Claire Coupland / Of The Sun – House Concert

There is a pureness to Claire’s voice that can silence a room.  A moving songwriter and compelling guitarist, Claire combines her smooth signature folk finger picking, jazz influenced progressions and soaring melodies with a powerful, yet tender delivery. Her new album “New Light” delivers carefully crafted, darker and more vulnerable reckonings of self worth, escaping abuse, fragile family dynamics and ultimate hope for the future. Her album has reached #3 in the national college/community radio charts, had steady CBC & BBC UK airplay, and rave reviews from music publications around the world who laud her lyricism, deft guitar playing and rich vocals. Claire Coupland brings a graceful contemporary feel to modern folk music, always with a touch of her “wicked sense of humour” (Rik Emmett, Triumph).

A singer-songwriter and inventive banjoist, Marian van der Zon is now exploring new sonic and thematic territory with Of the Sun. Blending organic psych-folk, alt. country, and loop technology with lyrics and messages of healing, spirituality, love, perseverance, and mysticism, the debut Of the Sun album, Still Rising stands as an artistic triumph. “Looping her voice to produce layers of choral vocals, van der Zon performed the acapella We are Love with arms outstretched, and it was incredible.” Folk Radio UK