Shadows and Light

Juno award winning Melanie Doane is one of those acts that prompts the question “How do you get such great acts at the Evergreen Theatre?” Our audiences have come to expect excellence from each performer in their particular genres and Melanie Doane, accompanied by the talented Mike Borkowski on guitar was a real crowd pleaser. View the photo gallery here or read more below.

Melanie Doane at the Evergreen Theatre

This talented singer songwriter who has had her music featured on such TV shows as “Being Erica” has a new CD out, “1000 Nights” which in some of the tracks takes old familiar material and lets us hear it from a new perspective – that of a parent – with a sense of responsibility and special tenderness. Some of the songs she played were beautiful renditions of “Songbird”, (the track that is featured over her photo gallery on this site) and “Devoted to You”. Some other favourites of mine were her own compositions “First Love”, “You Do the Math” and “Waiting for the Tide to Turn” .

Melanie is a renowned multi-instrumentalist and during her performance she played guitar, bass guitar, banjo, violin, electric violin and keyboards, slipping with apparent ease from one to the next. The photo gallery of this performance can be viewed here.

Thanks for a great night, Melanie.

Ellie