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Valery Gore

The soundtrack to many characters’ lives rests in the cavern of Valery Gore’s mind. Revelating with a modernism drenched in antiquity, the music is biting tongue sadness, sarcasm and joy at its finest. Valery Gore’s compositional adherence of classical and jazz to pop is characterized with a bold and uncanny piano sound. Syncopated phrases, free solo landscapes and spontaneous pirouettes accompany her airy voice. Trained from age eight through classical, rebellion to much loved but conforming Bach Fugues took place at age seventeen, when she began piano jazz studies at Humber College. Through all those trained years, rock influenced Valery’s writing the greatest. Valery is currently planning a tour for March 2005, when her debut album will be released on Six Shooter Records (Luke Doucet, Martin Tielli, Rheostatics) and distributed by Warner Canada. Gore has performed alongside and recorded backing vocals for Royal Wood’s album Tall Tales (Maple Music), and has shared bills with Jill Barber, Greg MacPherson, Brian Byrne (I Mother Earth), Dallas Green (Alexisonfire), Lindy, Simon Wilcox, and other admired artists. This past summer Valery played at S.C.E.N.E. Festival in St. Catharines, as well as doing shows at venues such as Rivoli, El Mocambo, C’est What, Cameron House, and Lot 16. Live she is backed by tight rhythmic gentlemen Devon Henderson on bass and Joshua VanTassel (Stop Die Resuscitate) on drums. They’re guaranteed to steal your heart, your joke, or maybe your spare change.