Bird Sisters

A lady vocal trio of Sue Smith, Tannis Slimmon and Jude Vadala, the Parrot Sisters formed in 1985 once the individuals met while executing separately on the Hillside Celebration in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. The celebration itself have been co-founded by Smith and Vadala. In those days Slimmon was an associate of R&B music group Reverb, Vadala was an associate of bluegrass music group This Aspect Up and Smith was an associate of folk rock and roll act Grapevine. With the encouragement of shared friends they made a decision to work together, you start with a simple assortment of a cappella cover variations. One of the primary to listen to the outcomes was Common Surface bass participant Molly Kurvink, who referred to their performing as like ‘parrot sisters’, providing them with their name. Their debut emerged in 1990 using the FLO cassette because of their very own TBS label – documented by using funding off their fanbase. By requesting them to get the album beforehand they were in a position to secure enough fund correctly to record the tape with manufacturer and engineer Jeff Parrot. They applied exactly the same fiscal rationale towards the documenting (with Ken Whiteley) of 1992’s Different Tales. This time around, sparse instrumentation was utilized rather than the natural a cappella strategy of the debut. A more ambitious established, 1995’s She & She & She, was documented from May 1994 to Feb 1995 in Ontario with the help of John Switzer (Jane Siberry, Waltons). Using the songwriting distributed similarly between your three companions, the album drawn strong local and national compliment, although trio were willing to indicate that that they had no ambition to go away from impartial distribution.