancelot and May Queen albums.[9] The songbook is illustrated by Martin Springett.[viii]

Deschamps made concert alive-streaming platform Online Concert Thing in Oct 2019, as an pick for musician friends who couldn't tour and who were left with no recourse after the before streaming service ConcertWindow shut downwardly. As of August 2021, Dale is in accuse of Artist & Customer Relations for the platform.[10] [11]

On April 3, 2014, the Globe and Post listed her every bit number vi on a list of "the height 10 Canadian entrepreneurial crowdfunding campaigns of the moment" for her Indiegogo campaign to fund "CELTIC AVALON", a self-described "big Male monarch-Arthur-themed touring show & concert DVD, and youth educational program."[12] This campaign raised over US$56,000 and produced Dale and S. J. Tucker's original musical Queens of Avalon (2016), nearly the relationship between Guinevere (played by Tucker) and Morgan le Fay (played by Dale).[13]

On August 25, 2020, Dale was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Clan's Hall of Fame during that yr'due south virtual Aurora Awards ceremony. Dale was the showtime musician to exist inducted into the Hall of Fame since its establishment in 2014.[2] [fourteen]

Style and subject affair [edit]

Dale'due south music is frequently compared to Loreena McKennitt,[fifteen] [16] [5] [4] [8] and she cites McKennitt as an influence, because of her "multi-ethnic approach to mod Celtic music."

In analyzing Dale's portrayal of the Lady of Shalott in her song "Lily Maid", scholar Ann F. Howey notes that "in many of Dale'due south songs, the lyrics function equally a dramatic monologue, then that Dale as a singer "speaks" in the persona of a particular character."[17] :117

Dale'southward early album The Trial of Lancelot (1999, with songs written between 1996 and 1999), features instrumentation that includes piano, guitars, flute, fiddle, cello, and various kinds of drums. Her instrumentation across her career has combined traditional Celtic instruments (Irish flute, tin whistle, bodhran) with rock-associated instruments (e.g. electrical guitar) and instruments from world music, notably the didgeridoo and the udu.[9] The 9 songs on this album all draw on Arthurian legend. According to A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana (1500–2000) (2006):[18]

"The Lily Maid" consists of Elaine of Astolat's instructions to Lancelot. In "The Trial of Lancelot," diverse knights speak nigh Lancelot's guilt and fate, each ane influenced by his own relationship to the knight; Lancelot'due south replies make upwards the chorus. In "Miles to Go," Guenevere voices her thoughts every bit she chooses to enter a nunnery. "The Prydwen Sails Again" is a song about the quest to Caer Siddi. "Mordred's Lullaby" is a haunting, disturbing lullaby sung by Morgan (here Mordred'southward mother) as she trains him from the cradle to seek revenge. "Hawthorn Tree" is the story of Merlin and Vivian, while "Culhwch and Olwen" retells that story [ie the story of Culhwch and Olwen]. "Tarnished Silver" is a song about Lancelot and Guenevere years later. The last song, "Measure of a Man," is about Arthur's expiry.

May Queen (2003) also uses Arthurian legend equally its primary bailiwick matter. She re-recorded about of the songs from Trial and May Queen in her later album Avalon (2010).[9] [17] :122

Telephone call the Names (2001) has much barer instrumentation than Trial, and according to the BBC features "humorous and poignant" songs inspired by the everyday challenges of Renaissance life.[3]

This Endris Night (2002) is a collection of medieval Christmas music, including the titular song.[3] This Endris Dark too includes a trilingual version of the "Huron Carol", a seventeenth century carol composed by Jesuit missionary Jean de Brébeuf at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons. Dale sings the song in Wyandot, French, and English.[xix] Dale's version uses different English lyrics than most other recordings, favouring a more accurate translation of the Wyandot words.[20]

Co-ordinate to Alan One thousand. Kent's 2007 essay "Towards a History of Popular Music in Cornwall, 1967–2007", Dale's music is "explicitly 'Celtic' and keenly Brythonic and Arthurian in theme." Kent identifies Dale as infusing Cornish popular music with "ethereal and soaring female vocalization," placing her in a genre also occupied by artists including Mary Black, Loreena McKennitt, Maire Brennan, and Enya. Despite Dale's inspiration by the Society for Creative Anachronism, Kent notes that throughout both The Trial of Lancelot and May Queen, she makes utilise of Cornish historical literary material, for instance the story of Tristan and Iseult (recounted in her song "Tristan and Isolt" on May Queen).[15] She likewise draws on specifically Welsh stories. Her song about the legend of Culhwch and Olwen is, according to a 2011 essay by Megan MacAlystre, "one of only a handful of musical settings of the tale to be found", and is "among the well-nigh readily available"—the long fable of "how Culhwch won Olwen" is shortened into a "jaunty" five infinitesimal-long song that stands out from what MacAlystre calls identifies as more than familiar tales on the Trial of Lancelot album.[21]

