Manitoba Live Music Event

Anniversary Album Release

Date
Sunday, Apr 21, 2024 at 7pm
Performers
Abigail Lapell
Location
West End Cultural Centre
Address
586 Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Advance Cost
$20.00

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The West End Cultural Centre is thrilled to announce the triumphant return of award-winning singer/songwriter Abigail Lapell to our stage for the highly anticipated release of her latest album, ‘Anniversary.’ Lapell's captivating performance is scheduled for Sunday, April 21, 2024, promising an evening of unparalleled musical enchantment.

The Toronto songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Lapell returns with Anniversary, an evocative collection of original love songs produced with Great Lake Swimmers’ Tony Dekker. The album was recorded at 200-year-old St Mark’s Church in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, and Dekker helped shape the sessions’ spooky, resonant sound and also lent his voice to a couple of spellbinding duets.

Lapell’s deft lyrics jostle with love song tropes, grappling with love’s finitude and the irony of how codependency and longing are revered in popular music. A ghost story is woven through the album: waltzing in the dusty barroom country of “Blue Blaze,” buried in the superstitious lyrical streak of “Rattlesnake” and audible in a wheezing organ as it shuts down at the end of “Footsteps.” Still, Anniversary emerges as an earnest celebration of commitment. Earworms like “Anniversary Song” and “Someone Like You” showcase intricately layered harmonies, while closer “Stars” affirms that there’s no place the speaker would rather be than with the one she loves.

Dekker and Lapell assembled a stellar cast of musicians to support Lapell’s powerhouse vocals, piano, harmonica and signature fingerstyle guitar. The core band includes Dan Fortin on bass, Jake Oelrichs on drums, and Tania Gill on the church’s piano, harpsichord and organ. Rounding out the ensemble’s sensitive orchestral country-jazz arrangements are Rebecca Hennessy (trumpet), Rachael Cardiello (viola), Michael Davidson (marimba and vibraphone) and Joe Lapinsky (pedal steel), who also engineered and mixed the record. 

‘Anniversary’ is set to captivate audiences worldwide upon its public release on May 10, 2024. However, music enthusiasts can get an exclusive preview of Lapell's enchanting new work, along with selections from her extensive back catalog, by picking up tickets for only $20.00 + service fees through Eventbrite.

Listen to Abigail Lapell here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvhETZ2EjsQ

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