I’d like to thank
you for stopping by my web site and for
taking the time to learn a bit more
about myself and about my music.
I am amazed and overwhelmed by the
positive feedback and the incredible
response my solo Album “Good Life”
has received up till now.
The creative process of making this
album has been quite a journey for me
and when I look back at all the rough
ideas, the initial scribbles, the
numerous melodies logged on my answering
machine, it feels amazing to finally
have it in my hands.
At the end of it all I can honestly say
that I am extremely proud of this CD and
I really hope you will enjoy it!
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December 2008
Happy Holidays Everyone!
What a great year it’s been, I know it’s
not over yet but still it’s nice to be
able to reflect back and be thankful for
all the beautiful experiences!
In the spirit of Christmas & in
celebration the holiday season,
I am putting on my annual
Christmas concert featuring
songs from my Christmas Album
‘ONE WISH’...
When...
December 21, 2008
Where...
The Ironwood Stage &
Grill
Calgary, Alberta.
I will be joined on
stage by my fabulous band,
featuring Chris Andrew on piano,
Aaron Young on guitar, Kodi
Hutchinson on bass and Tyler
Hornby on the Drums.
For
more detailed information on
this concert and how to purchase
your tickets, please view my
performance page or go straight
to
Ticketweb.ca |
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I hope I get to see some of you at
the concert and for those of you who
can’t make it, have a great Christmas
and please feel free to take a listen to
‘One Wish’
on my music page!
August 2008
It’s been an amazing and very busy
summer and there are still so many
exciting things on the horizon to look
forward too!
My band project 'Sillan
& Young' is gearing up to release
our sophomore album 'Under My feet'
and we need your help with a big
decision!
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In order for us to really maximize
the marketing resources around this CD
release we need to pick one song from
the album that will be released to radio
stations across Canada and beyond!
We have set up a voting system on
our "My Space" site and we need you to
take a listen to the song options and
place your vote on the song that you
think will best represent us in a
national Radio release!
Here's
the link:
http://www.myspace.com/sillanyoung
Thank you for your time, I’ll keep
you posted on which track that wins the
poll!
Johanna
July 2008
I
can’t even begin to describe what an
amazing month I’ve experienced, but I’ll
try my best to sum up the highlights for
you!
I had the great pleasure of
playing a show with the Norwegian group
“Beady Belle’ during the Calgary Jazz
festival this June. I’ve been a fan of
the group for a number of years now and
it was amazing to meet them & to hear
them live.
The following morning
my band and I headed out on a very early
flight to go play at the ‘Montreal Jazz
festival’. This turned out to be one of
the most amazing experiences in my life
and definitely a highlight in my
performance history! The festival was
beautiful, the whether was perfect and
the audience stretched as far as my eyes
could reach in all directions. I feel so
blessed to have had this opportunity and
I will never forget this night!
I
want to thank all of you who came out to
the show and bought the CD’s!
A
big thank you goes out to the hard
working staff at the “Best Buy’ tent as
well the organizers and volunteers of
the festival. Last but not least a
‘HUGE’ thank you to ‘G and crew’ for
doing an incredible job on the
promotional end of things!
Click
on the link below to check out a clip
from the show that was posted on You
Tube.com!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Oxzod_iPXU
I’m also including an interview from
the Calgary Herald, see below as well as
on my media page!
Have a great
summer!
June 2008
Summer is finally
here and I have great news to share with
you. My band and I will be performing at
this year’s Montreal Jazz Festival on
June 27th! This is going to be such a
great experience and I can hardly wait
to get on that stage and sing for such a
great crowd! If you haven’t experienced
Montreal Jazz festival yet then you
should come, trust me on this one!
For more detailed
info on the show, see my performance
page or view the following link:
http://www.montrealjazzfest.com/Fijm2008/programmation/fiche_en.aspx?showId=559
Another great show
coming up is my shared performance with
Norwegian group ‘Beady Belle’ at the
Calgary Jazz festival on June 26th. I
have been a fan of ‘Beady Belles’ music
for a number of years now and I’m
thrilled to get to share the stage with
them.
For more info on
the show please visit the posted link
below, or view my performance page!
http://www.calgaryjazz.com/2007/Festival/cjazzfestival.htm
So with all this
being said, I think this summer is
starting out pretty good! Until next
time……….
May 2008
I can’t believe how quickly this
first part of the year has flown by and
that summer is just around the corner.
I’m not able to release my summer show
schedule quite yet, but it will be soon
and well worth it!
