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Praise for AURAL Heather
"Whether you’re a long term fan of this artistic genre or it’s something you’ve not yet discovered, I highly recommend giving a listen to Aural Heather’s Princess Nut, subtitled Spoken Word Songs. You’ll find it’s quite an experience."
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"Your new work is superb. I love it, real gutsy and political yet ripe with emotion."
–Kedrick James
"Very interesting and powerful words driven by great beats and sounds."
–Brian Routh, Kipper Kids
"Brilliant. You rock ... and you're going to make your audiences rock."
–Biff Mitchell
Praise for Surfing Season:
"Beautiful. A credit to the genre."
–Ian Ferrier, Wired on Words
"Great job! An auspicious disc. One of the best albums of its kind."
–Kurt Heintz, e-poets
"Important work."
–Poseybeat
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AURAL Heather is Heather Haley, Roderick Shoolbraid and "a unique, sublime fusion of song and spoken word." Shoolbraid is a dazzling guitarist, composer, sound designer and DJ. Old School and proud of it, Haley is a maverick poet, singer, author and media artist often found pushing boundaries and always on the vanguard.
"A Canadian national treasure," she started writing verse in high school and her life as a bona fide artist began on the stage of the infamous Smilin' Buddha in Vancouver fronting the all-girl punk band the Zellots.
Haley was a member of the 45s with Randy Rampage and Brad Kent of DOA and the Avengers. Later she formed HHZ-Heather Haley & the Zellots-praised by LA Weekly music critic Craig Lee as one of the city's "Ten Great Bands."
These two charming redheads, working in a myriad of media and from disparate backgrounds, have joined forces in bold experimentalism for the past four years, producing a series of live shows, a videopoem called Purple Lipstick and their first CD, Surfing Season. Haley is an artist intimate with the music of language. Raised on folk and country music, she discovered rock and was composing poems and songs from the age of six.
Shoolbraid has always been open to re-working the paradigms at hand, though classical music and jazz have been the pillars of his career. Their sound has evolved into the unique, emotionally charged spoken word songs-or spongs-of AURAL Heather, "brawny, uncompromising" poetry and music that rouses audiences with a high-impact live show and places them in a genre-crossing, category-defying position, truly and only unto themselves.
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"Princess Nut" International CD Tour 2008
AURAL Heather and RPW Records are gearing up for the duo's international tour in support of the release of their new CD, "Princes Nut." AURAL Heather will make appearances July 3-20 in Toronto, Kingston, Ottawa, Chicago, New York and Montreal. In September they head to Europe and then to the southern U.S. in November.
- Jul 4, 2008 8:00 PM 08:00 PM - Cryptic Chatter -Toronto, Ontario -Aural Heather (Heather Haley and Roderick Shoolbraid) performing spoken word songs from their new CD "Princess Nut"
- Jul 6, 2008 8:00 PM 08:00 PM - Dusty Owl Reading Series, Ottawa ON
- Jul 7, 2008 8:00 PM 08:00 PM - Poetry & Company 53 Princess St, Kingston ON
- Jul 8, 2008 8:00 PM 08:00 PM - Toronto Art Bar, Toronto, Ontario
- Jul 13, 2008 8:00 PM 08:00 PM - Word Jam, Toronto, Ontario
- Jul 15, 2008 8:00 PM 08:00 PM - The Cafe, Chicago, Illinois
- Jul 18, 2008 8:00 PM 08:00 PM - Son of Pony reading series, Cornelia Street Cafe, New York, New York
- Jul 20, 2008 8:00 PM 08:00 PM – Words and Music
- Casa de Popolo, Montreal, Quebec