Christine Fellows | |
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 Fellows in 2008 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 1968 (age 56–57) Windsor, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Folk rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, keyboards |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Labels | Six Shooter |
| Website | christinefellows |
Christine Ann Fellows[1] (born 1968) is a Canadianfolk-pop singer-songwriter fromWinnipeg, Manitoba.
Born inWindsor, Ontario, and raised in France andKelowna, British Columbia, Fellows lived inToronto, Vancouver,Guelph andMontreal before settling in Winnipeg in 1992.
In 1993, she formed her first group, Helen, with Barry Mirochnick, Paul James, and Chang. Helen broke up in 1995, and in 1996 Fellows teamed up with singer-songwriterKeri McTighe, Barry Mirochnick, Keith McLeod and Peggy Messing, to form Special Fancy. The group released one album,King Me.
In 2000 Fellows released her debut solo album,2 Little Birds. This was followed byThe Last One Standing in 2002,Paper Anniversary in 2005, andNevertheless in 2007. These albums feature Leanne Zacharias (cello),Jason Tait (drums, vibraphone), Barry Mirochnick (drums, vocals),John K. Samson (vocals, guitar), Keith McLeod (mandolin), Monica Guenter (viola), Greg Smith (bass), Ed Reifel (percussion), and Cristina Zacharias (violin).
Fellows has performed with theRheostatics,Veda Hille,The Mountain Goats,Kim Barlow,Martin Tielli,Old Man Luedecke andThe Weakerthans. She is married to The Weakerthans' lead singer,John K. Samson.[2]
In 2006, Fellows and Samson recordedThe Old House, an album intended only as a Christmas gift for friends and family, although they released two songs, "Taps Reversed" and "Good Salvage", for airplay onCBC Radio 3 in early 2007. Fellows and Samson also performed live on the network on 17 March 2007, to mark the final night of the network's terrestrial simulcast onCBC Radio 2.
Fellows also composes music for dance, film, and television. She scored part ofClive Holden'sTrains of Winnipeg film series, as well as collaborating with Tait and Samson on the associated album. In 2007, she wrote several songs for a dance piece by choreographer Susie Burpee; they were later included on her fourth solo album,Nevertheless, which was released on 6 November 2007.
Fellows has also toured as a member of The Pan-Canadian New Folk Ensemble withKim Barlow andOld Man Luedecke,[3] and often collaborates with visual artistShary Boyle.
She was artist-in-residence atLe Musée de Saint-Boniface Museum in Winnipeg for 2009. Her fifth studio album,Femmes de chez nous includes a live performance film/DVD of the September 2009 premiere ofReliquary/Reliquaire, the commissioned performance work she created for the museum.[4]
In 2011, Samson, Fellows andSandro Perri participated in theNational Parks Project, working with filmmakerDaniel Cockburn to produce and score a short film aboutOntario'sBruce Peninsula National Park.[5] She also was thesound designer for theNational Film Board of Canada web documentaryGod's Lake Narrows.[6]
Her 2014 albumBurning Daylight was released jointly with a poetry collection of the same name.[7]
She is currently an adjunct professor in theUniversity of British Columbia's creative writing program.
Most recently, Samson, Fellows, Ashley Au andJason Tait collaborated on the music forFor the Turnstiles, a dance performance byWinnipeg's Contemporary Dancers troupe inspired byNeil Young's 1974 albumOn the Beach.[8] In 2016, Fellows and Tait coproduced Samson's new solo albumWinter Wheat.[9]
In 2018, Fellows launched her own online store, Vivat Virtute, to sell her music and other craft and art projects.[10] Her first release through Vivat Virtute was the albumRoses on the Vine,[10] and she followed up in 2022 withStuff We All Get.[11] In February 2023, Fellows and Samson releasedHold Music, an album of almost entirely instrumental music except one song with vocals by Samson, with Vivat Virtute credited as the band name.
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