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SARAH Harmer performs a free concert next Wednesday, Nov. 8 at Richard’s on Richards with Josh Rouse opening.

Win Sarah Harmer’s new CD

The word is out about Sarah Harmer's new CD You Were

Here. “She has cratted one of the year's best albums”

(Victoria Times Colonish: “A roots recording worthy of

Lucinda Williams or Emmylou Harris” (Vancouver Province).

“Evocative and intensely poetic ballads” (National Post).

To win a copy of er nev CD tell us the name of a band Harmer has

performed with. Send your entries to Sarah Harmer Contest, North Shore News, 1139 _ Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, BC V7M 2H4. Aitn: John Goodman.

You can fax entries to 985-2104 or e-mail ta <jgoodman@nsnews.com>. Deadline tor

the contest is Friday. Nov. 10, 5 p.m. Winners, chosen in a random draw, will be

telephoned. CDs courtesy Universal music.

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Weeping Tile vocalist pertormi g solo Nov. 8

B® Sarah Harmer and Josh Rouse at Richard’s on Richards, Wednesday, Nov. 8. Free show to the first 600 dle or by winning tickets Flam Z95. A 190 show; doo-s at 8 p.m., show at 9 pm.

John Goodman This Week Editor

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GOING solo means a shift in focus for singer/songwriter Sarah Harmer.

The lead vocalist of Kingston, Onrtario’s Weeping an touring on her own year. “Iris a bit ofa ynamic,” she “We're putting on fess how these days so nues have been more ike. It’s really a bit more my show — it feels like an extension but also strippe down.”

and drummer/ guitarist John Obercian) drew raves wherever she went and created a buzz for her independently-released CD You Were Here. She ha been selling the dise at shows and over the Internet. “I kind of let it trickle out a little bit and did it on my own and then got the attention of

Rounder Records in Boston — -

and Universal in Canada.” The album officially released in September is a gem with Harmer’s roots, sensibility well-served by asual atmosphere of the

n for them when they're becoming songs. It’s kind of mysterious but I think they change more because of the kind of space that can be allowed — the melodies can

‘You e not geting oer ou" re gettin wena.

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meander and wander and have

more room than with the stuff. The voeal is deti- more our front.” Hanmer made the album last fall avelting to Toronto tor three or four days ata stretch in the studio before returning home to Kingston. wrote everything on the

album except for the last track

Hodge’ 's

ne”, originally recorded by the Hellbillies.

The song was taped in one

take at four in the morning. “I woke up on the couch in the studio and th couple of microphones sitting in front of me and I recorded it live onto a DAT. I didn’t get all the lyrics but I got Dave to come over to my house and write then: out for me — so the proper lyrics are in the liner notes but that’s not what I sing.” In her hands the Hellbillies’ ;

Asa “Queens U alumnus Harmer grew up ona steady diet of the Tragically Hip and like them she has

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