Charlotte Cornfield

Ken Prue presents
CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD IN CONCERT Saturday,May 25, 2019 at 7:30 PM The LOFT $25 +sc

You can tell a lot about people by the company they keep. Charlotte Cornfield is a dedicated musical artist with a day-job (talent booker at ultra-hip Burdock Music Hall on Bloor Street West) and a vibrant circle of musical friends and collaborators (BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE) who have been boundary-pushers in Canadian music for some time. She has solid connections in Cobourg and Port Hope (mom and dad) and the video for one of her new songs was shot on Wicklow Beach Road. Next week (April 19) she embarks on a cross-continent tour with Tim Baker (HEY ROSETTA!) that will take her from St. John's to San Francisco via Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton,Vancouver, Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles. Charlotte is playing for keeps.

Charlotte comes to Cobourg's intimate LOFT Sat May 25 for an exclusive area CD release concert with three crack musicians.

Here's a recent article from EXCLAIM! MAGAZINE that talks about Charlotte's third album.

It took three years, five recording sessions, and plenty of travelling to get to The Shape of Your Name, Charlotte Cornfield's third and most refined record to date. Featuring a collection of Canada's musical innovators, The Shape of Your Name is Cornfield's songwriting at its most biting, lucid and nourished.

Cornfield has been working as the booking manager for Toronto's Burdock Music Hall for the past four years, while offering her drumming expertise to those around her. Recruiting Grammy-winning engineer Shawn Everett, Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin and Montreal songwriter Leif Vollebekk, Cornfield has draped The Shape of Your Name with collaboratively sticky hooks and lyrical concretism.

"Storm Clouds" was the first song on the record to be written, and features a mantra of Cornfield's repeated: "Storm clouds, elation, desire, mania, darkness." "Storm Clouds," along with first single "Andrew," swells with electricity and emotion. "Up the Hill" takes this energy to another level, filling space with jangly effected electric guitar that edges towards the sounds coming from the West coast.

Cornfield's vocals often carry the primary melodies while a piano or guitar adds depth in understated moments of magnetism. "June" pits the everyday against heartbreak: "Putting the laundry on. Dealing with the lawn. Finding something to read. I never said that I wanted you most." Similar magic is worked on "Silver Civic."

The Shape of Your Name has an elegiac quality to it: there is plenty of mourning within these songs, but there are also rays of a bright future. Cornfield delivers solid, everyday language to describe feelings that are difficult to pin down. She's right to be optimistic. "Because I waited so long," she croons on "Storm Clouds," "it's gonna be that much better." (Next Door)

Tickets are $25 + sc