Stage Schedules:

Saturday 7/23

Sunday 7/24

Ferron

Appearing on the Infield stage
at 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM on Saturday July 23rd, 2004

Ferron, a powerful and engaging singer-songwriter from Canada brings a distinct sound and a unique literary quality to her music. Her explorations of life's essential matters - fear, trust, commitment, separation, ecstasy, wonder - run the gamut from down-home folk to ambitious art-punk.

Over the past twenty years, writers and reviewers alike have repeatedly recognized Ferron as being one of the finest songwriters in North America. The New York Times calls her "startlingly intimate, honest and inspiring" while the Boston Globe describes her work as "stunningly brilliant ... so deeply human and full of grace." Rolling Stone magazine, in reviewing her fourth album, "Shadows on a Dime," said, "Ferron writes of love with the relentless introspection of Leonard Cohen, and, as with classic Bob Dylan, her songs' tough, questioning attitude sometimes gives way to an unexpected sweetness... the songs are so full of emotional incidents that you wind up living with them awhile and, eventually, learning them by heart."

Ferron was born in Toronto and raised in Vancouver in a struggling, working class environment. She left home at 15 to work a series of blue collar jobs and to develop the music that was growing inside her. She found her way to a Vancouver coffeehouse and landed her first gigs. Since that time, Ferron has toured extensively throughout North America. Ferron can certainly be counted as one who helped pave the way for the current folk revival in North America. She has toured recently with The Indigo Girls, who introduced her each night as one of their biggest influences.

Visit this artists website at
http://www.ferrononline.com/