Right now I’m getting ready for my
upcoming show at ‘Beatniq’ on May 22nd,
it will be a ‘Sneak-a Peek’ of some new
materials I’m planning to debut this
summer. If you are in the Calgary area
and want to come join me, please see my
performance page for more detailed
information!
Also, check out the article on my group ’Sillan & Young’ in the May issue of
Avenue Magazine. To read the article,
please go to my
media page.
April 2008
Great things are coming up this
month, first & foremost, the Canadian
‘Juno Awards’ are coming to
Calgary on April 6th and our city will
finally be all about the music and not
just oil & hockey :)
For more info on the Juno’s check out
www.junoawards.ca
My group ‘Sillan & Young’ will be doing
an ‘Official Junofest’ showcase on
Friday April 4th, so please go to my
performance page for more info on the
venue.
As for upcoming shows, there are some
good ones coming as the summer festival
dates are starting to come together. I
will have some very exciting news to
share with you, so please stay tuned as
I will release the schedule shortly!
February 2008
After having a little time off this past
month, I’m back, refreshed & ready to
take on 2008. My Christmas album ‘One
wish’ did amazingly this past season, so
thanks to all of you who listened,
bought the album and came out to all the
concerts! If you’d like to read some of
the reviews, please go to the
media page!
As for more immediate news, my group ‘Sillan
& Young’s second album is done and ready
to hit the press! This is our second
album as a group and this time we had
the great pleasure of working with
producer Russell Broom (Jann Arden’s
Producer & co-writer).
The boys and myself are all very excited
and proud of this album and will make
sure to keep you posted on the official
release will happen as well as when the
‘release concert’.
For more information on ‘Sillan &
Young’, please visit
www.sillanyoung.com
December 2007
MERRY
CHRISTMAS!
Press Release – December 2007
Johanna is proud to
announce that her Christmas
Album
‘ONE WISH’ is ready,
set & coming hot off the press.’
One Wish’ is certainly
unique among the plethora of
Christmas albums, showcasing
beautiful original compositions,
and timeless traditionals with a
soulful touch. Johanna also
honors her Swedish heritage on
this album by interpreting
several Swedish Christmas carols
for English audiences to enjoy
and also including the Swedish
sung versions as bonus tracks.
Johanna will officially release
‘One Wish’ at
her annual Christmas concert on
December 13 at the Scandinavian
center (739-20th Avenue NW,
Calgary, AB). Doors will open at
7.00pm and the concert begins at
8pm. Tickets are $12.00
per person and will be available
at the door only.
For more Christmas
show-listings, please visit the
performance page!
For information on how to
purchase the ‘ONE WISH’,
free listening samples as well
as a collecting your Christmas
gift from Johanna, please visit
the
music page of this website!
‘ONE WISH’ is
available at select retail
stores on December 3rd 2007 (see
these listings on music page) |
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September 2007
Hello Friends & Music Fans!
SEPTEMBER 12 2007
PRESS RELEASE:
The WCMA
(Western Canadian Music Awards)
have announced their nominees
for this years ‘achievement
awards of Western Canadian
recording artists’. I am very
proud to announce that my CD ‘Good
Life’ has been has been
nominated in the category of ‘Outstanding
Urban Recording’.
This is my first nomination with
the WCMA’s and
I am very flattered to be
considered one of Western
Canada’s top five in this genre.
Voting is open to the public
until October 4th 2007, but is
limited to ARIA
(The Alberta Recording
Industries Association) &
WCMA members.
For more information on
the awards:
http://www.westerncanadianmusicawards.ca
http://www.aria.ab.ca/Membership2006.htm
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Thanks for your support again
& again & again……………
Johanna
August
2007
Hejsan, mina vänner!!
I am now on location in the lovely
capital city ‘Stockholm’,
enjoying the sunshine and the beauty of
summer in Scandinavia. I am here to do
some promo for my upcoming Christmas
Album as well as Sillan &
Young’s new CD.
http://www.sillanyoung.com
I am having a
great time and I am truly
looking forward to planning a
tour out here for next summer
2008.
When I get back to Canada, I
will be in Christmas album ‘boot
camp’ as I’m planning to have
the album ready very soon for
you all.
I’m sending along a picture from
the ‘THE ABSOLUT STOCKHOL ICE
BAR’ a truly amazing place
completely built from ice…..a
chilly, but ‘COOL’ place!!
I hope you all are having a
great summer (where ever you
are) and I thank you for
continuing to check up on my
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Talk to you soon!
Johanna
July
2007
Greetings from the Maritimes!!
