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Tuesday January 31st
8pm doors 9pm show
Grad Club – Kingston Ont.

Who are you and what do you do:
Julie Fader. I am a (new) mother of a daughter, I am a musician, I play my own songs, I play my friends songs with them, I tour around, I paint paintings, and I cook when I am home.

Current obsessions:
Mastering hot plate/toaster oven cooking (our house is under renovation), hanging out with & staring in wonderment & playing music for & showing things to my baby, domestic living, walks.

A song or a record that will always put you in a good mood, without fail:
Schleep by Robert Wyatt usually does it for me, I love that album.

Tell us about an album or artist you think is really under-appreciated, and why they are deserving of more praise:
Christine Bougie! Multi-instumentalist, writes/plays/records beautiful music. She accompanies many different artists and bands with her abundant talents on lap steel, guitar and drums.

Most played track on your iTunes:
Words We Never Use – Ron Sexsmith. Greg Keelor and I did a sweet finger-picking folk duo version of this song for a tribute to Ron a few months back, I guess I had it on repeat for a few days. I was nervous, my first “new mom” performance.

Most cherished musical object:
It will be our piano when we finally get one.

Proudest moment:
Meeting my baby.

Most vulnerable moment:
The same as my proudest moment i think, but I’ll also say playing my songs pretty much any & every time I play them in front of people.

Your favourite use of a song in a film:
First one (of many) that I can think of was in the film ‘Magnolia’ when the cast begin to sing along to Aimee Mann’s “Wise Up”..I haven’t seen it in years, but it was a particularly crushing moment.

Are you most influenced by your surroundings or your inner monologue:
Both equally.

Fiction or nonfiction? Poetry or prose?
Fiction all the way. I took jobs in high school that would allow me to read books at work, and during class always kept a book open in my desk to read.

Favourite venue to play in and why:
Massey Hall. It’s legendary and beautiful, and makes me so nervous each time! I have been lucky enough to perform there 6 times now… – holy shit.

Dream Venue to play in and why:
See above.

Top album released this year:
It’s a tie between Constant Companion by Doug Paisley & Castlemusic by Jennifer Castle.

First band t-shirt you ever purchased from a merch table:
No idea. Slayer maybe?

Band you’d leave your bandmates for:
It was Midlake for a while there, now it’s my imaginary futuristic family band playing a residency on our porch in Hawaii with my partner Graham Walsh and our daughter Frances Pearl.

Album you want to expose your kin to whilst in the womb:
Well I DID play music to my baby in the womb! I played 93 shows (!!!!!) while I was pregnant with her!! Touring mostly in my dear friend Sarah Harmer’s band, and also playing Julie Fader shows, and also guesting with lovely friends like Justin Rutledge, Blue Rodeo, Cuff the Duke, Lou Canon, Wintersleep, and Sharon VanEtten…

The ALBUMS I played repeatedly onto my growing belly with headphones were:
- Music for Egon Shiele by Rachel’s
- Solo Piano by Gonzales
- Trois Gymnopédie by Erik Satie (performed by Ulrich Gumpert)

If for some reason you lost the ability to make and play music, what would fill that gap:
I think I would put my full creative focus on painting rather than my split focus that I tend to give it now. Then I would just paint and listen to music for pleasure, and listen, and listen.. And then probably sing along while I painted.

What was your last dream about:
Last night it was hanging out with Leslie Feist & her band, going to an after-hours party, and playing music. Funny.

Small Talk by Brooke Manning and Jordaan Mason

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Folk-soul singer wins over cozy audience with intimacy

JULIE FADER‘s animated video for Maps from her debut release Outside In.
Directed by Hector Herrera.

Stream: from CBCRadio3.com
Download: MP3 Podcast

JULIE FADER performs Flights (above) and Goodbye Before Hello (below) w/ Graham Walsh (HOLY FUCK) from her debut album Outside In. From the southernsouls.ca session filmed and edited by Mitch Fillion.

Quick & Dirty – Julie Fader

“Julie Fader may just be indie-rock’s best-kept secret. The velvet-voiced Toronto singer-songwriter has lent vocals and instrumentals to everyone from Justin Rutledge and Attack in Black to Cuff the Duke and Blue Rodeo, all while maintaining occasional membership in Great Lake Swimmers and Sarah Harmer’s and Chad VanGaalen’s bands. Despite her impressive CBC Radio 3 pedigree, Fader has typically found herself playing supporting roles. But now, following the release of her first solo album, Outside In, she’s moved into an unfamiliar place: the spotlight.” ~ Richard Trapunski

READ FULL INTERVIEW @ SOUNDPROOF »

Recommended if you dig…Sarah Harmer or Aimee Mann.

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“Back on Step. 3 I told you about Julie Fader’s new album. I told you that I don’t really do reviews – but that rather than take my word for the awesomeness of this album that “Sarah Harmer, Holy Fuck, the Great Lake Swimmers, Cuff the Duke, Bob Wiseman, Ron Sexsmith, Justin Rutledge, Matt Barber, Jill Barber, Dan Mangan, By Divine Right, A Northern Chorus, Chad Van Gaalen, Attack in Black, Hey Rosetta!, Apostle of Hustle and others will be in line to buy the album so, if the respect of other musicians, a whole lot of other musicians, means anything to you Outside In is an album that should be firmly on your radar.” If you weren’t convinced and wanted to wait for the word to come in from the people that do reviews the results are rolling in in a way that rarely happens for a first album in it’s first month.” ~ Justin Beach

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