From: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org (headline-girl-digest) To: headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Subject: headline-girl-digest V2 #40 Reply-To: headline-girl@smoe.org Sender: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk headline-girl-digest Tuesday, February 23 1999 Volume 02 : Number 040 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Article on Emm in Jam ["Gian.C." ] Emm Gryner - new tour dates [Joni Daniels ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 00:48:29 -0500 From: "Gian.C." Subject: Article on Emm in Jam Heya People, don't know if anyone mentioned this, but this past feb 20th, there was a little article on Emm in http://www.Canoe.ca. There are a few new tidbits of info that goes against the grain of the usual 'Emm article' :) here's the website: http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusic/feb20_gryner.html and here's the article: Gryner keeps her cool By DAVE VEITCH Calgary Sun When it comes to the music biz, Emm Gryner is one cool customer. Last year, she signed a U.S. record deal with Mercury and released her major-label debut, Public. But clouds appeared on the horizon this winter with Seagram's takeover of PolyGram Music Group. "The woman who signed me and the woman I worked with are no longer (at Mercury U.S.) and basically everybody I have worked with has been fired," the Toronto-based singer says. "If it eventually does affect me, in terms of getting dropped, I'm not too concerned.... It's one of those things you don't have a lot of control over." Gryner, who performs tomorrow at the Jack Singer Concert Hall, probably saves her emotional outbursts for her often painfully personal compositions. Songs such as The End, 89 Days in Alcatraz and This Mad are requiems for dead love affairs from a woman who, judging from the intensity of her lyrics, falls in love ... hard. "I do tend to embark on relationships with a great deal of hope for them," the 23-year-old says. "I tend to give everything I have. When it doesn't quite work out, the reaction I have is quite similar (to her lyrics) in terms of how extreme it is." There are extremities to her style, too. Though some songs are very direct, others are head-scratchingly cryptic. Similarly, the music ranges from being gentle and sparse, to being aggressive and orchestral. Her confident hand with melody and lyric suggests she's an experienced songwriter -- and, indeed, she's been penning tunes since she was 10. "My parents put all three of us into music lessons," Gryner says, referring to her two older brothers. One brother, Frank, is a recording engineer who worked on Rob Zombie's latest album. "But I don't think my parents expected us to go into music at all. They kind of got taken by surprise." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:34:20 -0500 From: Joni Daniels Subject: Emm Gryner - new tour dates Hi All Emm Gryner's first tour of western Canada is going extremely well - and a couple more dates have been added - of course, you've all heard by now that Emm will be playing with Alanis Morissette in Winnipeg May 8. Judging by the great response she received at her first show in that city last week, it should be a good one! Here's the whole scoop: Feb. 22 Edmonton, AB Winspear Centre Feb. 23 Banff, AB Eric Harvie Theatre Feb. 25 Nanaimo, BC Port Theatre Feb. 26 Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre Feb. 27 Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre Feb. 28 Victoria, BC Royal Theatre *new* Mar. 4 Toronto, On First Canadian Place (12 noon - 2pm) Mar. 4 Toronto, ON Phoenix Mar. 5 Lindsay, ON Academy Theatre Mar. 6 Toronto, ON 12 noon Canadian Radio Music Awards (industry only) Mar. 6 Toronto, ON 3:40pm CMW Exhibition Blockbuster stage (public) Mar. 6 Kitchener, ON Lulu's *new* Mar. 7 Montreal, QC Cabaret Mar. 12 London, ON Fanshawe College *new* May 8 Winnipeg, MB Winnipeg Arena *new* July 8 Calgary, AB Calgary Stampede Don't forget to root for Emm on March 7 when the Juno's are handed out. She's nominated in the Best New Solo Artist category! cya Joni ------------------------------ End of headline-girl-digest V2 #40 **********************************