MARY BARRY: Red Eye Tonight

Mary Barry

Red Eye Tonight

© 2007 C Mary Barry/socan (775020807228)

CD IN STOCK. ORDER NOW. Will ship immediately.

She writes and sings original jazz in English and French, with a melange of swing, bossa nova, and bluesy ballads.

tracks

1 Red Eye Tonight
2 Hurricane Charley
3 I Know I Should Run
4 So Long
5 Brasse Partout
6 Laura Nyro Passed Away Today
7 So Shy
8 Still Life With the Blues
9 Twilight Magic
10 Nothing More to Say
11 All I Need
12 La Fille De La Mer
13 You're the One

notes

MARY BARRY

A native of St. John’s, Mary Barry is a multiple award-winning singer, composer and teacher who trained in voice, piano, puppetry, theatre and dance. She is a graduate of Vancouver Community College’s Jazz & Commercial Music Program.

Mary is a bilingual artist who has thrilled audiences across Canada, the US and France, moving easily from jazz to blues to ‘chanson’. Her music has been described as a gold mine of nuggets for collectors of original jazz and blues, with a glowing hint of torch in her voice. Throughout her career, she has performed and recorded with such stellar musicians as Jeff Johnston, Jim Vivian, John Nugent, Mike Billard, Miles Black, Rick Kilburn, Graham Ord, Craig Scott and Jesse Zubot. Her performances include the Vancouver, St. John’s and Montreal Jazz Festivals, Le Centre Culturel Francophone de Vancouver, Le Festival d’Ete in Quebec City, and the Newfoundland & Labrador Folk Festival.

Barry is the recipient of several songwriting awards, including the CBC Atlantic Song Contest, the Newfoundland & Labrador Arts & Letters Awards, FACTOR Professional Publishers/Songwriters Demo Award and, just recently, she was a semi-finalist in the 2006 International Songwriting Competition, the only Canadian to make it that far in the Jazz category. Her critically acclaimed CD “These Days” was nominated for the 2005 ECMA Jazz Recording of the Year. In the fall of 2005, Mary was chosen to be the Gros Morne Musician in Residence, traveling to the west coast of the island where she performed and conducted vocal and songwriting workshops in the community. In 2004, she was awarded the prestigious Female Artist of the Year award from the Music Industry Association of Newfoundland & Labrador.

Mary’s third independent recording entitled Red Eye Tonight which features jazz giants Patrick Boyle, Bill Brennan, Gary Davis, Rick Hollett, Mark Peddle, Brian Way and Gary Tilley, was just released in July to rave reviews at the St. John’s International Jazz Festival.

Mary Barry lives in St. John’s, where besides performing and teaching, she also works as a writer, puppeteer and voice-over artist.

reviews

Please log in to review this album.

  • Red Eye Tonight
    author: Sally LeDrew

    A superb CD.....I play this everyday. The music is beautiful, the lyrics outstanding. My children ask me to play Mary's Cd's all the time they know all the words, they dance and sing along to the bossanova of Red Eye Tonight and Twight Magic. My personal favorite is I Know I Should Run. But don't run away from this CD is it brilliant.

  • Red Eye Tonight
    author: Tali Smith

    Fabulous album! Lovely vocals, great songs and super instrumentation. It just won 2 awards, too. My favourite song is La Fille de la Mer because it makes me sway like waves in the ocean.

email

Please log in to email this artist.