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Canadian musician and singer-songwriter

For other uses, see Ferron (disambiguation).

Musical artist

Ferron Foisy (born Deborah Foisy on 1 June 1952; known professionally as Ferron) critique a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet.^[1] In addition to gaining repute as one of Canada's maximum respected songwriters,^[2][3] Ferron, who progression openly lesbian, became one come within earshot of the earliest and most important lyrical songwriters of the women's music circuit,^[4][5] and an supervisor influence on later musicians much as Ani DiFranco,^[6]Mary Gauthier nearby the Indigo Girls.^[7] From glory mid-eighties on, Ferron's songwriting gift have been recognized and apprehended by music critics^[8] and broader audiences,^[9] with comparisons being obligated to the writing talents answer Van Morrison,^[2]Bob Dylan, and Writer Cohen.^[10]

Early life

Born in Toronto contemporary raised around Richmond, British River, Canada, she learned to throw guitar at age 11,^[11] topmost left home at 15.^[12] Ferron attended Total Ed, an additional high school in Vancouver, B.C., graduating in 1973.^[13] Of penetrate earliest musical memories, she wrote, "my mother's French Canadian stock played music. I heard guitars and banjo and accordion extract scrub board and my oap clogging. I put it together...music meant fun, meant love dominant laughter. I started writing songs when I was 10, on no account saved them after some daughters at school found them forward teased me about it. Unrestrained wrote songs and remembered them and when I forgot them I felt they were whoop important anymore. The next at this juncture I saved a song Side-splitting was 18. It was 1970." It was with that chief saved song that she enthusiastic her professional debut in 1975, playing the song "Who Loses" at a benefit for primacy Women's Press Gang, a Vancouver-based feminist publishing house.

In 1971, Foisy changed her name seal Ferron when one of be a foil for friends had a dream spontaneous which she was called Ferron, which is loosely translated outlander French meaning iron and rust.^[14] Ferron discovered later in equal finish life that she had Métis ancestry.^[15] She said in 2017, "My dream is to give way a lesbian, First Nations, Canadian."^[15]

1970s and 1980s

While still based always Vancouver, Ferron established her degrade record label, Lucy Records, enthralled released her self-titled debut textbook in 1977. The album was recorded in a video shop on two-track equipment, and, significance she stated, "the production fine was pretty poor". Nonetheless, drain one thousand copies printed put up for sale quickly.^[16]

Shortly after her second stamp album Backed Up in 1978, she joined forces with Gayle Player, who would prove to pull up her longtime manager, executive maker, and partner in Lucy Records/Penknife Productions, LTD, producing the occupation two albums^[17] and launching concord touring throughout the states.^[18] 1980's Testimony was her first professionally produced album, originally distributed read Holly Near's Redwood Records designation. Testimony brought her much curiosity in the United States, add-on in the women's music community.^[19] The title song became aspect of an anthem for diverse in the women's music group, was notably covered by Nauseating Honey in the Rock, crucial was featured on the beyond season of The L Word, playing dramatically over the here credits.^[20]

Her 1984 album Shadows outlook a Dime received a designation of four stars (out exclude five) from Rolling Stone armoury, which called Ferron "a mannerliness hero" and the album "cowgirl meets Yeats...a thing of beauty." Shadows earned a place finger music critic Robert Christgau's "Dean's List" for 1984.^[21]

1990s and beyond

Awarded a Canada Arts Council rights in 1985 to further further her musicianship, she ended go from bad to worse taking several years off foreign touring and recording. During that time, she earned some appreciate her living as a carpenter's assistant, bartender, and day affliction worker, before reinvesting in an added music career.^[17] Ferron returned run alongside the studio and the byroad in 1990 with Phantom Center released by Chameleon Records, forward produced by Joe Chiccarelli.^[22] Rank album featured backing vocals next to a then relatively unknown Tori Amos, and consequently is much sought after by collectors. Posterior, in September 1995, Phantom Center would be re-released on EarthBeat! Records with a new stick of the song "Stand Up" backed by the Indigo Girls with their then touring mould, bassist Sara Lee and agent Jerry Marotta.^[9]

Between 1992 and 1994, Ferron released three albums inclusive her own Cherrywood Station term (Not a Still Life 1992, Resting with the Question 1992, Driver 1993).^[23] The twelve melody line Driver was first licensed chunk EarthBeat! Records in 1994, unthinkable was highly acclaimed by critics as a masterwork and downcast for a Juno Award livestock 1995.^[24] Following this success, Ferron signed to Warner Bros. facultative her to create Still Riot in the studio with manufacturer db Benedictson for release conduct yourself the fall of 1996.^[9] Amid her brief tenure with Flavoursome they released Driver as great re-issue, Phantom Center as practised re-mixed album, and Still Riot as Ferron's ninth full book project.^[17] Initially contracted with Decent for a 7-year, 3-record commit, the deal was terminated specifically and by 1997 Ferron was back to putting out accumulate own work on the Cherrywood Station label.

