Adrienne Pierce
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I released my first album, Small Fires, on my own little label in Canada
“Pierce’s songs are likely to appeal to a wide audience, sounding as if written at an intersection between a Sheryl Crow greatest hits record and the melodic melancholy of Aimee Mann.” Aarik Danielsen, Popmatters. I am a singer-songwriter from Horseshoe Bay, B.C. in Canada. Several of my songs have been heard in major television shows such as Grey’s Anatomy, Veronica Mars, The Hills, Dirt, Army Wives, The L Word, Greek etc. I have played everything from Lilith Fair to The Cavern Club in Liverpool. I have toured with and opened for some amazing artists (Ray LaMontagne, Damien Rice, Sondre Lerche, The Stereophonics, Jane Siberry, Carina Round, The Finn Brothers, Yoav) and I have played live on the BBC.
I even had a member of Radiohead compliment me on my performance after a show in Toronto.
I released my first album, Small Fires, on my own little label in Canada. Small Fires was made up of 11 self penned folk songs and was produced by Sean Ashby who is a longtime member of Sarah Mclachlan’s band. It was distributed by Maple Music and received great reviews and got the attention of Nettwerk Records and Management in Vancouver which I was later signed to. I followed Small Fires up with an EP called Hors d’Oeuvres when two of my demos were used on Grey’s Anatomy and Veronica Mars. These placements of my songs on popular television shows and the inclusion of my song “Lost and Found” on the Veronica Mars Soundtrack Album created a demand for the songs.
The Second Cup coffee chain also released an EP of mine called Exit which was available exclusively at their shops across Canada. I released two original Christmas songs as an EP and Canadian Tire also placed my Christmas songs on their promotional album last winter (2007). Canadian Tire released 600,000 of these discs. My second full length album Faultline was released digitally in 2007 by Nettwerk (and into stores in 2008) and was produced by Jeff Trott (Sheryl Crow) and Thom Russo (8 time grammy award winner) and features performances by many past and present members of Beck’s band including Justin Meldal Johnson, Lyle Workman, Joey Waronker Victor Indrizzo and Roger Manning. Faultline has become very popular with my fans and has earned many new fans around the world. There are several fan generated videos for songs from Faultline on Youtube. In October (2007) my cover of a Neil Young song (along with covers by Ron Sexsmith, Barenaked Ladies etc.) was released as part of Broken Tunes II. In November 2008 I released a 6 song EP “Winter” received great reviews and international airplay.
It was heard on everything from podcasts in Afghanistan to popular shows on CBC radio and tastemaker stations in the U.S. such as World Café Live on WXPN. Winter is the first in a series of 4 seasonal EP’s (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall). I also narrated a short film called “30-Love” which has been shown at several film festivals. I have toured Canada several times and have toured extensively in the US and the UK as well. I performed at The Toronto International Film festival as well as SXSW, NXNE, CMW and NMW. In 2007 I toured extensively all over North America opening for Issa (Jane Siberry). Spring 2008 I toured the US and the UK and in the summer of 2008 I recorded my third full length album, “Oh Deer” in Canada. I will be releasing “Oh Deer” in 2009. In addition I will be releasing a series 3 EP’s (Spring, Summer, Fall).
For bookings, licensing and any other inquiries please contact Adrienne: info@adriennepierce.com
