George Seara, who tracked and mixed Tracing Light, was named Recording Engineer of the Year at the JUNO Awards this past weekend in Ottawa for his work on the first track of the album, "Let Go." Congrats, George!! You can still get a free download of this JUNO winning track: DOWNLOAD "LET GO"
Special congrats also go to saxophonist, Phil Dwyer, who was awarded a JUNO for Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year. Phil was featured on Laila's Glenn Gould show this past February and can be watched and heard on her latest YouTube videos. WATCH PHIL & LAILA PERFORM BRUCE COCKBURN'S "STOLEN LAND
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We're Coming to Hamilton, Ontario this May!
Following a great series of concerts at Tokyo's Cotton Club, Laila's trio, featuring Larnell Lewis and George Koller, heads to Hamilton this May 4. The show will be at one of the city's premier venues, the Molson Canadian Studio at Hamilton Place, and promises some more surprises as Laila unveils her latest creative work (and some new instruments!) GET TICKETS
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Our YouTube channel keeps growing. Check out our latest videos.
Since our YouTube channel launched last month, we have added nine new videos and have reached almost 5000 views. We will continue adding new videos in the coming weeks, so keep visiting or better yet, SUBSCRIBE! We also greatly appreciate your "likes" (YouTube "thumbs up"), "shares", friendly comments and social network lovin as it helps our channel to gain greater visibility. Positive stats make a big difference, so THANK YOU! WATCH LAILA ON YOUTUBE
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Laila's rendition of "Show Me The Place" gets featured on Herohill as part of a special Leonard Cohen tribute.
Prominent music blogger Herohill posted a tribute to Leonard Cohen that features contributions by 25 artists. Check out Laila's latest, "Show Me The Place" (featuring the glockenspiel!), as part of your free download. You can also watch Laila performingthis brand new arrangement on YouTube. WATCH LAILA PERFORM LEONARD COHEN'S "SHOW ME THE PLACE"
It's official: We've launched our YouTube channel! Check out the very first video posting, our live performance of Neil Young's "Heart of Gold" filmed at The ACT in Maple Ridge this past January featuring Adam Thomas tearing it up on bass and vocals alongside Julian MacDonough's awesome drumming. (I feel like we should bake a celebratory cake!!! This has been a LONG time coming...)
For the Glenn Gould show in Toronto, which marks the fifth anniversary of Laila's trio with George Koller and Larnell Lewis, we are pleased to announce that we have some very special guests on the bill! We will welcome award-winning singer songwriter Marc Jordan, multi-instrumentalist Waleed Abdulhamid (named a New Pioneer for Arts in 2011) and... all the way from Vancouver Island, the exceptional saxophone playing of Phil Dwyer. The show is close to selling out!