Gabrielle Papillon
Gabrielle Papillon Hometown Show w/Leanne Hoffman
The Sanctuary Arts Centre
100 Ochterloney St
Apr 19, 2024
7:00 PM ADT
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About this concert
Gabrielle Papillon is returning to the stage for her first hometown show since 2019 for an intimate concert in the lovely smaller performance space at the Sanctuary Arts Centre--located in downtown Dartmouth (accessible from the ferry).
She'll be accompanied by multi-instrumentalist
Sean MacGillivray and playing songs from all of her records as well as new material she's been working on in her studio.
There will be special guests and an opening set from Leanne Hoffman, one of her favourite local artists.
As she's increasingly turned her attention to producing for other artists and developing her musical Mind the Light, this is a rare opportunity to see Gabrielle perform live if you've been hoping to catch her show.
**We will be requiring audience members to be masked to protect members of our community who are immuno-compormised as well as the performers. Masks will be available at the door for anyone who needs them.
**This show is in an accessible space with level entrances and a wheelchair ramp, but restrooms are unfortunately not equipped or sized for wheelchairs.
We thank you in advance for helping us make this as accessible an event as possible for those who want to attend live music.
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Gabrielle Papillon Biography
After nearly 10 years in music—that’s six albums, two home bases, countless cross-Canada tours, dozens of flights across the ocean and back—Gabrielle Papillon is looking at a life in music differently. She’s pulling the balance back, away from endless touring and grant paperwork and toward her favourite part about music: The creation of it.
Gabrielle has in recent years turned to co-writing with other writers and producers for their own projects, for sync placement, and to present to other artists. That process includes taking those trans-Atlantic flights to write with multiple producers and songwriters in the UK, finding a special knack with Jonas Persson, and back home in Halifax, Nova Scotia with the likes of pop mastermind Corey LeRue.
What has happened, quite unintentionally, is a new passel of songs for her own catalogue, in addition to the more than 30 collaborations she’s worked on. Writing songs for strangers—culling from Gabrielle’s own life experiences—has offered an openness writing songs solely for herself had not. There is no expectation of genre, or voice, or theme: All that matters is this song, in this moment. So she’s kept some for herself.
Without the framework of an album to consider—though that will come, stay tuned—Gabrielle approached each new track as its own record: What was the song’s intent? What is the sound it needs? Who would be the right producer to get that sound? Why wait two years to have a finished album when you can build it one song at a time, offering the songs as a whole work once they’ve had time to marinate? As she’s reframed her life in the music business, so too has she reframed the making of the music itself, and she’s found a new freedom.
“I am a songwriter first, and I am happiest when I am writing,” she says. “That is my greatest skill. And in this new journey of harnessing it for projects outside of my own artist career, I’ve found some amazing collaborators and discovered a new and unrestrained way of writing for myself. I’ll always play shows and be a performer, but I don’t see the sense in touring for the sake of touring. I want tours and shows to be special and worthwhile.”
Find your freedom in the song, in this moment. It’s the same voice, it’s just getting bigger.
Read MoreGabrielle has in recent years turned to co-writing with other writers and producers for their own projects, for sync placement, and to present to other artists. That process includes taking those trans-Atlantic flights to write with multiple producers and songwriters in the UK, finding a special knack with Jonas Persson, and back home in Halifax, Nova Scotia with the likes of pop mastermind Corey LeRue.
What has happened, quite unintentionally, is a new passel of songs for her own catalogue, in addition to the more than 30 collaborations she’s worked on. Writing songs for strangers—culling from Gabrielle’s own life experiences—has offered an openness writing songs solely for herself had not. There is no expectation of genre, or voice, or theme: All that matters is this song, in this moment. So she’s kept some for herself.
Without the framework of an album to consider—though that will come, stay tuned—Gabrielle approached each new track as its own record: What was the song’s intent? What is the sound it needs? Who would be the right producer to get that sound? Why wait two years to have a finished album when you can build it one song at a time, offering the songs as a whole work once they’ve had time to marinate? As she’s reframed her life in the music business, so too has she reframed the making of the music itself, and she’s found a new freedom.
“I am a songwriter first, and I am happiest when I am writing,” she says. “That is my greatest skill. And in this new journey of harnessing it for projects outside of my own artist career, I’ve found some amazing collaborators and discovered a new and unrestrained way of writing for myself. I’ll always play shows and be a performer, but I don’t see the sense in touring for the sake of touring. I want tours and shows to be special and worthwhile.”
Find your freedom in the song, in this moment. It’s the same voice, it’s just getting bigger.
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