If you are not familiar with the area
I’m referring to the very beautiful east
coast of Canada. I am here with my band
‘Sillan & Young’ and we
are getting ready to play at the
Halifax & St John’s Jazz Festivals,
it’s hot & humid and it’s wonderful to
be close to the ocean again. I am a BIG
seafood lover and I’m definitely in my
‘happy place’ here.
After this tour I am heading over to
London, UK & Sweden for a few weeks and
after that to Montreal for a show with
‘ UNCOVERED’.
It’s going to
be a great summer of music and
traveling and I’ll fill you all
in on the events as I go.
I have as of recently taken on
another ‘Gig’ as a radio host
for radio station California
103.1, based out of Calgary,
Alberta. I am hosting a live
music show called ‘IN STUDIO’
along with fellow vocalist Kathy Shane. Our show will be broadcast
every Sunday night from 6-8pm.
For more information on the show
and if you’d like to have your
music showcased on our show
please go to the radio stations
website.
http://www.california103.com |
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Have a great Summer!
Johanna
May &
June 2007
Today was the first official recording
session for my Christmas album and it
went amazing. Although it’s a bit odd to
be singing about snow and mistletoe in
the midst of summer but I can’t wait to
have it all done for you soon.
My summer is going to very busy and I
will keep you posted on the upcoming
events as they happen. I will be making
my first trip out to the ‘very’ east
coast of Canada. I’ve been told
that it will remind me of my home
country Sweden and since I will not be
able to travel to back home this year,
this will be a great experience.
Have a wonderful month and I’ll
talk to you soon!
Johanna
April 2007
I’m
writing this little monthly summary from
Edmonton as I’m here for a one-night
show at the ‘Yard-bird suite’ in
celebration of their 50th anniversary. I
know this may not sound like a lot to
you Europeans who check in on my site
from time to time, but in a province
that’s only 100 years old, a 50 year old
“anything” is worth celebrating.
Anyways, on the recording front, I’m
keeping busy with preparing for the
recording of my Christmas album and
lucky for me there is still plenty of
snow on the ground.
I also recently recorded a version of
‘Human Nature’ for my friend Sandro
Dominelli’s latest disc called
‘Passages’. You can Check out Sandro’s
website and music at the following link:
http://www.sandrodominelli.com
Happy Easter!
Johanna
March 2007
Its kind of
funny to sit here in the month writing
Christmas music…yes that’s right
Christmas music!!!
(Luckily, it’s still very much winter
here in Calgary)
Well friends, I’m excited to announce
that I will finally be recording a
Christmas CD with my song-writing
partner & pianist Chris Andrew. This is
a project the two of us have wanted to
do for a looooooong time, but with our
crazy schedules and with being located
in different cities it has never been
possible until now!
We are going to be combining some
holiday traditionals with some of our
own original works (they are in the
making as I write this). This is the
first time I’ve written Christmas
material and it’s both fun and
challenging, and by the way, if you do
have suggestions on songs we should
cover that aren’t your typical “Rudolf
the red-nosed reindeer’, please email
me, I’d love to hear from you!
As for my band Sillan & Young’s
upcoming CD the release date, it has
been moved to June 2nd but will be worth
the wait…I promise!
February 2007
Winter
is here in all its glory and it’s a
productive time for ‘song writing’! It’s
to cold to go out and get distracted, so
lots of time for creating new-music! My
band ‘Sillan & Young’
is getting ready to release our new CD
in a few months, so the new
cold-inspired inspiration comes in handy
in the finishing stages. I am very
excited, the tracks are sounding great,
if you are new to this other project of
mine, please check us it at
http://www.sillanyoung.com
I also finally had a moment to sit down
and get my long overdue ‘My Space’ page
up and running! If you’d like to check
it out, please do so at
http://www.myspace.com/johannasillanpaa
As for my solo Album ‘Good Life’,
I had another interview/review published
on the American ‘Jazz police’ website.
This is a website that gets about 100,00
hits per month…so go ‘Good life’ go! If
you’d like to check out the good words
written by Joe Montague, click the link
below!
Jazz Police
Jazz Police CD Review
Stay warm my friends!
Johanna
January 2007
Hello again my friends and Music
supporters!
It’s been a while since I shared the
events of my crazy, but always good,
career adventures. It was a very busy
fall and Christmas season for me this
past year and combining the ‘Good Life ‘
Shows, Christmas shows, ‘Sillan & young’
shows and Corporate shows, I was
definitely flying and sometimes even
running for the months of November &
December.
