Kim June Johnson

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Thursday, April 25th, 2019
Doors at 6:30pm Show at 7:00pm

Kim June Johnson is a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet. Her live shows combine song, storytelling and poetry and are often performed in living rooms and small halls. She is widely known in the Canadian house concert community.

Critics have long praised her moving, angelic vocals and her craftsmanship as a songwriter. Written with a maturity and wisdom that calls to mind the classic works of Vashti Bunyan, Carol King and KD Lang, her songs are universal and timeless and sung with an intimacy and openness that are unmistakably her own.

Kim has been recognized by the USA Songwriting Competition and the International Songwriting Competition for several of her compositions, including Calgary and Parachute from her album Paper Sun, produced by Colin Linden . She has shared the stage with Chic Gamine, Blackie & the Rodeo Kings, Daniel Lapp, Shari Ulrich, the Marc Atkinson Trio and Little Miss Higgins.

Her third album, Canvas & Clay (2014) was nominated for two Vancouver Island Music Awards, including “Album of the Year” and won “Vocalist of the Year”. It was also chosen by Indie Acoustic Project as one of the top 21 Independently released albums of 2014. The album’s single, Oh June, was a regional finalist in the 2016 CBC Searchlight Competition and the title track, Canvas & Clay, was a finalist in the 2017 CBC Searchlight Competition.

In June, she released her fourth album, A Thousand Things. Produced by Marc Atkinson in the beautiful Barn Studio on Hornby Island, the album is a collection of folk-based songs, tiny stories rife with coastal images and people, and features the lush string arrangements of composer Adrian Dolan.

She calls Hornby Island home.

http://www.kimjunejohnson.com

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