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Saturday Night On Utopia Parkway by Christine Fellows

Christine Fellows

Artist Biography For Christine Fellows

Christine Fellows Born 1968 Is A Canadian Folk-Pop Singer-Songwriter From Winnipeg Manitoba. Born In Windsor Ontario And Raised In France And Kelowna British Columbia Fellows Lived In Toronto Vancouver Guelph And Montreal Before Settling In Winnipeg In 1992. In 1993 She Formed Her First Group Helen With Barry Mirochnick Paul James And Chang. Helen Broke Up In 1995 And In 1996 Fellows Teamed Up With Singer-Songwriter Keri McTighe Barry Mirochnick Keith McLeod And Peggy Messing To Form Special Fancy. The Group Released One Album King Me. In 2000 Fellows Released Her Debut Solo Album 2 Little Birds. This Was Followed By The Last One Standing In 2002 Paper Anniversary In 2005 And Nevertheless In 2007. These Albums Feature Leanne Zacharias Cello Jason Tait Drums Vibraphone Barry Mirochnick Drums Vocals John K. Samson Vocals Guitar Keith McLeod Mandolin Monica Guenter Viola Greg Smith Bass Ed Reifel Percussion And Cristina Zacharias Violin . Fellows Has Performed With The Rheostatics Veda Hille The Mountain Goats Kim Barlow Old Man Luedecke And The Weakerthans. She Is Married To The Weakerthans' Lead Singer John K. Samson. In 2006 Fellows And Samson Recorded The Old House An Album Intended Only As A Christmas Gift For Friends And Family Although They Released Two Songs "Taps Reversed" And "Good Salvage" For Airplay On CBC Radio 3 In Early 2007. Fellows And Samson Also Performed Live On The Network On March 17 2007 To Mark The Final Night Of The Network's Terrestrial Simulcast On CBC Radio 2. Fellows Also Composes Music For Dance Film And Television. She Scored Part Of Clive Holden's Trains Of Winnipeg Film Series As Well As Collaborating With Tait And Samson On The Associated Album. In 2007 She Wrote Several Songs For A Dance Piece By Choreographer Susie Burpee They Were Later Included On Her Fourth Solo Album Nevertheless Which Was Released On November 6 2007.
Fellows Has Also Toured As A Member Of The Pan-Canadian New Folk Ensemble With Kim Barlow And Old Man Luedecke. Recently She Was Artist-In-Residence At Le Musee De Saint-Boniface Museum In Winnipeg 2009 And She Has Been Writing Songs For A New Solo Album Scheduled For Release On Six Shooter Records In Fall Of 2010.