This year I’m starting of the New Year
in the beautiful cities of Montreal and
Toronto and with the perfect balance of
business and pleasure. My CD Good Life
is continuing to get amazing reviews
from around the world and the latest one
written by Joe Montague for
Jazzreview.com is available for you
to check out in the link below as well
as under my media page!
http://www.jazzreview.com/cd/review-18388.html
There is some new music on the recording
front, as my Group ‘Sillan & Young’ is
getting ready to release our 2nd Album
very soon. This time around we are
working with Juno Award winning producer
Russ Broom, and I have to say that the
tracks are sounding amazing and I am
very excited to be touring this new
repertoire this coming summer. Anyways,
I’ll keep you posted on what happens
with everything, but for now, I’m off to
enjoy a day OFF in sunny Toronto!!
Stay Sweet!
Johanna
News Blog July 2006
I am writing you this little update
from the beautiful city of Montréal,
where I am fortunate to get to spend
some time this summer. It sure has been
a busy couple of months of traveling and
performing and trust me when I say that
I have enjoyed every minute of it!
My group ‘Sillan & Young’ just
completed a little Canadian West coast
tour and had the chance to take in some
great music and great weather! We spent
a wonderful weekend playing at the
incredible Victoria Jazz Festival,
where we also had the pleasure to play
with the fabulous Jazz pianist Mr. Kenny
Werner, what a treat that was!
As for the ‘Good Life’ project, I
continue working on getting it out
there! I was recently featured in an
website interview with French music
reviewer Eric Boisson http://www.ericnroll.com
You are of course very welcome to read
this interview, you will find the
translated English version on my media
page!
Have a great summer, Talk to you soon!
Johanna
Now
Available at iTunes
I'm
happy to announce that 'Good Life' is
now available for digital purchase on
ITUNES!
Good Life
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT for Saturday
May 13th
CBC Radio One will be
broadcasting the live recording of my
April 21st CD
Release Concert! So if you missed
the show, or if you'd like to hear it
again, make sure to
tune in between 5-6pm Mountain time!
Remember that if you are not in Canada,
you can still tune in online!
Here's the link
http://www.cbc.ca/keyofa
Also, another exciting update, I will be
going back home to Sweden very
shortly, "Borås" here i come! So,
with that being said, i apologize for my
absence gig-wise here in Canada for the
next month, but it's time to spread
the "Good Life" lessons
elsewhere! See you soon!
To My Fans and Supporters,
Thank you for showing me so much support and love!
For all of you who made it out to my CD
release launch on April 21, the
evening was a success because of you and
I am very greatful! To have a full
house on a "Hockey Play Off" night in
Calgary is something a girl doesn't
take for granted, so again, THANK
YOU!!!
“Good Life” is now available for
purchase online at
CD BABY as well as digitally on
ITUNES.
The song ‘One the Other side’ had
a recent UK & US Radio debut on
Steve Quirk’s smooth jazz radio show
Smooth FM. Radio presenter
Steve Quirk from the UK jumped on
the CD right away and has been playing
it on his Fusion Flavours show in the UK
as well as across Europe on Smooth FM
(www.smoothfm.com)
Steve aired the track "On the other
side" on his syndicated US radio show on
Sunday February 26th 2006 with instant
response.
Here’s what Steve Quirk had to
say about “Good Life”
-"As soon as I discovered the
CD, It was a joy, I loved it!
It has a bluesy Erika Badu meets
Billy Holliday groove and Johanna's
voice is silky, classy, sexy and
sophisticated. The outstanding
tracks on the CD for me are, the
mellow "Sometimes", the funky
"Suck it up" the groovy
"Hush" and the floater "My oh
my". The two big tracks that I
see having "massive potential"
across radio are, the beautiful and
sublime "Thank you", and the
excellent "On the other side".
Both have that class and
sophistication of Norah Jones tune
and potential to be HUGE!"
Check out Steve and his show
FUSION FLAVOURS at
www.fusionflavours.com
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FM Radio station California 103.1
added 4 songs from “Good Life” to
their play list!
Johanna will also be performing live on
Jonathan Love’s IN STUDIO show on
Sunday night March 19th as well as on
April 16th. Both shows start at 7-
Midnight local Calgary time. |
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Edmonton Radio Station Magic 99
have showed incredible support and have
been playing the CD for the past few
months. A big Thank You to the entire
Rawlco team!!!!!! |
CBC will be having Johanna as a
guest on their “First Friday Show”
on April 7th between 3-6pm. The show is
hosted by Jeff Collins, and
Johanna will be interviewed as well as
performing live with musicians Sheldon
Zandboer and Aaron Young. |
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