Mae Moore

 Mae Moore has many claims to fame. As a recording artist, she was a major label success story, scoring nine top forty hits, two Juno nominations and two SOCAN Awards for commercial radio airplay. As an indie artist, she has most recently garnered two Canadian Folk Music Award nominations for Solo Artist of the Year and English Songwriter of the Year. She continues to attract a sizeable fan-base to both her live shows and recordings. And as a personality, Mae is Canada’s quintessential bohemian, a musician, painter, and long-time environmentalist who has lived all over Canada and who now makes her home on an organic farm and heritage orchard in British Columbia’s Gulf Islands.

       All of these facets of Mae come together like never before on her new project, Folklore, a collection of songs inspired by Mae’s varied experiences living in different parts of the country. It was released in conjunction with a companion book featuring 30 of Mae’s acclaimed landscape paintings. Folklore is a bountiful harvest, rich in color and texture and substance. The song “Folklore” explores the decisions one makes in life and how these decisions form one’s own folklore. “Love is Shattered” is the heartbreaking acknowledgement that important friendships can indeed be lost. “ Tom Thomson’s Mandolin” is born of the legend and mystery surrounding the life, the death and the music of famed artist Tom Thompson. The voice, the poetry, the music, is what we look for, what we need to form our own folklore.

       Mae is renowned for her mature and sophisticated mixture of pop, folk and jazz music, and her sound has been captured on this recording by Joby Baker (Cowboy Junkies), who produced Alex Cuba’s Grammy-nominated and Latin Grammy-winning third album. The new mix is an atmospheric and slightly percussive blend of jazzy folk-roots with a subtle European feel to it. The core line-up sees Marc Atkinson (The Bills, The Mark Atkinson Trio) on guitar, Daniel Lapp on trumpet and flugelhorn, Rick May on bass, Scott Sheerin on soprano sax, Joby Baker on drums, bass, piano and strings and of course Mae with her signature guitar sound and dulcimer.