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Sienna Dahlen

JUNO award-winning jazz vocalist, Sienna Dahlen was born in the pristine Kootenay region of southern British Columbia and raised in the northern gusty dusty Peace River region of the same province. Her upbringing and influences whir like vintage jukebox singles spanning a diversity of styles from Joni Mitchell to Ella Fitzgerald to kd lang. Always paving her own path, Sienna is hard to pin down. Her music and sound scale the outskirts of folk, jazz and the spatial avant-garde and the effect is a showering of sonic love. Sienna's latest release, a duo album entitled "Balladextrous", was recorded with Bill Coon on guitar and released on Cellar Music Records in June of 2023.

Awards

JUNO Award- Best Jazz Vocal Album, "Notes on Montreal" (Composer: Mike Rud, Vocalist: Sienna Dahlen)

East Coast Music Award, "Dream Cassette" (Composer: Joel Miller, Lyricist and Vocalist: Sienna Dahlen)

Opus Award, "Under the Influence Suite" (Composer: Christine Jensen, Lyricist and Vocalist: Sienna Dahlen)

David and Marcia Beach Award (private studies with David Binney)

Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council and Quebec Arts Council awards

Gear

Vocal mic, stand, monitors, pedals


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Album Review

Sienna Dahlen & Bill Coon: Balladextrous

Read "Balladextrous" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


Balladextrous, a collaborative jazz album featuring vocalist Sienna Dahlen and guitarist Bill Coon, is a delightful exploration of the ballad form which allows the artists to make moment-to-moment choices about how they are feeling the rhythm or letting it breathe. This session invites the listener on a soothing and introspective musical journey which showcases the artists' chemistry and individual virtuosity. Over the course of the nine tracks, Dahlen's warm and resonant voice, combined with Coon's delicate ...

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​“My first thought when hearing her enigmatic swooping vocals was of Jeff Buckley… The whole album has an enchanted feel; the songs are personal but not confessional, and the orchestration develops them perfectly. There’s unflinching clarity and also beauty in these songs of love and loss.“
Alison Bentley, London Jazz News, UK

"Ice Age Paradise is richly expansive and deeply searching." (It has) "the ability to sweep you away to some lunary world and Dahlen's voice is the only thing that keeps you tethered until it too drifts away...exquisite."Shelley Gummeson, CFBX Radio

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Primary Instrument

Vocals

Location

Quebec

Willing to teach

Beginner to advanced

Credentials/Background

Humber College 2008-2017

University of Toronto 2008-2017

McGill University 2015-present

Concordia University 2016-present

Clinic/Workshop Information

JazzWorks Canada 2018-present

Cégep Marianopolis 2019-present

JMU School of Music, Viriginia, USA (Montreal Jazz Immersion Program) 2013-present

University of Manitoba

Capilano University

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Bill Frisell
guitar, electric

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Balladextrous

Cellar Music Group
2023

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Ice Age Paradise

Independant
2016

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Verglas

Independant
2012

buy

Off the Floor .......

Unknown label
2007

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