Ariana Gillis
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Ariana Gillis is a Canadian singer-songwriter
born in Hamilton, Ontario
.
, Mariposa Folk Festival
in Orillia, Ontario
, and Summerfolk located in Owen Sound, Ontario
.
She is known for her exciting stage performances, positive attitude, and fun songs.
Ariana has purple-pink hair with a signature spike on her head nicknamed an Auggie after her hairdresser, Aimee Augustine.
In April 2009 she won a Niagara Music Award for Songwriter of the Year.
She recently won a Canadian Folk Music Award for Young Performer of the Year.
In June 2009, Ariana played at the Six String Nation Guitar book launch held at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto, Ontario.
She has shared the stage with many artists including Sarah Slean
, Ron Sexsmith
, Jadea Kelly
Eddie Schwartz
, and Kevin Breit
.
Ariana's song Bridges of Queen Elizabeth HWY was also featured on CBC radio's Remembrance Day Program.
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
born in Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...
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Career
Ariana Gillis independently released her debut album titled To Make it Make Sense in 2009. She has played at several festivals including Hillside Festival in Guelph, OntarioGuelph, Ontario
Guelph is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Known as "The Royal City", Guelph is roughly east of Waterloo and west of downtown Toronto at the intersection of Highway 6 and Highway 7. It is the seat of Wellington County, but is politically independent of it...
, Mariposa Folk Festival
Mariposa Folk Festival
The Mariposa Folk Festival was founded in 1961 in Orillia, Ontario. It was held in Orillia for three years before being banned because of disturbances by festival-goers. After being held in various places in Ontario for a few decades, it returned to Orillia in 2000. Ruth Jones, her husband Dr...
in Orillia, Ontario
Orillia, Ontario
Orillia, pronounced ōrĭl'ēə, is a city located in Simcoe County in Southern Ontario, Canada, between Lake Couchiching and Lake Simcoe, 135 kilometres north of Toronto.Originally incorporated as a village in 1867, the history of...
, and Summerfolk located in Owen Sound, Ontario
Owen Sound, Ontario
Owen Sound , the county seat of Grey County, is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada...
.
She is known for her exciting stage performances, positive attitude, and fun songs.
Ariana has purple-pink hair with a signature spike on her head nicknamed an Auggie after her hairdresser, Aimee Augustine.
In April 2009 she won a Niagara Music Award for Songwriter of the Year.
She recently won a Canadian Folk Music Award for Young Performer of the Year.
In June 2009, Ariana played at the Six String Nation Guitar book launch held at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto, Ontario.
She has shared the stage with many artists including Sarah Slean
Sarah Slean
Sarah Hope Slean is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and occasional actress from Pickering, Ontario. She has released eleven albums to date .-Major recordings:...
, Ron Sexsmith
Ron Sexsmith
Ronald Eldon "Ron" Sexsmith is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. He started his own band when he was fourteen years old, and released the first recordings of his own material seven years later, in 1985...
, Jadea Kelly
Jadea Kelly
Jadea Kelly is a folk musician from Whitby, Ontario, Canada. She has released two LPs and two EPs to date. Kelly's 2008 full-length album, Sounds of Spring, produced by Ross Hayes Citrullo, was honoured with the "best country" award at the 2008 Toronto Independent Music Awards.Kelly was given...
Eddie Schwartz
Eddie Schwartz
Eddie Schwartz is a Canadian musician and Juno Award winner who had moderate success as a recording artist in the early 1980s, before becoming a successful songwriter, and record producer in the late 1980s and the 1990s....
, and Kevin Breit
Kevin Breit
Kevin Breit is a guitar player from McKerrow, Ontario. His group, The Sisters Euclid, has been a fixture at the Orbit Room in Toronto for the past 13 years. Breit has worked as a session musician with a variety of musicians including The Miller Stain Limit, Norah Jones, Michael Kaeshammer, Celine...
.
Ariana's song Bridges of Queen Elizabeth HWY was also featured on CBC radio's Remembrance Day Program.