Sarah's Tour Journal

As Sarah did for her touring of Day One, she has shared her tour journal as she plays across the country.

Read it over here: http://www.sarahslean.com/about/SS_journal.aspx

The journal indicates that she played a private show in Banff on May 2, 2008. A few years ago Sarah stayed in Banff and had completed some new paintings. Not sure if that's related. The official page indicated that "Sarah Slean had the day off".

Want to read more from Sarah? The following two featured interviews published this week both captured great quotes of Sarah.

Mike's 23 Questions With Sarah Slean
(From reality TV to to her fans)

It Goes Beyond Speaking - The Scope, publish 2008-05-08
(Answers why she went to Paris)

Get Home Video - Available on iTunes

You can now purchase the video for Get Home on iTunes. The video size is 46.7mb which is over 3 times larger then the video that was previously made available to stream. The video retails at $2.29 in the Canadian iTunes store.

Sarah's New Book of Poetry - New Tour Merch

New to Sarah's merchandise table for the Book and Ballgowns Tour is her new book, The Baroness. This is her follow up to her 2005 book of poetry and original paintings titled Ravens.

Thanks to Kyall for proving images of his copy. The table of contents is as follows:

1. The Glacier (Posted to Sarah's Journal, 2004-11-04)
2. Vs.
3. Driving in Saskatchewan (Read at Wanderlust, 2006-02-13)
4. Emergency in Night Fog
5. Buddha Crowns
6. Sun I Send Down
7. The Child’s Room
8. Modern Man (Played live at Harbourfront, 2007-12-20. Song did not make the album)
9. If I Did Not Eat
10. Randall’s 50th
11. The Art Professor (About Peter? Sarah's forum post 2004-10-01)
    
12. Orphan Music (Title of her 2006 live and b-side album release)
13. Lonely Side of the Moon (Inspired by Schubert for the 2007-03-15 Art of Time Schubert show, song available via iTunes)
14. Abecedarian (Projected during Lucy Ruperts dance inspired by the poem 2007-11-08. Poem published to her blog on 2008-03-20)
15. The Grandmaster (Posted to Sarah's Journal, 2005-02-06)
16. Molly (Not to be mistaken for Pepper McGowan's song of the same name)
17. A Hundred Years
18. Equator
19. You Are The Holy Tower
20. Good Sweet Lily (Posted to Sarah's journal - 2004-12-11)
21. There I Travel
22. Widow
23. Jack-in-the-Box
24. Rays
25. Crescendo (Posted to Sarah's journal - 2006-02-11)
26. Positive Nihilist
27. One Day (Anagram of Day One, Sarah's 2004 album and song title)
28. I Dream of You
29. The Rose (Inspired by Schubert for the 2007-03-15 Art of Time show, song available via iTunes)
30. The Baroness Redecorates
31. Soliloquy (Published in The Baroness album notes, heard in Shadowland)

Sarah does YouTube

Over the last year Sarah's official presence on YouTube has started to grow.

1. Nelson Chan the video director of Day One, Mary, and Tales of the Baroness has added content from all 3 projects to the video sharing site.

2. The official SarahSlean.com has linked to YouTube videos of Sarah under its Media Section.

3. SarahSleanMusic is what appears to be an official account created on YouTube at the end of February. Last week it added the official Get Home video and today it added the contest winning version.

Sarah on CBC Bandwidth this Friday

A prerecorded interview Sarah did with CBC Bandwidth will be aired this Friday at 5:05. The show is played all through Ontario except Toronto. You can listen live online at the CBC Bandwidth
but it does not appear that they keep archives/podcast of the show.

The theme of the show is Lessons Learned.

The Books and Ballgowns tour kicks off today in Vancouver.

Sarah Played on CBC Go (MP3)

On Saturday April 12th, Sarah was the musical guest on CBC Go. Thankfully CBC has podcasted the 4/12/08 show and you can catch it now. Sarah played Get Home (26 min mark) and Looking for Someone (58 min). Sarah also got in on the shows theme of jingles chiming out a couple after playing Get Home. Sarah also had the opportunity to meet Margaret Atwood once again.

Sarah has included Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood under her Vitamins page.

Sarah's Tour Opener is Royal Wood

Photo credit: IMG_1137.JPG by p x

Royal Wood will be opening for Sarah for the entire Book and Ballgowns national tour. Royal does background vocals on The Baroness in Looking for Someone. He opened for Sarah a few months ago at Sarah's concert at the Mod Club and again for one of Sarah's Harbourfront shows.

Small Note on Sarah's Second Book of Poetry

Recently the Current Magazine published a cover article and interview with Sarah. Some good questions were posed, including with regards to her second book of poetry. Unlike Raven's, Sarah has decided to "focus this time on keeping this book very much about the text and I'm not going to put any paintings in it, I'm going to try to separate those two worlds."

There is no mention of the release date of this book or any other side projects. A side comment is made about completing her musical someday or a symphony.

You can read the full article here in PDF Format on page 13 or as unformatted HTML.

Additional Canadian Dates added to The Tour

If your on the SarahSlean.com mailing list, check your inbox, additional concert dates have been added and a change to one of the dates in Victoria. The following is an excerpt from the mailing list.

Show Date	Venue	Location	Tickets
May 6, 2008	Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre	Medicine Hat, AB	Tickets
May 17, 2008	Holy Heart of Mary Auditorium	St. John's, NF	On sale April 15, Noon
May 27, 2008	The Capitol Theatre	Moncton, NB	On sale April 15, 10am

Date Change

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Sarah's May 2 show at Alix Goolden Hall in Victoria, BC, has been moved to May 1. Venue and ticket information wil be exactly the same as previously announced. An email about this change has been sent to all those who purchased tickets to this show through the SarahSlean.com presale. All other Victoria ticket purchasers will be contacted by the venue directly. If you have any questions, please email us at tickets@sarahslean.com.