Jo-Ann Lawton

Jo-Ann Lawton has been around the music scene since the 1980’s …. For full bio, visit:-
http://www.jo-annlawton.com

Jo-Ann Lawton earned a Canadian Folk Music Award nomination (for Best Vocal Group) in 2007 with Sirens, a group she nurtured throughout it’s 14 year lifetime, but which disbanded in September of 2009. Sirens had performed across North America & recorded 4 CDs, (two of them with the all-Canadian folk label Borealis[www.borealisrecords.com].

Jo-Ann has one solo CD. All the music on all these CDs is “original”, the majority penned by Jo-Ann , some co-writes, others written by other members of Sirens.

Jo-Ann’s song writing, influenced by the musical styling of the 40s, crosses the boundaries between contemporary folk, rock-a-billy, blues and country…from heartrending ballads to upbeat sing-a-longs with a dash of humour.

After the disbanding of Sirens and going through several years of tough personal & family issues, Jo-Ann has struggled to find her musical niche, mostly abandoning her songwriter/singer roots during that period, in which she spent most of her time and musical energies helping to forge a motley ensemble of ukulele playing ladies into a cohesive entity: the Ukellettes[www.showcaseyourmusic.com/ukellettes]
The Ukellettes now perform at various functions around the area, and perform a 2 hour concert regularly every other Friday. {In 2013: 1st Friday of the month at the LIFE*SPIN Living Room ; 3rd Friday of the month at the East Village Coffeehouse}.

Since she discovered the ukulele, Jo-Ann has added many traditional and old-time-favourite songs to her repertoire. You might find her playing at various Old Folks Homes in the area, either solo, or in various Ukellette combinations.

In the summer of 2011, Jo-Ann made a step forward in returning to the scene as a solo singer/songwriter, and played a two hour concert every other Friday evening at a local coffeehouse for a full year until June of 2012. Family matters prevented her from continuing down that pathway, but hopefully she’ll be ready to pursue that goal again shortly.

In August, Jo-Ann (& Nigel) will be travelling out East in ART, their 1983 Dodge Road Trek Camper. It will be a Dinner & Driveway Tour.
We are looking for friends whose driveway we can park in, in exchange for our wonderful company, and perhaps, some of Jo-Ann s even more wonderful music. Though no details are yet available, we are open to any event, from sitting around a campfire, or a house concert arranged for you and your neighbours and friends, or a concert in your community hall that you might like to arrange, for your favourite charity.
We will detour way of a straight course to visit you.
Maybe even start off in a westerly direction.
If you would like to be part of the itinerary, please call

You can also find Jo-Ann at this MySpace website.[www.myspace.com/joannlawtonsolo]