BIO
Singer-songwriter Gabrielle Papillon experienced music for the first time before she was even born, nestled safely in her mother’s womb as her parents attended a Grateful Dead concert. Her first foray into the musical sphere was as a toddler, when she started humming her own melodies, and her involvement with music continued to grow as she did. She wrote her first songs at fourteen after learning to play basic chords on the guitar before forming several bands with her brother throughout high school. While neither can remember the names of any of the bands they created together – after all, what’s in a name anyway? – the hours logged rehearsing in their basement proved invaluable to Papillon.
In 2001 she released her first album Songs for a Rainy Day through independent producer, Concept Studios. Adjourning from her music career for nearly eight years, Papillon completed her B.A. and Master’s degree, only to emerge with fresh tunes in her head and a more developed musical style. By way of cars, buses, planes and trains Papillon began touring full-time in June of 2010. She has since completed two cross-Canada tours and has been touring almost non-stop across Ontario and Eastern Canada Since playing Halifax’s In the Dead of Winter Festival in January 2010 and 2011, Papillon’s music has found its way onto local and regional CBC airwaves as well as onto CBC Radio 3s rotation.
February 2011 saw her journeying to Memphis for an official Performance Alley showcase at the 23rd International Folk Alliance Conference. With only a few days off to prepare, she then left on an extended two-and-a-half month tour across Canada, playing 40 shows and traveling with frequent touring partner, Ambre McLean.
Papillon is currently getting ready to venture out on her third Cross-Canada tour with Kim Wempe and preparing to release her third solo project (September 2011) recorded at Montreal’s Treatment Room (Plants and Animals, The Acorn, Timber Timbre, Stars, Snailhouse.) This is all the while plotting a course to record her fourth and most ambitious project in 2012. She will also be playing a showcase at the 2011 incarnation of the Halifax POP Explosion festival in October.
She has had the pleasure of sharing the stage with Amelia Curran, Royal Wood, Del Barber, Forest City Lovers, Olenka and the Autumn Lovers, Jon Brooks, Sean Ashby, Scott Cook, Ryan MacGrath, Chris Wynters (Captain Tractor), and Debra-Jean and the Means.
Influenced by guitar slinging troubadours such as Ani Difranco, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, and Paul Simon, her music is often about a feeling. Her muse is the amalgamation of people in her life, or even an imaginary scenario. Above all, she loves the journey of a song.
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