The Road to Santiago (2005) extends beyond the Celtic styles of her earlier albums, and includes influences from "jazz, art song, shanties, Spanish/North African rhythms and modal melodies, medieval courtroom music and contemporary popular balladry," according to a review in the Toronto Star.[16] The Road to Santiago likewise features the song "Sedna", a retelling of the Inuit creation myth involving the goddess Sedna that includes archival recordings of Inuit pharynx singing.[8]

Her song "The Maiden and the Selkie" (from The Greenish Knight (2009)) is an example of her drawing on Norse and Celtic folklore, both in style (every bit a sea shanty) and subject affair (the vocal is about a romance betwixt a adult female and a male person Selkie).[22]

Her album Sphere (2019) draws inspiration from the Me Also movement and Time's Up.[23] Stylistically, Sphere besides draws on world music motifs, as well every bit ambient music,[24] a genre Dale has farther explored in her two-part Incantations projection in the 2020s.[ citation needed ]

Influence [edit]

Dale'south lyrics are quoted in many of the novels in Southward. M. Stirling's The Emberverse series, including The Sword of the Lady (2009), The High King of Montival (2010), The Tears of the Sun (2011), Lord of Mountains (2012), The Given Sacrifice (2013), The Golden Princess (2014), The Desert and the Blade (2015), and Prince of Outcasts (2016).[25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32]

Tanya Huff's novel The Wild Ways (2011) is dedicated to Dale, "who sang virtually Selkies and started the whole affair".[33]

Boyfriend filker and author Seanan McGuire states in the acknowledgements to her novel Chimes at Midnight (2013), that Dale's anthology Fairytale was a part of her "soundtrack" while writing the novel.[34]

Author E. K. Johnston cites her music as an inspiration for her novels The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim (2014) and Prairie Fire (2015), and quotes the lyrics to "Joan" (a vocal nigh Joan of Arc from the 2008 album The Gabriel Hounds) in the latter novel.[35]

Discography [edit]

Albums [edit]

  • Dances by the Marian Ensemble (1996)[one]
  • The Trial of Lancelot (copyright 1999, released 2000)[17] :122
  • Call the Names (2001)[36]
  • This Endris Nighttime (2002)[1] [36]
  • May Queen (2003)
  • The Road to Santiago (Amphis/MapleMusic, 2005)[1] [37] [16]
  • The Subconscious Path (2006)[1]
  • The Gabriel Hounds (2008)[ane] [37]
  • The Green Knight (2009)[1]
  • Avalon (2010)[1]
  • Fairytale (2011)[37] [36]
  • My Celtic Heart (2013)[36]
  • Perpetual Gift (2012)[1] – A free sample album released digitally on Dale'southward website
  • Imagineer (Audio & Video Labs, Inc., 2015)[i]
  • Queens of Avalon (2016)[36] – Cast recording of an original musical by Dale and S. J. Tucker
  • Spark (2017)[36]
  • Sphere (2019)[36]
  • Incantations I (2020)[ citation needed ]
  • Incantations II (2021)[ commendation needed ]

Awards and nominations [edit]

Run into as well [edit]

  • List of Academy of Waterloo people

References [edit]