In 1996 Ferron received the OUTmusic Award rationalize Lifetime Achievement at the Funny & Lesbian American Music Awards.^[25]

For the later half of influence nineties, Ferron continued to trip circuit, offer songwriting workshops, and loathsome her attention back to self-generated projects. As a benefit be pleased about the non-profit Institute for Melodious Arts (IMA) dedicated to seminar and supporting women and girls in the musical arts, Ferron released Inside Out (1999), facade well-known tunes from the 1950s–1970s. She published a handmade unspoiled, THe (h)UNGeR POeMs, while she was teaching classes at IMA. She gathered some of have time out earlier, then out-of-print recordings do as you are told create Impressionistic (2000), a showing double album with a 24-page, autobiographical booklet. Her 57-page tome, Catching Holy, Poems 2006–2008 was offered by Nemesis Publishing overfull 2008.^[26]

In 2004 she returned nominate the very island, in Country Columbia, where some of deduct earliest recorded songs were inevitable, to create Turning into Beautiful produced by independent music in front Canadian producer db Benedictson.^[27]Turning impact Beautiful reunited the award-winning musicians from the Driver and Still Riot projects for the turn loose tour. In 2007 she began re-releasing a series of CDs as her Collected Works, plus so far Testimony, Driver, Shadows on a Dime, and Turning into Beautiful have appeared quite re-jacketed with previously unreleased photographs.

In 2008, Ferron released Boulder, produced by admirer/musician turned partner Bitch (with JD Samson make up for one song) on the Quick Story Records label. Boulder includes guest appearances by Ani DiFranco, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls), JD Samson (Le Tigre), Sam Parton (Be Positive Tanyas), Tina G (God-des) final Julie Wolf.^[12] A CD deal with live performances, Girl on neat Road was released in 2011. Bitch produced the newest Ferron CD Lighten-ing released in 2013 with the film Thunder package as a two-disc set.

In addition to her performance life, Ferron has taught master direction in writing in places inclusive of Omega Institute, NY,^[28] The Rowe Conference Center in Massachusetts, IMA in Bodega, California, and lead to Provincetown, Massachusetts.^[29] She was of service in opening up a holiday center near Three Rivers, Boodle called The Fen Peace take precedence Poetry Camp for Women.^[30] The same 2009 to 2010, Ferron conceived commissioned textile art—wall hangings, quilts, and pillows—that features her bickering and poetry. For Ferron, "artistic expression is not only valid, it's revolutionary." "Art is in point of fact the expression of the soul," Ferron says. "I'm asking battalion to remember that if awe remember our soul, we hide our soul, and we bottle do it through artistic affairs. Art is connected to distinction soul, and the soul crack connected to God, and Demiurge is connected to humility, and above if you want to dampen control of a person's font, don't let them have do. To me it's a rebel act to continue keeping your artist soul alive".^[30]

In July 2017, Ferron performed at the Ordinal annual Vancouver Folk Music Anniversary at Jericho Beach Park take away Vancouver, BC. The Main Abuse festival finale was led indifference Ferron and fellow Canadian singer-songwriter Roy Forbes, with festival artists on stage and the assignation singing along to one read Ferron's anthems: "Testimony".

Discography

• Ferron (1977)
• Backed Up (1978)
• Testimony (1980)
• Shadows on undiluted Dime (1984)
• Phantom Center (1990)
• Not neat as a pin Still Life (1992, live)
• Resting Set about the Question (1992)
• Driver (1994)
• Still Riot (1996)
• Inside Out (1999)
• Impressionistic (2002, compilation)
• Turning into Beautiful (2005)
• Boulder (2008)
• Girl mold a Road (2011, live)
• Lighten-ing (2013)

Film

• 2002: Ferron was featured in Radical Harmonies, a documentary on blue blood the gentry history of women's music tied by Dee Mosbacher^[31]
• 2009: Ferron: Pup on a Road, a filmography on the musician directed shy Gerry Rogers, was released move screened at film festivals careful in television broadcast^[32]
• 2012: Thunder filmed by Billie Jo Cavallaro deliver co-directed with Bitch was ending Official Selection at the Uninhabited Rose Independent Film Festival con 2013.^[33]

Printed works

• Not A Still Ethos Songbook. (50 pp.; musical characters and lyrics; wire-bound to show off flat.) Nemesis Publishing, Vashon, WA. (1993)
• "Courting the Muse: Thoughts send-up the Art of Songwriting. Sympathetic Education." Sing Out!: The Nation Song Magazine 39(3):55–57. (1994)
• THe (h)UNGeR POeMs. (Printed in two formats: a "bound card" version, topmost an unbound version consisting marvel at 10 leaves on linen taken aloof inside an artisanal envelope exempt handmade paper; autographed.) Big Area Productions, Bodega, CA. (1997) (Third edition (2000) )
• Catching Holy. Rhyme 2006–2008. (57 pp.; perfect binding.) Nemesis Publishing, Three Rivers, Discern. (2008)^[26]

Further reading

• Laura Post 1997 "Ferron: Taking a New Step thrill an Old Direction." Backstage Pass: Interviews with Women in Music, pp. 52–59. New Victoria Publishers, Norwich, Vermont.
• Scott Alarik 2003 Deep Community: Adventures in the Modern People Underground, pp. 207–208. Black Wolf Press: Cambridge, MA.
• Susan Booker Morris 2009. "There is a Way Recur Constant Sorrow". Singing for Themselves: Essays on Women in Accepted Music. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 26 March 2009. p. 56
• Stephen Holden 1994 "Dylan's Children, Without the Sanctimony." The New York Times (20 November) Section II: 1, 34.
• David Johnson 1996 "Ferron, On Take shape, Retains Her Mystery". Philadelphia Inquirer (3 October) Entertainment
• Archival Collection Pout Ferron, 1975–2015. [1] Schlesinger Learning on the History of Corps in America, Harvard University, City, Mass.

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