Yurt Sessions - Kim June Johnson w/ Marc Atkinson & Scott White

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Monday, May 22nd, 2017
Doors: 6:30PM Show: 7:00PM

Join us for a delightful evening of songs & stories.
Award-winning west coast singer-songwiter, Kim June Johnson, will be joined by Scott White (bass) and Marc Atkinson (guitar).
This is a limited-seating house concert in the YURT.

Watch this stunning song - in finals for 2017 CBC Seachlight!.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=hCWDd7kaZyI

“Vocalist of the Year” at the 2015 Vancouver Island Music Awards.

Kim June Johnson is a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet. Her third album, Canvas & Clay, was released in the fall of 2014. It 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. Kim’s live shows combine song, storytelling and poetry and are often performed in living rooms and small, intimate settings. She is also one half of the folk-pop duo, Little Bridges.

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, Shari Ulrich, the Marc Atkinson Trio and Little Miss Higgins.

Canvas & Clay was produced by Marc Atkinson (The Bills). It is Kim’s most pop-oriented record to date and features guest appearances by Daniel Lapp on trumpet and fiddle and Scott White on upright bass.

She is currently preparing to record another album, and is working on a manuscript of poems. She calls Hornby Island home.