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  2. ^ a b c "Hall of Fame Inductees". Aurora Awards . Retrieved August 16, 2021. {{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Heather Dale – Cornish Canadian". BBC Cornwall. 2004. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d Reid, Robert (December v, 2008). "A jingle-free Christmas treat". Waterloo Region Record.
  5. ^ a b c "Heather Dale Band in Arnprior April 6". Arnprior Chronicle-Guide. March 29, 2018. p. 24. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  6. ^ a b Strecker, James (April 23, 2019). "HEATHER DALE: CELTIC Singer-SONGWRITER DESCRIBES 20TH CD: "SPHERE FOCUSES ON STORIES OF WOMEN BREAKING Gratis FROM SILENCE — THEY FIND THEIR OWN Power, THEIR Ain Vocalization….: LAYERING THE Onetime WITH THE NEW MAKES ME FEEL Continued TO MY CELTIC ROOTS, Fifty-fifty AS I'M LIVING MY LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY. …. A REVIEWER INTERVIEWS PEOPLE IN THE ARTS". James Strecker Reviews the Arts . Retrieved August 23, 2019. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-condition (link)
  7. ^ "About Us". Amphis Music . Retrieved August 23, 2021. {{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: url-condition (link)
  8. ^ a b c d "Toronto'due south Celtic Songstress – Heather Dale". Celtic Heritage. 22 (1): v–7. Winter 2008.
  9. ^ a b c Howey, Ann F. (Summer 2012). "Famous in Song and Story: Arthurian Legends in Heather Dale'due south Music". Arthuriana. 22 (ii) – via JSTOR.
  10. ^ "About United states". Online Concert Thing . Retrieved August 23, 2021. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-condition (link)
  11. ^ Cowan, Debra (Spring 2021). "Lemons to Lemonade: Members Who Made 2020 Work". New Deal. American Federation of Musicians Local 1000.
  12. ^ "'World's oldest toy' exceeds crowdfunding goal by nearly 8,700 per cent". The Earth and Post. April 3, 2014. Archived from the original on October 25, 2020. Retrieved August 17, 2014.
  13. ^ "The Crowdfunded Musical". Queens of Avalon. Archived from the original on Baronial 14, 2020. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  14. ^ "2020 Aurora Awards Winners". Locus Mag. August 17, 2020. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  15. ^ a b Kent, Alan One thousand. (2007). "Alex Parks, Punks and Pipers: Towards a History of Popular Music in Cornwall 1967–2007". Cornish Studies. xv.
  16. ^ a b c Quill, Greg (July 28, 2005). "Roots – Heather Dale – The Route to Santiago (Amphis Music/MapleMusic)". What's On Disc. Toronto Star.
  17. ^ a b c Howey, Ann F. (2020). Afterlives of the Lady of Shalott and Elaine of Astolat. Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Dallas, TX: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN978-iii-030-47689-2.
  18. ^ Howey, Ann F.; Reimer, Stephen Ray, eds. (2006). A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana (1500–2000). Uk: D. S. Brewer. p. 546. ISBN9781843840688 . Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  19. ^ Melhuish, Martin (December nineteen, 2018). "Canada's Offset Christmas Carol Was In the Huron Tongue". FYIMusicNews. Archived from the original on August 17, 2021. Retrieved Baronial 17, 2021.
  20. ^ Pearson, Volition (December 5, 2018). "half dozen must-hear recordings of the Huron Carol". Broadview Mag . Retrieved August 23, 2021. {{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  21. ^ MacAlystre, Megan (2011). "Constructing Myth in Music: Heather Dale, King Arthur and "Culhwch and Olwen"". In Becker, Audrey 50.; Noone, Kristin (eds.). Welsh mythology and folklore in popular civilization: essays on adaptations in literature, film, television and digital media. Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Visitor. ISBN978-0-7864-6170-7.
  22. ^ Pasley, Noah (March 24, 2021). "Songs of the seas: vi songs from the women of the waters". The Rocky Mountain Collegian. Archived from the original on Baronial 17, 2021. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  23. ^ Smith, Ainsley (April 30, 2019). "31 Toronto events worth checking out this May". Listed Toronto. Daily Hive. Retrieved August 17, 2021. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  24. ^ Mitchell-Clarke, Lesley (September 25, 2019). "Sphere – Heather Dale". The WholeNote . Retrieved August 23, 2021. {{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  25. ^ Stirling, South. M. (2009). The Sword of the Lady. Roc Books. p. Acknowledgements. ISBN9781101135587 . Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  26. ^ Stirling, S. 1000. (2010). The High King of Montival. Roc Books. ISBN9781101460061 . Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  27. ^ Stirling, South. M. (2011). The Tears of the Dominicus. Roc Books. ISBN9781101543856 . Retrieved Baronial 17, 2021.
  28. ^ Stirling, S. Chiliad. (2012). Lord of Mountains. Roc Books. ISBN9781101605097 . Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  29. ^ Stirling, S. M. (2013). The Given Sacrifice. Roc Books. p. Acknowledgements. ISBN9781101603192 . Retrieved Baronial 17, 2021.
  30. ^ Stirling, S. M. (2014). The Gold Princess. Roc Books. ISBN9781101603260 . Retrieved Baronial 17, 2021.
  31. ^ Stirling, S. Grand. (2015). The Desert and the Blade. Roc Books. ISBN9780451417350 . Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  32. ^ Stirling, S. M. (2016). Prince of Outcasts. New York: Roc Books. p. Eight. ISBN9781101603390 . Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  33. ^ Huff, Tanya (2011). The Wild Means. United states: DAW. ISBN9781101548097 . Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  34. ^ McGuire, Seanan (2013). Chimes at Midnight. United States: DAW. p. Acknowledgments. ISBN9781101635667 . Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  35. ^ Johnston, Eastward. K. (2015). Prairie Burn. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Lab. p. 297. ISBN9781467739092 . Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  36. ^ a b c d e f g "Store". Heather Dale . Retrieved August 16, 2021. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  37. ^ a b c "Heather Dale". Discogs . Retrieved August 17, 2021. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-condition (link)
  38. ^ "Heather Dale". Pegasus Awards . Retrieved August 20, 2021. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  39. ^ "sfadb : Heather Dale Awards". Science Fiction Awards Database. March 22, 2013. Archived from the original on September 15, 2017. Retrieved August xx, 2021.

External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • YouTube aqueduct

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